This book is a very convenient, useful resource for anyone researching ancestors who resided, at the time of their deaths, in what is today Adams County, Pennsylvania.

This book is very useful for genealogical reserach on familes of the York County, Pennsylvania region.

This book contains transcripts of all known church, Bible, and cemetery records for the Adams County region.

This is a very detailed study of the life and voyages of Columbus.

This is a very flashy coffee-table book. It has nice illustrations, and the text is interesting, but as a reference work, it is lacking.

This book is a great tool for research on the subject of everyday life in the period just following the American Revolutionary War.

This book ties together all of the various military events stretching from the close of the Thirty Years War to the American Revolutionary War. It is moderately illustrated with fine reproductions of historical paintings along with great maps.

This book is part of the 'Great Ages Of Man' series published by Time Incorporated. There are great illustrations and alot of information on the period of feudalism and the Crusades.

This book is laid out in chronological order with entries of a single or only a few sentences to detail the various events. But the information given is to the point and very useful. Each entry is given a heading to note a category, such as "Colonial Affairs", "British Policy" or "Indians".

This is a nice picture book produced for the 250th anniversary of the county of Amelia, in which some of my ancestors resided for a while.

This is a publication by TIME Inc. It is an absolutely magnificent treasure of artwork and photography. There is just enough text to comment on the illustrations. As with all TIME publications over the years, this is something to be treasured.

This is a good book on folklore, but it is not the best I have. There are not too many illustrations, but there are plenty.

This book is a text book on the birth and growth of America. It is very concise and nicely illustrated.

This history of the "discovery" and settlement of the New World by the European nations is very detailed and astounding in its breadth and scope.

This is perhaps the best book on American folklore and legend that I have ever seen. It is full of articles on everything from Johnny Appleseed to tales of the goldrush of 1848.

This is a profusely illustrated history of the American West. Although the text is extremely informative, it is the illustrations that steal the show in the coffeetable-sized book. Throughout the volume there are many two-page spreads of clothing and artifacts of 'frontier' life.

This is most definitely an American Heritage book with many illustrations and great, informative text. Unlike most others, though, this one functions as a sort of travelogue, as the title implies.

This book examines all aspects of the pioneering spirit in America, starting with the earliest European explorers and progressing to inventors like the Wright brothers.

This book, in the tradition of finely illustrated, interesting reading books by the American Heritage Society is one of the best basic histories of the American Revolutionary War.

This book, like all the other publications of the American Heritage Society, is fantastic.

This book is exquisite in both, its text and illustrations. It upholds the fine tradition of publications of the American Heritage Society.

The first four volumes of this series cover the period of time from the 'discovery' of the New World by the Europeans to the American Revolutionary War. Very nice illustrations and short concise text makes this a good reference set.

This is a fantastic collection of maps which illustrate the history of the United States. There is ample text to describe the historical periods.

This is a great general history book, filled with illustrations and maps.

I possess only Volumes I and III - Era Of Colonization 1492-1689 and National Expansion 1783-1845. This series is a collection of transcripts of original documents.

This thick book has got to be the best collection of legends and folk tales from the American Indian.

This is a very interesting book detailing the major wars between the Indians and Europeans.

The 'Eyewitness Accounts Of The American Revolution' series was published by the New York Times & Arno Press. They consist of transcriptions of original documents, especially diaries, journals and letters.

This book covers the entire history of the United States up to the 1930s. It has a number of nice articles on the Revolutionary War period.

This volume, published sixty years after the War, consists of biographical sketches of quite a number of persons involved with the American Revolutionary War.

This is a collection of transcripts of original documents written by participants of the American Revolutionary War.

As the title implies, this book is primarily devoted to discussing the nature of politics in colonial Virginia.

This book was, when it was published in 1899, the magnum opus of its author. It is as powerful today as it was then, an extremely detailed and intensive study of the war.

This book is a history of the American Revolutionary War for young people. The illustrations are unique and vividly illustrate the events spoken of in the text.

This book consists primarily of first-hand accounts published in the two London newspapers noted in the title.

This book is a good, though not unique history of the American Revolutionary War, based heavily on the writings of various of the leaders of the strife.

For reproductions of virtually all existing artworks pertaining to the events and characters of the American Revolutionary War maintained by the United States Library of Congress, this book is the best.

This book is a very good reference work on the subject of the interaction of the Americans and the British with the Indians during the Revolutionary War.

This 95 page book is one of the Osprey Publishing - Essential Histories series. As such, it is short but very succinct and finely illustrated.

This small book is a collection of lectures presented by the authors.

This 878 page book contains over 120 pieces of writings from notable personages from the Revolutionary War alongside letters from ordinary people. It is a very good resource volume for first-person material.

