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The following is a selected list of recently published books, videos, and websites that will help you learn more about British American heritage. Although not nationally recognized, it is pegged here to May, the month of the permanent founding of the colony of Virginia at Jamestown in 1607 in the Powhattan homelands of Tsenacommacah, whose capital was Werowocomoco.
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For more, see NPL's 1619 - 2019 Virginia booklist.
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Fiction
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Civilized Men A James Towne Tragedy
Ivor Noel Hume
Format: Book
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Civilized Men is a fact-based novel that needed to be written. In contrast to the familiar and almost entirely fictional story of Pocahontas and John Smith, the hitherto untold truth of what happened in Virginia in 1610 between the English and the Native Americans they called savages led all the way to the tragedy... |
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The English American: A Novel
Alison Larkin - Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition
Format: Book
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Adopted at birth into a loving, tidy family, charming, chronically untidy Pippa Dunn hopes that finding her birth parents will help her understand why she's so different from everyone she knows - and somehow cure her of her inability to trust even the most devoted of men. She meets... |
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Masquerade
Nancy Moser - Bethany House
Format: Paperback
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1886, New York City: Charlotte Gleason, a rich heiress from England, escapes a family crisis by traveling to America in order to marry the even wealthier Conrad Tremaine. She soon decides that an arranged marriage is not for her and persuades her maid, Dora, to take her place. What... |
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Rebels of Babylon: A Novel
Owen Parry - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Satisfying sixth installment to Parry's humorous, well-written and meticulously researched series of Civil War mysteries." --Publishers WeeklyAbel Jones arrives in New Orleans to investigate the death of a young crusader and finds himself facing fantastic rumors of the resurrected... |
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Scotched
Kaitlyn Dunnett - Kensington Books
Format: Print book
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Liss MacCrimmon, purveyor of all things plaid at the Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium in Maine, can't wait to cozy up to the town's first annual mystery book conference. The outlook seems very bonnie indeed for all the local businesses, including her fianc's family-owned hotel. But when... |
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
David Hackett Fischer
Format: Book
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This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British... |
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Nonfiction
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Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning
Kathleen Burk - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, recently published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, the close international relationship was forged only recently,... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
James Webb - Broadway Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America... |
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A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States
Sheila Rowbotham
Format: Book
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A distinguished social and feminist historian chronicles the dramatic changes that have taken place in the lives of American and British women over the course of the last one hundred years, explaining how women have shaped the twentieth century with topics ranging from World War politics,... |
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The Art of Scottish-American Cooking
Kay Nelson
Format: Book
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While many of the Scottish-American achievements that have contributed so much to our culture have been well documented, no book has chronicled the creative and nutritious Scottish cookery that evolved in the United States and Canada. Examples include Macintosh apples, Campbell Soup, graham... |
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The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy
Frank Prochaska
Format: Book
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This book tells the intriguing and paradoxical story of a nation that overthrew British rule only to become fascinated by the glamor of its royal family. Examining American attitudes toward British royalty from the Revolutionary period to the death of Princess Diana, The Eagle and the Crown... |
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns
Format: Book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Great Britain, Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments,... |
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Walter Russell Mead - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world.Walter Russell Mead, one of our most distinguished foreign policy experts, makes clear that the key to the predominance... |
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The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
Bernard Bailyn
Format: Book
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A Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning historian presents an account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe and Africa to the North American British colonies, evaluating its diversity, the survival struggles of immigrants and their relationships with the indigenous... |
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Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor
Randy J. Holland Jr. - Thomson West
Format: Paperback
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Co-published by the Library of Congress and Thomson Reuters; Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor is an illustrated collection of essays by renowned legal scholars. The Magna Carta was sealed under oath 800 years ago in 1215 and is widely known to be an important part of the historical process... |
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Juvenile
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Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst", brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists - in what will prove to be the biography... |
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Reference Library of European America (Multiculture in Print)
Gale Research Editorial Staff
Format: Book
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The Reference Library of European America supports the interests of the many descendants of immigrants from Europe and of those researching them. It offers lengthy essays on the experiences of more than 40 ethnic and ethnoreligious groups and detailed profiles of 45 countries of origin. |
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Meet Felicity: An American Girl
Valerie Tripp - American Girl Publishing Inc
Format: Book
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Felicity Merriman is horse-loving girl living in Williamsburg, Virginia who is caught between Patriot and Loyalist family and friends at the onset of the American Revolution. |
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Brave Emily
Valerie Tripp - American Girl
Format: Paperback
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Spring 1944: Emily Bennett, a young English girl, has come to stay with Molly McIntire's family to escape the bombing of London. Emily's parents sent her off with the reminder to be "a brave soldier for England," but Emily doesn't see how she can do that. Molly tries... |
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A True Patriot: The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War Patriot
Barry Denenberg - Scholastic Inc.; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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On an early summer morning in 1774, William Emerson, on the run from his abusive foster parents, awakens to a dusty-faced stranger who has discovered his roadside bed. After hearing the boy's story, Mr. John Wilson--a writer for and organizer of the revolutionary cause--invites Will... |
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DVDs
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1607: A Nation Takes Root (Jamestown Settlement)
Jamestown Settlement - Finley-Holiday Films
Format: DVD
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The story of three cultures spanning three continents. The docudrama film provides an overview of the first two decades of America's first permanent English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. |
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The New World
- The New World
Format: DVD
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Set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607, this movie tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman’s journey... |
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Slavery and the Making of America DVD
n/a - PBS (Direct)
Format: DVD
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A documentary of the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction, this series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country and challenges the long held notion that it was exclusively... |
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Websites
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U.S. National Park Service – European Heritage
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