Links

Library Catalogues

        Truman library

        Other libraries, including WorldCat

        LibCat

JSTORE

Turn It In

Historians’ Organizations

             Institute for Early American History and Culture

             Society for Historians of the Early Republic

            American Society for Ethnohistory

            Organization of American Historians

            American Historical Association

            McNeil Center for Early American Studies

            Phi Alpha Theta

Research Libraries and Centers

            American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

                         AAS catalogue

            Library Company of Philadelphia

                        Wolfpac (LCP's catalogue)

            Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

            Newberry Library, Chicago

                        Newberry catalogue

            Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

                        MHS online catalogue

            Connecticut Historical Society

                        Connecticut History Online  (images and other resources)

                        CHS online catalogue

            Rhode Island Historical Society

                        Rhode Island research links

            Massachusetts State Archives

            Connecticut State Archives

            Rhode Island State Archives

            Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Library

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

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

            The Geography of Slavery in Virginia, with searchable database of 18th-century runaway slave ads from Virginia newspapers

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

            A Women's Work is Never Done: AmericanAntiquarian Society exhibition

           The Founders' Constitution: extensive primary resources

               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

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

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)

Databases

             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

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

            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

Other Professors

            Daniel Richter, U. of Pennsylvania

            Jeff Pasley, U. of Missouri

            Emerson Baker, Salem State University

Environmental Organizations

            Sierra Club

Cycling Organizations and Information

            VeloNews

            Cycling News

 

 

 

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