The Bryn Mawr School Library

Edith Hamilton Library

U.S. HISTORY - PRE-COLONIAL

(When U.S. History Portfolio 1 is assigned, the following books will be useful) Do not neglect material from periodicals. JStor, ProQuest, and Project Muse are excellent resources. They are available by clicking on Online Resources, or entering their titles in the Library's Site Search (see above) To search these resources from home, request passwords and instructions from the librarian. All Upper School students have received copies of these in the last school mailing.

The American Colonist's Libray Collection of primary sources pertaining to early American history

Canadian Heritage Gallery: Canada, a Celebration of Our Heritage
Chapter 2: Original Canadians--and Newcomers to 1663; Chapter 2: A Century of New France, 1663-1763; Chapter 4: The British Empire and American Revolution, 1763-1791.

Close Encounters of the First Kind
A collection of original documents from the Maryland State Archives. When asked, sign in aaco with password aaco#

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

Columbus Navigation Home Page Examining the history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus.

The Columbus Letter (Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education)
A careful presentation of the original document, transcriptions, translations, and the cultural contexts and importance of this key document in European and American histories.

Columbus' letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494 The bare translation; no history or context.

Crossroads of Continents A (Smithsonian) museum exhibition that details the Asian-North American links.

Daily Life in the New World A collection of original documents from the Maryland State Archives. When asked, sign in aaco with password aaco#

European Voyages of Exploration, the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

French and English Colonial Empires A very good essay on the differences by Prof. Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College.

Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600

Spain into the Americas, to 1600 National Park Service site.

Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America Includes maps, links to primary texts, narratives and illustrations; an all-purpose site.

Woodland Confederacy Dedicated to portraying Native Americans of the eastern woodlands during the 17th and 18th centuries

Edith Hamilton Library

American History - Portfolio 1 Bibliography

305.4 Y v.2	Kamensky, Jane.	The colonial mosaic: American women 1600-1760. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Uses personal stories and primary source material to focus on the changes in the lives of American women of all ethnic and economic backgrounds and to discuss the variety and importance of their experiences.
325.346 P	Pagden, Anthony.	Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. A scholarly treatment.
921 Hutchinson	Rugg, Winnifred King	Unafraid: a life of Anne Hutchinson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.
946.02 F	Fuentes, Carlos	The buried mirror: reflections on Spain and the new world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
946.04 P	Parry, J. H.	The Spanish Seaborne Empire. New York: Knopf, 1967.
970.018 E	Eccles, W. J.	The French in North America, 1500-1783. East Lansing, Mich: Michigan State University Press, 1998.
973.2 L	Leach, Douglas Edward.	Arms for empire: a military history of the British colonies in North America, 1607-1763. New York,: Macmillan, [1973].
973.2 L	Lepore, Jill.	The name of war: King Philip's War and the origins of American identity. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1998.
973.2 S		So dreadfull a judgment: Puritan responses to King Philip's War, 1676-1677. 1st ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, c1978. Increase Mather: Puritan mythologist--A brief history of the warr with the indians in New-England / Increase Mather -An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England/Increase Mather--Benjamin Tompson: first American epic poet--New England's crisis, or a brief narrative of New-England's lamentable estate/Benjamin Tompson--Thomas Wheeler: the Christian hero--A thankefull remembrance of God's mercy to several persons atQuabaug or Brookfield/Thomas Wheeler--Samuel Nowell: prophet of preparedness--Abraham in arms/Samuel Nowell Mary Rowlandson: Captive witness--The sovereignty and goodness of God, together with the faithfulness of His promises displayed; being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson/Mary Rowlandson-- Benjamin Church : King of the wild frontier--Entertaining passages relating the Philip's war/ Benjamin Church. Benjamin Church: King of the wild frontier—Entertaining passages relating the Philip's war / Benjamin Church.
973.2 T	Taylor, Alan	American colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.
973.22 M	Morgan, Edmund Sears.	The Puritan dilemma: the story of John Winthrop. [1st ed.]. Boston: Little, Brown, [1958].
973.24 S	Schultz, Eric B.	King Philip's War: the history and legacy of America's forgotten conflict. 1st ed. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, c1999.
973.3 A	Anderson, Douglas	The radical enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997.
976.4 K	Knaut, Andrew L.	The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: conquest and resistance in seventeenth-century New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1995.
978.9 S	Silverberg, Robert.	The Pueblo Revolt. New York: Weybright and Talley, [1970].
978.9 W		What caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? Boston: Bedford/St Martin's, c1999.
Ref 346.73 F	Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth.	Women's rights on trial: 101 historic trials from Anne Hutchinson to the Virginia Military Institute cadets. Detroit: Gale, c1997.
Ref 970.004 H v. 8		Handbook of North American Indians, volume 8: California. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Hint: Use Index under term 'History' to locate relevant info.
Ref 970.004 H v.9		Handbook of North American Indians, volume 9: Southwest. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979. Hint: Use Index under term 'History" to locate relevant info.
Ref 973 A		American Eras: the Colonial Era, 1600-1754. Edited by Jessica Kross. Detroit: Gale, 1998.

Last updated: December, 2009