American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement:
http://www.americanjourneys.org
Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Website includes sections on ethnicity and Native American, as well as the ability to search by tribe.
Smithsonian Source for Teaching American History, Center for Education and Museum Studies:
http://www.smithsoniansource.org
This site contains collections of primary documents that are both key word searchable and organized by thematic content including: civil rights, colonial America, invention, Native American history, transportation, and westward expansion.
Pocahontas Revealed--Archeologists Discover the Reality Behind a Great American Myth:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/
A PBS documentary and associated materials and lesson plans helps teachers and students become history detectives with this episode Scientific Frontiers. The PBS show explores what really happened to the Jamestown settlers by examining documents, legends, artifacts, and oral histories.
Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations:
http://earlytreaties.unl.edu
The texts of the nine treaties, created between the years 1722 and 1805, are offered. These are the product of seven early treaty events between a number of American Indian Nations, the British, and the United States.
“Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704,” Deerfield Village On-Line Exhibition:
http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/
On February 29, 1704, a force of about 300 French and Native allies launched a raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. 112 Deerfield men, women, and children were captured and taken on a 300-mile forced march in harsh winter conditions. Some captives were later redeemed and returned to Deerfield, but one-third chose to remain among their French and Native captors. This interactive exhibition explores the different interpretations of this event.
“Heading West: Mapping the Territory,” New York Public Library On-Line Exhibition:
http://www.nypl.org/west/hw_subhome.shtml
This exhibition reveals the evolution on paper from an imagined West to a mapped West. Land in the West was, of course, not uninhabited. Native Americans had occupied the continent for centuries and the earliest maps in this exhibition provide a valuable record of groups no longer extant as well as revealing the patterns of displacement.
“The First American West: the Ohio River Valley 1750-1820,” Library of Congress On-Line Exhibition:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html
This exhibition contains 15,000 pages of original historical materials documenting the land, people, exploration and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West, selected from the collections of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. |
