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Colonial
Times
Colonial Towns
Becoming Virginians
In 1610 Richard Rich declared that the English would "establish
a nation where none before had stood"--conveniently forgetting
about the native inhabitants. But Virginia never became the intended
replica of England.
Celebrating Jamestown
Kids can get a feel for just how labor intensive it was to build
during the colonial era by trying out an old fashioned tool called
a pump drill.
Colonial House
PBS Show Spring 2004. Explore these pages to learn about the
project -- and check in for new features on the colonists and
the colony every month!
Colonial Williamsburg
Be history explorer. Meet the people and experience colonial
life in early America.
Old Sturbridge Explore and Learn
At the heart of the early 19th-century community was the center village, with houses, shops, stores, and meetinghouses clustered around a common.
Virtual Jamestown
Loads of original resources making this a site for advanced students
and folks researching their family history.
Education
Education
For Boys and Girls
The primary education of upper class children in colonial days
included reading, writing, simple math, poems, and prayers. Paper
and textbooks were scarce so boys and girls recited their lesssons
until they memorized them.
The
New England Primer
Little children learned to read from this book. Clear scans of
each page.
Schooling,
Education, and Literacy, In Colonial America
See a real Hornbook and New England Primer. See a view of the
Dame School. Link into even more information about early schools,
educational material, and laws.
Games & Toys
Amusements in Colonial New England
When children had time to play, they enjoyed the same games that
their parents and grandparents had played when they were young.
We still play many of the games, like tag, hide-and-seek, and
hopscotch.
Apple Dolls
Apple Dolls are folk dolls originating from early rural America
when settlers made dolls from whatever was at hand. Apple dolls
are made by carving a face in an apple and drying it. Due to
the different effects drying produces, no two dolls are alike.
Colonial Children's Leisure Time and Games
One popular outdoor game was rolling the hoop. Another fun game
was nine pins, which is similar to bowling. Children had sack
races and played tag, quoits, marbles, hopscotch, leapfrog, and
Blindman's Buff.
Colonial Games & Toys NEW
When children had time to play, they enjoyed the same games that their parents and grandparents had played when they were young. We still play many of these games today, like tag, hide-and-seek, and hopscotch.
Early American History Interactive Crossword Puzzle
Here's your chance to test your knowledge of early American history.
How to make a Whirligig
This 18th century toy is easy to make and endless fun if your
nintendo is broken down.
Historical Williamsburg Kids Zone NEW
The Kids Zone offers games, activities, and resources about life in colonial America. Use this section to prepare your child for a Colonial Williamsburg visit.
Online
Town
Crier
A very active, easy to use, message board for those interested
in early America.
People
Colonial Hall: Biographies
of America's Founding Fathers
Colonial Hall now has the biographies of 103 founding fathers
and 30 biographies of their wives.
Washington's World:
18th Century America
He attended a one-room school house for 7 or 8 years and because
of his father's death he never went to England to further his
formal education as his older half brother Lawrence had done.
The World of Benjamin Franklin
Ben is most famous for his questions about electricity, but he
also experimented with many other ideas in nature.
Recipes
Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Cranberries
Not only did Native Americans teach European settlers to enjoy
the wild turkey meat, they also showed them that the cranberry's
tart nature could be sweetened by boiling and adding maple syrup.
Preparing
Snacks Using Colonial Recipes
Here are the cookie recipes that we use in the Hands on History
Workshops. These are adapted from colonial recipes.
Preserving Food
Most of the food required by a farm family during the early 1800s was produced on their own farm in season and had to be preserved for future use. Here's how colonials made dried apples.
True Accounts
The
Wyoming Valley Massacre of 1757
The story describes a violent episode during Colonial America
and, as the history was written by a descendant of massacre victims,
not a historian, some of the material may be apocryphal in nature.
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Related Books From Amazon.com
American Kids in History Series
Colonial Days
Discover the Past with Exciting Projects, Games, Activities,
and Recipes
by David C. King
Packed with historical information, this book lets kids discover
for themselves what life was like for the children of early America.
Paperback.
History of US
by Joy Hakim
This is the full 10-volume set of the books in the paperback
edition. You may prefer the hardcover set. Master storyteller Joy Hakim
has revised and expanded her pioneering history of the United
States for this 1999 edition all in full color.
Individual copies may also be ordered as needed:
- Making Thirteen Colonies (History of U.S., Book 2),
Paperback or Hardcover
- From Colonies to Country ( History of U.S., Book 3),
Paperback or Hardcover
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- Great
Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself!
by Kris Bordessa
- From colonial fashions and trades to biographies on key historical
figures such as Captain John Smith and Thomas Jefferson, this
interactive guide blends engaging activities with facts and trivia
about early America.
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- The
Crucible (1996)
- The movie recounts a fictionalized version of the famous
Salem, Massachusetts witch trials of 1692, which saw quite a
number of of the town's citizens executed for witchcraft. Winona
Ryder is excellent as Abigail Williams.
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- The
Crucible
- A
Play in Four Acts
- (Penguin Plays)
by Arthur Miller
- It shows the problems that arouse from theocracy and also
from our own misjudgement. This is one of the greatest works
of all time. It is also reflects current events. Since September
11, there has been a withhunt. Instead of determining if you
are a witch or a communist, it is now, "Are you a terrorist?"
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