PBS
Pbs: Benjamin Franklin: An Extraordinary Life: Franklin's Thirteen Virtues
Understand the virtues valued by Franklin, and other eighteenth-century men and women, by perusing this list.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Price of Freedom: Tricorn Hat
See a picture of the tricorn hat, worn by militiamen in the Revolutionary War. You can also read about the history of this particular hat.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: English Ii, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Childe Hassam
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Childe Hassam in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:examining Passenger Lists
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students critically examine the passenger lists of ships headed to New England and Virginia to...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: King Philip's War
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students analyze original documents to evaluate the conflict between colonists under King Philip and Native Americans.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: "Watson and the Shark"
This is a comprehensive site that tells the story behind one of John Singleton Copley's most famous paintings, "Watson and the Shark." The site discusses the artist's life and provides compositional information about the painting....
Organization for Community Networks
Academy Curricular Exchange: A Practical Experiment in Colonization
A detailed lesson plan depicting life in the early American colonies.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: If You Lived at the Time of the Revolution
Fourth graders learn about the American Revolution and evaluate the decisions and choices colonists had to make leading up to and during their fight for freedom from England. Students explore the idea of taking sides and how, despite...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sanctuary of Bom Jesus De Matosinhos of Congonhas Do Campo
Bom Jesus de Matosinhos in Congonhas do Campo is a sanctuary for many pilgrims in Brazil. This elaborate complex of architecture, sculpture, and painting shows scenes of the life and death of Christ. View pictures and read the history of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Copley, the Copley Family
John Singleton Copley was the undisputed king of portraiture in the American colonies. Read about his life and view a picture of his family portrait in this essay.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Dutch Influences Remain
This resource describes how New Netherland, later to be called New York, was originally possessed by the Dutch. Many traditions stem from the practices that they started.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paul Revere: Messenger for Liberty
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the life of Paul Revere, his accomplishments, and his contributions to America's freedom. It identifies how Paul Revere's environment and personal characteristics contributed to...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Taxation Without Representation?
Check out this informative site to learn more about life in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. Find out why the colonists had issues with "taxation without representation." "You will work independently and in pairs to learn about...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Coffee Fazenda of Brazil 1911
The Modern History Sourcebook provides this great look at what life would be like on a coffee plantation during the early 20th century. It describes the houses, life on the plantation, colonists, and harvests.
PBS
Liberty: Chronicle of the Revolution: Diversity
A brief look at the population increase in colonial America. Find out where all these immigrants came from and what they did in the colonies. From PBS.
Other
Acton Boxborough School Dist.: Powhatan Indian Village
This site has photos of a replica of a Powhatan village, as well as information about the Powhatan way of life, style of dress, farming practices and more.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Revolutionary Dinner Party
Students play the role of colonists from the Revolutionary War period. Each group has decided to host a dinner party for some "famous faces" of the American Revolution. There are FOUR parts to this project: research, seating chart, music...
Digital History
Digital History: Pocahontas
Brief overview of the story of Pocahontas for students and a timeline of her life with pictures.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Anne Hutchinson (Spanish)
A review of the events in the life of Anne Hutchinson, a brave, early American settler. Learn how Anne Hutchinson felt about religion and the way people should worship God. (In Spanish)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: William Pitt's Defense of the American Colonies
This site contains the address Pitt gave against the Stamp Act in front of the House of Commons. His address helped secure the Act's repeal.
Other
Virtual Jamestown: Experiences of an Indentured Servant
This site from the Virtual Jamestown of Crandall Shifflett provides the letter of Richard Frethorne to his parents in 1623 begging for their support in a desperate situation.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry's speeches and leadership have earned him an honored place in American history. This article provides a brief overview of his life, as well as a portrait of this founding father.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Anne Hutchinson
Overview and biographical facts on the life of Anne Hutchinson, an early colonist of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who was banished from Boston in 1637 for her religious and feminist beliefs and fled to the Rhode Island Colony.