Web Readings and Sites:

Topic One: When Worlds Collide

The Debate Over the First Americans
* Mystery of the First Americans, A NOVA SITE
* "The First Americans" from Newsweek, Apr 26, 1999
* The Newsweek Map of the First Americans Debate
* Kennewick Man Debate

Guns, Germs, and Steel
* NPR's "Talk of the Nation" interview with Diamond (audio)

Christopher Columbus
* "What Columbus Knew" from History Today
* Columbus Navigation Homepage
* Christopher Columbus: Selections from Journal, 1492
* Christopher Columbus: Letter to King and Queen of Spain, 1494

Topic Two: The First Colonial Empires

The Spanish Colonial System
* The Bull Inter Caetera, 1493
* The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494
* The Laws of Burgos, 1512-13
* The New Laws of the Indies, 1542
* Bartolemeo De La Casas: Destruction of the Indies, 1542

The Reformation:
* Modern History Sourcebook for Luther and Calvin
* Modern History Sourcebook for Catholic Counter Reformation

Colonial Stirrings
* John Cabot (c.1450-1499): Voyage to North America, 1497
* Richard Hakluyt: Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
* Elizabeth I: Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, 1584

Topic Three: British North America

Virginia and the Chesapeake
* Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
* Constitution of the Virginia Company in England, 24 July 1621
* "Jamestown Fiasco" from American Slavery, American Freedom
* The Jamestown Archaelogy Site
* Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
* Governor William Berkely: On Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
* Slave Laws in Virginia (1642-1705)

Massachusetts and New England
* Mayflower Compact, 1620
* Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
* John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity 1630
* Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
* Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639
* Connecticut Colony Charter, 1662
* King Philips War
* D. Lawson, Brief and True Narrative, 1692- Salem Witch Trials
* The Salem Witch Trials in Light of the Covenant of Grace

The Dominion of New England
* Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros, 1686
* Commercial Orders to Governor Andros, 1686-1687
* Orders For Sending Sir Edmund Andros To England, 1689

Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley
* Charter of Pennsylvania (1681)
* William Penn, "Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania"
* William Peen, "Preface to the First Frame of Government"
* Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701)

Topic Three: Imperial Relations and Colonial Maturation

The Imperial System:
* The Navigation Act of 1660
* The Navigation Act of 1696

more will be added later . . . .