Octavian Nothing: Websites for Historical Context

Here are some websites to give you more historical context for Octavian Nothing:

digitalhistory.uh.edu
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/chron18.cfm

historyplace.com
www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html

theamericanrevolution.org
www.theamericanrevolution.org/tline.asp

The Massachusetts Historical Society
www.masshist.org/revolution

Historian Douglas Harper’s website “Slavery in the North”
www.slavenorth.com

The novel opens with a quote from Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education. Rousseau’s theories of “natural education” and the corrupting nature of society are explained at the following site:
www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm