COLONIAL NATIVE AMERICAN SITES

Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts:

http://www.reed.edu/~larnold/Bibliography.html

Index of colonial Native materials:

http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/nativeam.html  

Pocahontas/John Smith Sites of interest:

Samson Occom: 

(Thanks to Donna Campbell's site http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/occom.htm)

Samson Occom Papers. Guide to the Samson Occom Collection at the Connecticut Historical Society.

Biographical essay originally from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff's teaching guide from the Heath Anthology site.

Brief biographical sketch from the Norton Anthology of American Literature site.

Samson Occom at the Native American Authors project.  This site contains bibliographic information on the primary texts but not the texts themselves. 

Selected bibliography from Paul Reuben's PAL site 

 

LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Martha Ballard's Life:

 

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/life.cfm

http://www.jamestowne.org/Fashion.htm

http://homepages.ius.edu/PGALVIN/elizabeth/revoldress/etweb.html  

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/home2.html

SLAVERY

 

 

EDUCATION

New England Primer http://my.voyager.net/~jayjo/primer.htm

or http://www.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/his341/colonialamer.htm

HANDWRITING

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oldalpha.htm

U.S. CENSUS INFORMATION FROM 1790 ONWARDS

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/censusbin/census/cen.pl?year=790

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/

SPANISH RESOURCES

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newspain/index.html

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET

Salem witch trials:

 

http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/colonial.html#uspages

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/#15  

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/#B_Section

ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS

http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Archives/links.htm

Library of Congress

Maryland State Archives  

ORGANIZATIONS

http://www.common-place.org/

http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/index.html

Society of Early Americanists  

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