Society of Early Americanists Teaching Early American Topics

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The SEA Teaching Early American Topics page contains a list of teaching resources and syllabi relevant to the field of Early American Topics to approximately 1830. Originally created by Professor Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University, this page is currently coordinated and updated by Susan Imbarrato and sponsored by Minnesota State University Moorhead. For information about the Society of Early Americanists, please click here. Thank you.

The SEA Recent Publications on Early American Topics page website is generously hosted by Minnesota State University Moorhead. We thank MSUM for their excellent support.

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust . To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.