Colonial America (1607 - 1775)
Online Reference | Overviews | Magazines and Newspapers | Web Sites
Reference Books
American Eras - vol. 1 - R 973.8 A5123
America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents... - vols. 1-2 - R 342.73 A5123
Annals of America - vol. 1 (primary sources) - R 973 A613, 2003
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History - R 973.2 C719
Colonial America to 1763 - R 973.2 P9862 c
Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia - R 325.3 C7194
Encyclopedia of American Indian History - R 970.00497 E564
Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America - R 973.303 E563
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 - R 325.3 E563
Historical Dictionary of the Puritans - R 285.9 P2923 h
Jamestown Colony: A Political, Social, and Cultural History - R 973.21 G8725 j
Online Reference
American National Biography (also in print)– Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades, Great Lives from History, and Great Events from History.
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Overviews
American Colonies - floor 2 - 973.2 T2382 a
American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence - floor 2 - 973.2 S5925 a
The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution - floor 2 - 973 P7696 b
The Colonial Experience - floor 2 - 973.2 H392 c
A Companion to Colonial America - floor 2 - 973.2 C7374
A History of Colonial America - floor 2 - 973.2 C543 h
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America - floor 2 - 973.2 S5873 o
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Magazines and Newspapers
American Periodicals Series Online – More than 1500 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 scholarly journals.
Search for magazines or newspapers by title:
Click here to find if the library has a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper.
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Web Sites (primary-source materials)
Early Americas Digital Archive - University of Maryland - A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - A collection of searchable texts that focuses on Plymouth from 1620 to 1691; includes court records, colony laws, journals, memoirs, and wills.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - Library of Congress - A mix of images, primary text, and background information on the role of religion in the European settlement of America.
Salem Witch Trials - University of Virginia - A documentary archive of the Salem witch trials that features court records, personal letters, and maps of the area.
Virtual Jamestown - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & University of Virginia - An exploration of the Jamestown settlement through court records, public records, first-hand accounts,and newspaper advertisements and articles.
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