Using the Internet to locate good primary sources for Colonial history

First, we are going to look at this site about using primary sources together:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/pshome.html

Questions for using primary sources on the web

This site has a broader range of analysis of sources on it:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

A good site about using evidence

Next, we are going to split up and look for primary documents, particularly conflicting evidence, to help build a unit on colonization. The following sites are those I have found useful or promising:

Plimouth plantation

http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/

Do History- The Diary of Martha Ballard

http://dohistory.org/

Deerfield Raid

http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/

Religion in 18^th Century America

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen.htm

Colonial America overview

http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial

Library of Congress online exhibit about religion

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/overview.html

Virtual Jamestown

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/

Jamestown death site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_jamestown/index.html

Plimouth plantation – first thanksgiving

http://www.plimoth.org/OLC/index_js2.html

Williamsburg

http://www.history.org/history/

Salem Witch Trials

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Columbian Exchange

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbian.htm and

http://daphne.palomar.edu/scrout/colexc.htm

(The former is an essay, the latter is about the food and ideas that were exchanged)

and

http://www.mnh.si.edu/archives/garden/history/

(This one is about foods and crops)