Survey of American History

Columbus and the Age of Discovery
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/
 
Columbus Navigation Homepage
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/
the Columbus Navigation Homepage which examines the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus, and is designed as a content-rich web resource for students, educators and historians
 
The Mariners' Museum "Age of Exploration"
http://www.mariner.org/age/
has a section with brief biographies of explorers and associated people which include the major explorers of America, but others as well, beginning with the Polos and the great Ibn Battuta
 
Papers from the CUNY Renaissance Studies Conference
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/renai/conf/
Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters: England, Spain, and the Americas
 
1492 Exhibit
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
 
Drake, Sir Francis
http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
pages focused on his circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
 
Early America Resources
http://earlyamerica.com/
 
The Early America Review
http://earlyamerica.com/review/
The Internet's first magazine for enthusiasts of early American history. The new quarterly journal features stories of the colonial period, the Revolutionary War and the early years of The Republic."
 
The Early American History Crossword Puzzle
http://earlyamerica.com/crossword/index.html
The crossword talks back to you when you fill in the wrong answers. Download Shockwave at the site (if you don't already have it) to play it interactively.
 
Credit of Truth, The: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Ralegh
http://www.grandiose.com/vb/hariot.html
essay examining how Thomas Hariot's 1588 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia was written to protect Sir Walter Ralegh's interests in the colonies
 
Jamestown Society
http://www.jamestowne.org/
 
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
http://www.historyisfun.org/
through exhibits and outdoor living history you'll discover the adventure of America's first permanent English settlement and the drama of the American Revolution
 
Wampanoag History
http://www.tolatsga.org/wampa.html
about the people who first met the Pilgrims
 
The Mayflower Web Page
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
This site claims to be the complete Internet site for Mayflower history and genealogy including passenger lists, wills of some of those onboard, and crew lists. You can also find the Mayflower Compact.
 
Anne Hutchinson: American Jezebel or Woman of Courage?
http://cpcug.org/user/billb/hutch.html
 
America's Christian Leaders: Anne Hutchinson
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0193_Anne_Hutchinson.html
 
Rare Maps from Colonial America
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
 
Colonial America Home
http://www.neta.com/%7E1stbooks/colony5.htm
 
Penn, William (1644-1718)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html
 
Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/brock/
information about the paper money of the American colonies, including
some contemporary pamphlets
 
Colonial American Music
http://www.colonialmusic.org/
This page is from David and Ginger Hildebrand, full-time specialists in early American music, who offer programs from the early colonial through the Civil War period.
 
Cotton Mather
http://www.gty.org/~phil/mather.htm
 
1755
http://web.syr.edu/~laroux/
 
A Visitor's Guide To Salem, Massachusetts
http://www.salemweb.com/
 
Salem Wax Museum
http://www.salemwaxmuseum.com/
 
The Salem Witch Trials
http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.shtml

Pre-Revolutionary America

Benjamin Franklin
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
 
The Franklin Institute Science Museum
http://www.fi.edu/
 
Rare Maps from Revolutionary America
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html
 
American Revolutionary War Home Page
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bcortez/revwar/RevWeb.html
 
Declaration of Independence
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
 
Life of George Washington
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/gwlife/index.html
the original version of The Life of George Washington, written by historian David Ramsay, 8 years after Washington's death
 
Papers of George Washington
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/
 
George Washington's Mount Vernon
http://www.mountvernon.org/
The website is designed to capture the excitement surrounding Mount Vernon's new 18th-century farm site, its archaeological finds and ongoing work, and its extensive library with distinguished archive collections. Information about new exhibits, many special events, slave life and audio tours, the Mansion, gardens, museum shops and the Mount Vernon Inn restaurant can also be accessed.
 
George Washington Papers 1741-1799
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
The material is accompanied by a timeline, brief essays and a bibliography. Included in the collection are correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division holds 85-90% of extant Washington documents.
 
Constitution of the United States of America
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
This site contains the complete text of the Constitution of the United States of America. The text is presented in sections -- preamble, individual articles, signers, and amendments.
 
