Early American Resources

Projects and Societies:

Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life

The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, ed. Robin DeRosa

The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, ed. Timothy Robbins

The classic humanities research site Voice of the Shuttle

The PBS Africans in the Americas project

CUNY and George Mason History Matters, a US survey course

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On Line

The American Studies Crossroads Project

American Passages: A Literary Survey

The Society of Early Americanists


Primary Texts, Images and Newspapers:

The Cornell Making of America project

UNC's Documenting the American South project

UVA's American Studies project

The American Studies Crossroads Project

The Early Americas Digital Archive

The University of Virginia E-Text Archive

The UVA Early American Fiction, 1789-1850

The UVA Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

The UVA Alexander Hamilton Digital Archive

The UVA Plymouth Colony Archive Project

The UVA Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

Yale Law School's Avalon Project

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Virginia Gazette, 1736-1777

The Library of Congress' immense American Memory Project

Edward J. Gallagher's Pocahontas Archive

Rick Gardiner's American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents

The Penn Library's Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas exhibit

The Library of Congress African-American Mosaic Resource Guide

The New York Public Library's NYPL Digital gallery of books and images from their special collections


Art, Maps and Other Images:

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

American Historical Images on File The Native American Experience

The National Portrait Gallery

The National Gallery of Art

The Worcester Art Museum's Early American Paintings

UC Berkeley Bancroft Library's Images of Native Americans


Map Collections:

Univ. of Georgia Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection

The Yale Maps Collection

The UT-Austin Perry-Casteneda Map Collection


Indexes:

Keele University's American Studies Page

Paul Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide

Akihito Ishikawa's compilation of American Literature Sites

Jack Lynch's Eighteenth Century Resources

Troy Johnson's American Indian History and Related Issues