MakingHistory

"A Declaration of the present State of Virginia humbly presented to the King’s most Excellent Majesty by the Virginia Company"

"Unmasked Face of Our Colony in Virginia as it was in the winter of the Year 1622", by Captain Nathaniel Butler.

Excerpts from Bradford's history of Plymouth describing their native ally, Squanto.

William Bradford's account of the reasons the Pilgrims left Leyden for America. 

How Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English and held for ransom, and how she married John Rolfe.

Excerpt from George Percy's "True Relation".

Champlain's adventures fighting with the Hurons against the Iroquois.

Difficulties faced by the English colonists at Jamestown.

Richard Hakluyt writes to persuade Queen Elizabeth I to consider financing a colony.

First proposal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific via the temperate region of North America rather than an Arctic passage. 

An account of Buzzards Bay (Cape Cod) and the people the English found there.

Robert Dale Owen and Charles team up to produce a new edition of Owen's book, Moral Physiology, incorporating content from each of their birth control books.

Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616) was an Anglican priest and author, best remembered for his promotion of English colonization of North America and his histories of exploration. In 1584, Hakluyt returned from Paris, where he had been secretary to the ambassador, Edward Stafford, and wrote this article to encourage Queen Elizabeth I and her ministers to invest in settling a colony in America as a way to...

An abridged account of Sir Francis Drake's expedition through the Straits of Magellan and up the coast of Spanish America during his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580.

Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was the second son of William Hawkins, an English sea captain who sailed between Africa and the Caribbean and helped institute the “Triangle Trade” in African Slaves. In this account, he tells the story of a voyage that ended with his defeat at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa. He was later commissioned as a privateer by Queen Elizabeth I and later, as treasurer of the R...

John Sparke visited Florida and wrote about what he saw. While some of his descriptions are fantastical (unicorns and three-headed monsters), his account includes interesting descriptions of the land and people, and tells us about what interested Englishmen exploring these regions.

Hernando De Soto explored the American southeast from 1539 to 1542 when he died of a fever and was buried in the Mississippi River. 

Captain Arthur Barlowe (1550-1620) left England in 1584 under instructions from Sir Walter Raleigh to find lands in North America to claim for Queen Elizabeth I. After stopping for supplies in the West Indies, he and Philip Amadas sailed up the Florida coast to North Carolina. Barlowe was very impressed with both the land and the people, which led to the settlement of Roanoke Island and later Virg...

A Primary Source account of Coronado's expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540.

A Primary Source account of a voyage to Africa and Brazil by William Hawkins in 1530.

Primary Source excerpt of possibly the first mention of America in print in English, in 1511.

A Primary Source account by two Italians writing from London, of Giovanni Caoboto's voyage from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1497.

Christopher Columbus’ diary of his first voyage. The original diary was lost, but Bartolomé de Las Casas claimed that his account contained lengthy quotes he had transcribed directly from Columbus. The account describes the determination of the “Admiral” to justify the trust placed in him by the Spanish monarchs as well as his first impressions of the people he met in the Caribbean. He describes t...

An American History Primary Source, originally from the Saga of Erik the Red , written about 1387. Text can be found at https://danallosso.substack.com/p/leif-eriksons-vinland. 

I believe Scott said the ANTI in Antinet stands for Alpha-Numeric Tree Index. It seems to me to be a very faithful reproduction of Luhmann's zettelkasten system, but not just for the sake of being faithful. Scott seems to have plugged some of the holes that make it difficult to get info back OUT of a note-taking system, whether it's digital or analog.   Scott's channel: https://www.youtube.co...