<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>In 1912&nbsp;Theodore&nbsp;Roosevelt&nbsp;addressed the&nbsp;American&nbsp;Historical&nbsp;Association to&nbsp;call&nbsp;for&nbsp;American&nbsp;history&nbsp;to be&nbsp;written&nbsp;as compelling&nbsp;stories&nbsp;of&nbsp;literary&nbsp;quality.&nbsp;Editor&nbsp;Allen&nbsp;Johnson of Yale&nbsp;University&nbsp;responded&nbsp;by&nbsp;publishing&nbsp;the&nbsp;Chronicles of America series:&nbsp;50 succinct&nbsp;volumes&nbsp;on&nbsp;regional and&nbsp;thematic American&nbsp;history.&nbsp;These&nbsp;books&nbsp;intended&nbsp;for secondary&nbsp;schools&nbsp;and&nbsp;college&nbsp;students&nbsp;are expository&nbsp;works&nbsp;of&nbsp;American history composed&nbsp;by&nbsp;competent historians&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;1920's&nbsp;well&nbsp;before&nbsp;the special&nbsp;pleading&nbsp;and upending&nbsp;of&nbsp;social&nbsp;norms&nbsp;typical&nbsp;of&nbsp;histories&nbsp;after&nbsp;1970. This series&nbsp;is&nbsp;focused on&nbsp;the&nbsp;mainstream&nbsp;of American political&nbsp;life&nbsp;and&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;from&nbsp;its initial&nbsp;volumes&nbsp;on&nbsp;Native&nbsp;Americans and&nbsp;European&nbsp;colonists&nbsp;to&nbsp;its&nbsp;final&nbsp;volumes on&nbsp;Woodrow&nbsp;Wilson&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Hispanic&nbsp;Republics&nbsp;to&nbsp;our&nbsp;South.</span></p><p></p><p><em>Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings</em> #5 in the Chronicles series is the history of the founding of Virginia Maryland and the Southern colonies. The dramatic challenges of the first colony at Jamestown the more practical efforts in Maryland and southward the conflicts and alliances with the Indians and the genesis of tobacco as the economic mainstay all figure in this entertaining history. Mary Johnston was best known as a Virginian novelist and her narrative ability adds zest to her narrative.</p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>This edition contains a new bibliography of suggested readings on the colonial South assembled by the editor.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>This book has been formatted and typeset for Tall Men Books. It is not a facsimile reprint.</span></p><p></p>
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