These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY 201 (American History to 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

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Books in Our Library

• Black Yankees: the Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England [E185.917 .P54 1988]
• British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 [E18.82 .B75 2002]
• Captors and Captives: the 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield [E99.A13 H34 2003]
• Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 [REF KF8202 1999 v.1] - Primary source
• Facing East from Indian Country: a Native History of Early America [E98.F39 R53 2001]
• Fathers of New England: a Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths [F7 .A56]
• A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland [F1038 .F37 2005]
• King Philip’s War Narratives (March of America Facsimile Series, no. 29) [O-SIZE E83.67 .K5] - Primary Source
• Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin [E446 .B49 1998]
• Meeting House and Counting House: the Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763[BX7649.P5 T64]
• Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 [E445.N5 G7 1966]
• Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 [E445.S7 F37 1992]

To find books in the TC3 Library, search the Online Catalag. To find books in other libraries use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat. These books may be requested through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• America, Discovery and Exploration, English
• Great Britain, Colonies
• Indians of North America, Wars, 1600-1750
• Slavery, United States, History
• United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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Other Media

You can request materials from media services, which is located directly across from the library.

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - 1,200 images arranged in eighteen categories.

Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776 - "Complete, digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776."

Geography of Slavery in Virginia - "Digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th and 19th century Virginia newspapers."

New Georgia Encyclopedia - Has articles on History and Archaeology

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