MakingHistory

MakingHistory

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  • Pennsylvania a Poor Man's Paradise (1698)

    Source: "Pennsylvania, the Poor Man's Paradise" (1698), by Gabriel Thomas, in An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania, etc. (London, 1698). 23-45. https://archive.org/details/toldcontemporari02hartrich/page/64/mode/2up

     

    10 min
  • Life of a Southern Planter (1686)

    Source: Life of a Southern Planter (1686), by William Fitzhugh, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Richmond, VA), I, 30-396. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n321/mode/2up

     

    11 min
  • Early Pennsylvania (1683)

    Source: "The Infant Colony of Pennsylvania" (1683), by William Penn. Source: Samuel M. Janney, The Life of William Penn (Philadelphia, 1852), 246-249. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n573/mode/2up

     

    11 min
  • Treaties with Indians (1683)

    Source: Treaty-making with the Indians (1683), by William Penn, in  Samuel M. Janney, The Life of William Penn (Philadelphia, 1852), 244-246. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n577/mode/2up

    5 min
  • Pueblo Revolt (1680)

    Source: "How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission", by Edmund Nequatewa, in The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/openamlit/chapter/132/)

    10 min
  • Dutchmen in Boston (1680)

    Source: Two Dutchmen in Boston (1680), by Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter (Translated by Henry C. Murphy, 1867), in Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679-80, in Long Island Historical Society, Memoirs (Brooklyn, 1867), I, 377-395. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n515/mode/2up

     

    11 min
  • New York in 1687

    Source: "Condition of New York in 1687", by Thomas Dongan, in E. B. O’Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New-York (Albany, 1850), I, 101-117. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n561/mode/2up

    7 min
  • Why the Dutch Surrendered (1665)

    Source: Reply of the West India Company to the Answer of the Honorable Peter Stuyvesant (1666), in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York (edited by E. B. O’Callaghan, Albany, 1858), II, 491-503. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n557/mode/2up

    11 min
  • New England Opinion of the Dutch (1653)

    Source: New England Opinion of the Dutch (1653), by the Commissioners of the New England Confederation, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (edited by David Pulsifer, Boston, 1859), X, 12-25. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45493/page/n599/mode/2up

     

    12 min

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Making History is the top-level thing I do, as a historian, teacher, and writer. I create content, based on either original primary research or to present the findings of other historians to my…