This book was intended for educating young people on the history of the American Revolutionary War. It is not too detailed, but contains a lot of very good information for young people. It employs quite a number of first person letters and commentary to make points.

This large size book is the 'bible' on inventions created by Americans. The text is detailed and the illustrations are likewise detailed.

This book includes excerpts from Baron Von Steuben's 'Regulations' of 1778.

This is a very nice coffee-table type book that presents the story of the American Revolutionary War in engaging text and exquisite illustrations. In a way, it rivals the American Heritage Book Of The Revolution in simple, elegant style.

This is a very informative book detailing the daily life, customs, religious activities and so forth of the period encompassed by the American Revolutionary War.

This small book is one of Eric Sloane's superb hymns of devotion to the American Past. He really tells a convincing picture of everyday life in the 1700s and 1800s.

This is a soft-cover book intended to supply activity planners with much background information and ideas.

Every aspect of private and public life, and the changing habits and customs of the American family are included in this volume. It is an invaluable aid to anyone doing genealogy and wanting to understand the families of our ancestors.

This is a large coffee-table book. It has a lot of information, but it is more for reading enjoyment that scholarly research. The illustrations are nice throughout the book.

This book is filled with illustrations and good information. The only drawback is the fact that it is mostly filled with dialogue by the author(s) as if you and they were traveling together to the sites.

This book is not very large in size - only about 8" x 10" and 550 pages - but it is very comprehensive, covering all the wars fought on United States soil or by the United States throughout the world, starting with the Conquest of the Hawikuh Pueblo in 1540 and extending through the Kosovo Crisis of 1999.

Although not the easiest book to read that I have on the subject of antique tools, this book provides many illustrations of the tools and has very explanatory text.

This book presents a rather in-depth study of the religions of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean region. It discusses the emergence of cults and their transformation into religions.

This two volume set presents a rather detailed history of the ancient cultures noted in the title. Included are many maps of the regions discussed.

This book contains a very nice collection of articles on a wide range of subjects. It includes subjects such as tattooing, gunpowder, the reaping machine and spectacles. The book is not overly filled with illustrations - just enough to augment the text where necessary.

This book is a compendium of various historical events which have forever been difficult to explain or understand. It provides a well balanced study without being overly scholarly.

What can you say about a book as spectacular as this? Not only is it filled with exquisite photography, but the text is in-depth. It is a great reference volume and it is a great coffee-table style history book. It is a companion volume to The Medieval And Renaissance World and The Expanding World.

This is a two-volume set; soft-bound; 1,899 total pages. It is a very informative text without any illustrations. I'm not sure why the author felt the need to subtitle the work as "A People's History". It is a history like most others, not necessarily any closer to the people.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles are translated and explained in this beautifully illustrated book.

This is a reprint of the 1908 book, and it does not contain any illustrations. It is filled, though, with quoted references taken from the Pennsylvania Archives regarding the White and Indian relationship.

This original entire book is a treasure trove of contemporary accounts of the events which were leading inexoreably toward war between the colonies and England. It includes an account of the burning of the schooner, Gaspee and a full transcript of the 'Association of the American Congress'.

This original entire book contains so many articles pertaining to contemporary events of the American Revolutionary War. It is a treasure trove of research material.

This original entire book, like the one published for the year 1774, is full of contemporary accounts and a wonderful treasury of research material. Among other topics is comments on the state of affairs between Great Britain and Spain (who had sided with the Americans).

This book covers only the period of time during which the Battle of Germantown took place and the Patriot army went into its winter bivouac at Valley Forge. It includes a chapter on the Conway Cabal.

This book was published, as the title notes, as an appendix to Buchanan's reknown work on the history of Scotland. It includes a narrative of the life of Mary Queen of Scots following the murder of her husband and a discourse on the 'Privilege of Government in the Kingdom of Scotland.' Also included in this volume is a genealogy of the monarchs from Fergus to James V of Scotland/I of England.

This book is not very large, and it contains very few illustrations, but it is a nice, concise history of the War.

This volume of the Maryland Archives includes rosters of the various units which served in the Maryland Regiments of the Continental Line.

This book is an absolutely superb history of the title subject. It should be on the shelf of any historian of the Medieval Ages because it is very nearly a 'bible' of information on the period.

This book covers the "warlike operations on land and sea" engaged in by the American army and navy during the conflicts from the French and Indian War to the Mexican War.

The 'Eyewitness Accounts Of The American Revolution' series was published by the New York Times & Arno Press. They consist of transcriptions of original documents, especially diaries, journals and letters.

This is a small but concise history of artillery.

This large size book is a wonderful resource for information on the earliest evidence of man throughout the world. It covers primarily the Stone Age period, but includes some information on the earliest known civilizations, such as the Akkadians and Sumerians.

