History - The Naming of America. HIST 103: History of the United States I - Download free content from Harrisburg Area Community College. Lecture 1 - Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution. America's Founding - Download free content from New-York Historical Society. Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights. Background and introduction to the United States Declaration of Independence | US Declaration of Independence. Federalist Papers: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) Primary Source Documents. For this entry, the previous subject matter was "Original Dictionaries of the 16th & 17th Centuries" and was linked to excellent work done at the University of Toronto.
Time has marched on, links disappear. The works have matured and expanded. Our original list was--; Lion (Lyon) Gardiner's legacy--; Diary of Lion Gardiner (1635) The Gardiner Family of Long Island - genealogy (1635) GARDINER, Lion -- American engineer (1635) The Constitution of Plymouth Colony (1636) The Salem Covenant (1636) The Dedham Covenant (1636) Winthrop's Testimony (1636), the Boston Governor's account of his Christian experience. SNAPSHOT OF EARLIEST AMERICAN COURT RECORDS, including information about crimes and punishments--; The Pynchon Court Record , and earliest Springfield Court records, 11 Jan 1640/41 Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641) Early written expression of the liberties asserted by the colonists in reaction to the oppressions of European governments.
Areopagitica , John Milton (1644). Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860. The Library of Congress Law Library of Congress,Rare Book and Special Collections Divisionand General Collections of the Library of Congress Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain. The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past.
Special Presentation: Slave Code for the District of Columbia American Memory | Search All Collections | Collection Finder | Teachers. Claudio Saunt, “West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776″ (W.W. Norton, 2014) Claudio Saunt View on Amazon Few years in U.S. history call to mind such immediate stock images as 1776. Powdered wigs. Founding fathers. Red coats. And if asked to place this assembly of objects and people, a few cities stand out: Boston. Philadelphia. This is the small world conjured by the Revolutionary era; the remainder of the continent, some 96% percent of the landmass exclusive of the original thirteen colonies that called themselves Continental, conceived of as a blank slate, awaiting inevitable expansion.
Claudio Saunt wants to change this. Richard B. By illustrating complicated webs of trade and exchange, competing empires and diverse Indigenous responses, Saunt makes the case that the stories of people like the Aleuts in the Aleutian archipelago, Miwoks and Costanoans of northern California, Creek Indians of the Deep South and numerous others deserve our historical attention as fully and richly as musket-bearing minutemen. 19th Century American Culture - 1800-1810 - LSC-Kingwood Library. Early 19th century American furniture included Sheraton and Directoire styles, classical yet simple. Duncan Phyfe of NYC turned out fine examples of furniture. The broad name for American furniture of these styles was Federal. This furniture is extremely valuable today. During this decade Paul Revere continued to create silver and, in 1804, he created a coppermill - and crafted his beautiful church bells! American artists would have come to a sad end if it had not been for the commissions of the wealthy.
There was widespread demand for portraiture. Gilbert Stuart was one of the most successful and prolific of the portrait artists. At the beginning of the century, America was overwhelmingly rural, importing many needed items from Europe. Settings for factories and the resulting industrialization was the start of major U.S. economic development. In 1803 the Louisiana Territory was purchased from France for $15 million dollars. Great Collection of 19th Century Literature. Eagle Map: 1833 map of the United States with eagle superimposed. The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The “Eagle Map of the United States, Engraved for Rudiments of National Knowledge” first appeared in an 1833 atlas published by E.L. Carey and A. Hart of Philadelphia. At nearly 400 pages, the atlas, titled Rudiments of National Knowledge, Presented to the Youth of the United States, and to Enquiring Foreigners, was meant to fill a void in educational texts about American history and geography.
The idea to superimpose an eagle over a map of the United States came to mapmaker Joseph Churchman thanks to a coincidence of shadows and light that momentarily tricked his eye into seeing the bird on the page. Churchman had a pedagogical goal: he wanted to provide a study aid to help young students learn the borders of the states within their union. Churchman’s second motive was to promote unity and discourage secession. American Revolution.
Colonial Unity. The Battle of Bunker Hill. AWI: Events (1776-83) AWI Causes (1-3) (1763-69) AWI Causes (4) (1770-76) AWI Causes (5-6) ("Players" & historiography) French & Indian Wars, 1754-63. The War That Made America. First State Constitutions. First Continental Congress 1774. Second Continental Congress 1775. American Revolution.