5 The forgotten colony of New Sweden


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The episode will present the Colony of New Sweden, the Swedish beginning of Delaware, Fort Christina, the first settlement of Philadelphia, the introduction of the Log Cabin, the governor Big Belly, the old swedes churches, the Delaware monument in Wilmington and the story of the Rambo apple.


Picture: The Nothnagle Log Cabin built in New Sweden, the oldest house in New Jersey. Wikipedia


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Literature on the American Colonial Era:

-         American colonies: the settling of North America, Alan Taylor

-         Colonial America, Richard Middleton

-         The British in the Americas 1480-1815, Anthony McFarlane

-         The Americans: Colonial experience, Daniel Boorstin

-         The Barbarous years, Bernard Bailyn

-         The American Colonies, R.C. Simmons

-         Colonial America 1607-1763, Harry Ward

-         The Forty years that created America, Edward Lamont

-         Wilderness at dawn, Ted Morgan

-         A History of Colonial America, Max Savelle

-         The Brave new world, Peter Charles Hoffer

-         Founding of the American colonies 1583-1660, John Pomfret

-         The colonies in transition 1660-1713, Wesley Frank Craven



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