Books in Our Thirteen Colonies series

Presents the history, economy, culture, and people of the Virginia colony from the early Indian settlements to the Revolution, and includes brief biographies of prominent Virginians of the period from Powhatan to Thomas Jefferson and Henry Lee

A history of the colony of Virginia, which originally offered the opportunity to escape England's class system and poor economy but quickly developed its own social strata.

Relates the history of the Colony of Maryland from its founding by Cecil Calvert in 1634 to its statehood in 1788 and donation of land and money for the new nation's capital in 1791.

Describes the history and people of South Carolina from its earliest settlements to statehood in 1788.

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.

Traces the history of New York State from the hunting of woolly mammoths 11,000 years ago to the explorations of Hudson, Verrazano, and Champlain, to its ratification as the eleventh state in 1788.

Traces the history of Rhode Island to 1790 when it became the last colony to ratify the Constitution

Discusses the history of the Georgia colony, from its original Native American inhabitants to its statehood,

A history of the colony, which began with the settling of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, until its becoming the sixth state of the Union

Presents the history of Georgia, from its earliest beginnings in the seventeenth century up to the end of the eighteenth century, following the American Revolution.

Traces the history of New Hampshire from the time of Indian settlements, through the arrival of the first colonists, to the ratification of the Constitution in 1778 which made it the ninth state

Presents the history of New York, from the arrival of the first Europeans up to the time of the American Revolution.