This book was published by the Rand McNally firm and is filled with 49 maps along with other illustrations and great text to describe the events of the American Revolutionary War.

This book is one of the most valuable ones I own on the subject of the Indians of North America. It is very detailed in terms of the history of the various conflicts between the Indians and the Euro-Americans. It is filled with very useful maps.

This large size book is one of the most fantastic books I have found on the subject of using maps to illustrate historical events and time periods! The maps are very detailed and varied in style. The maps are augmented by text to explain the events.

This book, despite having the title of being an 'atlas', contains very few maps. Unlike the book listed above by the same name, this one's emphasis is more on text rather than maps. That is not to say that I feel it is inferior. It is just that this book examines the world events in a different way, basing everything on a chronological timeline that appears at the top of each page.

Being an autobiography by Mr. Franklin, this volume is priceless.

This is a facsimile repritn of the 1794 edition of von Steuben's important manual.

This book is a detailed study of the French and Indian War in North America. It is not only full of facts about the conflict, but is also engrossing reading. It is perhaps the best reference work on the subject. It was reissued in 1999 under the new title of 'Montcalm And Wolfe'.

This is a very small, but concise book about the battle which gave the Patriots a renewed burst of energy at a time when their spirits were low.

Each of the major battles of the war are given chapters and each are accompanied by easy to read maps showing the deployment of units. This book is very handy for anyone wanting to understand the actions that made up the battles of the Revolutionary War.

This book could be considered the bible for anyone interested in visiting the sites at which our independence was obtained in the Revolutionary War. It is very informative, providing directions to the battlefields, a history of the incidents, and other details, such as Internet website addresses.

This book is a very nice reference volume for information on the various battles. There are a variety of map formats utilized to illustrate the events and the author set up dioramas of certain of the battles using scale models.

Part of the Major Battles And Campaigns Series, this volume is another source of a great amount of information, while also being interesting reading for pleasure.

This set of books consist of transcribed court, church, cemetery, etc., records. The set makes many records available to people who might not be able to personally visit the Bedford County Court House or the Pioneer Historical Society at Bedford, Pennsylvania. The only problem is that, in view of the many errors that Whisker allowed to enter into his book, 'Bedford County, Pennsylvania, In The American Revolution', one must wonder if these volumes are free of error.

This small book is not too detailed, but presents a basic view of the Indian occupation of the Bedford County region. Attention is given to the atrocities committed during the Revolutionary War period, including the Earnest, Tull, and Peck family massacres. Certain contemporary documents are transcribed also.

This book, despite having much good information, is marred by many errors. The author apparently was in a hurry to make money by publishing a book, that he did not take any time to check and correct many blatant errors. Therefore, it is a dangerous piece to use. I keep it simply because it is devoted to Mother Bedford.

This is a well researched book on the history of Fort Bedford and the various campaigns of the French and Indian War that passed through this region.

This has got to be one of the best books I have read on the history of Scotland! The author discusses the events of the pre-historic peoples who inhabited the region that would be later called Scotland. But the book is much more than just a summary of events, dates and names. The habits, customs and lifestyles of the people is discussed in detail in order to explain how the clans evolved and so forth. If I had to give up all the books I purchased this past year and keep only one, it would be this one.

The editor transcribed the diaries and manuscripts of George P. Belden, a white man who lived among the Sioux. The book is full of rousing stories of Belden's adventures and is as exciting today as it would have been when it was first published.

This book is a very detailed history of the life and career of Benedict Arnold, covering not only his traitorous activity, but also his major military success at Saratoga.

This is a very detailed biography about an enigmatic figure in United States history - Benedict Arnold. Although he chose to betray his fellow Patriots because he had been passed over for a promotion that he felt he deserved, he was a true hero.

This book is a very interesting and in-depth biography on Franklin.

This is a very good biography on America's premier statesman.

This is exactly what the title suggests - a publication by the Life Magazine, filled with photographs and many topics of interest.

This book is a celebration of the history of the African Americans. It is filled with articles and reproductions of newspaper and magazine clippings from all eras of our nation's history. It is also filled with illustrations of the accomplishments (and some tragedies) of the blacks in America. It tells the entire history of the black peoples' experience in America from the point of their own neighbors selling them into slavery in Africa to the struggles in America in the 1960s to gain recognition and equality.

This book presents a very detailed history of the Black Plague that ravaged Europe in 1346. It is not overly filled with illustrations, but the ones that are included are very nice.

If you can have only one book about the American Revolutionary War, this is the one you should have. Nothing is 'definitive', but this comes very close. It includes essays by many experts, and covers a very wide range of topics. Because of the fact that many, varied writers contributed to this book, the writing styles range from easily understood to rather technical. The book cannot be beat for the wealth of information it contains.

