Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature

Exploration and Settlement

Colonial Williamsburg

John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne

Jamestowne Society

Jamestown Rediscovery

Colonial National Historical Park
Colonial National Historical Park (NHP) administers two of the most historically significant sites in English North America. Historic Jamestowne, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, jointly administered with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.

Virtual Jamestown
Original maps record the visible landscape from an historical perspective. They include maps of explorers, for example John Smith and Sir Walter Raleigh whose map of Virginia is really the Outer Banks of North Carolina. . . . Virtual Jamestown is a product of collaboration between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.

The Founding of Jamestown
The 2000 NEH Summer Institute on "Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in Its Atlantic Context," directed by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Roanoke Colonies Research Office

Mayflower Compact 1620

The Mayflower Compact

The New Netherland Project

The Pilgrims in the Capitol

Plimoth-on-Web: Plimoth Plantation's Web Site

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia

Some Fruits of Solitude, William Penn

Penn's Charter of Libertie

William Penn, Visionary Proprietor

Quakers in Brief

The Pocahontas Archive
The Pocahontas Archive is an ever-growing chronological listing of materials relating to the study of Pocahontas (and, by association, John Smith, Jamestown, and early Virginia) from early America to the beginning of 2006: histories, biographies, poems, plays, fiction, textbooks, movies, essays, dissertations, newspaper articles, children's books, paintings, sculpture, recordings, genealogies -- whatever has contributed to the shaping of this figure in our culture . . . The archive contains approximately 1400 citations as of October 2006. It is fully searchable by any word in the citations, and there is a drop-down list of fifteen search categories of especial interest. Some of the citations are linked to full-text documents, and there is a separate archive of images of Pocahontas -- and both of these components of the archive will grow substantially over time."--Edward J. Gallagher, Dept. of English, Lehigh University