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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

Exploration and Settlement

America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Library of Congress

American Journeys, The Wisconsin Historical Society

Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service

Colonial Williamsburg

Early Canadiana Online

Early Visions of Florida, Thomas Hallock, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Historic Jamestowne

Plimoth Plantation, Plimoth Plantation Museum

The American Experience in the Classroom, Colonization, Revolution, and the New Nation (1754-1820s), Smithsonian Institution

The Hudson's Bay Company Archives

The Literature of Justification, Lehigh University

The New Netherland Project, The New Netherland Institute

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, University of Virginia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Pocahontas Archive, Lehigh University

The Salem Witchcraft Papers, University of Virginia

Maps
Discovery and Exploration, Library of Congress

Historical Maps of the United States, University of Texas at Austin

Mapping History Project, University of Oregon

Maps and Images, Virtual Jamestown

The Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!

 

 

Sequoyah

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.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

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

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

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.