Published accounts of exploration dating from the Vikings to exploration of the west in the mid-19th century.
Collection of images that date from1492 to the 1820s
The Massachusetts Historical Society presents the complete four volume set of Revolutionary-era Boston newspapers and pamphlets collected, annotated, and indexed by Harbottle Dorr, Jr., a shopkeeper in Boston.
American Antiquarian Society collection of late 18th to early 19th century ballads published by Boston newspaper editor Isaiah Thomas.
Transcriptions of texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820
The Record of Fugitives in its entirety consists of two notebooks and several pages of addenda.
These materials are presented on this website in three different view formats. Using the navigational options to the left, researchers can examine individual pages of the record, with each image accompanied by its transcribed text. To read the record in this way, click on "Book 1" to get started. It is also possible to view and download the entire document in either an image (facsimile) or textual (transcription) version.
Transcriptions of selected documents from the Plymouth Colony including court and probate records and laws
Specialized collection within Hathi Trust
Records of the American Colonies Published documents--legislation, court proceedings, records, correspondence, etc.--from the 13 original colonies and their predecessors.
The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project 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.
From University of Virginia
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Worlds of Change, a collection of more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. This material was digitized as part of a multi-year project, formerly known as Colonial North America at Harvard Library.
