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• Archiving Early America

• Africans in America:  1450-1750 -- "The Terrible Transformation" (PBS)

• American Slavery:  1619-1865 -- comprehensive research links

• Anne Hutchinson

• Anne Hutchinson: An Independent, Religious Woman in Early America

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Benjamin Franklin:  A Documentary History

• The Black Presence -- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

• Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism:  1619-1789

• The Church of England in Early America

• Colonial American Newspapers

• Colonial Currency

• Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature

• Common-Place - The Interactive Journal of Early American Life

• Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy

• Cotton Mather

• Cross Roads and Cross Rivers:  Diversity in Colonial New York

• The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia:  1701-1732

• "Divining America:  Religion & the National Culture" (17c & 18c)

• Early American Art

• The Early American Review

• The First Great Awakening

• "The First Great Awakening" - essay by Sarah Valkenburgh (Concord Review)

• Frontier Homes (The History Channel)

• George Whitefield's Sermons

• "The Great Awakening" - lecture by Prof. Terry Matthews (Wake Forest Univ.)

• The Historic Hudson Valley

• How Did Slavery in America Begin?

• HudsonRiver.com

• Introduction to the Free Speech Clause - the John Peter Zenger Case (Exploring Constitutional Conflicts)

• Jonathan Edwards

• King Philip's War

• Map-->"Native American Land Cessions" (animated)

• Map-->"Black-White Colonial America Outline Map:  1776"

• Map-->"U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map"

• Map-->"U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline"

• Map-->"U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map"

• The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism

• A Midwife's Tale: 18c America Through a Woman's Eyes (American Experience)

• The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY

• The Peter Zenger Trial, 1735

• The Puritan Morphology of Conversion

• The Puritans and Church & State

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC)

• Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America

• The Quakers

• The Quakers:  An Introduction

• Salem Witch Museum

• The Salem Witch Trial of 1692

• The Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)

• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

• Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1617-1672)

• Sermons of George Whitefield

• "Slavery--The 'Peculiar Institution'" (LOC)

• Society of Early Americanists

• The Stono Rebellion

• Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library - Duke University

• Understanding Slavery (DiscoverySchool)

• Virginia Planters' Records - the Carter Family

• William Penn, Visionary Proprietor

• Witchcraft in Salem Village

• 17c:  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" - poem by Anne Bradstreet

• 1636:  Lord Say and Sele - John Cotton Condemns Democracy

• 1637:  Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson

• 1642:  Massachusetts Bay School Laws

• 1642-1700:  Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements

• 1642-1705:  Slave Laws in Virginia

• 1670s:  “A Devil to Tempt and a Corrupt Heart to Deceive” - John Dane Battles Life’s Temptations

• 1676:  Declaration and Remonstrance - Governor William Berkeley

• 1676:  First Thanksgiving Proclamation

• 1676:  King's Letter to the Duke of York

• 1676:  Nathaniel Bacon's Manifesto

• 1676:  Papers Related to the Rebellion of Nathaniel Bacon

• 1677-1705:  Various documents on Bacon's Rebellion   

• 1678:  "The Author to Her Book" - poem by Anne Bradstreet

• 1681:  Revolt of the Pueblo Indians

• 1683:  "A Way to Get Wealth" - Gervase Markham

• 1689:  A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York - on Leisler's Rebellion

• 1689:  "From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. [Signed] N. N.?" - broadside

• 1689:  Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke

• 1689:  "Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions" - Cotton Mather

• 1692:  Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop and other documents (click and scroll down)

• 1692:  The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village

• 1692:  Indictment of Bridget Bishop

• 1692:  Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692

• 1692:  Examination of Bridget Bishop

• 1692:  Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials

• 1693:  Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits - Increase Mather

• 1693:  Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather

• 1697:  William Penn's Plan of Union

• 1698:  The Story of Squanto - Cotton Mather

• early 18c:  “The Pulpit Being My Great Design ” - A Minister in Early 18th-Century New England

