This page contains a list of teaching resources relevant to the field of Early American Studies to approximately 1830, organized by types of sources. Please click on the links below to locate a resource.
Digital Resources
Films About Early America
Pedagogy
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, 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.
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 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.