HISTORY 303—COLONIAL AMERICAN HISTORY, 1607-1763

Midterm on Colonial Almanacs. Books were scarce and expensive in colonial America, and many families owned only one, the Bible. But starting very early in the life of the English colonies, men and women had another important source of information: almanacs, the most popular nonreligious literature in early America. ................
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