Subject Guide ~ American Indian and Indigenous Studies

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Includes material relating to the following people: Abigail Adams; John Adams; John Quincy Adams; William Alexander, Lord Stirling; John André; Benedict Arnold; Sarah Lyons Flucker Beaumez; James Bowdoin; James Buchanan; Aaron Burr; Pierce Butler; George Clinton; Sir Henry Clinton; Christopher Columbus; Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis; Stephen Arnold Douglas; Frederick Douglass; Millard Fillmore; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Gage; William Lloyd Garrison; Horatio Gates; Elbridge Gerry; Nathaniel Gorham; Ulysses S. Grant; François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse; Catharine Littlefield Greene; Nathanael Greene; George Grenville; Aurelia Hale; Alexander Hamilton; William Henry Harrison; Sam Houston; Andrew Jackson; Henry Jackson; John Jay; Thomas Jefferson; Andrew Johnson; Rufus King; Henry Knox; Lucy Flucker Knox; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; Charles Lee; Robert E. Lee; Pierre Charles L'Enfant; Abraham Lincoln; Benjamin Lincoln; Alida Schuyler Livingston; Robert Livingston; Thomas Livingston; James Longstreet; Catharine Macaulay Graham; Thomas Babington Macaulay; James Madison; Irvin McDowell; Alexander McGillivray; James Monroe; Gouverneur Morris; Samuel Morse; John Noyes; Robert Treat Paine; Thomas Paine; Edmund Pendleton.
Includes material relating to the following organisations: Continental Congress; Society of the Cincinnati; American Anti-Slavery Society; Democratic Party; Federalist Party; Republican Party; United States Military Academy (West Point)

A wide-ranging digital resource presenting a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection. Includes manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books, photographs and newspapers. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.

Original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources from the Graff Collection about the American West, including tales of frontier life, Native Americans, vigilantes, and outlaws, and the growth of urban centres and environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.

The Virginia Company Archives is an essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. It documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas, trade between Britain and America, the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia, and tensions amongst the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans.