http://www.biographi.ca/en/article/explorers
A collection of educational resources based on the biographies of the explorers Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. All resources are available in both English and French.
The Codex Mendoza was created under the orders of Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to evoke an economic, political, and social panorama of the recently conquered lands. It was made in 1542 and since 1659 it has been in the collection of the Bodleian Library. This digital edition of the Codex Mendoza represents the first attempt to create a digital resource that permits in-depth study of a Mexican codex.
Project on the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA)
The goal of the Project on the Engraved Sources of Spanish Colonial Art (PESSCA) is to document the effect of European prints on Spanish Colonial Art. To reach its goal, PESSCA has been pairing colonial works of art with their engraved prototypes and posting them online. As of now, PESSCA has gathered more than 5000 such pairings.
Marguerite de Roberval: A Web-Based Approach to Teaching a Renaissance Heroine
This resource offers approaches to teaching Marguerite de Roberval, a young French woman who survived being marooned on a perilous island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence during the sixteenth century. She was the inspiration for three published works in Renaissance France and numerous other accounts since then.
Digital Collections for the Classroom: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World
Classroom-ready, primary-source documents relating to Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko and the Atlantic slave trade from the Newberry Library collection.
Early Americas Digital Archive
EADA is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Digital Collections for the Classroom: Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America
Website presenting maps of North America from the 16th to 19th centuries, including primary-source documents from the Newberry Library collection.
Mesolore is a bilingual resource for scholars and students of Mesoamerica. It includes interactive indigenous documents from Central Mexico and Oaxaca such as the Codex Nuttall (c.1500).
A digital memorial of the slave trade that includes maps, timelines, several databases with visualization and statistics, teaching resources, and multi-media essays.
Archive of Early American Images
A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
