American History Told by Contemporaries, Volume I: Era of Colonization, 1492-1689

xviii, 606 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. A collection of first-hand accounts of early American history. CONTENTS: Part I. Practical Introduction Teachers, Libraries, and Students: The Sources; Use of Sources; Part II. Discovery and Early Voyages, 1000-1600: Norse and Spanish Discoveries; English Discoveries; French and Dutch Discoveries; Part III. Conditions of Colonization: Reasons for Colonization; Regulation of Colonization; The Emigrants; Part V. The Southern Colonies: Conditions; Virginia; Maryland; The Carolinas; Southern Colonial Life; Part V. New England: Conditions; Plymouth; Early Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut and New Haven; New Hampshire and Maine; New England's Development; New England Life; Part VI. Middle Colonies: Conditions; New York; Pennsylvania and Delaware; New Jersey; Life in the Middle Colonies.