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This subcategory contains 82 links Covers more than 1775 Plimouth Plantation By Sarah Valkenburgh in the Concord Review 18th Century through a woman's eyes Benjamin Franklin is one of America’s best known Founding Fathers, yet he spent fewer years of his life in the country he helped to found than Washington or Jefferson. A self-made man who made a fortune as a printer, he became a cosmopolitan anglophile, scientist, and consummate eighteenth-century gentleman. After his death in 1790, Franklin became a standard bearer for the values of hard work and temperance. Gordon Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the author of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Our main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago. "Bacon's Rebellion was probably one of the most confusing yet intriguing chapters in Jamestown's history. For many years, historians considered the Virginia Rebellion of 1676 to be the first stirring of revolutionary sentiment in America, which culminated in the American Revolution almost exactly one hundred years later. However, in the past few decades, based on findings from a more distant viewpoint, historians have come to understand Bacon's Rebellion as a power struggle between two stubborn, selfish leaders rather than a glorious fight against tyranny." 1903 book by Sydney George Fisher Reproduction The act states forthrightly the expectations of assembly rule and the assembly's role in the colonial government. From the Avalon Project at Yale Prepared by a teacher This course covers the opening segment of the traditional American history survey. Its major themes are the character of colonial society; the origins and consequences of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act controversy to the adoption of the Federal Constitution; the impact of the Revolution on the general population and culture; and (implicitly) the long-term significance of the social and political history of this era for our conceptions of American nationhood, society, and citizenship. Released with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. From the excellent Avalon Project at Yale University. The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency "Colonial North American society was shaped by the interaction of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous Americans. The types of indigenous societies that the three primary colonising nations, the French, English and Spanish, encountered, affected the patterns of settlement that developed in each region. This tutorial examines the development of the colonial cultures that evolved from the time of initial contact until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763." Excellent site from the University of Calgary. "PLANTATION The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, located on 112 acres of farmland in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was first opened to the visiting public in 1974. The plantation is a research and educational facility dedicated to the discovery and preservation of knowledge about the ordinary citizen of the 18th century. Here visitors may observe a "working" farm and its family. Men maintain fences, care for the animals and produce crops. Women grow, prepare, and preserve food, in addition to processing textiles. Even children help with the farm work as soon as they are able." The Colonial Virginia Frontier and International Native American Diplomacy by William E. White by Richard Cullen Rath Article from Colonial Williamsburg by James Breig by Eli Faber Lots of links. 1639 H-OIEAHC is the international scholarly online discussion list on early American history and culture." H-OIEAHC is open to scholars, advanced students, teachers, and professionals who desire participation in academic discussions of early American history and culture. Academic study of early American history and culture encompasses initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Subjects range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands." Comprehensive site From The American Revolution - an .HTML project. Before the colony was founded By J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur What then is the American, this new man?...He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He has become an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims. (from "Letter III," 1782) "BEN FRANKLIN WARNED THAT IT WOULD BE A "HARD NUT TO CRACK"--BUT IN 1745 A RAGTAG ARMY OF NEW ENGLANDERS CAPTURED FRANCE'S MOST IMPOSING NORTH AMERICAN STRONGHOLD." BY B.A. BALCOM A maansion on the Potomoc Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth : 1620 An Internet museum. Author: Reichel, Levin Theodore, 1812-1878 Subject: Moravians in North Carolina Publisher: Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co. Year: 1857 A chart Educational resources. Washington's home Publishes the William and Mary Quarterly. Some 18th century newspapers. Pilgrim Hall Museum is a gallery museum in the center of historic Plymouth, Massachusetts. Explorations of Joliet and Marquette -- La Salle on the upper lakes and in Illinois -- La Salle's trip on the lower Mississippi -- Hennepin's voyages on the upper Mississippi -- Boone as hunter and settler in Kentucky --Robertson and the