Colonial Era

Please let me know if you would like more spaces or labels for your history hunting. There are several excellent resources we found while studying the Colonial Era of the New World, North America!!

Videos:

• The Mayflower Pilgrims (very excellent history with maps)
• The Mayflower Deconstructed (excellent short video on the actual ship)
• Biography of Benjamin Franklin
• Samuel de Chaplain founding New France
• Young George Washington
• George Washington of the early Revolution
• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: short historic video on Amazon highlighting their presidencies
• French Indian War: Western Pennsylvania, Fort Duquesne
• The American Revolution
  • Episode One (4 parts)  
  • Episode Two (4 parts)
• The Old Post Road: Tom Bodett (Motel 6 guy) narrates ‘trail life’ for the Colonials

Websites:

• Great histories of the Original Thirteen Colonies
• Virtual Jamestown
• Virtual Jamestown Fort
• Maps of Jamestown
• English Monarchy family trees 

Books:

• Picture Book of Patrick Henry (library)
•  The Awakening of Europe (Kindle)
• The Illustrated Lives of the Founding Fathers (Kindle, borrowed)
• This Country of Ours (Kindle)
• Making Thirteen Colonies (library)
• From Colonies to Country