Web resources for Colonial American history courtesy of Florida State University Library
General
Documents
Native Americans
Africans
Exploration and Settlements
Colonial Living
- Common-Place (journal published by American Antiquarian Society and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
- A Land of Contrasts [Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]
- Bethlehem [Pa] Digital History Project
- Letters and Diaries Online [History Matters]
- DoHistory (uses Martha Ballard’s diary as a focal point for several activities)
- Woman’s Work Is Never Done [American Antiquarian Society]
- A History of American Literature, by Moses Coit Tyler [Dinsmore Documentation]
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
- Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, by Philip A. Bruce [Dinsmore Documentation]
- Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
- Coins of Colonial and Early America
- Colonial Music Institute
- Popular songs in American history (with words, and MIDI-sequenced tunes by Lesley Nelson-Burns — first four sections deal with the colonial period)
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic [Library of Congress]
- Resources on the Puritans
- The First Great Awakening [National Humanities Council]
- The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University
- Sermons of the Reverend George Whitefield [Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics]
- The Ephratha Cloister: Conrad Beissel and his Communal Experiment
- Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
- Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
- Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society [National Humanities Center]
- Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
- Archiving Early America (lots of images of reproductions of documents sold by this commercial company)
- Using Material Culture to Teach U.S. History forum archives at CUNY
- Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
- Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Virginia)
- Old Salem (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
- Winterthur Museum (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, Massachusetts)
- Historic Deerfield (Deerfield, Massachusetts)
- Greenfield Village (Dearborn, Michigan)
- Mystic Seaport (Mystic, Connecticut)
- Pennsbury Manor (Bucks County, Pennsylvania)
- Historic Charleston’s Religious and Community Buildings [National Register of Historic Places]
- Colonials and Patriots: Historic Places Commemorating Our Forebears [National Park Service]
The American Revolution
Famous Personalities
Maps