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November
2005 features
books and links about
Colonial History |
Africans
in America: the Terrible Transformation
Part 1 of Africans in America: 1450-1750. Focuses on the
experience of African-American colonists, from a status of free or
indentured servitude to enslaved in Colonial America.
Colonial Currency
Discusses various aspects of the history of coins and printed currency
in Colonial America. A fascinating history of the development
of money in the New World.
The
Colonial Spanish Horse
"From the Old World to the New, this 'living history' snorts fire & awes the beholder with power and grace."
Information about rare and unique horses that are remnants of early
Colonial history.
The Early America Review
"A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America.
Our main focus at Archiving Early America is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago."
Investigating the First Thanksgiving
Plimoth Plantation's Online Learning Center educational website about the 1621
harvest celebration, later known as the First Thanksgiving. Site
requires Macromedia Flash Player. Investigate primary documents
about the first Thanksgiving.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
"This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies."
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
Early on a cold winter day in 1704, a coalition of several hundred French and Native forces attacked an English settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Through audio, maps, profiles, and a story menu, the site explores perspectives of the attack and its place in early American history. Then it steps back, leaving you to make up your own mind about what led up to those pre-dawn hours, so many years ago.
- Review from Yahoo! Picks
Roanoke
Colony - First English Settlement in the New World
From the North Carolina Encyclopedia, developed and is maintained by the Information Services Branch of the State Library of North Carolina.
Included detailed information about the lost colony of Roanoke.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
"This site collects primary source materials from one of American history's most sensationalized and misunderstood episodes. From 1692 to 1693, over 160 people were accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and 25 died as a result, many of them executed. Essays describe key figures in the trials, such as Elizabeth Parris and Elizabeth Hubbard, two of the girls first accused of witchcraft. Seventeenth-century books and documents shed light on the culture and times that led to the hysteria."
Review from Yahoo! Picks
Virtual Jamestown
"The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and
the Virginia experiment. As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony."
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