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The tutor'd mind
Builders of the Bay Colony
The northern colonial frontier, 1607-1763
Colonial folkways
The Scratch of a Pen
Home life in colonial days
The crossroads of American history and literature
The Puritans
A rational millennium
Phillis Wheatley
Conquistadors in North American history
The last expedition
Major writers of early American literature
The Americans
CULTURES IN CONTACT
American Lazarus
New England frontier
The Puritan Conversion Narrative
A Voice of Her Own
Phillis Wheatley
Narratives of the Indian wars, 1675-1699
Pioneers of the Old South
The cultural life of the American colonies, 1607-1763
Distant relations
The Puritan Dilemma
Silvia Dubois
Captivity and Restoration
Wonder-working Providence, 1628-1651
Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
The American Puritan imagination
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