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Texts Checklist National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox ALL TEXTS EN: English FR: French SP: Spanish DU: Dutch RU: Russian NO: Norse GR: German PR: Portuguese NA: Native American I. CONTACT pages* ____ 1 First Impressions 10 SP: Letter on Columbus’s first voyage, 1493 PR: Letter on the voyage of Gaspar Corte Real, 1501 EN: Letters on the voyage of John Cabot, 1497 Online zoomable maps (3) ____ 2 Europe’s Literary Response 17 EN: Barclay, The Ship of Fools, poem, 1509 GR: Dürer, journal entry, 1521 EN: More, Utopia, fictional narrative, 1516 FR: Ronsard, “The Fortunate Islands,” poem, ca. 1560 EN: Rastell, Four Elements, drama, 1519 ____ 3 Illustrating the New World (Pt. I) 27 EN: John White, Paintings of the Algonquian Indians (North Carolina), 1585 FR/EN: Artist(s) unknown, Watercolors of Indians, plants, and animals of the Caribbean, 1580s FR: Louis Nicolas, Drawings of Indians, plants, and animals of New France (Canada), 1670s ____ 4 Atlantic Coast 12 NO: Norse account of meeting the Beothuk of “Vinland,” ca. 1005 FR: Verrazzano, Report to King Francis I on his voyage along the coast, 1524 ____ 5 Pacific Coast 10 EN: Drake, Account of Drake’s encounter with the Miwok, California, 1579 Online zoomable maps (2) RU: Steller, Account of Bering’s men’s encounter with the Alutiiq, Alaska, 1741 ____ 6 Indians’ Accounts 16 NA: Accounts of the Spanish arrival in Mexico NA: Account of the French arrival near Lake Michigan NA: Account of the Spanish arrival in the Yucatan NA: Statement to a French missionary in Canada ____ 7 Spanish Conquest 28 SP: Council of Castile, Requirement, 1510 SP: Cortés, Letter to King Charles I, 1520 NA: Indian accounts of the Spanish conquest SP: Spanish illustrations of the Indians, 1500s SP: Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies, 1542 CONTACT: Total Pages 120 II. EXPLORATION pages* ____ 1 Into the Interior: The Spanish 31 SP: Account of the de Soto expedition, 1539-43 SP: Letter on Coronado’s expedition, 1541 SP: Account of the Chamuscado expedition, 1581-82 SP: Account of the Oñate expedition, 1598-99 Online zoomable maps (2) ____ 2 Into the Interior: The French 15 FR: Account of Cartier’s second expedition, St. Lawrence River, 1535-36 Online zoomable maps (3) FR: Marquette & Joliet, Journal of the Mississippi River expedition, 1673 ____ 3 Northwest Passage: The English 12 EN: Lok, Reasons to pursue a Northwest Passage, 1577 Online enlargeable maps (4) EN: Settle, Account of Frobisher’s second voyage, 1577 EN: Autopsy of an Inuit man, 1577 ____ 4 Illustrating the New World (Pt. II) Online zoomable maps (2) 37 EN: De Bry, Engravings of Algonquian Indians & Harriot’s account of 1585 Roanoke expedition FR: De Bry, Engravings of Timucuan Indians from Le Moyne’s account of Fort Caroline, 1564-1565 ____ 5 Catching Up: The English 15 EN: Drake, Frobisher, et al., Poems promoting English colonies in North America, 1583 EN: Hakluyt, Discourse promoting English colonies in North America, 1584 ____ 6 Failed Colonies 13 FR/SP: French & Spanish accounts of the Spanish attack on the French settlement of Fort Caroline, 1565 SP: Jesuit missionaries, Letter requesting food for the settlement of Ajacan (Chesapeake), 1570 EN: John White, Account of his attempt to rescue the Roanoke colonists, 1590 ____ 7 The Slave Trade 6 SP: Azurara, Accounts of European slave trade in west Africa, mid 1400s Online zoomable map (1) EN: Hortop, Description of English slave trafficking, 1591 SP: Mercado, Condemnation of the slave trade, 1587 EXPLORATION: Total Pages 129 * Page totals are the total printout pages of the texts, portraits, images, and information on historic structures. Maps are not included in the page totals as they are best viewed online in zoomable/enlargeable format. III. SETTLEMENT pages* ____ 1 First Arrivals 16 SP: Herrera, On Columbus’s first settlement (Isabella), 1493 Online artifact collections (3) EN: Percy, On the first months of the Jamestown colony, 1607 EN: Bradford, On the first months of the Plymouth colony, 1620-1621 ____ 2 Hardship 22 SP: Roldán, On hunger and rebellion in Hispaniola, ca. 1499 EN: Percy, On the “starving time” in Jamestown, 1609-1610 FR: Jesuit missionaries, Index of a year in New France (Canada), 1616 EN: Frethorne, Letter from Jamestown to his parents in England, 1623 EN: Clapp, Memoir of the settlement of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay, 1630 ____ 3 Q&As for Potential Settlers 23 EN: Winthrop, Reasons to plant a colony in New England, 1628 Online exhibition FR: LeJeune, Advice for emigrants to New France (Canada), 1636 DU: Van der Donck, Dialogue on the advantages of New Netherland, 1655 EN: Opposing views ⎯ Winslow, On the hardships of settling in New England, 1624 Denton, On the benefits of settling in New York, 1670 ____ 4 Instructions for Governors 13 SP: For the governor of Hispaniola from Ferdinand & Isabella, 1501 EN: For the leaders of Jamestown from the Virginia Co., ca. 1606 Online zoomable maps (3) EN: For the leaders of Maryland from Lord Baltimore, 1633 RU: For the governors of the Russian settlement on Kodiak Island (Alaska), 1786, 1794 ____ 5 Missions to the Indians 23 SP: Benavides, Report on the Franciscan missions in New Mexico, 1630 FR: Jesuit missionaries, Reports on the missions in New France (Canada), 1637-1653 ____ 6 Enslaved Peoples 4 SP: Las Casas et al., Accounts of enslaved Indians in the Caribbean, 1500s SP: Mendoza, Report on the planned revolt of enslaved Africans in Mexico, 1537 ____ 7 Go Ahead? 