Browsing: Colonial

Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial…

“Extraordinary” (Publishers Weekly starred review): This National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner explores the history of slave Sally Hemings and her family, whose intimate ties to president Thomas Jefferson were long concealed. A “commanding and important book” (The New Yorker).

This absorbing history examines the disappearance of the Roanoke colony — and puts forth a theory on how 115 men, women, and children could completely vanish. “Miller offers enlivening insight and astounding detail as she resurrects a 400-year-old American mystery” (Associated Press).

A New York Times bestselling historian delivers an absorbing chronicle of the Pilgrims’ first year in Plymouth, featuring vivid portraits of colony leaders and striking accounts of their trials and triumphs.