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United States History, 1490--1864, Dr. Miguda

Colonial Settlement

Library of Congress:  Colonial Settlement, 1600s--1763

Digital Public Library of America:   A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto by Hen. Popple ; W.H. Toms sculp. (1733)

New York Public Library Digital Collections:  Nieu Amsterdam at[que] New York (1673--Artwork of white settler holding up beaver to a Native American woman) 

Religious Movements in Early America

The Great Awakening

Anchor Digital Textbook:  Primary Source: Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening

Project Gutenberg:  Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Puritans, Quakers, and Other Protestants in Early America

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:  John Winthrop to Nathaniel Rich (1634)--letter

University of Texas at Austin:  John Winthrop:  "A Modell of Christian Charity"

HathiTrust:  Cotton Mather: Diary

Quaker Heritage Press, Margaret Fell on "Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus" (ca. 1666 or 1667)

Quaker Heritage Press, George Fox on "Some Principles of the Elect People of God called Quakers" (1661; not printed in Fox's collected works)

 

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project, University of Virginia:  Map of Salem Village, 1692  (Click on map thumbnail to enlarge.)

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project, University of Virginia:  The Salem Witchcraft Papers:  Verbatim Transcription of the Court Records

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project, University of Virginia: Recantation of Mary Osgood, as Reported by Rev. Increase Mather)

Insurrection (Slave Uprisings)

National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690--1763:  Two Views of the Stono Rebellion: "An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina" & "A Family Account of the Stono Uprising"

City University of New York (CUNY): Letters of 1712 Slave Revolt (transcription)