Selected Internet Resources on Family History

Abstract

A Colonial Family and Community: . Targeted at grade school stu dents, this site, created by the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, examines the life of the Daggett family, who lived in Coventry, Connecticut, during the mid eighteenth century. Images of the Colonial Family and Beyond: . Family portraits and photographs help students visualize the changing nature of family life over time and encourage them to think about shifts in families' size and structure, gender and family roles, and emotional and power dynamics. Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender of CUNY, this site provides stu dents with artistic representations of American family life dating from the mid eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries, along with a series of discussion questions. Redefining Family at Colonial Williamsburg: . Produced by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, this site explores the lives of real colonial Virginian families and how they approached life passages such as courtship, marriage, birth, childhood, and death. Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America, by Christine Leigh Heyrman: . This site features one of a series of essays designed to help high school teachers of American history bring their students to a greater understanding of the role religion has played in the development of the United States. Placed online by the National Humanities Center, this project examines the role of religion in shaping relations between husbands and wives and parents and children in colonial America. Shifting Family Ideals The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modem Childhood, 1730-1830: . Based on an exhibit held at the University of California Berkeley and curated by James Steward, this site uses a variety of paintings to illustrate how many contemporary attitudes sur rounding children emerged in Georgian England.