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America

Francis Drake

Roberta B. Bard

Describes the life and adventures of the seaman who was the first Englishman to sail around the world.

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Exploration and Settlement

Richard Steins

This book recounts the stories of the French, English, and Dutch in the New World, their reasons for settlement, and their relations with the native Americans.

970.01
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850

Lester D. Langley

A comparative history of the revolutionary age in the Americas, looking at the American Revolution of 1776, the slave revolt in Saint Dominque (now Haiti) in 1791, and the Spanish-American fight for i

973.3
LAN

The First Americans

Joy Hakim

This book presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.

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Columbus

Hans Koning

970.015
KON

Indio

Sherry Garland

Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border.

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Rum, Slaves, and Molasses

Clifford Lindsey Alderman

Describes the acquisition, transport, and fate of the Africans who fell victim to New England's slave trade with the West Indies in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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