Pre-History to 1774: First Inhabitants, Colonization, and Imperial Breakdown

 

Mystery of the First Americans
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
http://medicine.wustl.edu/~mckinney/cahokia/cahokia.html

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Early Maps of the New World
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/neworld.html

The Age of Exploration: 13th-18th Century
http://www.cgps.org/cgslab/explorers.htm

Vikings in the New World
http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/vikings/vikhome.html

U.S. Library of Congress: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/l

Internet Modern History Sourcebook for Colonial North America
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html

Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/raleigh.htm

Mayflower Compact, 1620
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/amerdoc/mayflowr.htm

The first Thanksgiving Proclamation, June 20, 1676
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/thanksgiv.html

Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims, 1682
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1682penn-solitude.html

Edward Randolph condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/massachusetts/randol.htm

Primary Source Material from the Eighteenth Century
http://www.earlyamerica.com/

Treaty of Paris, 1763
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/7yearswar/paris.htm

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/index.html

A Journal of Eighteenth Century America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/

Seven Year’s War
http://digitalhistory.org/

The American Revolution: Causes, People, Battles
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/history/revwar/revindex.htm

Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/bostanon.html

Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, 13 March 1770
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/preston.html

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