Sunday Special: The Other Side Of Early America

It's that time of year again, when no fireworks display is too loud nor piece of pie too big to celebrate the founding of the United States of America. But what was this land actually like before we became leaders of the free world? Here are some stories to fill you in. P.S. Just a reminder that Google Reader will be shutting down on July 1st. If you're in need of a replacement or just want to check out a different way of getting your news and stories, try our new Digg Reader in the latest version of the Digg iOS app or on the web. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Sunday, June 30, 2013 WHEN IT WAS STILL CALLED A NEW FASHIONED Colonial Americans Really, Really Liked To Drink theappendix.net To say colonists living in early American society were enthusiastic about drinking would be a remarkable understatement. COLONIAL DIET > PALEO DIET Jamestown Colonists Were Cannibals washingtonpost.com The first chops, to the forehead, did not go through the bone and are perhaps evidence of hesitancy about the task. The next set, after the body was rolled over, were more effective. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE The Life And Times Of America's First Murderer mentalfloss.com John Billington isn't a household name today, but when Englishmen started settling in the New World, he became infamous as the colonies' first convicted killer. BESIDES GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BICEPS What Was The First Gun In America? npr.org Guns and America were born around the same time and grew up together. Like feuding cousins, their histories have been linked ever since. ASIDE FROM THE WHOLE CANNIBALISM THING Why Jamestown Was Hell On Earth thedailybeast.com Cannibalism is not the only malady that befell early settlers. Here are some reasons to be thankful you arrived on this continent in the four centuries since. Read more on Digg.com → WHEN THINGS GOT A LITTLE CRAZY IN SALEM "Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692" Credit: Thomkins H. Matteson Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014