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Events that changed America through the seventeenth century

Ten essays offer academic interpretations of the significance of ten events shaping early US history. Appends a glossary and a timeline from the First peoples' migration to the New World to the 1692 Salem witch trials. Illustrations include a replica of Columbus' /Santa Maria/, a period sketch of the 1565 founding of St. Augustine, and the arrival of the first African slaves in 1619. Suitable for high school and undergraduate levels. The editors teach history at Indiana U. Southeast

Print Book, English, 2000
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2000