Preface: our mixed-up civilization -- A sign in the sky -- Across the ocean -- The first Virginians -- English settlers come to stay -- John Smith -- The starving time -- A lord, a hurricane, a wedding -- A share in America -- Jamestown makes it -- 1619-a big year -- Indians vs. colonists -- Massacre in Virginia, poverty in England -- Feature: America, land of the free -- The Mayflower: saints and strangers -- Pilgrims, Indians, and Puritans -- Feature: giving thanks -- Puritans, Puritans, and more Puritans -- Feature: what's in a word -- Of towns and schools and sermons -- Roger Williams -- "Woman, hold your tongue" -- Statues on the common -- Of witches and dinosaurs -- Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine -- Feature: land greed -- King Philip's War -- The Pueblos win-at least for now -- What's a colony? -- Silvernails and big tub -- West to Jersey -- Cromwell and Charles -- William the wise -- Ben Franklin -- Maryland's form of toleration -- Carry me back to Ole Virginny -- The good life -- Virginia's capital -- Pretend some more -- South Carolina: riches, rice, and slaves -- North Carolina: dissenters and pirates -- Royal colonies and a no-blood revolution -- A nasty triangle -- Feature: Africa, the unknown continent -- Four and nine makes thirteen -- Over the mountains -- Westward ho -- The end-and the beginning -- After words: a cartographer makes maps, not wagons.
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