Electronic Texts or Primary Source sites:
This project provides many electronic texts that can be accessed directly or downloaded.
Alex - A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
Alex, with its own search engine, provides an index of many electronic texts currently on the Internet.
The On-Line Books Page
This page provides a catalog of electronic texts.
Bibliomania; The Network Library
This site provides links to many electronic books, including A Student's History of American Literature.
The University of Oklahoma Law Center; A Chronology of US Historical Documents
This site includes important historical documents by date links to hypertext docs in US history, organized chronologically.
The English Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia
This index of electronic texts is organized by collection or topic; some of the texts are not generally accessible.
An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-Line
This index of on-line texts compiled by the University of Toronto includes both electronic texts and brief biographical esssay on each poet.
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative; American Verse Project
This site, which can be browsed or navigated with a search engine, includes a growing body of electronic texts by American poets.
Random Poems and Poetry to Enjoy
This index of electronic poetry can be sorted by author or by date.
Rare Map Collection at Hargrett Library
This archive of maps, compiled by the University of Geogria includes resources from the discovery of the "New World" through the end of the nineteenth century.
Women's History Sources for Women's History Month
This sites includes links to other major sites on women's history , achievement and specific fields of women's studies.
Books A to Z; Banned Books and Censorship
This site by the ACLU addresses the banning of books in the U.S., and includes descriptions of the reasons given for the banning of many different books.
Internet Public Library Literature Reference
This site, by the Internet Public Library, provides links to other large general literature sites, some of which focus specifically on American literature.
The First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
This electronic book, copied from the 1894 print edition includes entries on many major works, authors, and literary terms, and can be used as a good reference manual.
A Student's History of American Literature
This refernce work on American literature provides background material on many authors and periods, and is divided according to chronology.
Essays on Teaching American Literature
The essays, copied from the Heath Anthology Newletter, provide resource information for teachers using the Heath Anthology, with topics ranging from the teaching of colonial to Chicano and Gay literature.
Academy of American Poets
This site, with its own search engine, provides brief biographical information on many major American poets.
TimePage History Links
This large site on American history provides resource material including maps, essays, basic information, and links to university projects.
Date - A Timeline
This timeline divided into three sections (to 1800, 1800-1850, 1850-1900) is centered around Nathaniel Hawthorne, but includes historical background information through the nineteenth century.
U.S. History - PreCivil War America
This site compiled by a middle school includes links to sites with background material on major historical events.
This electronic text provides a sweeping overview of American literature.
From Revolution to Reconstruction; A Hypertext on American History
This extensive project on American history includes biographical information, primary source material, and a glossary of major figures and events.
Voice of the Shuttle -- English Literature Main Page
This site, organized by period, indexes pages on many American literature authors, and is a good place to start searching for any author.
Colonial Period: to 1700
Native American Oral Literatures: Oral Narrative and Oral Poetry
Native American Literature Online
This site links electronic texts of books, articles, and speeches, largely by contemporary Native American authors.
Internet Public Library; Native American Authors
This index of Native American authors provides biographical information, mostly on contemporary authors.
Index of Native American Stories Online
This site indexes Native American stories, dividing them into categories of traditional and modern.
Index of Native American Poetry Online
This index provides links to electronic poetry texts, mostly by contemporary authors
Native American Sites
This page privodes information on Native American nations, organizations, and artistic projects.
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
This index includes information on Native American culture and language, and links to electronic texts.
A Talk Concerning First Beginnings; Teaching Native American Oral Literature
This essay by Andrew Wiget, copied from the Heath Anthology newsletter, discusses the teaching of Native American literatures.
Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Imperial Frontier:
A Shared Experience's Historical Survey; 16th & 17th Century Spanish Exploration
This history essay discusses 16th & 17th century Spanish exploration.
Sexuality & the Invasion of America 1492-1800
This essay addresses the issues of sexuality and women in early America.
Arrival of European Explorers in America
This site provides a timeline of European exploration in the "New World."
Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Anglo-American "New World"
Electronic Text or Primary Source sites:
The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
This index includes essays and primary documents for a class on colonial economic history.
Rare Map Collection - Colonial America
This large collection of archival material shows images of early America, mostly from the South.
Fire and Ice; Puritan and Reformed Writings
This index provides links to electronic texts by Puritans and Reformers, including Taylor and Mather
Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1751
These archival documents include maps drawn by John Smith.
Documents of the Early South
This index consists of 35 documents dating from 1585-1751, each with its own brief introduction.
History and Development of Prose Style
This electronic course reader includes many electronic texts of excerpts from same works as those used in Heath's Anglo-American's "New World" section.
Student's History of American Literature; II. Pilgrims & Puritans in New England; Historical and Descriptive Writers...
This section of a textbook on American Literature provides good background information on many colonial authors, including many of those mentioned in Heath.
Student's History of American Literature; Puritan Poetry in New England
This section of the same textbook includes background information on many colonial poets, inluding many of those mentioned in Heath.
PAL; Perspectives in American Literature; A Research and Reference Guide; Chapter 1: Puritanism and the Colonial Period: to 1700
This site provides background information on colonial authors, with biographies of early Americanists and material on basic Puritan themes.
Cycles of US History - Colonial Cycle (1584-1700)
This essay provides basic historical information on the Puritans, Jamestown, and general colonial history.
"Colonial Women's Links"
This site includes essays on general women's history, family, and geneology in colonial America.
Colonial Era in Virginia
This site includes links to essays on Virginia history, divided by geographical area, and links to primary documents.
The Wampanoag Tribes
This site gives a basic history of the area first settled by Puritans, with biographies of the main figures involved.
APVA Jamestown Rediscovery
This site on the archeological project on rediscovery of Jamestown includes historical information, lists of early settlers, a map, a timeline of early colonial hist, and biographical information on John Smith and others.
Historical Almanack Williamsburg
This site on Williamsburg includes links to a timeline, a glossary of important colonial era figures, and a basic history of early America.
The Bay Psalm Book and The New England Primer
Mary White Rowlandson
Tales of Incorporation, Resistance, & Reconquest in New Spain
Tradition and Change in Anglo-America
Eighteenth Century Studies
This site provides links to electronic texts, mostly by British authors, but some Americans (Edwards, Franklin).
Eighteenth Century Resources
This extensive page with its own search engine provides information literature and history, electronic texts by indexed authors, and links to other pages on 18th century studies (as well as 17th and 19th century).
A Selection of Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions
Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on "Race," Identity, and "Nation"
Internet Resource for Students of Afro-American History - 18th Century
This index of electronic text links provides primary material on African Americans in the 18th century; the site also includes material from the 17th and 19th centuries.
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
Charles Brockden Brown
Missionary Voices of the Southwest
Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865
Documenting the American South
This index provides links to primary documents and other resources on Southern American, and goes through 1920.
"Dialogic Romanticism in the Literature of the Civil War"
Mathew Conner, from Prometheus Unplugged, the third national graduate student conference on Romanticism.
Myths, Tales, and Legends
Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe
Mordecai Manuel Noah
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Explorations of an American Self
This site provides links to resources and works by and about Emerson and other Transcendentalists.
Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America
This index includes sites on the Civil War, abolition, the suffrage movement, the Underground Railroad, and other Civil War era topics.
Selected Underground Railroad Sites
This index of sites provides pages with historical information on the Underground Railroad, biographical information on the major figures involved, and a link to a page on The North Star periodical of the railroad.
John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican)
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)
John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee)
Henry Highland Garnet
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)
The Flowering of Narrative
The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
Frances Sargent Locke Osgood