This portion of the SEA home page is always under construction and is maintained by Harold William Halbert. If you have any problems with the page or if you have a link you would like to see added, please e-mail him at hwh2@lehigh.edu. Be sure to include the URL of any web page you want him to add.
Last update: March 27, 1997
These large (slow) files feature scaned facsimilies of the original U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of the Independence, and Jefferson's draft of the Declaration. Part of the U.S. Founding Documents page.
These large (slow) files features many of the same documents on the Early American Documents page, but it also includes a transcription of The Federalist. A search engine for key words is provided to scan the Constitution and The Federalist.
Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction
Part of the University of Virginia's library, this site is a pilot program designed to study the cost effectiveness of providing rare texts on-line rather than only preserving the original print texts. Goal is to provide 588 volumes on-line from 81 authors from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As of February 1997, none of the texts were available, but this site should be a great resource in the near future.
Select Slavery Document Facsimiles-UVa
A course project from the UVa Rare Book School prepared these facsimiles of slavery related documents in 1995.
U. of Oklahoma Law Center Historical Documents
An incredible source of legal documents spanning the history of America, this page offers transcripts of everything from the Magna Carta to Clinton's second inaugural address. SEA members may wish to click right to the 17th Century section or the 18th Century section.
UVa Special Collections: E-Texts and Facsimiles
An extensive collection of original documents ranging from 19th-Century African American issues to dozens of letters from such notables as Jefferson, Washington, and Hamilton. Well worth a look.
Authors, Works, Projects (Colonial to 1800) Voice of the Shuttle
This link takes you directly to the "Colonial to 1800" section of the Voice of the Shuttle humanities home page. Features full text transcriptions of works by Brown, Edwards, Franklin, Paine, Wheatley, and Hammon. Just below it is the 19th-Century American Literature section of the Voice of the Shuttle page, featuring writers such as Hawthorne, Gilman, Crane, Thoreau, Jewett, Longfellow, Melville, Poe, and James to name a few.
Part of the National Archives and Records Administration web site, this page offers facsimiles (no transcriptions) of documents the NARA deems to be some of the most significant documents ever written in American history. These documents range from various treaties with Native Americans to the autopsy report of Abraham Lincoln.
Since the summer of 1996, this electronic journal has published articles
targeted at both scholars
and laymen about all facets of Early American life and politics in the 18th
Century. This page is
linked to the extensive Keigwin and
Mathews Collection of facsimiles of historical documents and an active
"Town
Crier" discussion group. An impressive site.
Early American
History--On-Line Forum
The "Town Crier" discussion group of the Early American
Review.
An active chat group that encourages participation from anybody with an
intelligent comment.
Institute of Early
American
History and Culture's Listserver Instructions
The Institute of Early American History and Culture, located at the College of William and Mary, maintains
no web page,
but instructions for getting involved with their conference board can be found
at this site.
The official journal of the Colonial
Williamsburg
Foundation, this journal offers full text articles from its web sites on all
aspects of Colonial life
and the activities of the Foundation.
Pictoral Archives of Early
American
Architecture
A misleading link name because this Library of Congress site has no actual
pictures. Instead, it offers information about its picture archive to those
thinking about doing
research on-site.
An amazing web site devoted to Native Americans, this page is devoted to over
56 scanned
images of Theodory DeBry's copper plate engravings of the "New World" natives.
Part of the India
ns of North America Home Page.
The National Museum of American
Art
Part of the Smithsonian, this
site offers a tour of one of the best museums of American art.
APVA Jamestown Recovery Project
This site chronicles the efforts of the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to recover Jamestown's lost
buildings. The page includes photos and a map of the dig site, on-line progress reports on the
dig, and a hypertext history of the
site.
A link to the Colonial
Williamsburg home page
that offers an impressive amount of information about life in the Virginia
Colony.
Columbus and
the Age of
Discovery
Extensive site devoted to the discussion of the 500th anniversary
of
Columbus's arrival in the
Western hemisphere. Originally a course page, the site has
extenextensive
links to Columbus sites (including the Discoverer's
Web Page and the Library
of Congress' 1492 Expo) as well as full text articles about
Columbus.
An extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's writings,
including most of
the Poor
Richard's texts.
