Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: In Old New England
This ebook version of Hezekiah Butterworth's In Old New England has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson
Text of the short story "The New Englander" by American author Sherwood Anderson. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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New England Soil Profiles
This personal website includes several New England soil profiles. Each of the profiles is presented with its location and a brief description.
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: New England in Arms
A detailed explanation of the organization of British and Revolutionary forces at the start of the American Revolution.
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Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand Peoples
Meet the many peoples who make up the population of New Zealand! Who were the first inhabitants? Where did they come from? When did Europeans discover this faraway land? Who immigrated to New Zealand, and why? Answers to all of these...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Architecture of New England,southern Colonies
Describes the chronology of architectural design in New England and the South and what the architecture revealed about class building techniques. Includes ideas for lesson activities.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
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Bruce Dorsey Syllabus: A Letter From a Gentleman of the City of New York (1689)
A primary source document in the form of a letter that describes Leisler's Rebellion. "Leisler's Rebellion sparked a division among New Yorkers that largely followed ethnic and class lines."
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Puritanism in New England
A description of Puritan beliefs, with an extensive bibliography that you can use to further your study of the Puritan people.
Digital History
Digital History: Founding New England
A brief look at Squanto, the Native American who aided the Pilgrims as they settled Plymouth Colony.
Tom Richey
Tom richey.net: Religious Freedom in Colonial New England [Ppt]
Presents key ideas for examining the roles Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson played in promoting religious toleration in colonial America.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: New England Colonies: Reaching to Connecticut
Read about how the colony of Connecticut grew from an expansion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. See how Thomas Hooker's idea of government resulted in a model of colonial charters, and find out how two very different settlements in...
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New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans
A series of videos accompanied by student activity sheets explore the impact of climate change on the ocean and the animals that live in and around it: sea turtles, jellies, whales, shore birds, lobsters, and coral.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: The New England Seamounts
What is a seamount? Why are they found in long chains on the bottom of the ocean? Find answers to these questions as you explore a chain of seamounts located on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: New England Literary Travel Brochure
Learners will research Internet sites to find places of interest regarding some early American authors. Students will then construct a travel brochure about those sites. Learners will include pictures and paraphrased written information...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1763
Primary source documents, including text and art, provides a look at the diversity and identity of the people in the New England colonies.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690 1763
Primary resource material on the economies of the New England colonies between 1690 and 1763.
Digital History
Digital History: Explorations: The Puritans
No group has played a more pivotal role in shaping American values than the New England Puritans. The seventeenth-century Puritans contributed to our country's sense of mission, its work ethic, and its moral sensibility. Today, eight...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: British Reluctantly Yield
Discusses development of representative government especially in the New England colonies.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Amendments Proposed by Hartford Convention
This is the text of the constitutional amendments proposed by the Hartford Convention in 1814, trying to get the federal government to give control of militias to the states and recognize other New England interests.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Blogtopia Blogging About Your Own Utopia
Contains plans for six 50-minute lessons that ask students to blog about their own Utopian societies after reviewing some Utopian literature. Can be used in conjunction with Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," the writings of the New England...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Colonial Literature
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on Colonial Literature including Native American oral literature and New England Puritan narratives, journals, and sermons. It features an interactive list of terms for the period, a link to the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: English Settlements in America
Read about the first English settlements in America, the differences between the Chesapeake Bay colonies and the New England colonies, the wars between native inhabitants and English colonists, and the role of Bacon's Rebellion in the...
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