Colonial America

Databases

General Resources

• America's Story from America's Library: Colonial America (1492-1763) (from the Library of Congress)
• Archiving Early America -historical documents from 18th century America (includes a map of the colonies 1775)
• The Early America Digital Library
• Colonial America from Exploration through the American Revolution
• Ben Franklin and the Armonica by Cecilia Brauer (Cecilia visited our school and played her armonica for us)
• Rare Map Collection Colonial America (University of Georgia Libraries Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
• The New Netherland Institute presentsThe New Netherland Project
• Symbols of a New Nation (from the Smithsonian)

Literature (these pages include links to historical people, places, and events that are mentioned in the books)

• Johnny Tremain
• Witch of Blackbird Pond
• My Brother Sam is Dead

Colonial Life

• The Soap Factory: Colonial Soap Making, Its History and Techniques
• Amusements in Colonial New England including Colonial Games and Toys (from Noah Webster)
• Colonial Life (from Through the Looking Glass)
• Colonial Kids
• American Architecture for Kids: Colonial Houses
• About Early American Music (by David K. Hildebrand - The Colonial Music Institute: Bringing History to Life Through Music)
• Colonial Diseases

Music

• The Music of Early America
• Popular Songs in American History

Education

• An Outline of American History: How they Were Schooled (From Revolution to Reconstruction)

The Pilgrims

• MayflowerHistory.com (by Caleb Johnson)
• The Mayflower Society
• The Mayflower Compac

The Colonies

• 13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies (from the TimePage)
• Social Studies For Kids: Colonial Times (by David White, this site examines school, church, parks, farms and food in colonial times and includes information about Characteristics of the Colonies)
• William Penn: Visionary Proprietor
• Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg (family, food, gardening, justice, and many more topics)
• Connecticut Life in the 1770s (from Noah Webster)
• The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut (Indian raids)
• Connecticut at War
• Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State
• Colonial New York City (from Centennial Classroom)
• Connecticut Colony Charter
• Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
• Medicine (from PBS's Liberty! Chronicle of the Revolution)
  

Government

• Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
• The Declaration of Independence (this ushistory.org Web site provides a wealth of information, including short biographies on the Signers of the Declaration of Independence page)
• Declaration of Independence (this Virtualology Web site provides biographical links to the signers)
• Colonial Hall: The Biographies of the Founding Fathers
• The Charters of Freedom "A New World is at Hand" - America's Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention (from The National Archives Experience)
• Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids : The Declaration of Independence (from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office)
• The Declaration of Independence (from the History Channel)
• United States National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)
• Constitution of the United States of America (from the National Archive Experience)
• Constitution of the United States
• The Bill of Rights
• Search For "Declaration of Independence" or the signers names from links on our Social Studies General Topics page.

Law & Acts

• Colonial America, 1607-1783: Law (by By Jennifer Tennile Langley, Michael Munger, Kenneth Litteral, Stephen Camper
  Student's, University of North Carolina at Pembroke 2001)
• IntolerableActs (from US History.org)
• Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress
• The Townshend Acts Imposed on the Colonies 1767
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays; Townshend Acts)
• The Townshend Acts - 1767
• Navigation Acts (from History of the USA)
• The Navigation Acts (from Colonial America from Exploration through the American Revolution)
• Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
  

Religion

• About the Puritans
• Puritanism in New England

Witchcraft in Colonial America

• The Salem Witch Trials -1692 a chronology of events
• Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692
• Religious Freedom: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson
• Elizabeth Blanchard Garlick
• National Geographic: Salem Witch Hunt
• Witch-Hunts: The Impact of Fear (by Cathy Hartt, RN, CNM, MS

Newspapers

• The History Buff Articles (dive into history and explore the past through commentary on press coverage of the day)
• The Colonial Gazette

People in Colonial America

• Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• Biographies of the Founders, Framers, and Others by William H. Huff (writings and biographies of the founders and other important figures from the founding era)

  General George Washington

• George Washington: Valley Forge: Who Served Here?
• George Washington Papers: Timeline: Colonial Period
• General George Washington's Campaign of 1776: Wahington's New York Campaign (from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Military Science)

  Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin (from PBS)
• Ben's Guide: Benjamin Franklin
  

  John Peter Zenger

• Famous American Trials: John Peter Zenger Trial
• Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press (from Archiving Early America)
  

  Samuel Adams

• Samuel Adams: American Patriot and Politician
• Colonial Hall: Biography of Samuel Adams
• Sam Adams (from The American Revolution Home Page)

  John Adams

• The Biography of John Adams (from the White House)
• USA: Biography of John Adams (from Revolution to Reconstruction)
• John Adams (from the American President)

  James Otis

• Representation: James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
• Founder of the month: James Otis (by Monty Rainy)
• James Otis (from U.S. History.com)

  Dr. Joseph Warren

• Dr. Joseph Warren  (from the Bunker Hill Exhibit)
• Dr. Joseph Warren (from the Americanrevolution.org)

  Paul Revere

• The Midnight Ride
• Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Paul Revere
• Paul Revere's Other Ride
• Silversmith (from Colonial Williamsburg)

  John Hancock

• John Hancock (from Signers of the Declaration of Independence)
• John Hancock(search for John Hancock from the History Channel.com)
• John Hancock (from America's Story - Libraryof Congress)

Benedict Arnold

• Benedict Arnold: Who Served here? (from Historic Valley Forge)
• Benedict Arnold's Leg (from PBS Online)
• Arnold, Benedict (search for Benedict Arnold from the Historychannel.com)

  King George III

• George III (1760-1829)
• George III
• King George III 1738-1820

  General Israel Putnam

• General Israel Putnam Web Page

  Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons

• General David Wooster

• General David Wooster
• Biography of General David Wooster (from Samuel Orcutt's The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880

Sir Edmund Andros:

• Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of all New England (from Joseph Dow's History of Hampton, Chapter 5 -- Part 15)
• Andros, Sir Edmund (from the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia)

  King Charles II

• An Overview of King Charles II: 1630-1685 (from The Gazetteer for Scotland)

  James II

• James II: British Monarchs (from Britannia.com)
• King James II, Instructions to Governor Thomas Dongan (the Founders' Constitution)

  Anne Bradstreet

• A Biography of Anne Bradstreet (prepared by Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Anne Bradstreet.com
• Anne Bradstreet: America's First Poet (from National Public Radio)

  Gershom Bulkeley

• The Hartford Medical Society Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry
• Gershom Bulkekey (a few facts from the First Congregational Church, UCC, New London CT)

  Robert Treat

• Treat, Robert, Governor of Connecticut 1683 -1687, 1689 -1698

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