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- 16th to 18th Century History Articles - Brief essays (more journalistic than scholarly) on newspaper coverage of early American history.
www.historybuff.com/library/refseventeen.html
- 18th Century History - A portal for the age starting with the Glorious Revolution and ending with the July Revolution. Provides timeline and feature articles on society, lifestyle, famous figures, and significant events.
history1700s.com/index.shtml
- 18th Century Life - an online magazine - an online magazine about everyday life in the 1700's. Published bimonthly, it contains sections on cooking, book reviews, a letters page for questions and comments, and features.
personal.globalnetisp.net/edkennedy
- C18-L's Selective Readings - An online running international bibliography of scholarly work in 18th-century studies in all disciplines. A volunteer project edited by Kevin Berland.
www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm
- Dictionary of Sensibility - A new approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language by collecting excerpts from primary texts of sensibility and scattering them among twenty four key terms.
www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/dictionary
- Dry Drunk - From the New York Public Library comes an in-depth exhibit and exploration of the culture of tobacco in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
- Early Modern History - As part of History Network of Virtual Library (University of Kansas) this site is the central catalogue of Early Modern History ressources in the Internet.
www-geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz
- Eighteenth Century Thought - Interdisciplinary annual founded for the purpose of supporting study of early modern thought, by publishing research pertinent the human sciences as they were conceived during the period.
www.eighteenthcenturythought.org
- Eighteenth-Century Chronology - Important milestones in arts, science, and politics listed year by year from 1660 to 1800.
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Chron
- Eighteenth-Century England - Multimedia cultural history research projects created by literature students at the University of Michigan.
www.umich.edu/~ece
- Eighteenth-Century Studies - This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
eng.hss.cmu.edu/18th
- First Foot Guards - Historical information of this regiment known as the Grenadier Guards, a redcoat regiment that served in America from 1776.
footguards.tripod.com
- History -- The 18th Century - The starting place to find information about the 18th century. Each link is hand picked by your guide. This site also maintains a bullettin board, chat, and a newsletter, all free.
history1700s.about.com
- History of Catalonia - Contains sections on 18th Century Catalonia.
www.gencat.es/historia/aindex.htm
- History of the Philippines - Brief chronology of major 18th century events in the Philippines.
www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/chrono3.htm
- L'Age d'Or - An impressive site containing a lot of information on both the French and English Baroque periods.
www.kipar.org
- Pierre Marteau's Publishing House - Articles and critical studies about books and publications in late 17th and early 18th century. Links to resources dealing with the period.
www.pierre-marteau.com
- Political Change and Conflict- Age of Revolutions - Unit 3 of an Entire World History Course that covers French and American Revolutions with emphasis on how revolutions occur.
killeenroos.com/3/calendar.html
- Recollections of An Old Soldier by Captain David Perry (1741-1826) - Memoir of Capt David Perry, MA provincial soldier (Ticonderoga, NY and NS); ranger in Canada (Quebec, NF); American patriot (CT); Northeast American/Canadian history - War of 1812; notes. Written for his posterity.
homepages.rootsweb.com/~dagjones/captdavidperry/captdavidperry.html
- The Enlightenment - An article about the history and heritage of the movement. Covers England, America and the struggle in Europe.
www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html
- The Jay Treaty - Signed on November 19, 1794 with Great Britain to avert a second war with the colonies.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/jay.htm
- Timeline of the 18th century - A chart of the major events in the 18th century.
digitalhistory.org/timeline.htm
- War and Society in 18th Century Germany: Documents - The Documents in German History Project is intended to make available material to students without the requisite language skills to study it in the original." A number of treaties, codes, and declarations in English and German.
www.ncl.ac.uk/~nhistory/german.htm
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