PreK-2

The First Thanksgiving
PRIMARY SOURCES FOR THE "FIRST THANKSGIVING". ... Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation."
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers... 1898. p. 127. ...
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/thnksref.htm

First Hand Account of Paul Revere's Ride
Read Paul Revere's account of his famous ride to warn the colonists that the British troops were coming. "I, Paul Revere, of Boston, in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...."
http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html

Global Access to Educational Sources - American Revolution
Links to various primary sources; personal accounts, documents, Avalon project, intelligence, George Washington, Paul Revere.
http://www.learning.caliberinc.com/amrev6.html

Rare map collections - Revolutionary America
From the Hargrett Library Special Collection - theatre of war, attack plans, mostly southern colonies (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Spanish Florida)
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

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About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith
Explores the lives and work of two artists within colonial Boston prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
http://mag.rochester.edu/learn/teacherServices/onlineResources/copley/AboutFaceImages.html

Africans in America  
Black Voyage-Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Alexander Falconbridge, edited By Thomas Howard, Little Brown & Company, Boston
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h281t.html

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American history
An extensive list of primary sources, from Discovery to Present.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

The American Colonist's Library
A treasury of primary documents pertaining to Early American History
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

Archiving Early America
Historic documents from 18th century America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/

Common Sense and the American Revolution
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/revolution/before.html

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
Early known drafts of Jefferson's famous script.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara4.html

First Hand Account of Paul Revere's Ride
Read Paul Revere's account of his famous ride to warn the colonists that the British troops were coming. "I, Paul Revere, of Boston, in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...."
http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html

Global Access to Educational Sources - American Revolution
Links to various primary sources; personal accounts, documents, Avalon project, intelligence, George Washington, Paul Revere.
http://www.learning.caliberinc.com/amrev6.html

Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur  
"What then is the American, this new man?..."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/contents.html

Obituaries: George Washington  
The news of Washington's death reached citizens through the diligent workings of the press as newspapers recorded the grief and sorrow of the nation.
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/exhibits/mourning/news.html

Rare map collections - Revolutionary America
From the Hargrett Library Special Collection - theatre of war, attack plans, mostly southern colonies (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Spanish Florida)
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

The Virginia Company
Examine the Virginia Company's settlement in Jamestown as a case study in colonial economics and social dynamics, and debate why it failed and whether failure was avoidable.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/virginia/before.html

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AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American history
An extensive list of primary sources, from Discovery to Present.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

Archiving Early America
Historic documents from 18th century America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/

Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787  
James Madison. These are the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, an essential guide to interpreting the intent of the Framers.
http://www.constitution.org/dfc/dfc_0000.htm

Treaty of Greenville (1795)  
A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1776-1800/indians/green.htm

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