AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY
Week One: Conquest
and
Spanish
Colonial America
Websites
1492:
An
Ongoing Voyage The Age of Exploration
Native Web
Documents
How to Read
a
200-year-old Document Christopher Columbus, letter to the King and Queen of Spain (~1494)
Balboa Discovers the Pacific (1513)
The Founding of St. Augustine (1565)
Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
Week Two: The West
Indies
Websites
History
of PiracyNew England Pirate Museum
Documents
The
Buccaneers
of America: A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of
late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of
Jamaica
and Tortuga (both English and French)
You may read any chapters of this narrative that you choose. Read at least two chapters.
Weeks Three, Four,
and
Five: The
Colonization of British North America
Websites
Archeological Project at Jamestown
THOMAS HARIOT'S: A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of V I R G I N I A
Droughts Played Major Role In Jamestown, 'Lost Colony' Tragedies
Dry
Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
Colonial Williamsburg Almanack
Virtual Tour of Plymouth
Planatation
The Mayflower
Web Page
17th-Century
Newspapers
Amusements
in Colonial America
Documents
Instructions
for the Virginia Colony (1606) The First Virginia Charter (1606)
The Starving Time (1607)
The Second Virginia Charter (1609)
The Third Virginia Charter (1612)
An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England (1621)
The
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Charter
Of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
The
Beginnings
of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1627-1631)
The
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
The Connecticut
Colony
Charter (1662)
Colonial
Maps
Peter Schaghen Letter Concerning the Purchase of Manhattan Island (1626)
Week Six: French
Colonial America
Websites
History of the
Acadians The French and Indian War
1755: The French and Indian War
French Cataraqui
Documents
Memoir
for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada
(1687) King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question (1701)
French Memoir on the English Aggression (1750) (translated)
Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America (1750)
Peace Treaty of Paris (1763)
Week Seven: Religion
in British
North America
Websites
Puritans
in New
England Hall of Church History: The Puritans
Puritanism and Predestination
Documents
John
Winthrop:
A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) The Character of an Old English Puritan, or Non-Conformist (1646)
The Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, (1779)
Week Eight: Native
Americans
Websites
White Oak Society The Role of the Dutch in the Iroquois Wars
Native American Religon
Documents
First
Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676) The Iroquois Constitution
Read two-three sections of the Iroquois Constitution and consider how it is similar/different from Anglo-American Constitutions.
Governor
Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and
England (1761)
Week Nine: Women
Websites
Anne HutchinsonPBS: The America Experience: A Midwive's Tale
The Salem Witches
Salem Witch Museum
American Women's History
Women in American History
The National Women's History Project
Documents
Anne
Bradstreet: The Author to her Book Anne Bradstreet: A Dialogue Between Old England and New (1630)
Samuel Willard, "A Briefe Account of a Strange & Unusuall Providence of God Befallen to Elizabeth Knap of Groton"
Week Ten: African-American Experience
Websites
History of SlaveryThe Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
Links on the History of African-Americans
Abolitionism in America
Documents
“Carried Thence for
Trafficke of the West Indies Five Hundred
Negroes”: Job Hortop and the British Enter the Slave Trade, 1567 Jefferson's notes on Slavery
Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon the High Priest of Boonda in Africa (1734)
Read sections 1 and 2 of Job's memoirs
Weeks Eleven and Twelve: The Changing Colonial Landscape
Documents
Early Discontent
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People (1676)Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion (1704)
Edward Randolph Condemns the Massachussetts Bay Company (1683)
On Government
John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil GovernmentPenn's
Plan for a Union (1697)
Albany
Plan for a Union (1754)
The
North Carolina Biennal Act (1715)
Governor
Gabriel Johnston's Request to Repeal the Biennal act (1736)
Disposition
of the North Carolina Biennal Act (1737)
Governor
Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governor's Salary (1728)
Massachusetts'
House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary (1728)
Life in Colonial America
Benjamin Franklin: Journal of a voyage from England to Philadelphia (1726)Benjamin Franklin, How I became a Printer in Philadelphia
Gottlieb Mittelberger: On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants (1754)
Colonial Maps
Weeks
Thirteen
and Fourteen: The Coming of Revolution
Documents
Quarrels with England
Benjamin Franklin: A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper CurrencyPetition to Parliament: Reasons for Making bar, as well as Pig or Sow-iron (~1750)
Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations
Daniel Dulany, Considerations (1765)
Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the Taxation Consider'd (1765)
The
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
William
Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act (1766)
Captain
Preston's account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
Anonymous
account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
John
Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer (1767-1768)
John
Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer (1767-1768)
The Colonies Move Toward Independence
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations, "Of Colonies"Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations,"The Cost of Empire"
Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
Abigail Adams: Letters (1776)
The Charlotte Town Resolves (1775)
Daniel Leonard's Letter (1775)
John Adams, Novanglus (1775)
Edmund Burke Speech on Conciliation with America ( 1775)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)
Letter of George Washington to John Hancock (1776)
First
Continental Congress (1774)
Declaration
and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (1774)
Second
Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking
up Arms (1775)
The
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Jefferson's
draft of the Declaration of Independence
The
Final Text of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
The
Articles of Confederation (1781)
Study Aids
Resources for Better Writing
Other Colonial History Course Syllabi
The American ColoniesHistory of Early America
Early American History
Colonial American History
General Colonial History Web Links
A Puritan's
Mind
Archiving Early
America
Common
Place
Founding the Colonies
American
Colonist's
Library
Early Americas
Digital Archive
South Carolina Online
Resources
Maryland Archives Online
Virginia Historical Society
Recommended Reading
Bernard Bailyn, Ideological
Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West
Carol Berkin, First Generations
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone
James Brooks, Captives and Cousins
Richard Bushman, Refinement of America
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith
Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana
Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English
Atlantic World
David Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment
James Horn, Adapting to a New World
Karen Kupperman, ed., Major Problems in American Colonial
History (2d ed.)
Rebecca Larson, Daughters of Light
John Mccusker and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America
James Merrell, Into the American Woods
Jane Merritt, At the Crossroads
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers
Dan Richter, Facing East from Indian Country
Laurel Ulrich Thatcher, A Midwive's Tale
Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution
Dan Vickers, A Companion to Colonial America
Richard White, The Middle Ground
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