• early 18c:  “Whom I Must Join” - Elizabeth Ashbridge, an 18th-Century Englishwoman, Becomes a Quaker

• 1700:  The Selling of Joseph (a slave) - Samuel Sewall

• 1702:  Secret Diary of William Byrd

• 1704:  Boston News Letter (4 pages) - broadside

• 1704:  Governor Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion

• 1704:  “Wee made Good speed along” - Boston Businesswoman Sarah Knight Travels From Kingston to New London

• 1705:  An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate

• 1705:  Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money - John Law

• 1709:  “He Lov’d the English Extraordinary Well” - Enoe Will Guides John Lawson Through the Carolina Interior

• 1709:  Indian Trader John Lawson’s Journal of Carolina

• 1712:  Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School

• 1715:  Biennial Act

• 1721:  By the honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq; Governour of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New-England, a proclamation for a publick thanksgiving

• 1721:  Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narragansit-Country; and their service there. By an unfeigned friend. Re-printed at N. London, April 4" - broadside

• 1724:  The Black Code of Louisiana

• 1724:  “They That Are Born There Talk Good English” - Hugh Jones Describes Virginia’s Slave Society

• 1725:  Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity - Benjamin Franklin

• 1725:  "An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African Slave" - illustration by Serge Daget

• 1729:  A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper- Currency by Ben Franklin

• 1729:  “A Person Like Me, Oppress’d By Dame Fortune, Need Not Care Where He Goes” - The “Infortunate” William Moraley Tries His Luck in America

• 1730s:  Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection

• 1730s-40s:  The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, CT - Nathan Cole’s Spiritual Travels

• 1732, 1737:  Runaway Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette

• 1733:  Founding Vision for Georgia - James Oglethorpe

• 1733-58:  Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin (excerpts)

• 1735:  Defense of Peter Zenger - Andrew Hamilton

• 1739:  A Commons House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's Council on the Stono Rebellion slave catchers (11/29)

• 1739:  Report from William Bull regarding the Stono Rebellion (10/5)

• 1740:  "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" - Sermon by Gilbert Tennent

• 1740:  "The Future Punishment of the Wicked" - sermon by Jonathan Edwards

• 1740:  "This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty . by and between [blank] on the one part . Directors of the Manufactory Company of Boston . [Boston? 1740]" - broadside

• 1741:  “Fire, Fire, Scorch, Scorch!” - Testimony from the Negro Plot Trials in New York

• 1741:  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - sermon by Jonathan Edwards

• 1742:  Against Revivalism - Charles Chauncy

• 1744:  "Rules for Civility" - George Washington

• 1747:  "A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man " - Briton Hammon

• 1750:  “As much land as they can handle” - Johann Bolzius Writes to Germany About Slave Labor in Carolina and Georgia

• 1750:  “Packed Densely, Like Herrings” - Gottlieb Mittelberger Warns His Countryman of the Perils of Emigration

• 1750:  “Work and labor in this new and wild land are very hard” - A German Migrant in Philadelphia

• 1754:  On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger

• 1757:  The Defense of Slavery in Virginia

• 1757:  A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and Virginia - The Journal of John Woolman

• 1768:  “It Will Require Much Time to Model the Manners and Morals of these Wild Peoples” - Charles Woodmason Visits the Carolina Backcountry

• 1769:  Broadside Announcing the Sale of Slaves

• 1769:  “Shew Yourselves to be Freemen” - Herman Husband and the North Carolina Regulators

• 1769-71:  “Kentucke, Which I Esteemed a Second Paradise” - Daniel Boone Crosses the Mountains and Visits Kentucky

• 18c?:  “Your People Live Only Upon Cod” - An Algonquian Response to European Claims of Cultural Superiority

• mid-18c?:  Letter of the Quaker woman, Increase Woodward to her son

• late 18c?:  "The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd" - Soame Jenyns