Handout
Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Peter Stuyvesant

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview and biographical facts on the life of Peter Stuyvesant who was involved in the early colonization of America and the Dutch New York Colony.
Website
Other

Fales Library and Special Collections: Jacob Leisler Papers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource chronicles the life and times of Jacob Leisler, "a political figure [who] played a major role in the North American world of European settlements in the seventeenth century," and leader of the Leisler's Rebellion.
Primary
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Benjamin Banneker

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the life of a brilliant colonial American who was a mathematician, astronomer, inventor, surveyor and writer. (In Spanish)
Website
BBC

Bbc: History: Edmund Burke (1729 1797)

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Stuart Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Graphic
Curated OER

Portrait Showing Edmund Burke

For Students 9th - 10th
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...