History 163: Supplemental Online Resources
1. Introduction: Placing Human History in a Global Context
Reading: Alfred Crosby, "Pagaea Revisited" [html]
Reading: Jared Diamond, "Why did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the Last 13,000 Years," UCLA Faculty Research Lecture [ html ]
2. The First Americans Debate
Reading: Alex Markels, Island Hopping to a New World, U.S. News & World Report, February 23 – March 1, 2004. [ acrobat ] [ html ]
Website: Coming Into America, Scientific American Video [ link ]
Website: Mystery of the First Americans [ link ]
Website: The First Americans: Newsweek, Apr 26, 1999 [ html ]
Map: The Newsweek Map of the First Americans Debate [ jpg ]
Website: Kennewick Man Debate [ link ]
3. The Amerindian World Before Contact
Reading: Charles C. Mann, "1491," The Atlantic Monthly , March 2002 [ acrobat ] [ html ]
Website: Maya Ruins: Photography of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras [ link ]
Website: Teotihuacan: The City of the Gods [ link ]
Website: First People: The Early Indians of Virginia [ link ]
Website: John White Drawings and Theodor De Bry engravings [ link ]
Reading: William Cronon, "Seasons of Want and Plenty," from Changes in the Land [ html ]
4. Contact: 1492
Contact
Reading: Helen Wallis, "What Columbus Knew," History Today, May 1992 (42):
17-23 [ html ]
Website: Maps to Accompany "What Columbus Knew" [ html ]
Reading: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, "Columbus - Hero or Villain" from History Today,
May 1992 (42): 4-9 [ html ]
Website: Columbus Navigation Homepage [ link ]
Primary Text: Christopher Columbus: Selections from Journal, 1492 [ link ]
Primary Text: Christopher Columbus: Letter to King and Queen of Spain, 1494 [ link ]
Movie Critique: 1492: Conquest of Paradise [ link ]
Reading: Delno C. West, "Wallowing in a Theological Stupor or a Steadfast and Consuming Faith: Scholarly Encounters with Columbus' 'Libro de las profecias'" [ link ]
Early European Images of Native Americans
Website: Exploring Florida: Jacques Le Moyne Engravings [ link ]
Website: Early Images of Virginia's Indians [ link ]
The Spanish Empire
Notes: The Spanish Colonial Model [ acrobat ]
Reading: Sepulvida and Las Casas -- Spanish Debate Over Conquest [ acrobat ]
Website: Modern History Sourcebook - Colonial Latin American [ link ]
Website: Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas [ link ]
Website: Timeline of Colonial Latin America [ link ]
Website: Encounters in America: The Hispanic and Portuguese World [ link ]
Primary Sources
* The Bull Inter Caetera, 1493 [ html ]
* The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 [ html ]
* The Laws of Burgos, 1512-13 [ html ]
* The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 [ html ]
5. Elizabethan England, Colonialism, and Roanoke Island
General Sites
Website: The Protestant Reformation [ link ]
Website: The Catholic Counter Reformation [ link ]
Website: The Reformation in England [ link ] and [ link ]
Website: Six Wives of Henry VIII [ link ] and [ link ]
Website: Virtual Jamestown: John White Drawings/Theodor De Bry Engravings [ link ]
Website: Roanoke Revisited [ link ]
Primary Sources: English Reformation
* Thomas Cranmer, Letter to an Imperial Ambassador on the King's Divorce (1533) [ link ]
* The Act of Supremacy (1534) [ link ]
* The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey (1539) [ link ]
Primary Sources: English Colonialism
* John Cabot (c.1450-1499): Voyage to North America, 1497 [ link ]
* Edward Haies: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland, 1583 [ link ]
* Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting, 1584 [ link ]
* Elizabeth I: Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, 1584 [ link ]
6. Colonial Virginia and the Southern Colonies
Settlement
Reading: Edmund Morgan, "Jamestown Fiasco," [ acrobat ]
Reading: Alden T. Vaughan, "'Explusion of the Salvages': English Policy and the Virginia Massacre of 1622," WMQ, Volume 35, Issue 1, (Jan. 1978), 57-84 [ acrobat ]
Website: Early Images of Virginia's Indians [ link ]
Movie Critique: Black Robe [ link ]
Overview: Black Robe [ acrobat ]
Development
Reading: David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, 207-46, 253-64, 332-49, 365-68, 382-418.
Reading: Edmund Morgan, "Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox" [ acrobat ]
Website: Sir William Berkeley [ link ]
Website: The English Civil War [ link ] and [ link ]
Website: Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation [ link ]
Website: PBS: Race, The Power of an Illusion [ link ]
Website: Lesson Plan on Race [ link ]
Primary Sources
* Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606 [ link ]
* Constitution of the Virginia Company in England, 24 July 1621 [ link ]
* Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676 [ link ]
* Governor William Berkeley: On Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676 [ link ]
* Slave Laws in Virginia (1642-1705) [ link ]
7. Colonial Massachusetts and New England
Settlement Period
Reading: John Winthrop, "A City Upon A Hill," [ link ]
Website: Seventeenth Century New England [ link ]
Reading: David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, 13-57, skim to 117, 117-34, 151-58, 174-205.
