Colonial American History Articles and Resources

Colonial American Biographies 

• Brief Biography: John Rolfe 
• Brief Biography: Pocahontas
• Brief Biography: Powhatan
• Brief Biography: Opechancanough
• Brief Biography: John Cotton (1585-1652)
• Brief Biography: Richard Mather (1586-1668)
• Brief Biography: Increase Mather (1639-1723)
• Brief Biography: Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
• Brief Biography: John Winthorp
• Brief Biography: William Brewster
• Brief Biography: William Bradford 
• Brief Biography: Anne Hutchinson
• Brief Biography: Sir Henry Morgan
• Brief Biography: Roger Williams 
• Edmund Andros
• Sir Edmund Andros (1637–ca. 1714) Brief Biography with Timeline
• Sir William Penn 
• Admiral William Penn
• Brief Biography: Charles II 
• Brief Biography: James II 
• Brief Biography: Edmund Andros 
• Brief Biography: King William III (of Orange)
• Brief Biography: Queen Mary II (Stuart)
• Brief Biography of William Bradford
• Brief Biography of William Brewster
• Brief Biography of John Winthorp
• Brief Biography of John Robinson
• Brief Biography of John Smith
• Brief Biography James I (and VI)
• Brief Biography Charles I
• Brief Biography Oliver Cromwell 
• Brief Biography Charles II
• Brief Biography James II 
• Brief Biography King Louis XIV of France
• Brief Biography of William III of Orange
• Brief Biography of Mary II of Orange 
• Brief Biography of Queen Anne of Great Britain
• Increase Mather Brief Biography
• Brief Biography: John Forbes
• Brief Biography: James Wolfe
• Brief Biography: Jeffery Amherst
• Brief Biography: James Fenimore Cooper
• Brief Biography: King George III 
• Brief Biography: José de Galvez
• Brief Biography: Teodoro de Croix
• Brief Biography: Bernardo de Galvez
• Brief Biography: Juan Bautista de Anza
• Brief Biography: Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye
• Brief Biography: James Wright (1716-1785) – New Georgia Encyclopedia

Articles About Colonial America

• The Age of Exploration – Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• The Roanoke Colonies – Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 
• The Puritans
• The Foundations of Colonial American Slave Law – Yale Law School
• Navigation Acts (1651, 1660)
• The Dominion of New England
• Who was Lord Cornbury
• Three Concepts in Atlantic History
• Atlantic History and Interdisciplinary Approaches Alison Games
• The Lenni Lenape Tribal History
• The Peace of Breda (1667) 
• A Brief History of New Sweden in America
• Chronology of Colonial Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1713
• The Anglo-Dutch Wars
• What was the Dominion of New England
• The League of Augsburg
• The War of the League of Augsburg or often called the Nine Years War or War of the Grand Alliance or King Williams War in British North America
• War or the Spanish Succession or Queen Anne’s War in British North America
• The Acts of Union 1707
• Acts of Union: The creation of the United Kingdom
• Known Executed Victims of the Salem Witch Trials
• British Colonial Trade Regulations, 1651-1764
• The Yamasee War 
• Battle of Wyoming (1778)
• Approximate Location of the Wyoming Valley Pennsylvania
• King George’s War
• The Ohio River Valley Map 
• The Treaty of Paris, 1763
• What Was the New England Confederation? 
• The Indian Captivity Narrative Radford University
• The Story of Hannah Duston: Cotton Mather to Thoreau 
• Conrad Weiser – Explore Pennsylvania History 
• William Penn and the Indians  – University of Virginia 
• Creating an Image of Peace  – State Museum of of Pennsylvania
• Article: Classification of Native Languages of the Great Plains
• Article: Hudson’s Bay Company
• The Nauset (Cape Cod) Algonquian Native Americans 
• The Chickahominy (James River) Algonquian Native Americans
• The Narraganset Algonquian Native Americans
• The Roanoke Voyages – NPS
• Wampanoag People

Colonial American Bibliographies

• Selected Secondary Bibliography on Captivity Narratives 
• Oxford Bibliography of Captivity Narratives 

Colonial American Maps

• Teacher Resource: Map of the Atlantic World 
• Map of the Atlantic World 
• Slave Voyages Map Collection – The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Collection
• Native American Regions approximately during King Phillip’s War 
• Map: Eastern Canadian / North Eastern British Native Regions
• Map: Red River
• Map: Arkansas River
• Map: Platte River
• Map: Missouri River
• Map: Chickahominy River
• Map: James River
• Map: Rappahannock River
• Map: York River
• Map: Potomac River
• Map: Hudson (and Mohawk) River
• Map: The Great Lakes
• Map: The Saint Lawrence River
• Map of the New York tribes before European arrival
• Map: Lake Champlain and connecting rivers

Historical Societies and Associations

• The Jamestown Historical Society 
• The Hakluyt Society 
• The Mather Project 

Colonial American History Collections and Archives

• Coming Soon

 

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