Oooh, I haven't read nearly enough about that period - especially considering I grew up in Philadelphia, capital of Colonial America - but I think have some for you! Let's see:
Octavia Butler's Wild Seed has some pretty fascinating colonial America stuff mixed in with the telapathic plotline - the first half of the book takes place in the 1600s, and the main characters live for a while in a colonial village.
I read The Last Witchfinger a few years back - I remember having mixed feelings about parts of it, but the colonial America stuff is very well-done and well-researched, and it is partly narrated by a copy of Newton's Principia Mathematica, which is basically just an awesome mode of storytelling. And Benjamin Franklin features as a love interest! SPEAKING OF, apparently there is a series of mystery books where Benjamin Franklin FIGHTS CRIME. I cannot rec because I have not read, but my feeling on this is that I must hunt it down immediately!
Obviously if you have not seen the musical 1776, go out and rent it AT ONCE, because it is amazing.
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Octavia Butler's Wild Seed has some pretty fascinating colonial America stuff mixed in with the telapathic plotline - the first half of the book takes place in the 1600s, and the main characters live for a while in a colonial village.
I read The Last Witchfinger a few years back - I remember having mixed feelings about parts of it, but the colonial America stuff is very well-done and well-researched, and it is partly narrated by a copy of Newton's Principia Mathematica, which is basically just an awesome mode of storytelling. And Benjamin Franklin features as a love interest! SPEAKING OF, apparently there is a series of mystery books where Benjamin Franklin FIGHTS CRIME. I cannot rec because I have not read, but my feeling on this is that I must hunt it down immediately!
Obviously if you have not seen the musical 1776, go out and rent it AT ONCE, because it is amazing.