Salem Witch Trials
- Today in History: Salem Witch Trials background, primary sources, secondary sources
American Settlers Versus Native Americans
- Stories from America’s Library
- Curated source collections: background, primary sources, secondary sources
- Thanksgiving
- Wampanoag
- Jamestown
- Captivity Narratives
- Fort Necessity & the French and Indian War
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic online exhibition
- Indian Removal: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- Native Peoples: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
- French and Indians of Illinois River 1874
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 to 1894
- Individual primary sources & secondary sources
- The beginnings of English America : Sir Walter Raleigh’s settlements on Roanoke Island, 1584-1587
- Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colony
- The History of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
- George Rogers Clark to Patrick Henry, April 29, 1779, Illinois Expedition; Capture of British Trading Post at Vincennes
- Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, June 19, 1779, George Rogers Clark and Illinois Expedition; Capture of British Trading Post at Vincennes
- History of Lieutenant-Colonel George Rogers Clark’s conquest of the Illinois and of the Wabash towns from the British in 1778 and 1779
- Indian Land Cessions in Illinois 1784-1894
- The transition in Illinois from British to American government 1909
- Great Britain and the Illinois country, 1763-1774 1910
- The last of the Illini; or, The legend of Starved Rock, a tale of Illinois 1916
The Winter of Valley Forge: Triumph and Tragedy in the Continental Army
- Today in History: Valley Forge background, primary sources, secondary sources
The Three-Fifths Compromise
- Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the negroes; written in the year 1776, by Thomas Day, Esq
- James Madison correspondence related to slavery
- Madison Debates July 11, 1787 Avalon Project
- Madison Debates July 12, 1787 Avalon Project
- The Constitution a pro-slavery compact; or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc. selected by Wendell Phillips 1856
- Mysteries of Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention streaming webcast (search the transcript for mentions of slavery)
- Extract from an Address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the federal Constitution John Jay 1788
- The Apportionment of Members Among the States: Federalist No. 54 Tuesday, February 12, 1788
- Northwest Ordinance
- Jefferson’s Plan of Government for the Western Territory | background information and analysis questions
- The Northwest and the Ordinances, 1783-1858
- Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark primary sources & secondary source information
- Land ordinance congressional legislation April 23, 1784
- An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of locating and disposing of lands in the Western Territory May 28, 1784
- An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory March 4, 1785
- An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory March 16, 1785
- An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory April 12, 1785
- An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory May 18, 1785
- A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory” March 19, 1788
- Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery online exhibition item
- Northwest Ordinance digital resource guide links to related primary sources
- The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Smallpox and Innoculation
- The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic Science in the News, Harvard University
- An historical account of the small-pox inoculated in New-England 1726 Internet Archive
- George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: Massachusetts House of Representatives, October 5, 1775, Smallpox Resolution
- U.S. historical newspaper articles mentioning smallpox and inoculation 1789-99
- The cowpox tragedy – scene the last 1812
- Smallpox primary sources
- Smallpox: inoculation and vaccination Science Museum’s History of Medicine
- The Smallpox Story: Life and Death of an Old Disease Abbas M. Behbehani Microbiological Reviews, Dec. 1983, p. 455-509
Impressment of Sailors: An American Tragedy?
- Impressed seamen from Salem from the Salem Gazette of March 30, 1813. [and] April 2, 1813
- Observations on Croker-War, Impressment of sailors James Madison, May 15, 1813.
- Impressment-related primarysources
- Impressment historical newspaper mentions 1789-1820
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