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Teaches readers: What religious, social and economic factors inspired Europeans to start a new life in an unknown, distant and harsh New World. How each of Europe's major nations vied to control a part of the North American continent. How different sections of America came to be settled by particular ethnic and religious groups. What cataclysmic events shaped the development of the United States of America. What drove the Founding Fathers to challenge the greatest military power in the world. Why American independence was inevitable. How slavery impacted the establishment of certain states. About the early explorers who dared to face an enormous wilderness in search of fortune and fame. How the European settlers dealt with the Native Americans. How territories were acquired and their qualifications for statehood were achieved. There are few, if any, recent books published about the history of the American states

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A. Ward Burian first developed his love of history as a student at Dartmouth College. His forty-one years of business experience started in 1959 at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and several New York City banks before partnering the creation of a money market and bond trading firm in Wall Street and London. In 1986, he co-partnered a residential real estate brokerage in Connecticut that was the first affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty. Upon retirement, he was attracted to Williamsburg where he currently resides and became an associate member of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, a volunteer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a volunteer researcher for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and an instructor at the Christopher Wren Association which is operated under the aegis of the College of William & Mary. He has also written George Washington’s Legacy of Leadership, published in 2007 by Morgan James Publishing.

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