Society of Early Americanists Teaching Early American Topics

Main Content

SEA Syllabus Exchange: Syllabi for Early American History Courses

Accommodation, Violence and Networks in Colonial America Rachel Herrmann (University of Southampton)

The Atlantic World and Early America Jane T. Merritt (Old Dominion University)

Early American History (2008) Ian Aebel (University of New Hampshire)

Early American History (2009) Ian Aebel (University of New Hampshire)

Indian Identity and the Ambiguities of Race Jane T. Merritt (Old Dominion University)

Survey of Early American History Mark Hanna (University of California, San Diego)

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.