This book lists the township and the book and page reference for wills filed in the Blair County Court House. The date of the will is not included, and that makes this book sllightly un-useful.

This history of Blair County contains information pertaining to Bedford County during the American Revolutionary War period.

This is the first of three books in which the author, the Chevalier Labhran de St. Germain, explores the 'myths' and 'legends' of the possibility of descendants of Jesus Christ. He is very thorough in his hypotheses and provides many, many family trees of the royalty of Europe, who supposedly descended from Jesus.

This book is set up as a collection of small, single to three sentence notes on things that occurred on each of the different days of the year. It is a great trivia resource.

This book is a magnificently illustrated retelling of the Irish sagas of the conquest of Ireland by the Tuatha de Danann. The author held true to the ancient tales in his own version. The book is a very modern version of the age-old tales.

This two-volume set is a very detailed history of costume. It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculptures and other sources of dress and costume through the ages.

This book functions as a reference volume to show the patterns of immigration along with providing detailed biographies of many famous Irish - Americans.

This book provides information about the clothing the soldiers wore and the equipment they carried. It includes drawings of the items.

For the time period of its publication, this book was a very important work. It is nicely illustrated with Victorian period engravings.

This book is just what its title implies - a dictionary of phrases and fables, and discussion of how they came into existence and use.

This is volume #39 of the Men-At-Arms Series. Although the book is small, it is packed with useful information regarding the units which served in North America during the Revolutionary War. Lots of information and pictures are included about the uniforms and equipment of the British Army.

There are no illustrations in this book, other than maps, but so what? The book is a tour de force of information. It has to be the best historical and genealogical study of the monarchs of the Isles available. It does not just cover England, like so many do, despite their titles alluding to the kings and queens of 'Great Britain'. This book definitely covers all the monarchs who reigned in any part of the Isles. Many genealogical tables are also included, with the individuals numbered, so that their particular biographies can easily be located in the text. This book should be on everyone's shelf who is interested in the monarchs of Great Britain!

This is a small, but very instructional book.

This 1185-page volume is a treasure-trove for anyone searching for heraldic information for a family from the United Kingdom.

This is a good, but not outstanding narrative history.

Like the book, The Mapping Of North America, this book is a large size coffee-table style book. It reproduces 171 maps along with illustrations of the cartographers and other individuals / events which pertain to the maps in some way. The text is minimal, and utilized primarily to give brief descriptions of the maps' histories.

This book contains separate chapters on various aspects of Celtic culture. It is nicely illustrated.

This book is a good history of the Celtic Empire and its spread across the present-day continent of Europe and northern Africa. The book's text is interesting reading, but there are very few illustrations.

It is possible that the accounts of the beginning of the world, the great deluge and other events which were recorded in the Bible, were actually copied from Chaldean originals. This book was one of the first to present transcriptions of translations of Chaldean tablets to the public.

Although this is not a large book (it is only 80 pages including index), this book provides some very good information about the history of Christmas celebrations in colonial America.

This is a massive volume set up in the style of a newspaper. It is extremely full of short narratives on everything that occurred during each year from prehistoric times to 1989.

This is a very good book for information on the various conflicts between the Indians and the Euro-Americans. The text is a thrill to read.

This book's reputation as 'the' history of the French Revolution is well deserved! It is so detailed and comprehensive.

This book is an epic, covering the history of the world from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 1960s. It is profusely illustrated.

This is a very beautiful book and a great addition to a library devoted to the history of the Civil War in America. It is profusely illustrated with airbrushed images of the weapons and equipment in use during the Civil War by both sides. But images of weapons and equipment are not the only things included in this coffee-table size book; there are maps and stories detailing the progress of the war and cross section views of things such as the naval ships of the time.

Although this is not a very large book - only 391 pages - it is a very good resource for the serious researcher of the English Civil Wars. The numerous authors touch on various topics which a single author might not have been able to do..

This small book provides histories of the major Scottish clans along with illustrations of their tartans.

This book is similar to Bulfinche's Mythology in that it provides detailed histories of the gods and goddesses of the 'Classical' period of Greece and Rome. Many Classical authors, such as Ovid, are quoted throughout the book to augment the biographical and historical information.

Although not too detailed, this is a nicely illustrated book about the history of America in the style of National Geographic magazine.

Rupp used the ships passenger lists which were also published by the Pennsylvania State Museum and Archives in the series of books called the 'Pennsylvania Archives', but he made a number of mistakes throughout. Also there were three different types of lists available, and Rupp, instead of sticking with one particular type, picked and chose. As a result, this book is not the best one to use to 'prove' an individual's emigration history.

