Contents
Sunset in the Dawnlands Native life on the Atlantic seaboard
The story begins long before Europeans set foot on American shores. But few live to tell it.
James Fort A nice little town like ours
The English are coming. And most of them are going to die…
The self-made man John Smith
Explorer, soldier, fighter, lover, legend, John Smith did it all. You couldn't make it up. Unless…
Untying the knot The tangled roots of colonial Virginia
We can do this the easy way or the har… OK, hard way it is.
Birth of a nation 1619 and all that
Four hundred years later, the conversation is just getting started.
To be a pilgrim The saints come marching in
A wayward voyage, a rocky start, and the founding of a legend.
God's country The strange death and life of Puritan America
The original American dreamers, and their rude awakening.
The price of purity Anne Hutchinson
Anne-archy in the USA. OK, in Massachusetts…