Slavery and the Ratification of the Constitution

            University of Virginia hypertexts

including complete texts of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Lewis and Clark Journals, Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer, and The Federalist Papers

Early National U.S.                   

           Early American Imprints (Shaw-Shoemaker set), 1800-1819

          America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922

Antifederalist Texts

Independence Day Orations

A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825

          U.S. Congress documents and debates, 1774-1875

          The Papers of George Washington, 1744-1799

          James Madison Papers, Library of Congress

          Early Virginia Religious Petitions, 1774-1802

          Slaves and the Courts (in books and pamphlets), 1740-1860

MHS, The Case for Ending Slavery (many scanned documents, with questions and lesson plans)

          Making of America site, many primary sources in American social history

Age of Jefferson (primary sources on various topics clipped and sorted by Prof. Pasley)

Antebellum U.S.                   

            America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922

            U.S. Congress documents and debates, 1774-1875

           Slaves and the Courts (in books and pamphlets), 1740-1860

            Making of America site, many primary sources in American social history

History Web Publications

Common Place

           Do History (Martha Ballard diary)

            Valley of the Shadows (Shenandoah Valley, 1859-1870)

            Early Encounters in North America

Online and digital resources for early Americanists

                Currency and price conversion calculators (including John McCusker's How Much Is That?)

            A Women's Work is Never Done: American Antiquarian Society exhibition

Visual Resources

              Early American Paintings in Worcester Art Museum

            American Memory, early maps (Library of Congress)

Birch’s Views: contains almost all of Birch’s paintings and engravings of early national Philadelphia, with locator maps

 National Archives web site

             The Story of Christmas (American Antiquarian Society)

             National Museum of the American Indian

Databases

The Trans-Atlantic Database -- huge and wonderful!            

United States Historical Census Data Browser, with full searchable information for 1790-1960

The Virginia Runaways Project, a searchable database of eighteenth-century runaway ads

Slavery in Pennsylvania, with extensive data on slaves and slaveholders

A New Nation Votes.  A searchable collection of election returns 1787-1825, done by the AAS and Tufts University Digital Collections, with NEH funding.

Miscellaneous

            The Atlantic World Electronic Exploration home page

The Inflation Calculator, will work out the current value of colonial, revolutionary and early national items

 Common-Place, the Interactive Journal of Early American Life

Jefferson-Hemings DNA Testing, an Online resource on the website of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Northern Visions of Race, Region, and Reform in the Press and in the Letters of Freedmen, 1862-1868

 British Resources

            The British Library home page

            The Public Record Office web page

A comprehensive listing of resources for American and Canadian studies in Scottish university and research libraries

 Statistical Accounts of Scotland (incl. 1791-99)

Papers of Early Americans

            The Winthrop Papers home page

            George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress

            Robert "King" Carter of Virginia; diary, correspondence, and papers, 1701-1732

            The Papers of George Washington, including primary sources and secondary works

            Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress

Excerpts from slave narratives, including ten from the revolutionary and early national eras         

 Online Archive of Works of Thomas Paine

Miscellaneous Primary Sources

            The Culture of Tobacco: NYPL site containing many primary sources

            Colonial, revolutionary and early national primary sources

 The American Revolution: National Discussion of Our Revolutionary Origins. Contains excellent secondary and primary materials, with full use of multimedia

Eighteenth Century Documents on the web site of the Avalon Project (Yale), including many political, constitutional and diplomatic sources

 A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional documents and databases, 1774-1873

 The Constitution Community, at the National Archives site, contains many primary sources

Native American Organizations and Publications

            Canadian aboriginal digital collections

            Indian Country Today

            Iroquois links

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs

Historians' Websites/Blogs

          J.L. Bell ("Boston 1775")

          William Cronon ("Scholar as Citizen")

  Ann Little ("Historiann")

Jeff Pasley ("The Early American Republic Plugged In")

Claire Potter ("Tenured Radical")

C. Vann Winchell

Jewish Organizations

            Hillel National

            Hillel at Truman State University

            Hillel's "Small and Mighty" Soref Program

            Congregation Beth Shalom, Columbia

            St. Louis Jewish Federation

            Kansas City Jewish Federation

            Beth El, Sudbury

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