Curated Video
Market Economy
Market Economy defines and identifies characteristics of a market economy and lists examples of how the colonial and early American economy exhibited such characteristics.
Curated Video
The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies examines colonial life in the original thirteen colonies by listing characteristics of the Middle colonies.
Curated Video
The Southern Colonies
The Southern Colonies examines colonial life in the original thirteen colonies by listing characteristics of the Southern colonies.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: A Midwife's Tale
This PBS series episode from American Experience entitled "A Midwife's Tale" features a dramatic film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a woman named Martha Ballard, a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: The Age of Homespun: Family Labor in the Colonial Economy
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, of Harvard University, looks at cultural objects as documents to explain "the myth of homespun, a pastoral vision of America." [47:15]
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Provincetown, Massachusettes
A view into the history of Provincetown, Massaschusettes complete with town crier. This color presentation is grounded in the late 1940s and gives a view into the british and portuguese history that make Provincetown what it is today.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: The Town Crier
This is a short reenactment showing the job of a town crier in Massachusettes during colonial times.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Colonial America
American colonial life existed just shy of 180 years before the United States of America emerged as a nation independent of British rule. These formative years are reflected in the FREE videos below.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Life in the American Colonies: A Land of Opportunity for Some
Many Americans in the colonies were prosperous, but not everyone was treated equally.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: American Colonists and Rights
On today's podcast, we discuss the rights American colonists were accustomed to and why they refused to have these rights abridged.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Moral Education Part 2
Examines moral education in colonial America.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Early Settlers of New England Salem
Although very short, this film gives a good clue as to what everyday life was like in Massachusetts in an early colonial settlement. It includes scenes of hunting, fishing, cooking, farming, brick-making and more.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: New England and the Middle Colonies
Learn about colonial life in New England and the Middle Colonies on today's podcast.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Women in Colonial America
In this video, journalist and best selling author Cokie Roberts and Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson discuss women in colonial America. [5:44]