This is the "bible" of arms and equipment used by the men who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Profusely illustrated. A must-have for anyone seriously interested in the daily life of the soldier.

This book provides a very detailed and in-depth study of the colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War. It is a superb reference volume.

This is one of my most favorite books of all time! I first found it when I was in high school. I immediately wanted to possess my very copy; I even considered stealing it from the school library. I'm glad that I didn't succumb to that desire. But as time went on, and I grew older, I would conjure up images from this book when I thought about early craftsmen. Then I found a copy in a used book store! I of course purchased it and it became a prized possession. The thing about this book is that the text is very concise and yet in-depth where necessary. Tunis very succinctly explained the various crafts and professions of our 16th, 17th and 18th century ancestors. But beside the superb text, Tunis illustrated the book throughout with his own fantasticly detailed pencil drawings. If you want to know what a hornsmith did or what a chandler made, you should seek out this book.

This book is another one by Edwin Tunis. What more needs to be said?

The dustcover notes state that this book "explores in careful detail the part the colonial merchants played...". The part about 'careful detail' is a bit understated This book is too detailed to be of any enjoyment in reading. It is essentially a reference book for grad students doing thesis preparation.

This book is a great resource for information on the founding and early settlements of the various colonies in the New World.

This small book provides a history of the period of one hundred years prior to the American Revolutionary War. It is not too detailed, but it does provide a basic history of the way that the various conflicts came about and influenced the course of American history.

This book was intended for school use, and as such it would have been a good resource at the turn of the century.

This is a flashy coffee-table book about the voyages of Columbus, published to serve as a companion to the PBS series.

This is a facsimile copy of the famous book that spurred on the colonists' quest for freedom, originally published in 1776.

This is a very good narrative history of the war carried on in the frontier regions.

This book was published by the Dorling Kindersley Ltd publishing company, and as such, it is extremely slick and lavishly illustrated. A great wealth of historical information is provided on the people, places and events included in the Bible.

This is the bible of books on heraldry. Words can't describe how important and influential this book is on the subject of heraldry. The title describes the book very accurately.

In the fashion of the "Complete Idiot's Guide To" series, this is a good reference volume. It is for the people who know nothing about the subject, and want a quick and easy way to learn. As such, the book does not go into great detail on any single topic.

This is a classic history of the country. It is fabulously illustrated throughout and the text is very complete. This book should be the one every student of Scottish history should have.

This book is published by National Geographic. It is filled with great illustrations, and informative text in the form of the time line itself along with expanded sections on particular topics.

This soft-cover book was published by the editors of the American History Illustrated. It is nicely illustrated as the title suggests. It also contains text to explain the events illustrated.

This book consists of reprints of contemporary letters and journals pertaining to the naval affairs of the new nation.

This two volume set presents a good history of the French Revolution although it is not too detailed..

This is exactly what the title suggests - a publication by the Life Magazine, filled with photographs and many topics of interest.

This 1961 page volume includes a complete transcript of the Constitution and its Amendments along with detailed comment on each article and section.

This book, part of the Army Lineage Series, was produced under the auspices of the Center of Military History of the United States Army in Washington, DC. This book is superb in its coverage of the various colonies' portions of the Continental Army. It provides a history of the formation and structure of the Continental Army that arose out of the army that beseiged Boston following the battle of Breeds (Bunker) Hill and then details the lineages of each unit.

This is the book to have if you want to know the history of the Continental Congress. As it is stated in the subtitle, this is the definitive history.

This book is a nicely illustrated volume comprised of biographical sketches of all the delegates to the Continental Congress.

The 'Eyewitness Accounts Of The American Revolution' series was published by the New York Times & Arno Press. They consist of transcriptions of original documents, especially diaries, journals and letters. This particular item consists of three volumes.

This four volume set includes transcripts of the letters from others to George Washington.

This book contains hand drawn studies of figures in the costumes through the ages. The drawings include notations about the important parts, or the unusual aspects which set off one style from another.

This book is exactly what its title states - a celebration of rural life. It is illustrated only here and there with some photographs and original graphics, but the text is what makes this book a treasure to own.

Despite the date of publication of this book, it provides a wealth of information regarding all the various departments in the county court systems from the Register of Wills to the County Surveyor.

The 'Eyewitness Accounts Of The American Revolution' series was published by the New York Times & Arno Press. They consist of transcriptions of original documents, especially diaries, journals and letters.

This book correlates the English Civil War, the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. It explores the various reasons why the conflicts occurred by looking at the religious and political environments of the British Isles and the Colonies.

This book is a nicely illustrated book about the craftsmen in American history. It is in the basic style of National Geographic magazine.

As the title notes, this book covers the period following the American Revolutionary War and details the efforts to come up with a national constitution.

