Colonial Settlement (1492 - 1763)
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1755: The French and Indian War Home
Page
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A few randomly selected primary source documents relating to the period,
particularly French soldiers in Canada. Maintained by Larry Roux.
http://web.syr.edu/~laroux
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Archiving Early America
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Directories such as "Milestone Historic Documents" and "America's Freedom
Documents," and background information on why historical documents look
like they do.
http://earlyamerica.com
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Eighteenth-Century
Resources
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History resources, as well as other subject areas. Maintained by Jack Lynch
at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/18th/
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Eighteenth Century Studies
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Electronic texts from the 18th century, including the work of Benjamin
Banneker, Edmund Burke, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke,
Tom Paine, William Penn, and Adam Smith. Created and maintained by a group
at Carnegie Mellon University.
http://english.hss.cmu.edu/18th.html
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
Archive: Other Texts and Documents
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Several hundred historical documents, many of which pertain to this period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: The Colonial Era
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Narrative about the period, supplemented by primary sources and other materials
of potential interest. Part of a series initiated at the University of
Groningen, Netherlands.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap2.htm
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: The War for Independence
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An electronic textbook, with each "chapter" composed of narrative, supplemented
by links to interesting and informative primary sources. Housed at the
University of Groningen, Netherlands.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap3.htm
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The American Revolution (1763 - 1783)
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
Archive: Other Texts and Documents
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Nearly 200 primary source documents, many relating to this period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: The War for Independence
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An electronic textbook, with each "chapter" composed of narrative, supplemented
by links to interesting and informative primary sources. Housed at the
University of Groningen, Netherlands.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap3.htm
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The New Nation (1780 - 1815)
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Excerpts from Slave
Narratives
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Forty-six slave narratives, dating from the late 17th century to Reconstruction.
The narratives include descriptions of the slave trade, the middle passage,
conditions of life and work, slave revolts and resistance, the underground
railroad, and emancipation.
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
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Explore
the West from Monticello: A Perspective on Maps from Columbus to Lewis
& Clark
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Maps from the Lewis and Clark expedition are part of this collection at
the University of Virginia.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
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The Federalist Papers
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The Federalist Papers available from the Law School at the University
of Oklahoma-Norman.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/federalist/
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: Formation of a National Government
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An electronic textbook, covering the period from the end of the Revolutionary
War to the end of the War of 1812, and containing many links to supporting
primary source documents. Many of these links have not yet been completed,
however.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap4.htm
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
Archive: Other Texts and Documents
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Nearly 200 primary source documents relating to this period of U.S. history.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
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Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861)
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American
Immigration Home Page
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Statistics, student analysis, and quotations regarding immigration. Created
by a 10th-grade American history class at the Academy for the Advancement
of Science and Technology.
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/index.html
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
Archive: Other Texts and Documents
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Nearly 200 primary sources, many of which relate to this period of U.S.
history.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
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An electronic textbook containing links to many primary sources relating
to the period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap5.htm
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History
of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York
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Interesting material on the underground railroad. Created by history students
at the University of Rochester.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/ugrr/home.html
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Taking the Train
to Freedom: National Park Service Study of the Underground Railroad
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A wealth of information on the underground railroad.
http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm
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Views of the Irish Potato Famine
(1845-1851)
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Selected contemporary reports, cartoons, and articles from British periodicals,
and an index of related web sites. Compiled by Steve Taylor at Emory University.
http://www.emory.edu/FAMINE/
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A Violation of
Justice: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
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Texts of the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1793 and 1850, and the responses of
such public figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
George Fitzhugh. Created as a class project by graduate students at the
University of Virginia.
"http://darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~mgm5u/project.html
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The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877)
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The American Civil War Home
Page
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Comprehensive gateway to internet resources on the American Civil War.
Includes public and personal documents, visual documents, and maps.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
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Civil
War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830s to
1890s)
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Primary sources, and a large subject tree to other internet resources.
Part of a site at Rutgers University.
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/civwar-2.html
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
Archive: Other Texts and Documents
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An electronic archive with a large number of primary sources, many of which
pertain to this period.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
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From Revolution
to Reconstruction Archive: Sectional Conflict
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An electronic text containing 12 sections on the period leading up to the
Civil War. It should be used in conjunction with the preceeding resource.
Part of the From Revolution to Reconstruction Archive developed
in the Netherlands,
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap6.htm
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The Valley of
the Shadow Project: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania
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A unique web site containing many types of primary sources on the Civil
War relating to two communities--one North and one South. Maintained by
the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University
of Virginia.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2
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