The Powhatans and the English in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. Each book poses a question that historians debate— —and provides abundant primary sources so that students can make their own efforts at interpreting the evidence. They can then use that analysis to construct answers to the big question that frames the debate and argue in support of their position. poses this big question: