Colonies, Revolution and Patriots

You Be the Historian
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/notkid/ubh/00intro.htm
See if you can figure out what life was like 200 years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family in New Castle, Delaware.

Dale House Exhibit
http://www.apva.org/exhibit/dalehs.html
This is an on-line version of the exhibit that is currently on display in the Dale House on Jamestown Island, Virginia.  The items exhibited are some of our most recent finds.
They raise several important questions being  explored by the archaeologists.
Armor at Jamestown?
How do we date the site?
Fair Trade?
What did the colonists eat?

The American Colonies
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~jonnaro/colonies/index2.htm
Information on the 13 American Colonies with a map of the New England,  Middle and Southern Colonies.

American Colonies
http://www.millcomm.com/~dover/colony.htm
A straight-forward chart listing colony, founder and date founded, and the colony's  purpose.

http://www.jamestowne.org/history0.htm

A Brief History of Jamestown
http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation
http://pilgrims.net/plimothplantation/vtour/index.htm#1627

Amusements in Colonial New England
http://www.ctstateu.edu/%7Enoahweb/amusements.html

Connecticut Life in the 1770s
http://www.ctstateu.edu/%7Enoahweb/lifein1770.html

Life in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
http://www.history.org/life/life.htm

Meet the People: Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
http://www.history.org/people/people.htm

Gallery of Early American Portraits
http://www.earlyamerica.com./portraits/index.html
Oil paintings of famous early Americans with brief information about each one.

The World of Benjamin Franklin
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
This is a multi-page biography of Benjamin Franklin from the Franklin Institute Science Museum.

Betsy Ross Homepage
http://www.libertynet.org/iha/betsy/index.html

Biographies of people from American History
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm

A Journey Towards Freedom: Historical Figures
http://library.advanced.org/10966/bios.shtml

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/find/find.html
Type in the name of a famous person or other key words to find biographical information.

LIBERTY: High Tea in Boston Harbor
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/episode1.html