Colonial America


The following resources will help you research life in a colonial American colony.

 Databases

Grolier Encyclopedia (Access from School)
Offers a combined search feature of encyclopedias, magazines, websites and more.
Grolier Offsite
Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and pod casts


 Websites

APVA - History of Jamestown: http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

Colonial America from Exploration to Revolution: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/

Colonial Boston Unearthed: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/boston/index.html

Colonial Currency: http://www.nd.edu/~rarebook/coins/ColCurrency/index.html

Colonial Hall - Biographies: http://www.colonialhall.com/

Colonial Williamsburg - Trades: http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

Education in the Colonies: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/TM/EducationInTheColonies.shtml

Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Jamestown Colony: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043322/Jamestown-Colony

The Jamestown Colony: http://www.jamestown.abc-clio.com/

PBS - Daily Life in the Colonies: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives_daily.html

Univ. of Georgia - Rare Map Collection - Colonial America: http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html

Virtual Jamestown: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html


If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.

  Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "Jamestown colony", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on old English as opposed to all of the sites containing the word Jamestown plus all of the sites containing the word colony.
     

  4. If you would like to search for something specific about Jamestown colony, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out about  events and issues in the Jamestown colony,  I would enter the following:

    "Jamestown colony", events, issues

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

  5. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:
    • Authority: Can you tell if the author is credible (believable)?
    • Objectivity: Is the information objective (honest and free of bias)?
    • Currency: Is the information recent and up-to-date?
    • Design: Is the site designed in a clear and user friendly way?
    • Navigation: Is the site easy to navigate through, and are all links current and usable?

     

  6. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

 

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