- Time-span
- 1500s - 1860
- Subscription Type
- SUBSCRIPTION
- Publisher
- Alexander Street
- Languages
- English
- Resource Types
- E-Books and E-Texts
- Description
- Early Encounters in North America is a collection of primary texts that provide evidence of encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in the New World. The texts focus on illustrating how humans interacted with each other and the environment. The texts were gathered from over 1,000 published and unpublished sources including online resources and microform. The full text of all of the sources is available. The sources date from the sixteenth century through up to the Civil War era. (Updated irregularly)