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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

The Eighteenth Century

America’s Founding Documents, National Archives

Documents from the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention, Library of Congress

Founders Online, National Archives

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, The Library of Congress

The Coming of the American Revolution: 1764 to 1776, Massachusetts Historical Society

Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons, Zach Hutchins, Colorado State University

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!

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.