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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

Native American Studies

American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges, Smithsonian Institution

Battlefields of the Pequot War, The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

Cherokee Nation

Indian Converts Collection, Laura Leibman, Reed College

National Congress of American Indians

National Native American Heritage Month, for teachers, Library of Congress

The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

The Occom Circle, Dartmouth College

The Pocahontas Archive, Lehigh 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.