Last Updated on September 27, 2020
These curated resource lists coincide with the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2018 Conflict & Compromise theme sample topics list. The links lead to resources accessed from the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1924 unless otherwise noted.
Conflict in Salem: The Witchcraft Trials
- Today in History: Salem Witch Trials background, primary sources, more resources
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive University of Virginia
- A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials Smithsonian.com October 23, 2007
- Inside the Salem Witch Trials The New Yorker September 7, 2015
No Taxation Without Representation: The Failed Compromise That Led to a Revolution
- No Taxation Without Representation Circa 1215 AD, or, Magna Carta: A Beginner’s Guide In Custodia Legis blog August 26, 2013
- The American Revolution, 1763-83 background and select primary sources
- Creating the United States: Revolution of the Mind online exhibition, curated primary sources
The Connecticut Compromise: The Prevention of Conflict
- Timeline: Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
- Roger Sherman 18th-century resources
- A Great Compromise U.S. Senate
The Government Versus the Farmers: George Washington’s Lack of Compromise in the Whiskey Rebellion
- Whiskey rebellion background and links
- Whiskey Insurrection from History of Washington County 1870 Internet Archive
- “A great body of the people of the country will meet tomorrow in Braddock’s fields . . . Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 08 Aug. 1794”
- Liquor tax: historical newspaper coverage 1789-1795
- Whiskey rebellion: historical newspaper coverage
- Whiskey insurrection: historical newspaper coverage
- Braddock’s Battlefield
The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794: Compromise After Conflict
- The brave old Hendrick the great sachem or chief of the Mohawk Indians 1755 portrait
- Joseph Fayadaneega 1776 portrait
- Two Continental Congress Addresses to the Six Nations, 1776, 1777
- George Washington Papers: Six Nations Indians to George Washington, May 1776, Speech
- George Washington Papers: Six Nations Indians to Israel Chapin, August 1, 1792
- More correspondence related to the Six Nations from the George Washington Papers
- Indian Affairs Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 16 Dec. 1789
- 1791 treaty meeting with the Six Nations Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 30 July 1791
- Commissioners for holding a treaty with the hostile Indians Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 09 March 1793
- Attempts to make peace with the Western Indians unsuccessful National Gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 18 Sept. 1793
- “We learn that Timothy Pickering, Esq., is to hold a treaty with the Six Nations of Indians” Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 02 Aug. 1794
- 1794 Treaty with the Six Nations Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 30 Jan. 1795
- Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 (image, curator note) National Museum of the American Indian
- The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 (text) Onondaga Nation
- For the payment of a balance due to Timothy Pickering, as commissioner appointed to hold the Indian treaties at Konondaigua and Oneida Acts of the Fourth Congress of the United States 1797
- Timothy Pickering images
- Introduction to the book Treaty of Canadaigua 1794 New York Times Books
- Illuminating the Treaties That Have Governed U.S.-Indian Relationships Smithsonian Magazine September 2014
The Treaty of Mortefontaine: Compromise to End the Quasi-War
- Property protected–à la Françoise political cartoon
- Convention entre la Reṕublique Francaise et les Etats, unis dÁmerique print
- The XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1800 Office of the Historian, United States Department of State
- Convention of 1800 The Avalon Project
- Treaty of Mortefontaine The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812
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