This is not a great, but a good, biography about Oliver Cromwell.

This is a very good book about the history of Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War. It dwells heavily on Cromwell's religious beliefs.

This has got to be the best book I have seen which deals with the invasion of Scotland by Cromwell during the course of the English Civil Wars.

The author noted that this book is not intended to be a biography of Cromwell, nor is it intended to function as a history of the English Civil Wars. It is intended as a guide to the sites of historical events of the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland. In that context, the book is a very useful research tool. The entries are separated into sections by region, and then alphabetically within each section. Although some entries are very short, they are extremely succinct and informational.

This has got to be the absolute best volume devoted to the subject of the life of Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil Wars. The only thing that Fraser does not include is a complete genealogy for Cromwell. Otherwise, she seems to not miss a single fact about the man and his involvement in the civil wars which resulted in the Protectorate government of the British Isles.

This book is basically a history of the York County, Pennsylvania court house. It includes information regarding the sojourn of the Continental Congress during nine months in 1778.

This two volume set contains a massive amount of information, as the title suggest, on the arts and sciences. The volumes are practically the largest of my old book collection, each measuring 10" by 16" and 3" thick. The definitions of words are all very detailed. The topic of smallpox, for example, encompasses nearly an entire page.

This book is a compilation of the previously published "Life In A Medieval Castle", "Life In A Medieval Village", and "Life in A Medieval City". By combining the individual volumes, it makes a more complete view of the subject of life in the Medieval Ages. This volume, unlike the earlier individual books, is illustrated throughout.

The information in this book is based on the personal observations of Alexander Neckam, in London and Paris during the Twelfth Century. It is a very good resource for anyone studying the late-Medieval period of Europe. It presents very useful information on knighthood and the church.

This is a unique book in that it is set up as a day by day account of events that occurred through the years in the history of Pennsylvania. In other words, if some event took place on June 7, 1813, it would appear in this book under June 7. Of course, some things that occurred on the same day, but different year, as another, slightly more important event, might not have been included. The articles that are included in this book are very interesting to read; most of them are drawn from other sources, such as the Pennsylvania Archives and other historical sources.

This is a spectacular book! It is immense in both physical size and scope. The book measures eleven inches by fourteen inches and consists of four hundred and four pages. There are 940 illustrations! To say the text is somewhat detailed would be an understatement. Where else would you find a study of the Gerzean Culture of Lower Egypt?

This publication from the editors of American History Illustrated is full of illustrations and the text is short but concise.

This coffeetable-sized book is a delight to read. Besides being filled with interesting text and beautiful color illustrations, there are attached and inserted facsimile copies of original, contemporary documents.

This book is a reprint of the 1710 volume compiled by William Hamilton of Wishaw. It is an invaluable aid in the study of my Scottish ancestors who came from Lanarkshire.

This book was published by the American Heritage Press, and is a good example of that publisher's output. It is profusely illustrated, and the text is detailed, presenting a history of the concept of the devil and evil. It traces that history from the Sumerians through the Freemasons and Theosophists.

Published by the Oxford University Press, this book, like any other Oxford history book, is very informative, complete and nicely illustrated.

This book explores the historical origins of nearly 1,000 superstitions. It quotes published accounts referring to the superstitions, so that you can see in what year the superstition appeared in usage.

This small size book is a great source of information on the 'genealogy' of a tract of 10,000 acres of land in what is now York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, originally granted by Lord Calvert to John Digges. The tract of land encompassed the region in which the borough of Hanover would come to be established, and in which this website's webmaster's ancestors, Johan Simon Clar and Johann Nicholas Klee, resided.

This small sized book is very interesting to read. It deals with ideas, concepts and inventions that never quite succeeding.

In the great tradition of all American Heritage publications, this book is filled with facts and great illustrations.

This book is one of the most interesting ones I own. It is overflowing with snippets of information in the text and oodles and scads of illustrations. It seems as if the covers cannot contain all the information and pictures within one book. The title tells it all!

This is a beautiful 'coffee-table' book. It is filled with photographs of people, events and places throughout Great Britain and Ireland. It also contains very interesting text to describe the aspect of the places being illustrated.

This small book is a very good basic book on heraldry. It supplies enough information without being boring.

This softcover book was published by the Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission. It covers the various Indian tribes that inhabited and/or moved through the region that is encompassed by the state of Pennsylvania today. It should be included in the collection of anyone interested in Indians.

This Seventeenth Century volume is an extremely valuable source of information on heraldry as practiced in Great Britain. It includes the heraldic achievements of many of the persons of high standing from the King to lesser court officials and on down to the gentry. The individual coats of arms of numerous families are presented as engravings along with explanatory text.

