Unit I: The Colonial Era (1607-1763)

From Revolution to Modern Times (Hypertext)

 

Age of Exploration

• The Columbus Navigation Home Page
• Christopher Columbus (Encarta Bio)
• European Voyages of Exploration (Christopher Columbus)
• Christopher Columbus Web Quest
• The Indians Discovery of Columbus!
• Christopher Columbus (Scholastic Magazine)
• The Columbus Letter
• Medieval Sourcebook: Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of
  Spain, 1494
• Priviledges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: 1492
• Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus (Jack Weatherford)
• The Columbus Navigation Home Page
• "Exploration and Discovery before 1492"
• Taino Indians (Metacrawler Links)
• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery (Millersville University)
• The Columbus Doors (Mythmaking in the the U.S. Capitol)
• Exploration and Discovery Home Page (Maps/Library of Congress)
• Aztec Manuscripts
• Voyage of Doom (PBS)
• Estevanico the Moor (The History Net)
• Virginia Dare
• Explorers of the Millennium
• Empire of the Bay (PBS)
• Columbus Day (American History)
• Conquistadors (PBS)
• Christopher Columbus (About)
• Ferdinand Magellan
• The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide
• The Age of Exploration
• Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World
• Christopher Columbus - Sailor and Explorer
• Columbus Day Facts
• Top 10 Places to See in Columbus, Ohio
• About Columbus/HNN

 

Colonial Documents

• The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
• Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
• Colonial American Newspapers (1690-1776)
• Colonial USA: The Historical Text Archive
• Early American Documents (Scanned)
• Cultural Readings (Colonization and Print in the Americas)
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress)
• Mourt's Relation : 1622 (Mourt's Relation was written primarily by Edward Winslow, although William Bradford appears to have written most of the first section. Written between November 1620 and November 1621, it describes in detail what
  happened from the landing of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod, though their exploring and eventual settling at Plymouth,
  to their relations with the surrounding Indians, up to the First Thanksgiving and the arrival of the ship Fortune)
• Virtual Jamestown: Slave Laws
• Mayflower Documents
• Appendix to "Justise Must Take Plase": Three African Americans Speak of Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England
• The American Colonist Library
• Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia
• American Journeys

English Colonization

• Thirteen Colonies (Metacrawler Links)
• The Thirteen Colonies
• The Thirteen Colonies, again
• What Do We Know About People on the Mayflower
• Following John Smith

Colonial Information

• Colonial Sources
• Archiving Early America
• Roanoke Revisited
• Jamestown Rediscovery (Assoc./Preservation of Va. Antiquities)
• History of Tobacco
• Virtual Jamestown
  • Slave Laws
• The Mayflower Web Page
• About John Calvin
• America's Home Page: Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Plymouth Hall Museum
  • The Last Will and Testament of Peregrine White
• The First Thanksgiving
• Plymouth: Its History and People
• Exploring History (The First Thanksgiving)
• Life on Plymouth Plantation
• Debunking the Myth of Thanksgiving
• The History of Thanksgiving (E.L. Easton)
  • Thanksgiving
• Teaching about Thanksgiving
• Colonial USA: The Historical Text Archive (Miss. State Univ.)
• Material Culture in Colonial America
• The Illustrated Traveler (1760-1895)
• Thirteen Original Colonies (*************)
• Virginia Colonial Records Project
• Williamsburg Home Page
• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Resources for Teachers and Students
• Preparing Food at George Mason's Gunston Hall
• Eldritch Press
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Colonial Massachusetts and Maine Geneology
• Divining America: Religion and National Culture
• Plimouth Plantation
• Plimoth-on-Web
• Colonial Flags of the United States
• Chronology of the History of Slavery
• The 13 Colonies
• The Mariners' Museum: Age of Exploration Educational Curriculum
• Historic Hudson Valley
• Colonial America (7th Grade Project)
• Colonial America (About)
• Black Election Day in 18th Century New England
• What Do We Know about the People on the Mayflower
• Colonial House (PBS)
  • Lesson Plans and Activities
• Innovative Teaching: The Colonial Era
• Desperate Crossing

Individuals

• William Penn
• The John Winthrop Papers
• Pocahontas
• The Franklin Institute
• Calvin College
• Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
• Benjamin Franklin (AITLC Guide)
• Ben Frankin Timeline
• Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
• Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Jonathan Edwards
• A Letter from George Whitefield to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley
  

Witchcraft

• Witchcraft in Salem Village (Danvers, Massachusetts) ********
• Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts
  • Salem Witch Trials Chronology
  • Salem Witch Trials Memorial
• What about Witches? (Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692)
• Better That 100 Witches Should Live
• Witchcraft Craze Resources
• Divining for Witches
• The Puzzle of Salem
• Salem Witchcraft Hysteria (National Geographic)
• American Fanaticism: Witch Hunts and Special Prosecutions
• Web Sites Related to the Witchcraft Bibliography Project
• Salem Witch Trial Conspiracy
• Encyclopedia Britannica Links
• The Salem Witchcraft Trials
• European Witchcraft in Comparative Perspective (History 291H)
• Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts
  • The House of the Seven Gables
  • The New England Pirtate Museum
  • The Witch Dungeon Museum
  • The Salem Witch Museum
  • Salem Witch Village
  • Salem.com
• Pinstruck.com (Digital Voodoo)
• The Crucible Unit
• The Crucible(Cyber Guide)
• Tituba (About)
• Tituba (Google Search)
• The Salem Sentinel
• The Salem Witch Trials
• Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• Dorcas Good: The Diary of a Salem Witch
• Salem Witch Trials
• Salem Witch Trials (Wikipedia)

 

Colonial Links

• Colonial and Revolutionary War Links (Very Good)
• The Colonial Puritan Period
• Ogram's 17th Century Colonial Links: Essays

 

French-Indian War

• The French and Indian War Home Page
• French and Indian War History
• Montcalm and Wolfe
• Marquis de la Galissoniere Memoir on the French Colonies in North America (December 1750)
• Digital History
• King Louis XIV
• Montcalm and Wolfe
• A Soldier's Account on the Campaign at Quebec, 1759
• Quebec City: Alive with History
• French and Indian Wars
• Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets
• Fur Trapper.com
• Educational World on the French-Indian War

 

Professional Organizations

• Society of Early Americanists
• Common Place
• The Early America Review
• The Town Crier
• The World Union of Deists
• Archiving Early America
  • Explore The Amazing World of Early America
  • Media
• Interactive Crossword Puzzle
• H-OIEAHC
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  • William and Mary Quarterly
• SEA: Dissertations in Progress
• Society of Early Americanist Teaching Topics (**********)
  • Teaching Early American Topics

Miscellaneous

• New England: What , When, Where
• State of New Hampshire Information
• The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
• Colonial, U.S.
• The Great Awakening
• The American Religious Experience
• 18th Century Home Page
• Colonial Era Sources and more!
• Colonial Trivia
• Colonial Era: Historical Text Archive
• Puritans in Colonial America
• Colonial History

 

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