WMU Research Guides: Primary Documents in History: 17th & 18th Centuries in America

Colonial & Revolutionary America

Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation : U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1875

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution This link opens in a new window
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window

Pennsylvania Gazette This link opens in a new window
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County This link opens in a new window
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
South Carolina Newspapers Archive This link opens in a new window
Virginia Gazette This link opens in a new window

Salem Witch Trials

The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, hosted by the University of Virginia, consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records. Also included are contemporary books, record books, and images of the original court documents.

Influential Document

On January 10, 1776, British-born Thomas Paine anonymously published the pamphlet "Common Sense." It came to be one of the most important documents of the American Revolution.

(Thomas Paine; Wikimedia Commons)

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