Early American History and Travel

The Randolph family, as they ponder the troubled year of 1774.

Here are some wonderful links to Early American History and Travel Sites!

Some general sites

• The Library of Congress An amazing resource for documents. Check it out!
• Index of Resources for Historians The folks at the University of Kansas have compiled an amazingly huge list of resources on the internet for historians of all fields!
• A good site for historical documents

  The First Americans

• Native Web

  The Enlightenment!!

  Come review our lecture on Jefferson's Monticello!

• Let's stroll up toward Monticello
• Let's go into The Entry way
• Let's go into The Library
• Let's stroll on into The Bedroom

Great external internet sites:

• Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns Hey! The web site of the surprisingly disappointing series. Not that great a web site either, BUT it has the transcripts of the interviews that Burns conducted. Go to the site and click on archives. Excellent reading. I particularly enjoyed reading Joseph Ellis , author of American Sphinx.
• Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History. A very extensive site on Franklin from the University of Delaware
• Williamsburg Online

  The Revolutionary and Early Republic Eras.

• Visit Madison at his home! Click here and go to Montpelier!
• Click here and listen to NPR's Weekend all Things Considered and this story on Montpelier and slavery: Connie Briscoe's Tales of Slavery The James Madison plantation in Orange County, Virginia was home to James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. The plantation, known as Montpelier, was also home to some 100 slaves. Very little has been documented about Madison's slaves, but an oral tradition has been handed down through the generations to their descendants. In her latest novel,A Long Way From Home Connie Briscoe explores the lives of three generations of African-Americans living at Montpelier.
• Mount Vernon, Home of George Washington
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
• Maryland Loyalists and the American Revolution Includes the loyalist response to the American Revolution
• Click here and listen to this great discussion about Alexander Hamilton: This is a wonderful discussion with Ray Suarez, on NPR's Talk of the Nation. In particular, listen to the points made by the historian Joseph Ellis and the excellent moderator Ray Suarez.
• Click here and listen to Jack Rakove discuss why we vote on Tuesdays on NPR's Morning edition
• Madison's record of the debates during the Constitutional Convention!!!
• The Jay Treaty

Slavery

• Slavery and the making of America: the transcripts
• Slavery and the Making of America: the website

The Civil War Era

• The American Civil War

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