United States Constitution Search
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconser.html
 
United States Constitution
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
an electronic print of the complete U.S. Constitution with topic-related notes
 
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
http://www.monticello.org/
 
Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
Eyler Coates, Sr. maintains an excellent collection of Jefferson's sayings.
 
The Jeffersonian Perspective
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7970/index.htm
 
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/
 
The Jefferson Bible
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
Thomas Jefferson sought to separate Jesus' ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels
 
Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson
http://www.ishipress.com/slaves.htm
 
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
site includes forums, a photographic essay on the pursuit of happiness, archives of Jefferson's writings and background on the making of the Ken Burns film
 
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
http://www.lewisandclark.org/
The mission of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation is to honor the remarkable historic legacy of Lewis and Clark through research, education, preservation, promotion, and coordination.
 
One If By Congress, Two If By White House
http://www.oneifbycongress.us/
an electronic magazine dedicated to Jeffersonian Conservatism, the belief that the individual citizen is more important than the government

Revolution Era America - The Presidents

George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
 
Biography of John Adams
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ja2/index.htm
 
John Adams
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/jo-ad.htm
 
John Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
 
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
 
James Madison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html
 
James Monroe
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm5.html
 
Monroe Doctrine, The
http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/D/1801-1825/jmdoc.htm
 
John Quincy Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html
 
America's Chrisitan Rulers: John Quincy Adams
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0205_John_Quincy_Adams.html
 
Education of John Quincy Adams
http://www.forerunner.com/mandate/X0069_The_Education_of_Joh.html
 
Andrew Jackson
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/an-ja.htm
 
Andrew Jackson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html
 
Brief Biography of Andrew Jackson by Hal Morris
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jackxx.htm
 
Martin Van Buren
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/ma-v-bu.htm
 
Martin Van Buren
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mb8.html
 
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/mava/
 
William Henry Harrison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html
 
William Henry Harrison
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/whharrison.html
 
John Tyler
http://www.sherwoodforest.org/
Sherwood Forest located between Williamsburg and Richmond, Sherwood Forest Plantation was home to the 10th U.S. President, John Tyler.
 
John Tyler
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jt10.html
 
James Knox Polk
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jp11.html
 
James Knox Polk
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jkpolk.html
 
Zachary Taylor
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents//zt12.html
 
Remembering President Zachary Taylor
http://wfmu.org/~davem/docs/ztaylor.html
a fictional, unflattering biography
 
Zachary Taylor
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/za-ta.htm
 
Millard Fillmore
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mf13.html
 
Millard Fillmore
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/mi-fi.htm
 
Franklin Pierce
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fp14.html
 
Franklin Pierce
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fpierce.html
 
Pierce Manse
http://www.newww.com/free/pierce/pierce.html
the family home from 1842 to 1848 of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States and the only one from the Granite State
 
James Buchanan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jb15.html
 
James Buchanan
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jbuchanan.html
 
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
 
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/ab-li.htm

From Revolution to Civil War

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
http://www.fred.net/kathy/canal.html
 
Washington's Farewell Address, 1796 - Final Manuscript
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/farewell/
 
Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor
http://www.heidelberg.edu/FallenTimbers/FTCorridor.html
 
Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
 
The Southern League
http://www.dixienet.org/
 
Democracy in America
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html
 
Descriptions of gender roles and women's lives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/home.htm
in the early republic by foreign travelers in 1820s through 1840s
 
Tales of the Early Republic
http://www.earlyrepublic.net/
focuses on the 1830s-1840s. The intentions of this collection are:(1) to provide a resource for those who want to explore this exciting and formative time in U.S. history, and (2) to explore the potential of computer-based media to qualitatively change the nature of reading history.
 
Jackson, Andrew - Bank Charter Veto Message, July 10, 1832
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/writings/veto.htm
 
Trail of Tears
http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
 
Eli Whitney Museum
http://www.eliwhitney.org/
 
Northwest Journal
http://www.northwestjournal.ca/
the New Fur Trade Living History club devoted to Canada and the U.S., 1774-1821 which also publishes an excellent journal for re-enactors of the era

 
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