10 SP: Spanish officials, On abandoning St. Augustine and New Mexico, 1602-1611 FR: Biard, On the need to cultivate New France (Canada), 1616 EN: John Smith, On the failures of the Jamestown colony, 1624 SETTLEMENT: Total Pages 111 IV. PERMANENCE pages* ____ 1 Prosperity 16 SP: Settlers in New Spain (Mexico), Letters to relatives in Spain, 1500s EN: Ligon, On sugar production in Barbados, 1657 Online zoomable maps (4) EN: Alsop, On tobacco production in Maryland, 1666 FR: Lahontan & Hennepin, On the fur trade in New France (Canada), 1685, 1697 ____ 2 Cities & Towns 14 SP: Salazar, Tour of Mexico City, 1554 FR: Enraljan & Lahontan, Descriptions of Quebec City, 1676, 1684 EN: Turner, Letter to William Penn on Philadelphia, 1685 EN: “R. G.,” Report on the need for towns in Virginia, 1662 ____ 3 English Colonies I: New England Colonies ~26 EN: Wills of Plymouth colony settlers, 1621-1694 Portraits (4) EN: Minor, Journal entries from a farmer’s year, 1668-1669 Buildings (5) EN: Rowlandson, On her three-month captivity by the Wampanoag, 1682 EN: Cotton Mather, On the significance of the history of New England, 1702 ____ 4 English Colonies II: Middle Atlantic Colonies 13 EN: Pastorius, Account of the German settlers in Pennsylvania, 1684 Homesteads (3) EN: Frame, Poem on the progress of Pennsylvania, 1692 EN: Dongan, Report on the province of New York, 1687 ____ 5 English Colonies III: Chesapeake/Southern Colonies 18 EN: Berkeley, Report on the economic progress of Virginia, 1663 Portraits (2) EN: Horne, Prospectus and privileges for settlers in Carolina, 1666 Buildings (3) EN: Newe, Letters to his father from Charles Town (Carolina), 1682 Map, enlargeable (1) ____ 6 Servitude (Chesapeake Colonies) 15 EN: Alsop, Statement in praise of servitude, 1666 Indenture contracts (2) EN: Revels, A “sorrowful account” of servitude, poem, ca. 1680 EN: Court of Virginia, Punishments for a servant uprising, 1640 PERMANENCE: Total Pages ~102 * Page totals are the total printout pages of the texts, portraits, images, and information on historic structures. Maps are not included in the page totals as they are best viewed online in zoomable/enlargeable format. V. POWER pages* ____ 1 Imperial Rivalry I: Spanish-English in the Caribbean 7 SP/EN: Documents (11, brief excerpts), 1498-1670 Online zoomable maps (2) ____ 2 Imperial Rivalry II: Spanish-French in Tejas (Texas) 10 SP/FR: Documents (4, excerpts), 1684-1698 Online zoomable maps (2) ____ 3 Imperial Rivalry III: French-English in the Northeast 9 FR/EN: Documents (2, excerpts) on the 1680s-1690s, publ. mid 1700s Online zoomable maps (2) ____ 4 Colonial Rule 5 SP/EN/FR: Documents (3, excerpts) on emigration policies, 1511-1690 ____ 5 Colonial Rebellion (English Colonies) 22 EN: Barbados Declaration of Independence, 1651 EN: Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676: Bacon’s View EN: Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676: A Planter’s View EN: Cotton Mather et al., Boston Declaration of Grievances, 1689 EN: Publick Occurrences, A banned newspaper in Boston, 1690 ____ 6 Indian Relations 21 EN/NA: Statement of Virginia agent to the Oneida, and the Oneida response, 1679 NA: Iroquois leaders, Statements to governors of New York and Virginia, 1684 EN: William Penn, On the Leni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians, 1683 FR: French-Indian relations in New France (Canada) and Tejas (Texas), three accounts, 1673-1687 SP: Reff, Indian mortality in northwestern New Spain, 1500-1678 ____ 7 Indian Wars 18 SP: Medrano, Report on Indian raids and rebellions in northern New Spain, 1654 NA: Naranjo, Reasons for the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, 1680 NA: Easton, Wampanoag grievances against the New England colonists (Metacom’s War), 1675 EN: Increase Mather, Colonists’ perspective of Metacom’s War, 1676 FR: French official, Warning of impending Indian attack and rebellion in New France (Canada), 1687 ____ 8 Africans I: English Colonies 11 EN: Ligon, On master-slave relationships in Barbados, 1657 EN: Slave conspiracy in Barbados, broadside, 1692 EN: Anti-slavery petition of Quakers & Mennonites of Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1688 EN: Beverley, On servitude and slavery in Virginia, 1705; Virginia slave code, 1705 ____ 9 Africans II: Spanish & French Colonies 13 SP: Maroons and free blacks in the Caribbean, three documents, 1600s Images of slave labor (3) SP: Slave code for Havana, Cuba, 1574 FR: Slave code (Code Noir) for the French West Indies, 1685 POWER: Total Pages 116 TOTAL: 578 * Page totals are the total printout pages of the texts, portraits, images, and information on historic structures.
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