Professor Sharon Kay Evanshine

History Web Site

History of the US to 1876

New World Encounters

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

The French, Dutch and English In North America

National Museum of the American Indian

 

The Colonial Experience

The Colonial Cycle (1589-1692)

Beginnings of Slavery in British America

Puritan New England

 

The Coming of the American Revolution

Virginia home of George Washington

Resolutions of the Stamp Act

The Boston Massacre

Battle of Lexington & Concord

 

The War of Independence  

Articles of Confederation

American Revolution

Africans in America

African American Voices  

        

The Constitution and the New Republic

The United States Constitution

Hamiltonians: Federalists

1796: The First Real Election

 

The Jeffersonian Era

The Home of Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's America & Napoleon's France

Jefferson and his Colleagues

War of 1812

 

The Age of Jackson

Missouri Compromise

Corrupt Bargain

 

America’s Economic Revolution

The Canal Age

The Early Railroads

 

The South and Slavery

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

The Underground Railroad

 

An Age of Reform

Antebellum America

William Lloyd Garrison

 

The Impending Crisis

Manifest Destiny

California Gold Rush

Kansas-Nebraska Act

 

The Civil War

The Homestead Act of 1862

Lincoln's Autobiographies of 1858-60

American Civil War

EyeWitness to History—American Civil War

Civil War Medicine

Civil War Women

Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet

 

Reconstruction and The New South

"Jim Crow" Laws

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

Fourteenth Amendment

The Compromise of 1877

Opposing views on Reconstruction