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Colonial America 1492-1775

Get online access to the textbook This Is Who We Are: Colonial America, 1492-1775. To log-in, use login name: salinecountylibrary and password: 24766. 

"This new edition of This Is Who We Are: Colonial America, 1492-1775 is the 13th volume in the This Is Who We Are series. It includes 25 profiles--spanning more than 250 years--of men, women, and children living and working in the Colonial Era int he country that would become the United States of America. Like the other works in this series, this volume observes the lives of working Americans, in this case, pilgrims, colonists, settlers, slaves and Native Americans--those who helped shape the history of the country--decade by decade."