North American History

Links

• American Centuries Museum Collection Online Exhibit
• online from New England
• American Journeys
• "Digitized texts and images charting eyewitness experience and accounts of exploration in North America, from the Vikings to the pioneers."
• The American Language Reprint Series
• Evolution Publishing
• The Annals of Colonial North America Series
• Evolution Publishing
• Anthropology Collection Database
• American Museum of Natural History
• "Over 200,000 objects from North American, Mexican & Central American, South American, African, Asian, and Pacific Ethnographic Collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online. (American Museum of Natural History)"
• Cave/Rock Art Post
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• "Enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search view, clip, and save newspaper pages from 1836 through 1922, as well as find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present."
• Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• The Darlington Digital Library
• Maps of New Holland
• Comitatus Hollandiae tabula pluribus.....1680
• Noordt Hollandt, 1680
• Tabulae dominii Groeningae... 1680
• Novissima Delflandiae, Schielandiae et...1680
• Rhenolandia, Amstelandia et circumiacentia...1684
• Hollandiae pars meridionalior, 1684
• DoHistory Online Exhibit
• Martha Ballard
• Eastern Woodlands Research Post
• Explore Thomas Cole Online Exhibit
• Exploring the Past: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
• "The result of an NEH-funded Summer Institute for School Teachers at the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, this site displays a rich array of humanities and STEM teacher-created lesson plans and teacher development materials from the elementary through the high school level covering archaeology, anthropology, biology, botany, geology, mathematics, and more."
• Head Start on Picturing America
• "Developed in partnership with NEH to assist Head Start staff and parents share the world of art with children. Picturing America offers opportunities to address children’s school readiness, family literacy and parent involvement goals. The website includes a downloadable resource guide, creative activities, and a video of one Head Start program’s experience hosting an event designed to explore art and history in a fun, family-oriented way."
• Historic St. Augustine
• University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
• "contains primary source material including historic interpretation notes, architectural sketches, drawings, archaeological field reports, maps and photographs related to properties in the historic district."
• Historica Canada
• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
• "Designed for teachers of U.S. History Survey courses at high schools and colleges around the world, History Matters provides an excellent starting point for exploring American history on the Web. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. It emphasizes materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and involves students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."
• Hudson's Bay Company Archives
• Learning from London Town Online Exhibit
• 18th century (London, Maryland)
• The Lost Museum
• "the site attempts to convey the social, cultural, and political history of antebellum and Civil War America, emphasizing issues of race, gender, reform, immigration, sectionalism, and popular culture."
• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Mission US: An Interactive Way to Learn History
• "Developed for use in middle and high school classrooms, Mission US engages students in the study of transformational moments in American history. Each mission consists of an interactive game and a set of curriculum materials that are aligned to National Standards and feature document-based activities. "
• Native America at the Crossroads Online Exhibit
• Ball State University
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections
• T'Fort Nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans
• 1651 Engraving, Kyrn Frederycks
• Newark Earthworks Center Blog
• North American Archaeologist Journal
• published quarterly
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail
• National Park Service
• Smithsonian
• Society for American Archaeology
• Space, Astronomy, Celestial Events, Time Post
• United States History Age of Exploration to the Present
• Digital History Reader
• "An online learning experience designed to help students develop the analytical skills employed by historians. It presents key events in U.S. and European history in the format of self-contained modules. Students learn by exploring data, evaluating conflicting accounts or interpretations, and developing conclusions based on the evidence."
• War of 1812
• "Includes short scholarly essays on the American, British, Canadian & Native American perspectives on the war, the role of black sailors and soldiers, diplomatic maneuvers, James Madison’s leadership, and the military campaigns. Multiple lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school levels."
• The War That Made America
• "tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout the colonies, into Canada, and ultimately around the world. it is narrated and hosted by Graham Greene, the Academy-Award nominated actor for Dances With Wolves and an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in this war."

Videos

• Drums Along the Scioto: losing our marbles but gaining new insights on Hopewell material culture from contemporary Shawnee ceremonial practices"
• Second Chief of the Shawnee Tribe Ben Barnes, and Dr. Bradley Lepper
• Mathers Museum of World Cultures Classroom April 2017.
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Picturing America On Screen
• "an NEH-funded documentary film project produced by Channel 13, WNET, New York. A group of 25 films created by 9 talented directors presents a sampling of Picturing America ranging from ancient Anasazi pottery to the sculpture of Martin Puryear."
• The War of 1812
• PBS, 2011.

Articles

• See under DropMark Notebook (Link Above)
• Title
• Publication, 0000.

Books

Bold indicates books out of print.

Italicized indicates online/downloadable copy.

• American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
• Archaeological Investigations
• Gerard Fowke, Project Gutenberg
• horse mounds
• The Cultivation and Weaving of Cotton in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
• Kate Peck Kent, 1957
• The Development of Embroidery in America
• Candace Wheeler, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921.
• A Study of the Textile Art in its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament
• William H. Holmes, 1888.