settlement of Tennessee -- Sevier and the history of East Tennessee -- George Rogers Clark -- Marietta and Cincinnati: forts and settlements -- Lincoln's early life in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois -- The Sioux massacre in Minnesota -- De Soto's discovery of the Mississippi Was this dramatic pre-dawn assault in contested lands an unprovoked, brutal attack on an innocent village of English settlers? Was it a justified military action against a stockaded settlement in a Native homeland? Or was it something else? Explore this website and hear all sides of the story—then you decide." From the Syracuse University History Department. Includes photos as well as text. A biased comment on Bacon's Rebellion. Documents From the official site. Research resource on colonial history for writers, teachers, historians, students, and family researchers, with emphasis on original period works and analysis. A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America The document. Features complete text of George Washington's Journal. "ill Lepore, Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, speaks about her book, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, and traces the meanings attached to this brutally destructive war. Lepore examines early colonial accounts that depict King Philip’s men as savages and interpret the war as a punishment from God, discusses how the narrative of the war is retold a century later to rouse anti-British sentiment during the Revolution and finally describes how the story of King Philip is transformed yet again in the early nineteenth century to portray him as a proud ancestor and American patriot." "This Plymouth Colony Archive [at the University of Virginia] presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies. Also published here for the first time are a Glossary and Notes on Plymouth Colony, Seventeenth Century Timber Framing, and Vernacular House Forms in Seventeenth Century Plymouth Colony: An Analysis of Evidence from the Plymouth Colony Room-by-Room Probate Inventories 1633-85, by Patricia Scott Deetz and James Deetz." by Francis J. Bremer Every society constructs what one scholar has called a “perimeter fence,” which sets the boundary between actions and beliefs that are acceptable and those that are not.1 This is as true of the United States in the twentieth century as it was of New England in the seventeenth century. The debates over where to place that boundary can be very heated, pitting those who believe that a broader range of opinions can foster progress towards the society’s goals against others who fear that contested notions will poison the body politic. By Sydney George Fisher. 1903 edition by Peter S. Onuf Of all the American founders, Thomas Jefferson is most closely associated with deism, the Enlightenment faith in a rational, law-governed world created by a “supreme architect” or cosmic “clockmaker.” For many modern Americans, deist and “Christian” are antonyms, juxtaposing prideful reason—the apotheosis of man—and a humble faith in an all-powerful, triune Godhead. But the terminology is misleading and the opposition false. America's Shrine to Music Museum "The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and 'the Virginia experiment.'" Plimoth Plantation, the Living History Museum of 17th Century Plymouth. "This site introduces the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and is designed to provide accurate general information about these events, as well as information on other aspects of the history of Danvers (formerly Salem Village), Massachusetts. " http://homepages.go.com/homepages/m/i/k/mikerogers/yorktown/ John Harrower Leaves London for Virginia, 1774 Migration across the Atlantic often involved a series of stages, drawing people to London before they embarked on their journey. John Harrower, a 40-year-old shopkeeper and tradesman, lived in the far north of the British Isles. Like many of the 40,000 residents of the Scottish Highlands who left after 1760, he faced poverty and little opportunity. Harrower initially planned to travel to the Netherlands but ended up in London. The great metropolis, the largest in the western world, swelled as thousands looked unsuccessfully for employment. After several weeks, Harrower signed an indenture to travel to Virginia as a schoolmaster. He sailed with 71 other male indentees, some from London, but many others from across England and Ireland. With his relatively privileged training, Harrower was fortunate and found a new life on a tidewater plantation. These excerpts from his journal tell of his time in London, journey across the Atlantic, and arrival in Virginia. Jill Lepore, Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, speaks about her book, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, and traces the meanings attached to this brutally destructive war. Lepore examines early colonial accounts that depict King Philip’s men as savages and interpret the war as a punishment from God, discusses how the narrative of the war is retold a century later to rouse anti-British sentiment during the Revolution and finally describes how the story of King Philip is transformed yet again in the early nineteenth century to portray him as a proud ancestor and American patriot. |
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