America in Caricature 1765-1865
An online exhibit of political cartoons (Lilley Library)
American almanacs and colonial identity
seminar paper by Matthew Shaw (British Library Research Archive)
originally given at University of Birmingham, March 2006
The American Colonists’ Library
Primary sources relating to early American history (Rick Gardiner)
American Independence
Primary sources and other web resources (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
The American Revolution
A site to accompany an American documentary on the American Revolution: bibliography, discussions and essays, web resources (H-Net)
American Revolution 1763-1789
Bibliography (H-OIEAHC)
George Washington
A selection of images of Washington and related artefacts (Maine Historical Society)
Revolution Rejected: Canada and the American Revolution
Exhibit interpreting why Canada resisted invasion by American troops during the American Revolution (Canadian War Museum)
American Revolution Timelines
(The History Place)
American Revolution: the Battle of Bunker Hill
an online exhibit to mark the 225th anniversary of the battle, it includes timeline, historical background, biographies, personal accounts (including letters by soldiers), maps, bibliography (Massachusetts Historical Society)
American Revolution: Charters of Freedom
the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights online (NARA)
American Revolution: Declaring Independence
Drafting the documents: a chronology, background, selection of documents (Library of Congress)
The American Revolution: Guided Readings
Useful short essays for students (Gilder Lehrman Institute)
American Revolution: Recollections of an Old Soldier
Etext of the memoir of David Perry, a soldier in the American revolutionary wars (Denise G Jones)
American Revolution: Spy Letters of the American Revolution
A ‘gallery’ of letters, with images, links to information about the spies and the methods used (Clements Library, University of Michigan)
American Revolution: The Olive Branch Petition
‘The aptly-named Olive Branch Petition represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.’ This virtual exhibit includes the original text and other documents, background on the causes of the revolution, George III, colonisation, the war itself, and the developing relations between Britain and the American colonies from the early seventeenth century (The National Archives, UK)
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
exhibit looking at ‘the rich mixture of societies’ in five areas just before the arrival of Europeans, and at the subsequent contacts between them and the new arrivals from 1492-1600. Divided into six sections, including the life and myths of Columbus, ‘inventing America’, ‘Europe claims America’ (Library of Congress)
Archiving Early America
Primary source materials from eighteenth-century America, useful teaching resource (EarlyAmerica.com)
The Electric Franklin
A nice mix of the light-hearted and the scholarly on Benjamin Franklin; includes a very good listing of links, biography, and texts of his writings as well as quotes (Independence Hall Association)
Famous American Trials: Boston Massacre Trial
Resources relating to the trials of British soldiers who fired on a Boston crowd in 1770 (Douglas Linder)
British catholic policy in eighteenth-century Ireland and Quebec
PhD thesis (1998) by Karen Stanbridge, a comparative study of British Catholic legislation examining the processes leading to the legislation and their outcomes (Theses Canada Portal)
The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years’ War
papers and articles by the site author (D Peter McLeod)
The Cartographic Creation of New England
‘An exhibition of early maps that chronicles the effects of European exploration and settlement in north-eastern North America in creating a spatial concept called “New England.”‘ (Osher Map Library)
Classics of American Colonial History
Books and articles (pre-1923) on colonial America (Dinsmore Documentation)
Coins in colonial America
Online exhibit of coins, including state, national and imported coins (University of Notre Dame)
Colonial America
webpage for a ‘mock’ taught course; material on Spanish, British and French colonial America, West Indies, native American, African-Americans, women, etc. Plenty of useful links and texts (Diana Laulainen-Schein)
Colonial Paper Currencies
Online exhibit (University of Notre Dame
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
online exhibition exploring Europeans’ attempts ‘to “read” native cultures of the Americas’ (and vice versa); six thematic sections, including ‘promotion and possession’, ‘viewers and the viewed’, ‘colonial fictions, colonial histories’ (University of Pennsylvania Library)
The Court Structure of Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1860
A basic guide to the courts: ‘the intention is that researchers knowing only the name of the court whose documents they are consulting can easily determine its position in the judicial hierarchy, its predecessors and successors, and its general competence’ (Donald Fyson)
