Biography of Martha Washington for young adults.…

Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the marquis’s military, political, and private life, as well…

The evolution of the many-roomed mansion in colonial British America permitted the creation of multiple public spaces within the house itself. Using the theoretical insights of Jurgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, and Karen Hansen on the nature of the…

Pages: 155 p., {8} leaves of plates
Physical description: 155 p., {8} leaves of plates : ill., 24 cm
Note: Includes index
Subject: Court records--Virginia
Subject: Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject: Virginia--Social life…

Along with Linda Kerber's "Women of the Republic," this book is often seen as revolutionizing the study of women in early America. Unlike Kerber's approach through ideology and intellectual history, Norton's analysis focuses on social history. She…