This NEH sponsored site is devoted to the collection and
analysis of Lincoln's legal papers. In addition to tracking
the legal decisions Lincoln made, the site offers summaries
of each document they have found at the end of their
quarterly on-line newsletter.
An extensive collection of George Washington's papers, including many
facsimiles.
This site offers a history of Jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederacy. The site includes and extensive documents
section.
The Thomas
Paine National
Historical Association
This site offers transcriptions of most of the major works by Paine.
It also
offers a photo gallery
of his home and links to other Paine sites.
Early
American Industries Association
A society devoted to the study of home, shop, and farm industries in Early
America, this society
seeks to raise money to find and preserve tools and implements from the
past.
Lists an on-line
journal as a resource, but as of February 1997, this feature did
not work.
Part of the New York State Library, this project is devoted to
the
translation of documents
concerning the Dutch "New Netherlands" Colony and the study
of the Dutch
impact on America.
As of February 1997, the link to the documents section
was not working, but
could be a good
source in the future.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities
This group is devoted to locating and preserving
historical buildings and towns in Virginia. The
site contains links to records of their
archeological efforts across the state.
Catalogs of
American Antiquarian
Society
This Worcester, Massachusetts research group
is devoted to the preservation
of print media from
Early America through 1877 by collecting
printings of books, newspapers, and
dictionaries. The
group possesses copies of two-thirds
of all the works printed in America
between 1641 and 1821,
as well as many manuscripts.
The site has a non-functioning
search engine,
a catalogue of their
own publications, and a
moderately detailed
description of their
materials.
A good place to start
if you are looking for
original texts.
Virginia
Colonial Records
Project
Part of the Library
of
Virginia home page,
this site is a clearing house for copies of
Early Virginian documents. The
site acts as a giant
search engine for materials you can
inter-library loan on microfilm from the
Library of Virginia. A
little confusing at first, but
ultimately a potential gold mine for
researchers interested in Colonial
Virginia.
Colonial
Society of
Massachusetts
A Salem, Massachusetts's museum devoted
to art, history, and nature. Online
pictures and
information on maritime art,
Asian/Oceanic/African Art, American
Decorative
Arts, Early
American Architecture, 19th
Century and Contemporary Native
American art,
and more.
This site offers mostly travel information, but
it does provide an
interactive FAQ section on witch
trials and local history. There is also a
moderate sized essay on Roger
Conant and Salem.
Plimoth
Plantation:
Virtual
Tour
You can virtually visit Plimouth Plantation through
their photo layouts of
their reconstruction of
the 1627 village and Hobbomock's homesite. Some
pictures and an
advertisement for their
"Irreconcilable Differences" exhibit,
showcasing the struggle between
Colonial and Native
American Women.
Home page of one of the most extensive
historical reconstructions in the
United States, this photo
intensive site offers tourist
information; teachers'
resources; a
Colonial
dateline; a historical
glossary of names, places, and events in Colonial
Williamsburg; photos of
buildings or photos of
people;
and articles
from the Colonial
Williamsburg
Journal. Many of these features are cross linked in
this page.
Another Massachusetts reconstruction of a colonial Village,
this one focuses
on 1790-1840.
Offers an interactive tour site. Some photos.
This links page serves as a clearing house for a number of web
pages from American Studies departments across the country. A
good source for sample syllabi, student projects, etc.
Center for Electronic
Texts in the
Humanities
This cite is devoted to a discussion of the process of making
electronic texts from hard copy sources. A good resource for
those interested in how e-texts are made. It also has an
impressive Directory
of Electronic Text Centers, which offers links to libraries
with extensive e-text collections.
Center for History and
New Media
This site is devoted to exploring the role of computer based
technology on the teaching of history and American culture.
The site offers essays on the
role of technology, links to WWW
cites on history, lists and descriptions of new history CD-ROMs, and
software
reviews.
Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History
This slow loading page acts as a resource for teachers of
American history. The page invites teachers to submit
questions about subjects. The site itself offers links to
course resources on slavery.
This site is primarily an advertisement for the Du Pont
owned museum and library dealing with their restored Powder Mill
and Estate, their manuscript library,
and the Center for
the History of Business, Technology, and Society that
offers conferences and fellowships for historians.
