Edwin Tunis

Colonial Living is a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America; of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of New Amsterdam; the homes of the early planters in the South which would...

Describes in text and pictures weapons used through the ages, from the stones of prehistoric man to the bombs of modern times.

Describes the history, government, industries, schools, society, culture, and westward expansion during the first fifty years of United States independence.

Describes the development of settlements, taverns, and ferry crossings along the Pennsylvania and New Jersey shores of the Delaware River and the events leading to Washington's crossing of this river in 1776.