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Curated OER

National Park Service: New Bedford Whaling Historical Park: History & Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This national park site offers insight into the economic stimulus whaling brought to New England and has left behind a strong history for that region.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: New Bedford Whaling Historical Park:technology&business

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the many products obtained from whales, how the whales were hunted, and how the business of whaling was run. This dangerous business brought riches to New England for about a century.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Plymouth

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Puritans who facing religious persecution in England set sail for the New World establishing the colony at Plymouth.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony and Rhode Island. The internal and external struggles with these colonies is discussed including the Salem Witch Trials, King Philip's War,...
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: Puritanism in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Good overview of the beliefs, theology, church membership, and literary style of the Puritans. Contains a good bibliography for more resources.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period of American History

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive information about the colonial period of American History. Includes information about New England, colonies, government, people, The French and Indian War, and the Salem Witch Trials.
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University of Maryland

Early Americas Digital Archive: Anarchaid. A New England Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Anarchaid" a New England Poem written by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and D. Lemuel Hopkins in 1786.
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Brown University

John Carter Brown Library: Champlain's America: New France and New England

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by Samuel de Champlain. It discusses Champlain's determination and drive to explore North America, and to plant French roots in the Canadian landscape. Images of...
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Other

New England Aquarium: Amazing Jellies

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about jellies by examining their life cycle, their anatomy, playing a game, and exploring the information resources.
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US National Archives

Nara: America on the Homefront: Selected World War Ii Records in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Brilliant look into life on the homefront during World War II. See radio spots rationing and controlling prices, wartime research, defending the homefront, and more. Many of the links are .pdf documents.
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University of Notre Dame

History of American Education: New England Primer

For Students 9th - 10th
Short background, history, and explanation of the New England Primer with an example of the alphabet rhyme.
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Victorian Web

Brown University: Victorian Web: Puritanism in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the founding of the New England colonies by both Pilgrims and Puritans.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: New England Primer

For Students 9th - 10th
Taken from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes. This is just one section of that book which discusses the New England Primer.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: New England Cottontail

For Students 4th - 8th
New England Cottontails forage alone, and groom themselves but not each other. They feed on grasses and clover in the summer, and when those are not available, turn to twigs and forbs. Learn more about the Sylvilagus transitionalis, more...
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: In Old New England

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Hezekiah Butterworth's In Old New England has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The New Englander" by American author Sherwood Anderson. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Other

New England Soil Profiles

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal website includes several New England soil profiles. Each of the profiles is presented with its location and a brief description.
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US Army Center

U.s. Army Center of Military History: New England in Arms

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed explanation of the organization of British and Revolutionary forces at the start of the American Revolution.
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Other

Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand Peoples

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the many peoples who make up the population of New Zealand! Who were the first inhabitants? Where did they come from? When did Europeans discover this faraway land? Who immigrated to New Zealand, and why? Answers to all of these...
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Architecture of New England,southern Colonies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describes the chronology of architectural design in New England and the South and what the architecture revealed about class building techniques. Includes ideas for instructional activity activities.
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Other

New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
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Other

Bruce Dorsey Syllabus: A Letter From a Gentleman of the City of New York (1689)

For Students 9th - 10th
A primary source document in the form of a letter that describes Leisler's Rebellion. "Leisler's Rebellion sparked a division among New Yorkers that largely followed ethnic and class lines."
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: Puritanism in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of Puritan beliefs, with an extensive bibliography that you can use to further your study of the Puritan people.
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Digital History

Digital History: Founding New England

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at Squanto, the Native American who aided the Pilgrims as they settled Plymouth Colony.

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