This book is a collection of transcripts of original doucments. It is a very good reference volume, including the charters of the various provinces; the different Acts of the English Parliament, which led to the American Revolutionary War; the primary Acts of the Continental Congress; etc. This is just about the most definitive volume available with so many important documents transcribed.

This book tells the story of the lives of seven women prior to the year 1800. It includes their own 'scribblings' or diary entries and is valuable for the picture it paints of everyday life for women in the colonial period of American history.

This small book, which includes instructions for making clay pottery, tanning hides and canning fruits and vegetables, is of use in research by providing a glimpse at how things were done in the past.

This is an historical fiction book about a young boy from North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.

This is the famous historical fiction book devoted to the events that took place along the Mohawk Valley during the 1770s.

This book covers the time period of 1774 to 1776, from the events leading up to the conflict and to the issuing of the Declaration Of Independence. The story is told primarily through revealing the characters involved in those events. It is one of the most useful books for researching the lives of the people involved in the Revolution.

This book is not a very detailed book on the subject, but it does include quite a number of professions in which our early ancestors were employed. Almost every profession is accompanied by an illustration.

This describes, with detailed text and very good illustrations, the various forms of wooden containers and utensils used during the Colonial period.

This book presents a very good history of the 1708-09 immigration of the Palatine Germans, and then of the later movements of those immigrants throughout the eastern seaboard states.

This set of books are wonderful compilations of family genealogical information. The author provides a great wealth of information, linking information from a variety of sources such as church, Bible, cemetery and personal records.

This book, like the preceeding one by Keith Dull, is a great accomplishment of genealogical research. In this one, the author covers the families who resided in the townships of Codorus, Dover, Manchester and Shrewsbury.

This reprint of the 1846 original is a very detailed and useful reference book on all of the incidents which occurred in the western regions of Pennsylvania from the earliest times to the 1840s.

This book is good for reference, but it's text is slightly more technical than the casual reader might like.

This is another of the Fulton County Historical Society's publications in which the original records have been transcribed verbatim. The 1808 Triennial Tax Assessment was a rather complete assessment, and therefore is an important research tool for the historian and genealogist.

This publication of the Pennsylvania German Society is a superb study of the emigrants because the author not only transcribes ships passenger lists or other documents, but rather makes links between the emigrants and individuals who were later recorded as residing in the colonies.

This volume, like the preceeding one, which the author published two years earlier, is just as detailed and fantastic. It is one of the best resources for descendants of the most common groups of Germanic emigrants - the Palatines.

This book is extremely difficult to use. The book uses a typeface that is not easy to read in the small font size. The sources refer to previously published books by the author, and therefore (if you do not have access to the original books) is of little use. Of the many names of which I have found records in the various other books on emigrants in my collection, very few appear in this book. So I wonder where the author found his information. It is a very useless book in my opinion.

This book, though not specific to the region encompassed by Mother Bedford, covers the emergence of Patriotism in a region very similar to the Bedford County of the colonial period. It includes information on the Halifax Resolves, the first declaration of independence made by a colony of Great Britain.

This volume is a very complete and well documented history of the French And Indian War.

Concise and to-the-point daily chronology of the history of the United States of America. If I can't find it anywhere else, I know it will be in this book.

This large coffee-table book should be three times as many pages as what it is (190). It is set up in alphabetical encyclopedic style, and so a particular Indian tribe is easily found. The only problem with this book is that many of the tribes are given only a sentence or two; it would be nice to see more information in many cases.

This is an absolutely fantastic and exhaustive work on the Americam Revolutionary War! It is small in overall size (6" x 8-1/2"), but it is 2-1/2" thick and printed in about 8pt type. The entries are arranged, as the title implies, in alphabetical - encyclopedic fashion and are quite informative. It is enjoyable to read as much as simply for the articles included for the entries, as it is for the referential material it supplies.

This book is a beautiful museum of weaponry from ancient times to the 1990s. Each item is superbly illustrated and described in succinct text. Certain items are illustrated with exploded diagrams, others with historical artworks.

This book is a very good and useful reference volume, laid out in chronological order. The book contains a number of genealogical tables on the various imperial lines.

This is a very small sized book but it is crammed full of illustrations, a chronolgical time line, and great facts.

This is one of the best books on mythology throughout the world that I have found. It contains short, but concise, discussions on the deities and myths of all the cultures throughout the world. It is superbly illustrated also.

This history of English life during the 15th Century is very informative and useful.

This book is part of the Osprey History series. It is small - only forty-four pages - but it is packed full of very useable information on the history of the Civil War along with information on the armies and their clothing, weapons, etc.

What a beautiful and incredibly detailed book! All aspects of the armies, leaders and battles of the English Civil Wars are superbly covered.

