Full Title:
The History of Massachusetts, From the First Settlement Thereof in 1628, Until the Year 1750. By Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. The Third Edition. With additional Notes and Corrections. Printed at Salem, By Thomas C. Cushing, For Thomas and Andrews, No. 45, Newbury-Street, Boston. 1795.
Chap. I. From the first Settlement of the [...]
Full Title: A Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the Improvement of Trade and Navigation. Containing An Account of several Attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their Discoveries in the East-Indias, and the South Seas. Together with an Historical Introduction, giving an account of the Rise, Establishment and Progress [...]
The following essay by Casey Levinson of Hunter College has been awarded second place in the 2007 Eighteenth-Century Reading Room Essay Contest. Congratulations to Casey!
John Smith and Pocahontas:
A Review of the “Sometimes Governor” of Jamestown’s Works and Reputation
Most Americans who are familiar with John Smith know him from a paragraph in a high school [...]
Full Title:
The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. Printed in London by Adam Islip, 1601.
Excerpt from the Eighth Booke, Chap. XVI. “Of Lions.”
The Lions are then in their kind most strong and courageous, when the haire of their main [...]
