Internet References for:TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume1: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction, 15e
Internet References for:
TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume1: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction
Fifteenth Edition
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UNIT 1: COLONIAL SOCIETY
The Columbus Navigation Homepage
This noted site by Keith A. Pickering examines the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus. Click on “Links to other sites about Columbus andhis times” to find dozens of sites on Columbus, including scholarly papers on
Columbus’s treatment of the American Indians.
Virtual Jamestown
This site includes a digital archive of primary sources along with a re-creation of
early European settlements.
Virginia’s Indians, Past and Present
Drawn from collections at JamesMadisonUniversity, under the InternetSchool
LibraryMediaCenter, this site provides links to historical information, lesson
plans, and bibliographies as well as links to tribal home pages.
American Women’s History: A Research Guide:Colonial America
This site at MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity includes valuable links to both
archival and digital primary source collections in addition to lists of important
bibliographical sources.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
This collection at the University of Virginia provides access to documents and
links to archives relating to the Salem witchcraft trials.
The First Great Awakening
This site is maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities and
includes teacher lesson plans and links to important primary resources related
to this event.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Sponsored by EmoryUniversity, this website contains access to information on
some 37,000 ships that sailed to the Americas with human cargo from Africa.
The site includes maps, timelines, and databases.
UNIT 2: REVOLUTION AND THE NEW NATION
The American Revolution: A Documentary History
This is an online collection of the most significant Revolutionary era documents
overseen by The Avalon Project at YaleLawSchool.
The Constitution of the United States
Sponsored by the national Archives and Records Administration, this site
presents a wealth of information on the U.S. Constitution. From here you can
link to the biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention,
take an in-depth look at the convention and the ratification process, and read
a transcription of the complete text of the Constitution, including high-resolution
images of each page of the document.
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America
Sponsored by the New York Historical Society, this site includes a virtual tour of
the Hamilton traveling exhibition and links to documents and databases relating
to Hamilton.
Indian Removal Act
This Library of Congress Web site includes links to government documents,
maps, contemporary periodicals, as well as links to external Web sites concerning this event.
UNIT 3: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
Birth of a Nation & Antebellum America
This site, maintained by Mike Madin, provides links to a wide assortment of topics from the early national and antebellum eras.
Reform and Reformers in the Antebellum Era
This page from the GeorgeMasonUniversity website includes a summary essay
by Professor Nancy Hewitt and links to six primary documents, each relating to
a different reform initiative of the period.
The Descendents of Mexican War Veterans
An excellent source for the history of the Mexican-American War (1846–1848),
which includes images, primary documents, and maps.
John Brown’s Holy War
This site was developed to complement the Public Broadcasting System’s program on John Brown. It includes interactive maps, information on many of Brown’sabolitionist acquaintances, links to virtual tours of the farmhouse where Brownand his followers gathered prior to the Harpers Ferry raid, as well as the transcriptof the video itself.
UNIT 4: CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION
AmericanCivilWar.com
The goal of this site is to provide a comprehensive source of Civil War information from the public domain or works published with the authors’ permission. The sourcesare directed at students and Civil War buffs of all ages.
The Valley of the Shadow Project
Developed under the direction of Edward Ayers and his graduate students at
the University of Virginia, this site includes digital archives of thousands of primary source materials related to life in the Civil War era communities in AugustaCounty, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Abraham Lincoln Online
Dedicated to the 16th president of the United States, this site offers educational
links, Lincoln’s speeches and writings, information on historic places, and much
more.
Images of Battle
Drawing from the manuscript collections at the University of North Carolina, this
site contains an excellent collection of Civil War letters.
Reconstruction Era Documents
This page includes links to various Reconstruction era documents by such
authors as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois.
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Freedmen’s Bureau Online
This site provides access to an excellent collection of materials related to this
fascinating aspect of the Reconstruction era with links to individual states.
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