18th Century History in the Yahoo! Directory

Jay Treaty of 1794 (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../18th_Century/Jay_Treaty_of_1794
Vision of Human Progress
Lecture concerning the life and thought of Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet and their relation to the European idea of progress. Part of The History Guide.
www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture10a.html
Enlightenment, The
Outline of the development and major ideas of the European Enlightenment.
www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html
NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude
Companion to the PBS special about the quest for a method of determining a seafaring ship's longitude. Learn why ocean navigation depends on knowing what time it is.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude
C18-L
International, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies.
www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18
John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
The story behind the manufacture of John Harrison's marine timekeepers, which allowed early sailors to establish their longitude. Presented by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?show=conWebDoc.355&navId=005001001
About.com: 18th century
Information and resources about 18th century world history.
www.history1700s.com
Mutiny on the Bounty (13)
Learn about the Mutiny on the Bounty, a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship in 1789 which has inspired several books, films, and songs. Sites feature historical background, mutiny details, essays, photographs, film interpretations, and museum collections relating to the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty II. Also find sites for the fabled ship and William Bligh, the man who led the mutiny.
dir.yahoo.com/.../18th_Century/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Electronic archive of works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period.
eng.hss.cmu.edu/18th
Eighteenth-Century Resources
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th
Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th and 18th Century Europe
From The New York Public Library.
www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, The
Contains accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court from 1674 to 1834.
www.oldbaileyonline.org
Eighteenth Century Studies
This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies.
eserver.org/18th
Eighteenth Century England
Contains multimedia research projects on various aspects of 18th century cultural history. Created by literature students at the University of Michigan.
www.umich.edu/~ece
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789@
dir.yahoo.com/.../French_Revolution__1789_1799_/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen