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The following is a selected list of recently published fiction and nonfiction books, videos, and websites that will help you learn more about British American heritage from Jamestown to the present. May, the month of the founding of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, is the featured month.
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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
Format: Book
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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 re |
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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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Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
James P P Horn
Format: Paperback
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Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English |
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett Fischer
Format: Hardcover
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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected 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 Unite |
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The Art of Scottish-American Cooking
Kay Shaw 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 like Macintosh apples, Campbell So |
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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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Burke's American Famiies with British Ancestry
Bernard Burke
Format: Book
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In 1939, in the 16th edition of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Burke's undertook to treat distinguished American families in the manner of the Peerage and the Landed Gentry, systematically establishing direct-line pedigrees by documenting marriages, births, and deaths in s |
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British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution
Don N Hagist
Format: Paperback
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Nine Rare and Fascinating First-Person Profiles of Soldiers Who Fought for the British Crown Much has been written about the colonists who took up arms during the American Revolution and the army they created. Far less literature, however, has been devoted to their ad |
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A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States
Sheila Rowbotham
Format: Hardcover
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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 and featuring essays on topics ranging from... |
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The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy
Frank Prochaska
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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 - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that... |
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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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In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of Amer
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Reference Library of European America
Gale Research Editorial Staff
Format: Print 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 |
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Meet Felicity: An American girl
Valerie Tripp
Format: Book
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In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner. |
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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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The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island
Scott Dawson
Format: Paperback
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The legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left Roanoke Island, where did they go? What is the meaning of the mysterious word Croatoan? In the sixteenth century, Croatoan was the name of an island to the south now known as Hatteras. Scholars... |
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The New World
Colin Farrell
Format: DVD
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Retellling of the fictional romance between Native American Pocahontas and British Captain John Smith.
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