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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

Science and Empire

"Every Man His Own Doctor": Popular Medicine in Early America, The Library Company of Philadelphia

Science Subject Guide: Biography, History of Science, Library of Congress

The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)

The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), Harvard University

The History of Science Society

Working Bibliography for Graduate Seminar “The Science of Empire,” Penn State University, Carla Mulford

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.