Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; a

This critical study traces the connections between the rising economic importance of the garment industry and the advent of a powerful movement towards literary

First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes.

This anthology of secondary sources portrays the lives of ordinary Americans and examines the diversity of the American people, from the earliest settlement of