Henry+Hudson

Biography of Henry Hudson. [[image:henryhudson.jpg]]
[|Who was Henry Hudson?] From the Half Moon Press, 1996 >
 * Henry Hudson, from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [|Click here] to access the article.*
 * Henry Hudson, from the //Dictionary of American Biography// Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936.[|Click here] to access the article.*
 * Henry Hudson, from //Encyclopedia of World Biography//, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998. [|Click here] to access the article.*
 * Henry Hudson, from //Explorers and Discoverers of the World//. Gale Research, 1993. [|Click here] to access the article.*
 * Henry Hudson, from //Science and Its Times, Vol. 3: 1450 - 1699//. Gale Group, 2001. [|Click here] to access the article.*
 * Henry Husdon, from Wikipedia. [|Click here] to access the article.

//*Because these articles are from subscription databases, they are only available to members of the Phillips Academy community.//

//Additional Resources//
> > A brief biography of Hudson: [|www.columbia.edu/~lt165/hudson.html] > [|Hudson genealogy] - A link to genealogy of the Hudson family. Also see: > [|sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/hudson.htm] and: > [|www.mircscripts.com/hooleea/d0010/g0000078.html]
 * Watch a videoclip of [|Henry Hudson's last voyage]. (National Film Board of Canada)
 * [|The Last Journal of Henry Hudson:] a Short Story Based on Historical Events by Ian Chadwick
 * [|Explorer of the Hudson River] - A description by Half Moon Press, book publisher.

An essay on Hudson's "lost leadership": [|www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/yukon/henry_h.htm]

Was Hudson after gold on his final voyage, not a Northwest Passage? See the intriguing article by Carl Schuster from Beaver Magazine: [|www.historysociety.ca/english/thebeaver/features/aug99/hudson_1.html] A Canadian government site about Hudson: [| www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/kids/h3-1420-e.html] The PBS page on Hudson: [| www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/profiles/hudson.html] The [|Houghton Mifflin Ships of the World Historical Encyclopedia] article on Hudson's ship Discovery: [| Hudson River Maritime Museum] Julian Hawthorne's 1920 History of the United States has a [| chapter on Henry Hudson] here. An audio transcript that briefly describes Hudson's last voyage is available on the [| Atlas of Canada] site. Apple's [|Quicktime player] is required. The **History of New York State**, online edition has several chapters about Hudson's voyage [| here] and [| here] and [| here]. [| Scientific American] published an item on Hudson in 1909. [| Rivers of America], a 1939 book, had a piece on Hudson. The [| American Biography] site has an entry about Hudson. [| Edward Wright's "new map"] (published by Hakluyt in 1599) Excerpt about Hudson from [| Our County], a 19th century textbook. Chapters from [| How the Dutch Came to Manhattan], by Blanche McManus (1897) are online. A precis of the text of George Asher (see below) and John Meredith Read is at [| Famous Americans] Robert Juet is described as [| New York's first weather observer]. [| Passage Up the Hudson] contains parts of Prickett's journal. A page from the [| Stuyvesant Library] on Hudson's 1609 voyage (in Dutch). A history of Dutch Settlement in America (esp. Delaware) 1609-1636 is at [| Accessible Archives.] The [| Dictionary of Famous People] has an entry about Hudson and many of his contemporaries. including Van Meteren (also at [| Science Daily]). The [| Mariners' Museum] has a lot of biographies of explorers, including Hudson. Henry Hudson page at the [| IMA Hero reading program]