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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The colony of Massachusetts The colony of Massachusetts Susan Whitehurst An introduction to the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, from the difficulties faced by the Pilgrims to the role of Massachusetts in the American Revolution. OL14852049W
The witches: Salem, 1692 The witches: Salem, 1692 Stacy Schiff The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a min… OL17269256W
Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson Susan Bivin Aller Biography of Anne Marbury Hutchinson, a Puritan woman in colonial Massachusetts who was put on trial by the church leaders for her spiritual teachings. OL19826753W
The Pilgrim chronicles The Pilgrim chronicles Rod Gragg All Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrims--persecuted for their religion in the Old World, they crossed the ocean to settle in a wild and dangerous land. But for most of us, the story… OL20018860W
The sovereignty and goodness of God The sovereignty and goodness of God Mary White Rowlandson Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southea… OL2795695W
The Plymouth Colony The Plymouth Colony Pamela Dell Follows the struggles and triumphs of the colonists who came to the New World and founded Plymouth Colony in what would become Massachusetts. OL3458140W
The Massachusetts colony The Massachusetts colony Barbara A. Somervill Traces the history of Massachusetts from 8000 B.C. when hunter-gatherer clans traveled there, through more than 150 years as a European colony, to 1788 when it became the sixth state in the Union. OL5704530W
Mayflower Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts h… OL800720W