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The National Experience: American Art and Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 92.04.02

Unit Guide

Colonial Living: A Look at the Arts, Crafts, History, and Literature of Early Americans

Kelley O’Rourke

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Resource Bibliography for Teachers and Students

Colonial Crafts and Skills:

Copeland, Peter F. Everyday Dress of the Colonial Period . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1975.

Facklam, Margery & Phibbs, Patricia. Corn-Husk Crafts . New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1973.

Fisher, Leonard Everett. The Schoolmasters . New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1967.

Gillon, Edmund V. An Early New England Village . New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1977.

Kalman, Bobbie. The Early Family Home . Toronto: Crabtree Publishing Company, 1982.

Kalman, Bobbie. Food For the Settler . Toronto: Crabtree Publishing Company, 1982.

Kinney, Jean and Cle. 21 Kinds of American Folk Art and How to Make Each One . New York, NY: Atheneum, 1973.

McGovern, Ann. If You Lived In Colonial Times . New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc., 1964.

Parish, Peggy. Let’s Be Settlers with Daniel Boone . New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

Tunis, Edwin. Colonial Living . New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957.

Walker, Barbara M. The Little House Cookbook . New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.

Wigginton, Eliot. The Foxfire Book . Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1972.

Colonial History:

Altman, Susan. Extraordinary Black Americans . Chicago: Children’s Press, 1989.

Bliven, Bruce Jr. The American Revolution . New York, NY: Random House, 1958.

Davis, Burke. Heroes of the American Revolution . New York, NY: Random House, 1971.

Grant, Neil. Everyday Life: The Eighteenth Century . Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1983.

Morris, Richard B. The Making of a Nation, Vol. 2 1775-1789. New York, NY: Time, Inc., 1963.

Tunis, Edwin. The Young United States, 1783-1830 . New York, NY: The World Publishing Co., 1969.

Cobblestone Magazine Resources:

Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People published by Cobblestone Publishing Inc., 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, New Hampshire 03458
(603)924-7209
America’s Folk Art August 1991
Black History Month: The Struggle for Rights February 1983
British Loyalists in the Revolutionary Era August 1987
Colonial Craftsmen June 1990
Folklore: Stories and More July 1983
Thomas Jefferson September 1989
The People of Williamsburg February 1990
George Washington April 1992

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