Museum Victoria is Australia's largest public museum organization and is responsible for the care of the state's collections and conducting research.

After studying Native American life in colonial times and comparing it to both stereotypes and truths about modern-day life for Native Americans, students create a book providing illustrations and information about past and present culture.

Learn about the life of Lucy Terry, poet, storyteller, and activist of colonial and postcolonial America.

Overview and biographical facts on the life of Thomas Hooker, Puritan colonial leader and founder of the Connecticut Colony.

Overview and biographical facts on the life of Peter Minuit, the Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans.

This site, which is provided for by WebMuseum, gives a short biography of the artist Stuart Davis and a gallery of 12 of his works.

Brief biography of artist Robert Feke, the early American artist who painted "Isaac Royall and his Family."

Provides information about life in the colonial village of Albany. Includes many resources about important structures, happenings, and people. A great resource for information on colonial America as a whole.

Daughter of Powhatan, a distinguished Indian chief, born in 1595; died off Gravesend, England, in March, 1617. Her early life was spent among the Indians in Virginia. In 1607 she became connected with the early history of America by...

This profile of Colonial American poet Anne Bradstreet reveals her life and art as a poet and includes links to selected poems.

A one-page summary of the life and philosophy of influential eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whose theories of government led him to sympathize with the American colonists against the British crown, to...

An informative exploration of the life of Simon Bolivar, the man known in South America as the "Liberator," because he led revolutions against Spanish colonial overlords in Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia.

Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...

Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...

Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...

Several examples of pots for coffee, tea, and chocolate from the colonial period. Learn how Americans adopted the practice of drinking coffee and tea, and how this practice affected society, daily life, and the decorative art created by...