HHS 125B Links
Fall 2011

GENERAL

Online "StudySpace" for Inventing America
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/inventing2/index.htm

Textbook at ushistory.org
http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp

American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

History Engine
http://historyengine.richmond.edu/

Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp

Investigating U.S. History
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/

Early Americas Digital Archive
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/index.php

Civil War Resources
http://blog.historians.org/resources/785/civil-war-resources

University of South Florida Maps ETC (see United States -> Growth of a Nation)
http://etc.usf.edu/Maps/

 

 

FROM CLASS


9/13 Slavery Links

Peopling North America
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/Fhome.html

Atlantic Slave Trade: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

Africans in America (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
http://www.inmotionaame.org/

Data on Slave Movement in 18th and 19th Centuries
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html

Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html

Slavery in American (via American Historical Association)
http://blog.historians.org/resources/887/slavery-in-america--online-resources

 

9/20 Settlement and Slavery

Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/20/

Colonial Slave Codes
http://www.understandingrace.org/history/gov/colonial_authority.html

Geography of Slavery in Virginia
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/index.html

Slave Society in 18th C Virginia
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/m1.html

 

10/4 Documents of the Revolution

Reading response due 10/4: send a 1-page (250 word) response to me that is based on any primary source document that you find at any one of these four websites. Note: if you choose to write about the Declaration of Independence it had better be good! In other words, write something original and use this assignment as an opportunity to explore the documents of the Revolution in greater depth.

Documents from the Continental Congress and Continental Convention
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/

Documents at the Avalon Project, Yale Law School
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/amerrev.asp

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www2.si.umich.edu/spies/

Declaration of Independence "original Rough draught"
http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html


For more background on the Revolutionary War, see:

Liberty! The American Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

The American Revolution on H-Net
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/