Books in Spirit of America: Our People series

Relates the history of the Rhode Island colony, from a discussion of its original Native American inhabitants, the Narragansett, to its statehood in 1790.

Traces the history of New Hampshire, discussing the daily life of Indian tribes before the seventeenth century, European exploration and settlement, colonial life, the Revolutionary War, and ratification as the ninth state.

Relates the history of the New Jersey colony, from a discussion of its original Native American inhabitants, the Lenni-Lenape, to its statehood in 1787.

Relates the history of the North Carolina colony, from a discussion of its original Native American inhabitants to its statehood in 1789.

Relates the history of the Colony of Pennsylvania from its founding by William Penn in 1681 to statehood in 1787.

Relates the history of the Colony of Delaware from its founding by David Pietersen de Vries in 1631 to its statehood in 1787.

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