“Pocahontas in Perspective”
Caroline H. Cox, Department of
History
University of the Pacific
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Web Links
- http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
Website of the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities which owns operates
the site of the Jamestown
settlement for historic and
educational purposes.
- http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Pocahontas.html
Website run by Virginia Tech
and the University of Virginia
with a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities
to celebrate the 400th anniversary
of the settlement of Jamestown
(1607-2007). Site has a large
number of primary resources
such as indentured servant
contracts and letters home
from the first decades of
settlement.
- http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_037000_squanto.htm
Website of Houghton Mifflin
College division to support
a college text. This site
has an essay for their Encyclopedia
of American Indians and was
written by Neil Salisbury,
a famous historian of the
period.
- http://www.plimoth.org/
Website of Plimouth Plantation,
the historic site in Plymouth
Massachusetts, at which characters
have to continually role-play.
This website has many resources
for teachers and students.
Primary
Sources
Secondary
Sources
- Barbour, Philip. Pocahontas
and Her World. Boston,
1970
- Brown, Kathleen. “In
Search of Pocahontas.”
In The Human Tradition
in Colonial America.
Eds. Ian K. Steele and Nancy
L. Rhoden. Wilmington, DE,
1999.
- Rountree, Helen C. . Pocahontas’s
People: The Powhatan
Indians of Virginia through
Four Centuries. Oklahoma,
1990.
- Salisbury, Neil. “Squanto:
Last of the Patuxet.”
In The Human Tradition
in Colonial America.
Eds. Ian K. Steele and Nancy
L. Rhoden. Wilmington, DE,
1999.
- Tilton, Robert. Pocahontas:
The Evolution of an American
Narrative. New York,
1994.
Other
Titles
- Merrell, James H.
Into the American Woods: Negotiators
on the Pennsylvania Frontier
. W.W. Norton & Company
, 2000.
- Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many
Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade
Society, 1670-1870. University
of Oklahoma Press , 1983.
- Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect
God: George Washington, His
Slaves, and the Creation of
America, Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2003
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