The Autobiography Benjamin Franklin
This is an electronic version from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
From the Franklin Institute.
The Electric Ben Franklin
Primary source material, narratives, activities, interactive games, streaming videos, 360° interactive panoramas, and pictures.
1755: French and Indian War
APVA Jamestown Rediscovery
The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project. The APVA has found James Fort which had been thought to have washed into the James River.
Archiving Early America: Historic Documents from 18th Century
The main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago.
Colonial Williamsburg
Restored 18th-century city. Capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779.
The Early America Review
A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America.
French and Indian War Magazine
Mayflower Hill Archaeological Project
Archaeological work on Colby's Mayflower Hill campus. Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
The New Haven Burying Ground
A Brief History and Discussion of the Grove Street Cemetery.
Town Criers
The American Guild of Town Criers.
Virginia Colonial Records Project
Shays' Rebellion
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
As its contribution to the 500th Anniversary of The Encounter of Two Worlds, Millersville University of Pennsylvania created and installed The Computerized Information Retrieval System (CIRS) on Columbus and the Age of Discovery in 1989.
A joint research project of the History Department and Academic Computing Services, CIRS is a text retrieval system containing over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes.
Daniel Boone: Myth and Reality in American Consciousness
A project that attempts to provide a cross-section of Boone portrayals, and attempts to place their points of view in historical context, based on the idea that a culture's myths and heroes explain who they are, and the true historical personages are less important than the image they become. University of Virginia.
Ian Chadwick's Biography of Henry Hudson
Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
A collaborative effort of the Library of Congress, the Institución Colombina and National Library of Spain. The site features maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress. These selected items relate to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898. In English and Spanish.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Also includes the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
First Federal Congress Project
Publisher of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791, and research center on the most important and productive Congress in U.S. history. George Washington University.
George Washington's Journal
Archiving Early America presents the March 21, 1754 (1.2 MB) and March 28, 1754 (827K) editions of the Maryland Gazette featuring Major George Washington's Journal.
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia.
The James Madison Center
Comprehensive coverage of Madison and his times. James Madison University.
Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia
The Papers of James Madison, housed at the University of Virginia, was established in 1956 to publish annotated volumes of the correspondence and writings of James Madison, the Virginia statesman remembered for his public service as "Father of the Constitution" and as fourth president of the United States.
Biography of John Adams
American Revolutionary War 1777 -- The Philadelphia Campaign
Betsy Ross Homepage
Brandywine Battlefield Homepage
Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Commodore John Barry, "Father of the American Navy."
The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Crockett's Battalion
The Declaration of Independence
This site provides a wealth of information about the signers of the Declaration, the history of the Declaration, and an online version of the Declaration for you to read
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
Library of Congress
Dunlap Broadside
One of twenty-four surviving copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence done by Philadelphia printer John Dunlap in the evening of July 4. These rare documents are known as "Dunlap Broadsides" of the Declaration of Independence. Library of Congress exhibit.
Friends of Moland Park
The Moland House - George Washington's headquarters on August 10, 1777, where the Marquis de Lafayette joined the American Revolution. Warwick Township, Pennsylvania.
From the diary of Albigence Waldo, surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777
HMS Rose
Based in U.S., Revolutionary War significance.
Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 Selected Documents
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Springfield Armory
Statistics of the Siege of Yorktown, 1781
A compilation of statistics regarding the Siege of Yorktown.
The Road to Independence
Valley Forge Historical Society
Valley Forge National Historical Park
National Park Service
Bill of Rights and Amendments
Rutgers
The Constitution of the United States of America
Magna Carta and Its American Legacy
National Archives and Records Administration.
Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia
The Papers of James Madison, housed at the University of Virginia, was established in 1956 to publish annotated volumes of the correspondence and writings of James Madison, the Virginia statesman remembered for his public service as "Father of the Constitution" and as fourth president of the United States.
The U.S. Constitution: The Delegates
National Archives and Records Administration
The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Traces Jefferson's intellectual development from his earliest days in the Piedmont to an ever-expanding realm of influence in republican Virginia, the American Revolutionary government, the creation of the American nation, and the revolution in individual rights in America and the world. A Library of Congress Exhibition.
Thomas Jefferson, An Act Establishing the University (1819)
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper (1817)
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Answer to Bishop Llandaff
Examination of the Prophecies
The Existence of God
Origin of Free-Masonry
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, (1793-1809). This website contains these works: Common Sense, The Crisis, The Rights of Man and Age of Reason.
World History Compass
