Internet Resources

The American Colonies

General -- including Biographies, Primary Sources, Maps, and Images

• The 13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies ~ Links to information on each of the colonies as well as maps and other documents.
• America's Founding Fathers ~ Scroll down and click on a person or state name for extensive biographical and colony/state information. From the National Archives.
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement ~ A digital library of documents and images containing journals, letters, and other primary documents. Wisconsin Historical Society.
• Documents in Early American History ~ Letters, journals, etc. collected by Missouri State University
• Historical Maps of the US ~ University of Texas Libraries
• Middle Atlantic Maps ~ from the New York Public Library
• An Outline of American History ~ Click on a chapter section for information. From the Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
• Rare Maps of Colonial America ~ University of Georgia Libraries
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic ~ Information and images on the role of religion in the colonies and early America. An exhibit of the Library of Congress.

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Regional

• American Centuries: View from New England ~ An extensive digital collection of images and artifacts from early American life. From the Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Massachusetts.
• Colonial Williamsburg ~ History of Williamsburg, Virginia from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Connecticut History ~ from the State of Connecticut.
• Delaware History ~ from the State of Delaware.
• Georgia History ~ Scroll down to "Georgia as an English Colony"
• History of Jamestown ~ from the APVA Preservation Virginia
• History of Pennsylvania ~ from the Independence Hall Association.
• Maryland State Archives ~ Images, artifacts, and documents of Maryland's history.
• Massachusetts Facts ~ from the Citizen Information Service, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Mayflower History ~ from Caleb Johnson, scholar and historian of early American History.
• New York History.net
• The New Hampshire Almanac ~ Scroll down to click on a history topic.
• The New Jersey Historical Society
• North Carolina Colonial History ~ from the State Library of North Carolina.
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia
• Rhode Island History and Timeline
• South Carolina History ~ Information from InfoPlease

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