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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Fly across the United States and you'll see cities and fields organized around the grid: perpendicular streets and a patchwork of rectangular farmland. All over the country, but especially in the West, the grid has become a hallmark of American life, a framework we use to navigate the terrain. This might seem a practical utility-an easy way to divide the...
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Series
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. The English settlers of Jamestown maintained a shaky relationship with the Powhatan confederacy, and as Virginians expanded their profitable tobacco fields and imported hundreds of new settlers each year, the Powhatan tribe grew wary of English power. In 1622, Chief Opechancanough shattered the English and Powhatan...
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