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The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century.

Osgood, Herbert L.,  New York: Columbia University Press, 1904-07.



Plymouth Colony Archive Project

A collection of searchable texts, including court records, colony laws, seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills. Other topics covered include house construction , women, domestic violence, and servants and masters. Additionally, there are images of the material culture, maps, a walking tour, links, and many illustrations and photographs from The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims by Albert Christopher Addison, 1911. From the University of Virginia.



A full-text collection of scholarly books and articles published before 1923 relating to U.S. colonial history. Subjects include administration, African Americans and slavery, arts, British colonial policy, economics and trade, law, libraries, immigration from Europe, Native Americans, politics, religion, and wars. Browseable by subject and author.



 

An "electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem [Massachusetts] witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records." Contains an overview essay about the trials, court records, maps, profiles of notable people, and links to related archives. Also includes full text works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman]. From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.


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