American Colonial History Research Guide - LSC-North Harris

• American Leaders and Heroes by Wilbur F. Gordy. Read chapter IV, John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown [1579-1631], pp. 42-54. [Link from the Google Book Project]
• Settlement of the Thirteen colonies
• Article: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Johathan Edwards
• Poem: Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Article: "Anne Hutchinson 'A Verye Dangerous Woman'" by Stephanie Ocko, August 1979, Early American Life, is on reserve in the Library's Reserve Room.
• Article: "The Supreme Court is Wrong about Religion" by M. Stanton Evans, December 1994, Reader's Digest, is on reserve in the Library's Reserve Room.
• Study Guide 2
• Study Guide 5

These notes are in Word files. Two packets of notes are available in the Reserve Room (LB 210 on the second floor) if you are unable to access these files.

• Map of the United States
• Road to Independence
• Election of 1796
• Federalists v. Republicans (chart)
• Election of 1808

• The Cotton Gin from The Eli Whitney Museum
• Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts
• American Leaders and Heroes by Wilbur F. Gordy. Read chapter IV, Robert Fulton and the Steamboat [1765-1815], pp. 246-252. [Link from the Google Book Project]
• George Clinton - Fourth vice-president under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (from Wikipedia)
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe

• Election of 1824
• John Tyler
• Slavery in the Old South
• Opening Trade with Japan
• Bleeding Kansas
• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• Martin Van Buren
• William Henry Harrison
• John Tyler
• James K. Polk
• Zachary Taylor
• Millard Fillmore
• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchanan
• The Pony Express
• Abraham Lincoln

• The "Pastry War" from About.com
• Santa Anna's Leg Took a Long Walk. 
• "Dred Scott in History" by Walter Ehrlich from Westward. Vol 1 no. 1 Winter 1983. pp. 156 - 161. Located on Reserve.
• "God's Angry Man," by Stephen B. Oates from American History Illustrated, January 1986, pp. 164 - 172. Located on Reserve.
• "Bumps & Brains: The Curious Science of Phrenology: The Wrong Idea at The Right Time" by Michael Martin from American History Illustrated September 1984, pp. 144-148. Located on Reserve.
• The Reconstruction Word Document. 7 pp. Online lecture.
• Study Guide 14
• Study Guide 16