Archiving Early America: Primary Source Material from 18th Century America - 2 views
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David Hilton on 18 Jul 09A very good collection of primary source materials on early America.
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The World of Early America - 1 views
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An excellent site containing primary sources on early America (or at least the English-speaking part of it). Seems to focus mainly on the C18th.
JCB_EarlyAmerican - 1 views
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Nearly 7000 images from early America which you can view in a cool viewer that opens up in a new tab/window. Very groovy.
American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850 - 0 views
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"The Mid-Atlantic region of North America - stretching from New York south to Virginia - was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850." Cool.
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The Mid-Atlantic region of North America - stretching from New York south to Virginia - was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850
Online Exhibit: Exploring the Early Americas, Library of Congress - 8 views
America at Work / America at Leisure, 1894-1915 - 0 views
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Contains 150 early movies showing American past-times and everyday life from the turn of the 20th Century.
History Globe - Jamestown Colony Game - 11 views
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History game...perhaps good for including in unit on early colonization in North America.
Farm, Field and Fireside: Agricultural Newspaper Collection - 5 views
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'Together with the introduction of rural mail delivery, the telephone, and the automobile, farm newspapers played a key role in the modernization of rural America. The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Latin American Pamphlets - 1 views
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Contains over 5000 titles.
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Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
Papers of the War Department - 0 views
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Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database.
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"Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database." Isn't that cool?
The History Place - Child Labor in America - 2 views
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A collection of photos of child labour in the USA, mainly I think in the C19th and early C20th.
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/downloads/pdfs/Resource_Guide/English/English_PA_Teache... - 10 views
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A guide to teaching some of the seminal images of American history.
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Also check out Picturing Early America, especially the unit plans from 2009 (ones from 2010, including one from yours truly coming soon): http://picturingamerica.salemstate.edu/
California, First Person Narratives: General Collections - 0 views
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A valuable resource for studies into everyday life in C19th American West.
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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
History Guide NG - 3 views
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I'll get round to them one day. All 3528 of them. Promise.
Talking History - 11 views
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"Over the past several years, History Matters has organized twenty-five online dialogues with leading historians and teachers about the the teaching of major topics in U.S. history--from early settlement to the Vietnam War. Those discussions are archived here and contain many useful teaching suggestions"
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There are a couple of pages on this site which might be useful for history teachers in challenging us to reflect on our practice. I don't know about you, but too often I get so caught up in the bureaucratic paperwork and day-to-day of teaching I forget to reflect on the big picture of what teaching history is all about...
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement - 2 views
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"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later."
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862 - 0 views
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Over 700 daguerreotypes (early photos) from the period just before the US Civil War.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement - 1 views
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An archive of images and sources relating to the eugenics movement in the USA in the early C20th.
CARRIE: An Electronic Library - 5 views
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Collections focussing mainly on medieval and early C20th European history in the US and Europe.
History - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com - 5 views
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I can't figure out if the content on this site is created for the site or if it has a search ability and retrieves content from all around the web. Contains many articles on early modern and modern American history.