Dear HISTARCH Subscribers: this was forwarded to me, and I thought
it might be of interest.
Cheers,
Mary Beaudry, visitor
Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory
University of Sheffield
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From: Anderson S
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To: essex-history <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: American sources via the Web
Reply-to: Anderson S <[log in to unmask]>
From: George Welling <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: source material on US-history on WWW
With help from all over the world my students and I have prepared a number of
sources on US-history in HTML-format. This is the end of our trimester, so
this group of students will probably contribute no more. But they have done a
terrific job. Next trimester a new group of students will continue this work
so the number of source will be growing.
This is what is available by now:
1. Magna Carta
2. Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
3. Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of western planting, 1584
4. From: Samuel de Champlain, Voyages , 1604
5. Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
6. The First Virginia Charter, 1606
7. The Second Virginia Charter, 1609
8. The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
9. Mayflower Compact, 1620
10. An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England
for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
11. Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
12. The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
13. Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune indentured Servants
14. Benjamin Franklin, How I became a printer in Philadelphia
from his autobiography
15. Petition of Right, 1628
16. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
17. Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
18. Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
19. Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
20. Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That
Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
21. Penn's Plan for a Union, 1697
22. King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French
Question, 31 December 1701
23. The North Carolina Biennal Act, 1715
24. Governor Gabriel Johnston's request to repeal the Biennal act, 18
October 1736
25. Disposition of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737
26. Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary,
11 September 1728
27. Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the governor's salary, 17
September 1728
28. French Memoir on the English Aggression, October 1750
(translated)
29. Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in
North America, December 1750
30. Petition to Parliament: Reasons Offered Against Encouraging
Making Iron In America, ca. 1750
31. Albany Plan for a Union, 1754
32. Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between
France, Spain, and England, 1761
33. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
34. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765
35. The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
36. William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766
37. Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
38. Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770
39. John Dickenson's Letters 2 and 4, from Letters from a Farmer,
1767-1768
40. The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775
41. Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775
42. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
43. Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
44. Second Continental Congrees, Declaration of the Causes and
Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775
45. Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776
46. Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated,
1776
47. Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776
48. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
49. Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
50. The Final Text of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776
51. Jefferson's notes on Slavery
52. Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations, 1776
+ Of Colonies
+ The Cost of Empire
53. Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge,
1777
54. Draft for a Bill for Establishing Relgious Freedom, by Jefferson
1779
55. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1780-1783
56. The Articles of Confederation, 1781
57. From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781 describing the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown
58. James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785
59. The Annapolis Convention, 1786
60. The Federalist Papers
61. The USA Constitution
62. The letter presenting the Constitution
63. Madison speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
64. Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution
65. Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793
66. The Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795
67. Washington's Farewell address, 1796
68. John Adams inaugural address, 1797
69. The Northwest Ordinance
70. Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address
71. Excerpt from : Frederick Law Olmsted: A journey in the Seaboard
Slave States, 1856
72. The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
73. William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo,
1836
74. selections come from Benjamin Drew (ed.), The Refugee: Narratives
of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves
75. From the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
76. Lincoln's first Inaugural address
77. The Gettysburg Address
78. John Hay to Andrew D. White, FIRST OPEN DOOR NOTE , September 6
1899
The direct URL is : http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/othertexts.html
if you want to have a look at the whole project:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
Feel free to use these texts for other projects. If you would like to
contribute texts (preferably in ascii-format or html), please contact me.
If you would like to have the ascii-version of the texts without the
html-markup just mail the texts to yourself from within you WWW-browser.
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