Colonial


 * COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG**

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Tour the town online http://www.history.org/almanack/tourTheTown/index.cfm

e-postcard http://www.history.org/postcards/pcPreview.cfm

The Many Faces of Willie Balderson http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter10/willie_slideshow/#images/7.jpg

Record Snowfall in Williamsburg http://www.history.org/media/slideshows/snow_slideshow/#images/7.jpg

A Colonial Williamsburg Christmas http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn09/christmas_slideshow/


 * MANNERS**

Courtship http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/court.cfm

Department of Deportment: Stances and dances made the eighteenth-century man—and woman http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/winter12/deportment.cfm

Manners [George Washington] http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm

Dance during the Colonial Period http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Dance_During_the_Colonial_Period http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Dance_During_the_Colonial_Period#start_entry

Gossip, Flattery, and Flirtation: The art of letter writing http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter07/letters.cfm

Normal teenagers Colonial Teenagers (Teachinghistory.org) http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24098


 * CLOTHING**

Introduction page http://www.history.org/history/clothing/intro/index.cfm

Dress the Part (interactive) http://www.history.org/History/teaching/dayInTheLife/webactivities/dress/dress.cfm

Anatomy of a gown http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/anatomy.cfm http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/wglossary.cfm

Shoes and accessories http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/accessory1.cfm

Anatomy of a suit http://www.history.org/history/clothing/men/anatomymen.cfm http://www.history.org/history/clothing/men/mglossary.cfm

Men's Wigs http://www.history.org/history/clothing/men/wigcover.cfm

Wigmaker http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradewig.cfm

Children's clothing http://www.history.org/history/clothing/children/child01.cfm http://www.history.org/history/clothing/children/cglossary.cfm

Where raw materials originated http://www.history.org/history/clothing/globe/index.cfm

Colonial Dress Codes http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter03-04/clothing.cfm

Fashion Shoot using clothes from colonial times http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday06/fashion.cfm

Tailors http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn05/tailor.cfm

Weaving http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter07/weaving.cfm

Laundries http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn09/laundries.cfm


 * PERSONAL**

Coping with Cold Weather http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter09/cold.cfm

To Bathe or not to Bathe (Colonial Williamsburg) http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Autumn00/bathe.cfm

Soldiering in Colonial Virginia http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn04/soldier.cfm


 * GAMES**

Colonial Games [includes an early version of football] http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Christmas05/games.cfm

Gambling http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn08/gamble.cfm

Play Ball http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring08/ball.cfm

Indian Origins of Lacrosse http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/winter10/lacrosse.cfm

Pop Culture http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring08/pop.cfm


 * FOOD**

Drinking http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Holiday07/drink.cfm

A Cup of Hot Chocolate http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/winter12/chocolate.cfm

Outhouse (Necessary) http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn02/necessary.cfm


 * LITERACY**

Staying Connected before the Age of the Silicon Chip (Colonial Williamsburg) http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/autumn11/printing.cfm

Literacy in Early America http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter11/literacy.cfm

Newspapering http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/spring03/journalism.cfm

Early American Newspaper Advertisements (Colonial Williamsburg) http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn10/ads.cfm

Axioms and Proverbs http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter02-03/proverbs.cfm


 * FIFES AND DRUMS**

Intro to Fifes and Drums http://www.history.org/history/fife&drum/about.cfm

Instruments in fife and drum corps http://www.history.org/history/fife&drum/instruments.cfm

Clothing for musicians in fife and drum corps http://www.history.org/history/fife&drum/redregimentals.cfm http://www.history.org/history/fife&drum/rifleshirt.cfm


 * AFRICAN-AMERICANS**

Virginia's First Africans http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_s_First_Africans http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_s_First_Africans#start_entry

Intro to Colonial African American Life http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfm

African-American Family http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/black.cfm

Aggy a slave of Peyton Randolph http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/bioaggy.cfm

Free Blacks http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Free_Blacks_in_Colonial_Virginia http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Free_Blacks_in_Colonial_Virginia#start_entry

Library of Congress

American Notes: Travels in America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html

I want to start building a great bibliography.

I start by working my way through the items on the Lib Guide page on "Colonial America" http://libguides.com/community.php?m=s&it=1&search=colonial+america

University of Montana http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/content.php?pid=554597&sid=4570662

History 270 Ben Franklin's America (St. Olaf College) http://libraryguides.stolaf.edu/content.php?pid=99684&sid=748215

West Chester University http://subjectguides.wcupa.edu/content.php?pid=248038&sid=2048669

HIST 4210 Colonial American History (Bowling Green State University) http://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=287358&sid=2364044

HIST 6210 Early America and the Atlantic World (Bowling Green State University) http://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=511051

++Florida State University http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/content.php?pid=48668&sid=809760

Walla Walla University http://wallawalla.libguides.com/content.php?pid=268948&sid=2218962

Gale Reference: US History in Context http://www.gale.cengage.com/InContext/hist_us.htm

Colonial American Literature (James Madison University) http://guides.lib.jmu.edu/content.php?pid=367504&sid=3008838

Mr. Franklin's World http://guides.library.appstate.edu/content.php?pid=228326&sid=1889720

Lock Haven University http://research.lhup.edu/content.php?pid=110518&sid=833121

University of South Alabama http://libguides.southalabama.edu/content.php?pid=499688&sid=4109993

Yale University http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=80699&sid=4612331

Oklahoma Christian University http://libguides.oc.edu/content.php?pid=88363&sid=657266

Daily Life Through History ABC-CLIO http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=2147491674

Michigan State University http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=74643&sid=552628

Early Americas Digital Archive http://mith.umd.edu//eada/

Lebanon Valley College http://libguides.lvc.edu/content.php?pid=387565&sid=3176042

British Documents Related to Colonial America (University of Pennsylvania) http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=438488&sid=3589994