The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, House of Burgesses Chapter, Orange, Virginia: February 2014

Examples from the "Lace in the 17th Century" presentation given at our February chapter meeting.

Recommended Books

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America by James Horn
Capital Dames: The Civil War and The Women of Wahington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
Colonial Records of Virginia, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964
Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs
Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, Edited by Roger Panetta, Hudson River Museum, 2010
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder, Sep 17, 2013
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts
Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams by Margery Heffron
Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations after The Landing
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Of Plymouth Plantation from The Handwritten Manuscript of William Bradford, Edited by Caleb Johnson
The American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy by Kimberly Powell
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul
The Mayflower and Her Passengers by Caleb H. Johnson
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy by Val D. Greenwood
The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet

Monday, February 24, 2014