This reader provides a better understanding of the spirit and determination of young people during the Colonial period.

Looks at the homes, clothes, family life, and community activities of boys and girls in the New England colonies.

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.

Answer Key for Boys & Girls of Colonial Days. Grade 4.

A different time... A different place... What if you were there? More than 200 years ago, two thousand people lived in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. If you lived back then... What would your house look like? What games and sports would you play? Would you go to school? What happened when you were sick or hurt? This book tells you what it was like to grow up in colonial days, before there was a United States of America.

Classic study suggests that, in spite of hardships, many American colonial women led rich, fulfilling lives. Thoughtfully written, well-documented account explores daily lives of women in New England and Southern colonies.

A social and economic history of Peru that reflects the influence of the convents on colonial and post-colonial society.

Education was not universal in the colonial period. Discover the differences in how rich and poor, male and female, and white and minority students were treated.

Reproduction of the original: Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle