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Web links for this program are listed below. Text-based resources are listed in the Program 2 Bibliography.

John Winthrop

John Winthrop
http://dylee.keel.econ.ship.edu/ubf/leaders/winthrop.html  
A biography of John Winthrop. Includes excerpts from his writings.

PAL: John Winthrop
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/winthrop.html  
A portrait of Winthrop, with links to a brief chronology of his life, a selected bibliography, etc.

Winthrop's Sermon " A Model of Christian Charity"

John Winthrop
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/winthrop.htm  
A page of Winthrop related links. Includes a biography, a timeline, a description of Winthrop papers as well as the actual papers.

John Winthrop (1588-1649)
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/w/winthrop1718.htm  
A page of links to John Winthrop sites. Includes a link to A Modell of Christian Charity.

Increase Mather's Sermon, "The Day of Trouble is Near"

Biography of Increase Mather
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_INC.HTM  
An Increase Mather biography with a link to his portrait.

Increase Mather - Remarkable Providences - An Essay For the Recording of Illustrious Providences, (Boston, 1684)
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/matherrp.html  
A Mather biography and the text of An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences.

Shifting Signs: Increase Mather and the comets of 1680 & 1682
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/willmath.html  
Excerpts and analysis from Mathers', Heaven's Alarm to the World and The Voice of God in Signal Providences, (1682).

Powhatan

Powhatan Renape Nation - Rankokus Indian Reservation
http://www.powhatan.org/  
The home page of the Powhatan Renape Nation. Includes links to information on festivals, accommodations, and Powhatan history.

The Object at Hand - Smithsonian Magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/object_jan99.html  
A history of Pocahontas and Powhatan.

John Smith

Virtual Jamestown - John Smith (1579-1631)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/jsmith.html  
A biography of John Smith, with a bibliography and illustrations.

Statue of John Smith
http://www.apva.org/tour/jsstat.html  
A biogrpahy of John Smith with a photo of his statue.

Captain John Smith
http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html  
A biography and a portrait of John Smith

Life of Captain John Smith
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/JSmith.html  
A biography of John Smith.

Virginia Records Time Line
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjvatm2.html  
An illustrated Virginia history timeline, with a reference to John Smith.

Opechancanough

Chronology of Indian Activity
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/IndinAct.html  
A chronology of Jamestown, Virginia, and an Indian history with references to Opechancanough and his life.

Jamestown Society History
http://www.jamestowne.org/Jamestowne_Society_Chronology.htm  
A site with links to pages on Jamestown History. Link to Survival for a reference to Opechancanough.

Virginia Records Time Line
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjvatm4.html  
An illustrated Virginia history timeline with reference to Opechancanough.

Pocahontas

Pocahontas
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html  
A biography and a portrait of Pocahontas.

Baptism of Pocahontas
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/baptism_pocahontas.cfm  
The painting Baptism of Pocahontas, by John G. Chapman, located in the U.S. Capitol.

Four Faces of Pocahontas
http://www.co.henrico.va.us/manager/History/pokeypix.html  
Biographical information on Pocahontas, and four portraits.

Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/Pocahnts.html  
A biography of Pocahontas, with a bibliography and related links.

Roger Williams

Today in History: February 5
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb05.html  
Biographical information on Roger Williams, with illustrations and related links, including links to maps and sermons.

Anne Hutchinson

Today in History: July 20
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul20.html#hutchinson  
Biographical information on Anne Hutchinson, with a copy of The General Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Also covers the Seneca Falls Convention.

Early American Literature to 1700 - Anne Marbury Hutchinson - (1591-1643)"
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/hutchinson.html  
A biography and a selected bibliography on Anne Hutchinson.

William Berkeley

Africans in America/Part 1/Bacon's Rebellion
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p274.html 
An overview of William Berkeley's role in history and of Bacon's Rebellion.

Nathaniel Bacon

Thomas Jefferson Papers
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/nbacon.html  
A three-quarter length portrait of Nathaniel Bacon.

Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/beverley.html  
The text of Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion, with a 'note' that links to background information.

Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/bacon_rebel/bacon.htm  
A transcription of Bacon's Declaration.

Bacon's Rebellion
http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm  
A history of Bacon's Rebellion.

Virginia Records Time Line
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjser8.html  
The story of Bacon's Rebellion within a Virginia history timeline.



  

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