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Selected Links on Early American History and Literature


 
Primary Sources
 Native
Americans
Puritanism 
and 
Dissent
  • Ogram's 17th-century Colonial New England.  Links to many sites both educational and commercial on early America.
  • Plymouth Colony Archive at the University of Virginia contains primary documents and images as well as information on women in the colony, wills, land ownership, and other topics.
  • Mayflower Site.  Primarily for genealogists, this well-designed site has a great many Puritan texts as well as information relating to the Mayflower and her passengers.
Witchcraft
and Salem
  • Witchcraft in Salem Village site at the University of Virginia's Crossroads site includes verbatim transcripts, maps, Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience concerning Evil Spirits, and other documentary evidence. 
  • The Salem Witchcraft Papers provides the full three-volume text of Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, ed. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. 
  • Douglas Lindner's site on the trials includes letters and Cotton Mather's Memorable Providences, among other documents.
  • Witchcraft Accusations.  This well-done interactive site provides a map and a timeline as well as information on accusers and the accused. 
  • Margo Burns's page on "Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact and Fiction" provides a historical perspective on the play. 
  • Groton in the Witchcraft Times by Samuel A. Green.  This selection reproduces a 1671 letter from Samuel Willard to Cotton Mather that describes the possession of Elizabeth Knapp.
  • Architecture
    and Early
    Life in the
    Colonies