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    • 16th to 18th Century History Articles
      Brief essays (more journalistic than scholarly) on newspaper coverage of early American history.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • American Weekly Mercury
      Transcriptions of selected issues of Philadelphia's first newspaper from February 1722 to July 1741. Also provides information about early newspapers and their operation, biographies, and related links.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Early Modern History
      As part of History Network of Virtual Library (University of Kansas) this site is the central catalogue of Early Modern History resources in the Internet.
    • 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.
    • Eighteenth-Century Chronology
      Important milestones in arts, science, and politics listed year by year from 1660 to 1800.
    • Eighteenth-Century England
      Multimedia cultural history research projects created by literature students at the University of Michigan.
    • 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.
    • Europe: 1715-1799
      Undergraduate essays by Donald Stark on eighteenth century European political and intellectual history.
    • 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.
    • History of Catalonia
      Contains sections on 18th Century Catalonia.
    • History of the Philippines
      Brief chronology of major 18th century events in the Philippines.
    • L'Age d'Or
      An impressive site containing a lot of information on both the French and English Baroque periods.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • The Enlightenment
      An article about the history and heritage of the movement. Covers England, America and the struggle in Europe.
    • The Jay Treaty
      Signed on November 19, 1794 with Great Britain to avert a second war with the colonies.
    • 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.
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