Reading: "Seventeenth-Century Nihilism" Chapter Ten of Edmund Morgan's The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. On Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy
Reading: "The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England" by Elizabeth Reis from the Journal of American History 1995, 82 (1): 15-36. [ html ]
Development Period
Reading: William Cronon, "That Wilderness Should Turn a Mart," [ html ]
Reading: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, "King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England [ acrobat ]
Website: The Cartographic Creation of New England [ link ]
Website: Salem Witch Trials, 1692 [ link ] [ link ]
Website: A Midwife's Tale [ link ]
Primary Sources
* Mayflower Compact, 1620 [ link ]
* Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629 [ link ]
* John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity 1630 [ link ]
* Transcript of The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1636) [ link ]
* Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641 [ link ]
* Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639 [ link ]
* Connecticut Colony Charter, 1662 [ link ]
* King Philips War [ link ]
* D. Lawson, Brief and True Narrative, 1692- Salem Witch Trials [ link ]
* The Salem Witch Trials in Light of the Covenant of Grace [ link ]
8. Colonial Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley
Settlement Period
Reading: "The World of William Penn" by Edmund Morgan from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1983, 127 (5): 291-315
Reading: David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, 419-45, 555-60, 566-77.
Reading:"Chapter Two" from James Merrill's Into the Woods
Website: The Quaker Province [ link ]
Primary Sources
* Charter of Pennsylvania (1681) [ link ]
* William Penn, "Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania" [ link ]
* William Penn, "Preface to the First Frame of Government" [ link ]
* Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701) [ link ]
9. Domestic Cultural Maturation, 1700-1750
Reading: Jack P. Greene, "Convergence and the Creation of a Colonial Culture"
Reading: David Hackett Fischer, "Divergence in Four Colonial Cultures"
Notes: From Jack P. Greene, "The Gifts of Peace" [ acrobat ]
Reading: Peter Kolchin, "The Colonial Era," from American Slavery
Reading: Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America, AHR, Vol. 85, Issue 1 (Feb 1980), 44-78 [ acrobat ]
10. The Uneasy Connection: British Colonial Theory and Practice
Notes: British Colonial Theory and Practice [ acrobat ]
Based on: Jack P. Greene, "The Preconditions of the American Revolution"
Primary Sources: Initial Navigation Acts
* The Navigation Act of 1660 [ link ]
Primary Sources: Tightening the Colonial System
* The Navigation Act of 1696 [ link ]
Primary Sources: The British Debt
The British Debt, 1689-1800 [ jpg ]
11. New Measures and the Conservative Colonial Stance, 1763-1773
Reading: Jack P. Greene, "Origins of the American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation" from Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors [ html ]
Reading: Woody Holton, "Rebel against Rebel": Enslaved Virginians and the Coming of the American Revolution" [ scan ]
Notes: New British Measures and the Conservative Colonial Stance [ acrobat ]
Website: The American Revolution [ link ]
Primary Sources: New British Measures
* The Proclamation of 1763 [ link ]
* Sugar Act, 1764 [ link ]
* Stamp Act, March 22, 1765 [ link ]
* Thomas Whately in support of the Stamp Act [ html ]
* The Quartering Act March 24, 1765 [ link ]
* The Declaratory Act, March 18, 1766 [ link ]
* The Townshend Acts, June 29, 1767 [ link ]
Primary Sources: Conservative Colonial Response
* James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved" [ link ]
* The Virginia Resolves (May, 1765) [ link ]
* Resolutions on the Stamp Act, October 19, 1765 [ link ]
* Daniel Dulany, "Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes" [ link ]
* John Dickinson: Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer [ link ]
* John Dickinson: Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer [ link ]
Primary Sources: The Boston "Massacre"
* The Boston Massacre, The Boston Gazette, 12 March 1770 [ link ]
* Captain Preston: The Boston Massacre, March 5 1770 [ link ]
* Anonymous: Account of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770 [ link ]
Primary Sources: The Tea Act Crisis
* The Tea Act (1763) [ link ]
12. The Radical Revolution, 1774-1776
Website: Context: The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and The Olive Branch Petition [ link ]
Website: Liberty: The American Revolution [ link ]
Primary Sources
* The Intolerable or Coercive Acts (Summary) [ link ]
* Resolutions of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774 [ link ]
* A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774 [ link ]
* Resolution of the House of Burgesses in Virginia (1774) [ link ]
* Joseph Galloway Plan (1774) [ link ]
* The Suffolk Resolves, Joseph Warren (1774) [ link ]
* John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775 [ link ]
* Olive Branch Petition, July 5, 1775 [ link ]
* Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775 [ link ]
* Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense, full text [ link ]
* Thomas Jefferson: Draft of the Declaration of Independence [ link ]
* Declaration of Independence, 1776 [ link ]
* Locke's Second Treatise/Declaration of Independence, side by side [ link ]
* George Washington: Letter to John Hancock, Sep. 24, 1776 [ link ]
13. The War for Independence and the Treaty of Paris
Notes: The War of Independence [ pdf ]
Notes: Weapons and Tactics [ pdf ]
Movie Review: The Patriot [ here ]
Notes: Military Actions During the War [ link ]
Website: American Revolution Military Documents [ link ]
Website: Paris Peace Treaty, 1783 [ link ]
14. State Constitutions, The Articles of Confederation, and Shays' Rebellion
Reading: Gordon Wood, "Republicanism" from The Creation of the American Republic [ html ]
Primary Source: The Articles of Confederation [ link ]
15. The Philadelphia Convention and Constitution of the United States
Primary Sources
* The Constitution of the United States of America [ link ]
* James Madison's Federalist 10 [ link ]
* James Madison's Federalist 51 [ link ]
16. The Debate over Ratification
Reading: Gordon Wood, "The Worthy Against the Licentious," from The Creation of the American Republic [ html ]
