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Edmund S. Morgan was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America who taught at Yale University. His scholarship addressed Puritanism, political culture, slavery, and the formation of American republican ideas. His books include The Puritan Dilemma, American Slavery, American Freedom,...

Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery, the American Revolution, and the early republic. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for William Cooper's Town in 1996 and for The Internal Enemy in 2014. The Internal Enem...

The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring fabled to restore the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. While variations of the legend have existed since antiquity, it is most closely associated with the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León and his 1513 expedition to what is now Florida....

David Hackett Fischer is an American historian known for studying how migration, culture, institutions, and political ideas shaped the history of the United States. His book Albion's Seed examined four British cultural migrations to North America and their lasting influence on regional traditions. F...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an American historian whose work examines social history, gender, and everyday life in early American communities. She received the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for History for A Midwife's Tale, a study based on the diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine whose records cover 178...

John Mitchell (1711–1768) was a Virginia-born British physician, botanist, and cartographer best known for creating the 'Map of the British and French Dominions in North America,' published in 1755 and commonly called the Mitchell Map. This large-scale map was the most detailed and accurate represen...

Daniel K. Richter is an American historian of early North America and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines Indigenous peoples, colonial encounters, and political change in the eastern woodlands, with attention to how Native communities shaped the history of the contin...

Colin Calloway is a British-American historian of Native American and early American history and a professor at Dartmouth College. His scholarship examines Indigenous communities, diplomacy, colonial encounters, and the political relationships linking Native peoples and European settlers in North Am...

Mary Beth Norton is an American historian of early American history whose work focuses on women, gender, politics, and colonial society. She is associated with scholarship on New England and the Salem witch trials, including In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, published in 200...

John Demos is an American historian of early American and colonial history, known for using detailed individual cases to examine wider social and cultural patterns. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. His book The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, published i...

Stuart Schwartz is an American historian of colonial Latin America, with particular attention to Brazil, the Atlantic world, slavery, and the relationship between political institutions and economic life. His 1985 book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society examines how plantation p...

Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” woodcut depicts a serpent divided into separate sections. Created in 1754, this iconic image was published in the *Pennsylvania Gazette* and is recognized as America's first political cartoon. It visually represented the colonies’ need for unity to confront external...

The American Revolution was a pivotal 18th-century conflict (1775-1783) involving thirteen British colonies in North America seeking independence. Marked by significant military strategies and political upheaval, it resulted in the creation of the United States as a sovereign nation. This period rem...

John Mitchell was an 18th-century cartographer specializing in colonial North America. He produced significant maps, most notably his 1755 chart of eastern North America. This map proved crucial during treaty negotiations between Britain and Native American tribes, establishing its importance in def...

Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian and Harvard professor whose books covered American maritime history, exploration, and naval operations. He received two Pulitzer Prizes and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, an experience that informed his 15-volume History of United...

Francis Parkman was a nineteenth-century American historian and writer. He is known for The Oregon Trail, an account of his 1846 journey across the Great Plains, and for the multivolume France and England in North America, which examines the struggle between French and British powers in North Americ...

The Liberty Bell’s bronze inscription is a passage from Leviticus 25:10, referencing forgiveness and restoration. This biblical verse gained prominence during the 19th century as abolitionists invoked it to advocate for the emancipation of enslaved people in America. The inscription remains a signif...

The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a 1958 historical novel by Elizabeth George Speare, set in the Puritan settlement of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1687. It follows Kit Tyler, a girl raised in Barbados who struggles with the rigid expectations of her new community and is eventually accused of witchcra...

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was an English-born Puritan poet who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Her collection "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" (1650) was the first book of poetry published by a New England settler. Her later poems, including "Upon the Burning of Our Hous...

The Seven Cities of Gold is a colonial legend regarding seven wealthy settlements believed to exist in North America. The myth originated in European folklore and motivated Spanish conquistadors to explore the southwestern United States. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led a major expedition in 1540 t...

Created by Philip Dawe in 1774, this political mezzotint caricature illustrates American colonists tarring and feathering a British customs official named John Malcolm. The print specifically depicts the rebels forcing tea down the man's throat, directly referencing the recent Boston Tea Party. It w...

Brown Betty is a traditional American baked fruit dessert closely related to cobblers and crisps. The dish consists of alternating layers of sliced fruit—most commonly apples—and sweetened buttered breadcrumbs or cubes. Spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg are typically added before baking until the t...

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor and cartographer who produced foundational maps of the British colonies in North America. He first published a map of Pennsylvania in 1749, followed by his most significant work, "A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America," pri...

A Mercy is a historical novel by Toni Morrison published in 2008. Set in the 1680s in colonial America before the formalization of slavery, it explores the interconnected lives of an Anglo-Dutch trader and the women on his Maryland farm, examining themes of race, dependence, and societal formation.

A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina is a 1775 satirical mezzotint published in London and attributed to Philip Dawe. It caricatures the women associated with the Edenton Tea Party, a colonial pledge to avoid British tea and other imported goods. Rather than documenting the mee...

Indian Pudding is a traditional New England dessert from colonial American cooking. It is made primarily from cornmeal, milk, and molasses, then baked into a soft pudding with a dense texture and a pronounced sweetness from the molasses. The word "Indian" refers to the use of cornmeal, a food associ...

The Interest of Great Britain Considered is a political pamphlet by Benjamin Franklin, published in 1760 during the Seven Years’ War. Franklin argues that Britain’s long-term interests would be better served by retaining Canada, which had been captured from France, rather than choosing the Caribbean...

Hasty pudding is a simple porridge made by boiling grain or meal in water or milk until it thickens. In Britain and colonial North America, the dish could be prepared with ingredients such as wheat, oats, or cornmeal, depending on local practice. Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club, founded in 1...