COLONIAL WEB SITES
Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas--Topics covered include Promotion and Possession, Print and Native Cultures, and Colonial Fictions, Colonial Histories
13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies--Organized by colony, this site provides an overview of the founding of each colonies and supplies links for more information on each. It also a great resource for colonial maps and interactive colonial maps.
Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507 to 1814--Most relevant to this part of the course, this site in a section entitled "Novus Orbis: Images of the New World," traces the evolution of geographic views of North America from the first maps to represent the New World as continents to the beginning of French exploration in the Mississippi Valley.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic --This Library of Congress exhibition "demonstrates that many of the colonies that in 1776 became the United States of America were settled by men and women of deep religious convictions who in the seventeenth century crossed the Atlantic Ocean to practice their faith freely." It focuses mainly on the era of the American Revolution, but there is an excellent discussion of religion and colonization in the 17th century.
Georgia Before Oglethorpe--This privately-maintained site includes information about Georgia's Spanish missions, European exploration of Georgia, and a primer on Spanish Colonial Paleography.
The American Colonist's Library--An excellent collection of innumerable links to primary sources.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive--this excellent site consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
The Salem Witchcraft Trials--This site contains a collection of primary sources relating to Salem witchcraft as well as selected images and a james of witchcraft Jeopardy!
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record --this fully-searchable site contains hundreds of images of slave life taken from a wide variety of sources.
The Jesuit Relations on the Web--These missionary texts (the Ruben Gold Twaites translations) are one of the major sources of information about the early years of French colonization in North America.
Stratford Hall Plantation--This site provides information about the birthplace of Robert E. Lee. It reveals early plantation life from many different aspects: farming, slavery, leisure, indentured servants, education.
Plimoth Plantation--this site allows you take a virtual tour of Plimoth Plantation and see 17th life in early New England for yourself.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project--This excellent site presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies
Colonial Albany Project--Pictures and descriptions of colonial Albany, New York, provide a good introduction to the topics; it also contains a good set of links.
Virtual Jamestown--this excellent site provides map and images, reference material, and primary sources (letters, court records, newspapers, indentures).
Jamestown Rediscovery--this is the site of an archaeological project investigating the remains of 1607-1698 Jamestown, Virginia. It contains information about the history of Jamestown, their findings, on-line exhibits, and interactive maps.
Historic Jamestowne --This National Park Service site provides information about Jamestown, especially through its "HISTORIC BRIEFS" link.
Pilgrim Hall Museum--this site features an online tour of artifacts owned by the "Pilgrims."
William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania--This project explores three facets of William Penn: his position as icon in the U.S. Capitol, his dealings with Native Americans, and his planning of Philadelphia.
Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History--arranged chronologically, this site has an easy-to-use search engine to navigate information about Franklin in specific decades, even years.
Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776--a searchable index of important primary sources about the colony's history.
Jonathan Ediwards--This site contains a chronology of his life as well as brief biographical sketches, texts of his sermons and other theological writings, and an interesting collection of "Odds and Ends."
Africans in America (PBS)--America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries.
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