Curious Punishments

by Alice Morse Earle

Book Overview

Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was published in 1896. It is a catalog of early American crimes and their penalties, with chapters on the pillories, stocks, the scarlet letter, the ducking stool, discipline of authors and books (egad!), and four other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804809593
• ISBN13: 9780804809597
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher