Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature
The Eighteenth Century
The Avalon Project : 18th Century Documents
Religion
in Eighteenth-Century America
Religion and
the American Revolution
Bibliographies
of the War of American Independence
The
History Place: American Revolution
The
American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins
Liberty! The American Revolution
Samuel Adams, The
Rights of the Colonists
Elizabeth
Ashbridge, Some Account
The Adventures
of Colonel Daniel Boone
The Charles Brockden Brown Digital Project
"The project aims to make all of Brown's works accessible, and is preparing a print edition of Brown's uncollected writings, includinghis letters and non-fiction, for Kent State University Press; an electronic version of these writings, fully integrated with the BicentennialEdition of Brown's novels (1977-87) and searchable; and a selection of archival materials to support Early American collection interests at theUniversity of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.Site features include updated biographical and cultural information, bibliographies, archival images, planned volumes for the edition, teaching resources, and links to other pertinent sites."
The Charles Brockden Brown Society
"The Charles Brockden Brown Society was founded in 2000 as an international scholarly organization to stimulate interest in the life, the times, and the writings of Charles Brockden Brown and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information among Brown scholars and other interested persons."
Charles
Brockden Brown, Wieland
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Charles
Brockden Brown, Memoirs of Carwin
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The Writings of Jonathan Edwards
Select
Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
Christian Classics
Letters
From a Pennsylvania Farmer
The Federalist
Papers
Avalon Project, Yale Law School
The Federalist Papers
Federalist Papers
Benjamin
Franklin: A Documentary History
"Offers an in-depth look at the many phases of Franklin's life." J. A. Leo Lemay, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor, University of Delaware
The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin
The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin
Pages
of 1753 Poor Richard's Almanack
Pages
of 1759 Poor Richard's Almanack
Philip Freneau: "The Indian Burying Ground"
Patrick Henry - Give
Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty
or Give Me Death"
Patrick
Henry: The War Inevitable (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!)
Thomas Jefferson : A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of writings about him, 1826-1997
"This work contains annotations of writings about Thomas Jefferson from the time of his death in 1826 up to 1997. This bibliography includes the contents of two volumes previously printed by Garland Publishers, one in 1983 , the other in 1992, and thousands of additional annotations not included in the first two volumes."© 2001 Frank Shuffelton, editor
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, University of Virginia
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
The Monticello Plantation Database
The Monticello Plantation Database contains information on over six hundred people who lived in slavery on Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia plantations between 1774 and 1826. It provides details of life span, family structure, occupation, and the transactions of bondage (sale, purchase, gift, and hiring). There are also short biographies of individuals and accounts of various aspects of slavery at Monticello."-- Lucia Stanton, Shannon Senior Historian, Monticello
The Getting Word
The Getting Word website contains information on a project begun in 1993 to interview the descendants of Monticello’s African-American families. The seventy-odd pages of the website include biographical information on dozens of enslaved men and women (and their descendants) as well as plentiful photographs and the results of research in historical records and interviews with over 170 people."--Lucia Stanton, Shannon Senior Historian, Monticello
The Monticello Classroom
"The Monticello Classroom is a teacher-student website for elementary and secondary classroom use, a compilation of resources about Thomas Jefferson and life at Monticello."-- Lucia Stanton, Shannon Senior Historian, Monticello
Thomas Paine Common Sense
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The
American Crisis by Thomas Paine
Common Sense
"This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history."
The
Contrast: A Comedy Tyler, Royall
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
George Washington
Papers at the Library of Congress
George
Washington's Farewel Address
The Life of
George Washington By David Ramsay
ARCHIVING EARLY AMERICA®
The Apotheosis of
George Washington
Yankee Doodle
Poems Phillis
Wheatley
Renascence Editions
A Voice of Her
Own, Phillis Wheatley
Library of Congress
Journal
of John Woolman
Renascence Editions
Documents from
the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Library of Congress
The
Bill of Rights
National Archives
Constitution of the
United States
The Constitution of the
United States of America
The
Constitution of the United States
In
Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
A Century of Lawmaking
for a New Nation
Library of Congress
The
Declaration of Independence
National Archives
The
Declaration of Independence
The History Place