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U.S. History: The Colonies

EVERY SUBJECT HAS A HISTORY

Founding Folks

Brought to you by the Nationa Archives, this set of letters could make an excellent activity for your students.  Find an author and follow the trail of replies back and forth. Locate a diary entry and follow it through the course of several entries - maybe even years!

Mayflower letters, records, and documents

Colonial North America at Harvard Library

             

Material from U.S. Colonial Period -                                                                                                                                                           FOOD, SLAVERY, MEDICINE, much much more

All things Colonial

ACTIVITIES!

Take a look at these fun interactives from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities:

Discover "kids stuff" in Colonial America / have fun interpreting handwriting