Colonial America Links
The following links are meant as a starting point for your internet research. Many of these are comprehensive sites with lists of links to other relevant sites. However the quality and utility of each site is not guaranteed, and it is imperative that you read some of the materials from the "How to evaluate websites" links linked here. Your final paper's research will be judged for, amongst other things, the quality of material that you use. Simply because something is on the internet does not necessarily make it accurate and you must weigh the utility and validity of any internet sources just as you would any other source. Remember that any eight year old with access to the internet and webpage processing software can (and probably already has) put on a site about Colonial America.
Colonial
America History
A good starting point for finding related sites, hosted by the University of
Colorado.
Eighteenth
Century Resources
A good site from Rutgers which links both American and British sources from the
18th century.
13
Originals
Limited materials relating to each of the original thirteen colonies.
Colonial
Currency and Exchange Rates
This information might prove useful depending on the nature of your topic.
The
Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
This is a very extensive site, part of the excellent Famous American Trials
series.
Documents
for the Study of American History
An extensive set of documents from the fifteenth century to the present, hosted
by the University of Kansas.
Fire
and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
Links to important religious documents and writings. Quite extensive.
A
Hypertext on American History
Documents from first contact to the modern period.
The
American Colonist's Library
Extensive primary documents from first contact to the American Revolution.
U.S.
Historical Document Archive
A variety of primary colonial documents available here.
The
Puritans: American Literature to ~1700
Links to primary materials and secondary interpretations of the writings of
key individuals of the period.
The
Avalon Project: pre-eighteenth century documents
Not all the documents are related to colonial America, but it does contain a
good selection of relevant documents. An excellent site from the Yale
University Law School.
The
Avalon Project: eighteenth century documents
An excellent collection of 18th century documents
....to be continued