This book, published by the Golden Press, is intended for 'young readers'. It is informative and richly illustrated with photos of objects along with many paintings created for the book.

This book gives the researcher a great wealth of suggestions on how to interpret estate inventories. It is a very useful tool for the genealogist.

This large size 'coffeetable book' is set up similar to an encyclopedia, with the exception that the entries are not in alphabetical order. The entries on each item are rather short - some only a few paragraphs, but the book serves as a very good reference volume.

Whew! What a tour-de-force this book is! To produce a history of the whole of Europe is such an ambitious idea in itself, but the author managed to achieve a successful accomplishment. This is great reading apart from the historical research material it presents.

This book is an extremely detailed study of the various voyages of discovery.

This is only the "April' portion of the original magazine. It provides, among other contemporary accounts of events of the year 1784, a proclamation concerning the recently passed Treaty of Paris by the United States of America.

This book is part of the Library Of The World's Myths And Legends series. It is very informative and nicely illustrated.

Every aspect of everyday life is covered in this volume.

This is an absolutely lovely book. It covers the various ages by looking at contemporary cultures/countries in a wide range of subjects from professions to clothing styles to events such as the Black Plague. Throughout, it is stuffed with great illustrations.

This is a great book for research purposes. It is amply illustrated with engravings.

A companion to the books, The Ancient World and The Medieval And Renaissance World, this book continues the grand tradition of the editor and the Hamlyn publishing firm.

This reprint of the 1841 book uses a word to describe it in its own title - extraordinary. It is a book that I have read with interest a number of times. The writing style is easy to read and the subjects chosen are quite unique, ranging from the tulip bulb craze to alchemy to common catchphrases, such as 'quos'. There are very few illustrations throughout the book, but who cares? The text is the main attraction of this book. It is truly one of my favorite books.

This book is a collection of transcripts of original documents, and as such is a wonderful resource.

This small paperback book covers the idea of the "patriot".

This is another tour-de-force by Ms. Fraser covering the incident of 05 November, 1605 in which a plan was uncovered that a group planned to blow up the British Parliament and King James I along with it.

This volume consists of biographical sketches of a number of persons involved with the American Revolutionary War.

In this book, the auther takes a different look at 'the realities and mythologies of the American Revolution'.

This fascinating book details the events that took place throughout some of the small towns of Massachusetts prior to the "shot heard round the world".

This small book is comprised mainly of transcripts of documents from the early settlers.

This is one of the best books I have ever read - not only as a source of information pertaining to the American Revolutionary War, but as good literature. The book deals with the situation of foreign countries, in this case the Netherlands, and their recognition of the newly declared United States of America. The title is derived from the fact that when the American ship, the Andrew Doria, arrived at the port of St. Eustatius in the West Indies on 16 November, 1776 the small Dutch fort on that island fired a cannon salute. It was the first act of a foreign state recognizing the United States. It is a very powerful and compelling book.

This book is very good in that the authors present differing viewpoints on the subjects of events that occurred from the 'discovery' of America by the European seafarers and the post-Civil War period. The authors 'debate' the subjects and provide the reader with a richer experience of history.

This is a great collection of local folktales!

This recently published history of the epic Battle of Flodden, in which 'the flower of Scottish nobility' perished, is a very detailed and engaging study of the battle and the events leading to it. It is filled with very nicely reproduced artwork from the period.

This book is as delightful to read for the fun of it as for the research material it provides.

This book was published for use in the junior high school grades. Although it is not very detailed on any subject, it is a delightful history of the country during the Colonial Period. It has great illustrations.

This book explores the history of food and eating habits from 10,000 BC to the Scientific Revolution. It is really extraordinary.

This book is the essential guide for an understanding of crafts which were commonplace ways of life for our 17th and 18th century ancestors. The books is illustrated well, with the emphasis on photographs which actually do illustrate the subject.

This large size book contains 112 pages. Despite the fact that it, like other souvenir books, contains many merchant advertisements, it also is full of historical information. A comprehensive chronology is included, making the book indispensible.

This small book provides a history of the construction and use of Fort Cumberland during the colonial and Revolutionary War periods.

Fort Frederick was one of the principal fortifications use by the English during the French and Indian War in the Virginia region.

This is a book of historical fiction. It was part of the 'Colonial Series' for school students.

As the subtitle implies, this book relies heavily on transcripts of Washington's own writings. It is very nicely illustrated.

The author attempts to set the record straight on many myths that have been perpetuated concerning the founding of the United States of America. Although the concept is grand, the author does not completely succeed in the small book.

This volume consists of 735 pages, and in those pages a very comprehensive history of the causes of the Revolution is presented. Despite the quantity of information it contains, the book is not 'acedemic', but enjoyable to read.