| Primary
Sources |
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Native
Americans |
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Puritanism
and
Dissent |
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Ogram's
17th-century Colonial New England. Links to many sites both educational
and commercial on early America.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Architecture
and Early
Life in
the
Colonies |
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