India
n Pueblo Cultural Center
This site functions as the home page of the Pueblo Indians, offering links to
individual Pueblo communities as well as a images of Pueblo mural
s.
National Museum of the American
Indian
Part of the Smithsonian, this museum
site offers some photos and information about the Native American collection
and exhibitions. A newsletter on Native Americans, Runner, is also available.
The Sonneck Society for
American Music (American Music Network)
This scholarly group is devoted to studying American music in all of its
forms: classical, pop, folk, ethnic, etc. The page provides information on
publications, conferences, on-line discussion groups, contact lists for
individuals interested in specific types of music, as well as grant and
fellowship information.
The home page for the most comprehensive museum in America, this site offers
an incredible amount of information on nature, history, and America Cultures.
Sample their vast on-line photo
archive, their folk
life exhibit, their on-line encyclopedia, the
Smithsonian Institute Research Information Service (SIRIS), the on-line version of
Smithsonian Magazine,
as well as on-line peeks at the individual museums that make up the
Smithsonian.
An incredibly useful web database that allows anyone to search the
demographics of the United States between 1790 and 1860 by state, region, age,
profession, religion, gender, etc.
MLA-Style
Citations of Electronic Sources
A guide sheet on how to cite electronic resources from the WWW, CD-ROMs, FTPs,
and the like.
An on-line reference modeled after the MLA handbook prepared by the librarians
at Capital Community-Technical College.
National Archives and Records
Admin.
Home page of the National Archives, the record keeping arm of the U.S.
Government. Provides information on accessing documents that deal with all
three branches of government. Available on-line are records about the electorial
college, a gallery of exhibits about
American Culture, a genealogy
database, and instructions on how to gain access to government
records.
National Council of Teachers of
English
This site offers pedagogical advice to teacher of English, including lesson
plans, means of measuring "standards," recent publication information, and
links to similar pedagogy interest groups.
National Endowment for the
Humanities
This government agency is responsible for giving grants for research
and instruction in the humanities. This page provides links to web resources, museum
exhibitions,
and media
projects.
William
Andrews Clark
Memorial Library
Library Company of
Philadelphia
Library of Congress Prints
and
Photographs
Univers
ity of
Georgia Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
A good links page devoted to broad historical topics (like "The Civil War" or
"African American
History"). Provides access to Rutgers on-line catalog, as well as links to
electronic archives,
texts, journals, and other Internet services.
American
Literature Survey Site
American Studies Crossroads
Project
Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW
Resource
A NEH funded site that chronicles
many of the Supreme Court decisions as well as the history of the court and
its Justices.
Canadiana<
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Documenting
the African
American Experience
Electronic
Archives for the Teaching of American Literatures
From
Revolution to
Reconstruction
Guides to Museums and Cultural
Resources
H-net Resources/Links
by
Field
Heath
Anthology of American Literature Newsletter
History of
the
U.S.--Mississippi State U.
Hypertext Outline of U.S.
History--U.S.
Information Agency
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Literary Resources on
the Net--A General Guide
National Standards for
U.S.
History
Scholarly Journals
Distributed Via the
WWW
ERAM-L--Listserv sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists. See
subscription information on the SEA Home
Page
IEACHNET--Listserv
sponsored by the Institute of Early
American
History and Culture.
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The following sites existed at one time, but they have since gone into limbo.
Attempts to find these sites via a search engine failed. Any information
about these sites and their present URLs would be greatly appreciated. I can
be reached at
hwh2@lehigh.edu.
American Council of Learned
Societies
American Philosophical
Society
Announcements and Calendar of Events
Teaching Early American Topics
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Art, Architecture, and Lifestyles
Individual Writers/Historical
Figures
Libraries, Research Groups, and
Special
Interest
Societies
Museums and
Tourist Destinations (Lots of
Photos!)
General
Resources
Museums,
Institutes, Societies, and Centers
Museums,
Institutes, Societies, and
Centers
Center
for
Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies
Scholarly Organizations and Government
Agencies
Census Data for the
United States 1790-1860
General Libraries
Miscellaneous Resources
American and
British History Resources on the Internet
Listservs and Other Electronic Forums
Sites Missing In Action
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