|
Colonial: Secondary Sources - Lectures,
Essays, etc.
Secondary resources are what people have
written about history. Websites, history books, articles about what happened are
all secondary sources. Many of the links below are to websites that contain both
primary and secondary materials. Some of these are truly excellent sources.
Others a less than scholarly. Ultimately, you have to decide how trustworthy
your sources are. Which of your sources carefully gathers their own data, which
crosscheck their data and verify their information. Which write explanations and
narratives that are true to the data, which give the most plausible accounts. Be
careful. There is a lot of misinformation out there.
I have divided the colonial material
geographically into New Spain, Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, New England,
New France and Russia. I will add essays as I get the chance.
Visión de los
Vencidos
Relaciones indígenas de la Conquista
Virginias
Virtual
Jamestown
Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of
Jamestown in Its Atlantic Context
Colonial Williamsburg
Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in Its
Atlantic Context (a Summer 2000 NEH Institute)
http://www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/index_main.htm
Jamestown 2007, the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown
http://www.jamestown2007.org/
APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project
http://www.apva.org/
Colonial National Historical Park (Jamestown)
http://www.nps.gov/colo/
The Jamestowne Society
http://www.jamestowne.org/
John Smith's Map of Virginia (Library of Virginia)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mapping/empire/smith.htm
John Smith Website
http://www.seacoastnh.com/johnsmith/links.html
Pocahontas: Icon At The Crossroads Of Race And Sex
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/POCA/POC-home.html
Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Jamestown and Virginia (Lots of links
but some may not work)
http://members.tripod.com/~AlanCheshire/index-15.html
The Royal Charters Between England and Virginia
http://www.bermuda-online.org/RoyalCharters.htm
Maryland
The Jesuit Plantation Project: Maryland's Jesuit Plantations, 1650-1838
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/jpp/coverjpp.html
The Jesuit Plantation Project involves the conversion of the Maryland Province
Archive to an electronic format.
The archive contains over 200 years of
personal, legal, and financial documents produced by the six Jesuit-owned
plantations in Maryland. As an electronic archive project, the Jesuit Plantation
Project is fully integrated with the
American Studies Core Curriculum at
Georgetown University.
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
New Amsterdam
The New Netherland Project
http://www.nnp.org/index.shtml
Presents a timeline of the Netherlands and Scandinavia relating to North
America,
a "historical calendar" of New Netherland, online documents, a
newsletter, and more.
From the independent New Netherland Project sponsored by the New York State
Library
and the Holland Society of New York.
African Burial
Ground Memorial History
The African Burial Ground is believed to have encompassed five to six
acres of lower Manhattan,
including City Hall Park. During the 1700's when the burial ground was
mainly in use, Africans made up
from 14.4% to 20.9% of the population. Consistent with the marginal status
of Africans in colonial society,
the burial ground was described as a desolate piece of unappropriated land
and was located outside of the
city limits. According to city maps, by the late 1700's the oldest portions
of the cemetery were already being
covered over by development. As the city expanded, the existence of the
African Burial Ground was eventually forgotten.
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
William
Penn, Visionary Proprietor
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html
William Penn had an interesting life, and this site is a good introduction to
the man and some of his achievements.
Puritanism and
Predestination
Benjamin
Franklin Documentary History Web Site
Massachusetts Bay
Plimouth Plantation
Witchcraft
in Salem Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
Extensive archive of the 1692 trials and life in late seventeenth-century
Massachusetts.
Salem
WitchcraftTrials (1692)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
Images, chronology, court, and official documents from the University of
Missouri—Kansas City Law School.
Connecticut
The Story of the Pequot
War from Mystic Voices:
Rhode Island and
Providence
New Hampshire
1755
lecture notes chapter 2
lecture notes chapter 3
|
CCD >
HIS 201 > Colonial
> Secondary Sources