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• - Forum for discussing the life and works of Noah Webster.
  
• - Information about the beginning of newspapers in the colonies, beginning with the first one published in 1690 (Benjamin Harris' Publick Occurrences), which lasted only one issue before being suppressed.
  
• - One the earliest colonial land grants in North America, Flowerdew Hundred now showcases material culture collections, exhibits, and education programs.
  
• - A timeline of significant events to 1700 at The History Place.
  
• - Archive edition at the University of Virginia.
  
• - Extensive historical data, including passenger list, crew, documents, crime and punishments on board, and pilgrim writings.
  
• - Learn about the history of the 13 colonies, colonial currency and religion, through photographs and manuscripts from the Library of Congress.
  
• - Popular games, toys and pastimes, including Nine Men's Morrice (a board game), nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, and riddles.
  
• - Includes a map of Colonial educational institutions.
  
• - A broad-based site celebrating the American spirit, especially during the Revolution. There are also personal writings, and movie reviews.
  
• - An exhibition of books, manuscripts, illustrations, and maps from the Penn Library.
  
• - Listings of 18th Century history at About.com.
  
• - Information on slave movement and the slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries at the DPLS Archive.
  
• - A series of primary source indexes covering the early history of the United States. Entries searchable and sorted by text (titles, first lines, recitatives, chorus and burden), by music incipits (represented in scale degrees, stressed notes and interval
  
• - Education, literacy and schools in Colonial America from Gettysburg College.
  
• - This site covers different conditions and aspects of each of the thirteen colonies.
  
• - This PBS electronic field trip lets elementary school students explore civic duty, health and safety issues, and the trades that created the 18th Century fire engine.
  
• - Biographical information about the only woman to plan and direct a permanent settlement in colonial America, at Long Island.
  
• - Understanding the colonial economy, presented by ECONnections.
  
• - Hargrett Library Rare Maps listings of colonial America.
  
• - Includes history and the education resources available to students and Colonial history enthusiasts.
  
• - Describes in detail the first year at Plymouth, from the pilgrims landing to the arrival of the ship Fortune.
  
• - Historical information about early attempts at firefighting in America, traced all the way back to Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
  
• - Learn about colonial life in a Connecticut community at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village's interactive educational site.
  
• - A history of the earliest theatrical performances in America.
  
• - Collection of pre-1923 articles and books.
  
• - Discussion forum and live chat devoted to the Founding Fathers.
  
• - Electronic copies of Poor Richard's Almanac, and other materials from 1700's.
  
• - Devoted to the exchange of ideas and information about America prior to 1800. Includes library of texts and images, as well as information about recent publications.
  
• - This is a little known history of America's Frontier from discovery through the colonial period.
  
• - Project has 35 questions about colonial life, complete with links to a web site with the answer. Designed for students, with links leading to information about colonial justice, trades, education, medicine, slavery, government, and food.
  
• - This forum is devoted to the light-hearted discussion of all aspects of life in Colonial America, including live chat room.
  
• - Forums and live chats devoted to colonial America.
  
• - The life story of Squantum (Squanto), a native american who helped the Pilgrim Fathers.
  
• - Exhibition and interpretation of ca. 1650-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from the former Spanish Floridas and Louisiana. Emphasis is on such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia.
  
• - Exhibition of maps and navigational artifacts from Columbus to the Lewis and Clark expedition at the University of Virginia.
  
• - Details the history of the colony and explores the mystery of its disappearance.
  
• - A description by John Smith of the dire circumstances of the first years of the Virginia colony's settlement, 1607-1614.
  
• - History of hand tools and technology in USA, colonial history of the Davistown Plantation (Liberty and Montville, Maine) and coastal Maine Native Americans (Wawenoc Indians). Includes extensive bibliography.
  
• - From American University, selected examples of Independence Day celebrations throughout US history.
  
• - Interactive web exhibit of the Colonial Albany Social History Project, a model community history program sponsored by the New York State Museum.
  
• - A discussion of early foodstuffs at Jamestown by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
  
• - The story describes a violent episode during Colonial America, and the history was written by a descendant of massacre victims, not a historian.
  
• - Collaborative project on the South Sea Bubble Crisis (the stock market crash of 1720), which impacted lives in England, and the American Colonies.
  
• - Links related to the colonial period. Topic sections include: The Mayflower, Plimoth Plantation, Salem Witch Trials, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Old Sturbridge, and Ben Franklin.
  
• - Historical text archives and resources links to the Colonial period.
  
• - Learn early American history through excerpts from the 1829 book.
  
• - Its primary objective is to complete the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland.
  
• - North American city planning by the British during the Colonial period from 1660-1710.
  
• - Fact sheet of life in the New England and southern colonies.