Colonial Era 1491-1763
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploration/exploration.htm
Exploration: American Beginnings: 1492-1690
National Humanities Center
Toolbox Library: Primary Sources in U.S. History and Literature
http://downloads.abc-clio.com/downloads/ViewList.aspx?section=cwf
3 series American History: Defining Moments, Readers Theatre, Inquiry Into History:
Colonial Williamsburg
Downloadables/ready-made activities and lesson plans
http://encyclopediavirginia.org/
History and Culture of Virginia
Topical/Biographical entries written by scholars. Entries are accompanied by primary
documents and media objects, including; images, audio and visual clips, and links to
Google Street View tours of historic sites.
http://firstcolonyfoundation.org/
In Search of The First Colony
Archaeological and historical research, combined with public education and
interpretation, relating to the story of North Carolina and America’s beginnings with the
attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish English colonies at Roanoke in the 1580s
under his charter from Queen Elizabeth I.
http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/agree
What You Can Do: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative undertaking by a team of scholars at
Yale University to collect, edit, and publish [his] writings and papers.
http://www.directlinesoftware.com/landacq.htm
Acquiring Land (U.S.)
Land record researchers locate historic land parcels.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/4107
Families in Colonial North Carolina
North Carolina Digital History
http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html
Salem Witch Trials
Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html
Virtual Jamestown
Court records, labor contracts, public records, reference center, interpretive essays, first
hand accounts, newspapers.
http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/
The Database of Court Officers 1660-1837
Online computer database providing the career histories of every remunerated officer and
servant of the English royal household from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to
accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.
http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: information on more than 35,000 slave
voyages
Drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The website is
product of two years development by a multi-disciplinary team in consultation with
scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North
America.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/1628_northeast.html
Interactive History Feature: 1628 Across The Continent
PBS hands-on history series set in 17th century North America.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/franklin.htm
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790: Representing Pennsylvania at the Continental Congress
Short Biographies on each of the 56 Declaration Signers
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/
Bibliography of Published Primary Sources in African History
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/
Revolutionary History From Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond
Historical sources and transcripts
http://mapscholar.org/category/news/
Maps Scholar
Dynamic visualization tool for historic map collections
http://fora.tv/partner/Gresham_College
Gresham College
Free public lectures since 1597-present within the City of London
http://www.mountvernon.org/encyclopedia
Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Umbrella for two projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the
formation of modern Britain: the ESRC funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership
project, now complete, and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of
British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833, running from 2013-2015.
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts
Institute of Historical Research
Podcasts
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/history
The History Collection
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us.aspx?ref=header
European Visions: American Voices
British Museum Research Publication
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/IndexPri.html
University of Houston: O’Quinn Law Library
News, Teaching Materials, Publications, Paleography, Links
http://slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade Database
Voyages Database, Estimates Database, and Images Database
http://slavery.yale.edu/
Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
This site is designed to help researchers and students find primary sources related to
slavery, abolition, and resistance within the university's many libraries and galleries.
http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
The website builds on the scholarship, relationships with Native groups, and expertise
that have developed over time concerning the attack, and that have been finely honed in
preceding PVMA/Memorial Hall Museum projects.
http://www.catesbytrust.org/
Catesby Commemorative Trust
An 18th Century Naturalist-Mark Catesby, writer and artist, explores the New World.
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/scandocs/colonial.htm
New York State History---Colonial Period
The New York State Library has a wide variety of primary documents and published
material on the history of Colonial New York.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The Library of Congress: American Memory
Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
sheet music that document the American experience.
http://www.plymoutharch.com/howland-house-bake-oven/
Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project
History of Howland House Bake Oven—North Devon pottery exported to America in the
17th century
http://edwards.yale.edu/
Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University
The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is a collection of writings and articles from
Jonathan Edwards. The collection contains edited published works and raw manuscripts.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=8&gid=123
British History Online
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
http://fora.tv/2007/03/05/18th_Century_American_Rights
Eighteenth Century American Rights
Jack N. Rove speaks at the Central European University's Legacies of the American
Founding conference in Budapest, Hungary.