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Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E98.F39 A54 2007
ISBN: 9780415980210
Publication Date: 2006-12-19
Online Sources: North America
American Journey's"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493. A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Christopher Columbus. On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia.
Early Americas Digital Archives (University of Maryland)The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the University of Maryland Libraries’ e-Publishing Initiative, and was originally developed with the support of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Intended as a long-term and inter-disciplinary project committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies, it invites scholars from all disciplines to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on this site. To learn more about EADA, please see Introduction to the Archive. In order to search the database of documents housed at EADA, see Browse/Search the Archive. In order to find early American texts on the Internet, at the EADA and elsewhere, see Gateway of Early American authors on the Internet.
Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark"is an electronic archive of over 150 letters, 3 journals, 25 statutes and treaties, a bibliography of Jefferson’s geography books, 22 map images, and a geo-rectified cartographic database of 8 interactive maps. This collection reveals the evolution of Jefferson’s thoughts on the west as he and others made plans for the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-1806. These conceptions of the region, while certainly informed by the best information of Jefferson’s time, are also burdened by accepted geographical theories of the age. "Tip: Use the Archive view to Browse by Native Group
Exploration, American Beginnings: 1492-1690, Primary Resources in U.S. HistoryWithin several decades of the earliest coastal explorations of North America, European adventurers headed into the interior. "Adventurers" is the fitting word here, for more cautious men would have balked at heading into such vast unknowns. And the unknown brought misery—intense cold and exhausting heat, vast plains and unfordable rivers, antagonized Indians and wily guides, hunger and thirst, disease and death, and often incapacitating discouragement. But they learned the landscape of this New World, enabling them to act upon hard-won experience rather than fables, dreams, and plain naïveté.
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791This site contains the entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows BrothersCompany, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. The original work has facing pages in the original French, Latin or Italian, depending on the author.
The volumes on this site were not professionally scanned and proof read so if you are using them for publication purposes it is best to recheck them against the original volumes as there are some errors in them. Alexander Street Press does have a full set of the Jesuit Relations properly proofread for scholarly use in their electronic resource: Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment. This is a subscription based library. Alexander Street Press graciously provided Volume 51 for this resource, the only volume not scanned by Mr. Metrak.
Journals of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionThis project by a group of librarians, scholars and University of Nebraska Press staff provides online access to the Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton. Users can search the journals or read them by date. Additional links to sites about Lewis and Clark are also provided.
Kansas City Hopewell CollectionThe University of Kansas Anthropological Research and Cultural Collections curates approximately 2000 cubic feet of artifacts recovered from investigations of 23 Kansas City Hopewell Archaeological sites, which represents the largest holdings of materials from this culture in the United States. The Kansas City Hopewell represents the westernmost regional variant of the Hopewell archaeological complex that dates to the Middle Woodland or Early Ceramic (100 B.C. - 700 A.D.) period. These images are comprised images of artifacts and scanned photographs from five Hopewell sites in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Library of Congress Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763Because of the interactions of these very diverse peoples, the process of European colonization of the western hemisphere was a complex one, indeed. Individual members of each group confronted situations that were most often not of their own making or choosing. These individuals responded with the means available to them. For most, these means were not sufficient to prevail. Yet these people were not simply victims; they were active agents trying to shape their own destinies. That many of them failed should not detract from their efforts.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Discovery and Exploration Articles and Essays The 1562 Map of AmericaThe late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and other European explorers. America, as it came to be called, became the destination for numerous expeditions and adventures from 1492 onward. Through papal bulls in 1493 and the famous Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal in 1494, the two Iberian powers laid claim to the entire Western Hemisphere, although to them the newly found lands were extensions of Asia, or islands off its coasts.
University of Toronto Digital CollectionsAccess a variety of digitized materials from the Toronto University libraries including collections such as: Agnes Chamberlin Digital Collection; Books Online; Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides; Medici Archive Project; and many more.