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COLONIAL ... 18th Century ... 19th Century
COLONIAL
13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
Brief synopsis of each colony's origins and gateway to other resources
Archiving Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
Early American Review journal; explore history through media of day and topics
Colonial Hall: A Look at America 's Founders
http://www.colonialhall.com
Biographies, documents, trivia, search site
Commercial Banking in Colonial America
http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/banking.html
Overview
Famous Moments in Early American History
http://earlyamerica.com/series.html
Short films of noteworthy events—George Washington, Shot heard round the World, Molly Pitcher, Benedict Arnold, and Declaring Independence
History of Jamestown
http://www.apva.org/history/
Essay, timeline, list of settlers with occupations
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
Images and texts—biographies, estate inventories, laws
Schooling, Education, and Literacy in Colonial America
http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html
Summary of the teaching techniques in various schools of the colonies
US History.org (IndependenceHall)
http://ushistory.org
All kinds of information on local historical sites
Virtual Jamestown
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html
Interactive part, maps and images, court records, newspapers, labor contracts
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18th Century
Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com
Information on 18 th century America
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19th Century
The American 1890s: A chronology
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/america.html
Information about personalities, social, political, literary, economic, cultural events, art, music, and architecture of the decade, divided into individual years.
1800s Epherema
http://home.att.net/~mforder
Images of all types of paper items that can be searched by categories like advertising, letters, photographs, political, and baseball
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
18 th and 19 th century North and South American cartographic materials
Dramas of Haymarket
http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas
History of the affair
First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
Search by keyword or browse by subject, author, or title index to find texts
From Revolution to Reconstruction
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa
Outlines by topics--economy, literature, etc; documents, essays, biographies, presidents
The Gilded Age WebQuest: Documenting Industry in America
http://oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wq/gildedage/student.htm
All aspects of this time period
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