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‘The Barbarous Years’: Tough times for early American settlers

Bernard Bailyn has been a fixture at Harvard since 1953 and has won two Pulitzer Prizes for books on early American history. In “The Barbarous Years” he tracks the settlers who came to North America ... read more

Even making bread was tough work for first European settlers of Sangamon County

Even the most necessary tasks were a struggle for the first European residents of Sangamon County. Take baking bread, for instance, as described in the "History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon ... read more