The Beginnings of the American People

Professor Becker presents the beginnings, development, and final unity of the people of the United States. He describes the discovery of the New World, analyze the rise of the plantations, illustrates the slow growth of an American culture and clarify the causes and events Revolution of 1776. These are presented as the four key events which led to the formation of the American Nation in a concise and interesting manner.

The Beginnings of the American People

The Discovery of the Old World and the New

The Partition of the New World

The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century

England and her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The American People in the Eighteenth Century

The Winning of Independence



Carl Lotus Becker (1873 – 1945) was an American historian. He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University.