[Detail] Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams
Historical context and ideas for integrating individual digital collections of primary sources into instruction.
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "colonies" to locate examples of early settlement ephemera.
- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (Summary Only) Search this collection using the term "colonies".
- The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925 (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection includes documents on the founding of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
- France in America (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collaborative digital library explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (Summary and Teaching Resources) The collection can be used to explore the history of colonial America.
- The James Madison Papers, 1723-1836 (Summary and Teaching Resources) Documents in this collection date back to the early 1700s.
- Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase (Summary Only) This collection features 119 documents—from maps to newspapers to cultural artifacts - related to the inclusion of Louisiana into the nation.
- Map Collections (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "colonies" or the name of a specific colony.
- The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (Summary and Teaching Resources) Search this collection using the term "colonies" for an interesting collection of articles relating to the early settlement of America.
- Rochambeau Map Collection (Summary only) The maps in this collection cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795.
- Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection is comprised on an assortment of trials, cases, decisions, proceedings and other works of historical importance related to the experiences of the African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress (Summary and Teaching Resources) Many items in this collection date back to the early 1600s.
