Primary Sources

• Common-Place, an excellent online journal of early American history and literature. 
• Web Resources for Early American Literature: A Beginning  from the Society of Early Americanists is a large collection of valuable resources that is well worth a visit.
• Society of Early Americanists Home Page.  This site provides valuable links to courses and resources for the study of early American literature.
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Pre 18th Century Documents . This site contains various documents and charters, including the Charter of Massachusetts of 1691.
• Fire and Ice.    This privately maintained site has links to sermons by such prominent Puritan figures as Richard Baxter and Cotton Mather.
• See also the main document archives links on the American Literature Sites page. 

• First Nations Project includes brief summaries of the history of several Native American tribes, including the Wampanoag and the Narragansett tribes.
• NativeWeb provides comprehensive and current links, though most are not related to literature.
• Native Americans in the West is a commercial site that contains a wide variety of links.
• Native American Literature.  This site focuses primarily on contemporary authors.
• Indian Land Cessions in the U.S. at the Library of Congress

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. (Requires Flash)

Margo Burns's page on "Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact and Fiction" provides a historical perspective on the play. 

• A Digital Archive of American Architecture.  Seventeenth-century houses and churches reproduced in a series of color slides from Professor Jeffery Howe's course at Boston College.
• Plimoth Plantation. This is a commercial site, but the pictures give a good indication of how the village of Plymouth might have looked.
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project.  vernacular house forms in early America.
• Flowerdew Hundred. This site provides information on an historic landmark on the James River in Virginia.
• The Early America Review. An online journal of early American history.
• Library of Congress's 1492: An Ongoing Voyage Exhibition.  Good information and graphics on early explorations.
• H-NET.  The H-NET site collects information and book reviews, primarily in history and the social sciences; it also provides information on the many H-NET discussion lists.