Colonial Life in America


Print Resources

Print sources are physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.

  • Most print resources on Colonial America will be located in 973.3, but you should check Destiny Discover Online Catalog for books in other locations.

  • Destiny Discover Collections: Colonial America -- coming soon!

eBooks on Colonial America

Click on the image above to view the Colonial America Reference Library and to search for topics; you may also click below for specific topics:

Almanac V.2 -- scroll down a bit to click on any of the topics like Community Life, Family Life, Religion, etc.

Government and Law (scroll WAY down to get to the part about the English colonies' forms of government

Databases

Databases are online collections of information from journals, magazines, books and other sources authored by subject-area experts. Materials found in a database are invisible to a search engine such as Google.

For home access to Student Resources in Context or World Book Encyclopedia, log into your D118 Google account and view the following document for passwords: MMS Database Passwords for Home Use. You will need these passwords to access the following articles:

Click on the image above to search for topics or click below to directly to Colonial America articles.


Websites

When using information from websites or looking for new ones to use in assignments, make sure you can answer "yes" to the following three things:

1) Readable -- Do I understand what I am reading?

2) Reliable -- Is the site safe, authoritative,and accurate ? Did an expert person or organization write the information? How do I know?

3) Relevant -- Is the source on topic, focused and useful?

The following websites are readable, reliable and relevant.