Benjamin Franklin
http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html

The Franklin Institute Science Museum
http://www.fi.edu/

Rare Maps from Revolutionary America
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

American Revolutionary War Home Page
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bcortez/revwar/RevWeb.html

Declaration of Independence
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

Life of George Washington
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/gwlife/index.html
the original version of The Life of George Washington, written by historian David Ramsay, 8 years after Washington's death

Papers of George Washington
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/

George Washington's Mount Vernon
http://www.mountvernon.org/
The website is designed to capture the excitement surrounding Mount Vernon's  new 18th-century farm site, its archaeological finds and ongoing work,  and its extensive library with distinguished archive collections. Information about new exhibits, many special events, slave life and audio tours, the Mansion, gardens, museum shops and the Mount Vernon Inn restaurant can also be accessed.

George Washington Papers 1741-1799
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
The material is accompanied by a timeline, brief essays and a bibliography. Included in the collection are correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division holds 85-90% of extant Washington documents.

Constitution of the United States of America
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
This site contains the complete text of the Constitution of the United States of America. The text is presented in sections -- preamble, individual articles, signers, and amendments.

United States Constitution Search
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconser.html

United States Constitution
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
an electronic print of the complete U.S. Constitution with topic-related notes

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
http://www.monticello.org/

Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
Eyler Coates, Sr. maintains an excellent collection of Jefferson's sayings.

The Jeffersonian Perspective
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7970/index.htm

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/

The Jefferson Bible
http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
Thomas Jefferson sought to separate Jesus' ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels

Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson
http://www.ishipress.com/slaves.htm

Thomas Jefferson
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
site includes forums, a photographic essay on the pursuit of happiness, archives of Jefferson's writings and background on the making of the Ken Burns film

Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
http://www.lewisandclark.org/
The mission of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation is to honor the remarkable historic legacy of Lewis and Clark through research, education, preservation, promotion, and coordination.

One If By Congress, Two If By White House
http://www.oneifbycongress.us/
an electronic magazine dedicated to Jeffersonian Conservatism, the belief that the individual citizen is more important than the government

The Presidents

George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html

Biography of John Adams
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ja2/index.htm

John Adams
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/jo-ad.htm

John Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html

Thomas Jefferson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html

James Madison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html

James Monroe
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm5.html

Monroe Doctrine, The
http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/D/1801-1825/jmdoc.htm

John Quincy Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html

America's Chrisitan Rulers: John Quincy Adams
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0205_John_Quincy_Adams.html

Education of John Quincy Adams
http://www.forerunner.com/mandate/X0069_The_Education_of_Joh.html

Andrew Jackson
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/an-ja.htm

Andrew Jackson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html

Brief Biography of Andrew Jackson by Hal Morris
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jackxx.htm

Martin Van Buren
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/ma-v-bu.htm

Martin Van Buren
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mb8.html

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/mava/

William Henry Harrison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html

William Henry Harrison
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/whharrison.html

John Tyler
http://www.sherwoodforest.org/
Sherwood Forest located between Williamsburg and Richmond, Sherwood Forest Plantation was home to the 10th U.S. President, John Tyler.

John Tyler
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jt10.html

James Knox Polk
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jp11.html

James Knox Polk
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jkpolk.html

Zachary Taylor
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents//zt12.html

Remembering President Zachary Taylor
http://wfmu.org/~davem/docs/ztaylor.html
a fictional, unflattering biography

Zachary Taylor
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/za-ta.htm

Millard Fillmore
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mf13.html

Millard Fillmore
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/mi-fi.htm

Franklin Pierce
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fp14.html

Franklin Pierce
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fpierce.html

Pierce Manse
http://www.newww.com/free/pierce/pierce.html
the family home from 1842 to 1848 of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States and the only one from the Granite State

James Buchanan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jb15.html

James Buchanan
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jbuchanan.html

Abraham Lincoln
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

Abraham Lincoln
http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/ab-li.htm

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
http://www.fred.net/kathy/canal.html

Washington's Farewell Address, 1796 - Final Manuscript
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/farewell/

Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor
http://www.heidelberg.edu/FallenTimbers/FTCorridor.html

Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/

The Southern League
http://www.dixienet.org/

Democracy in America
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html

Descriptions of gender roles and women's lives
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/FEM/home.htm
in the early republic by foreign travelers in 1820s through 1840s

Tales of the Early Republic
http://www.earlyrepublic.net/
focuses on the 1830s-1840s. The intentions of this collection are:(1) to provide a resource for those who want to explore this exciting and formative time in U.S. history, and (2) to explore the potential of computer-based media to qualitatively change the nature of reading history.

Jackson, Andrew - Bank Charter Veto Message, July 10, 1832
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/writings/veto.htm

Trail of Tears
http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

Eli Whitney Museum
http://www.eliwhitney.org/

Northwest Journal
http://www.northwestjournal.ca/
the New Fur Trade Living History club devoted to Canada and the U.S., 1774-1821 which also publishes an excellent journal for re-enactors of the era
 

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