Synopsis
Recounts the religious, political, and social history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and its influence on our lives today.
Children's Literature
From the loading of the Speedwell, through the Thanksgiving feast, and subsequent events, this text gives young readers what they are looking for in a history book. Accurate accounts of battles, treaties, and the people involved will keep kids interested. Too often social studies books get either buried in useless information or slip past important information and not provide enough detail. This tends to not be a problem in this third book of this series. It occasionally gets a little deep but the explanations of legends and events make it worth the effort. Any instructor can easily integrate this book into the curriculum at the intermediate level and above thus making history come to life for these students. It is part of the "The Drama of American History" series.