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• Witness to the Early American Experience. “The digital images of historical documents in this archive preserve the words of hundreds of eyewitnesses to the American Revolution in and around New York City. The letters, newspapers, broadsides, legal records, and maps presented here record events from the early years of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam through the British occupation of the city during the Revolution. Here you can explore the history of New York through the words of those who lived it”
• John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations. A joint project of the Library of Congress and The British Library, the John Bull and Uncle Sam exhibition brings together for the first time treasures from the two greatest libraries in the English-speaking world in an exploration of selected time periods and cultural movements that provide unique insights into the relationship of the United States and Great Britain. The Library of Congress and the British Library are unique among world cultural institutions in their range (more than 250 million items in the combined collections) and depth.

Sites on the U.S. Congress

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1873. From the Law Library of Congress.
• Journals of the Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress met from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The Second Continental Congress ran from May 10, 1775 to March 2, 1789. The Journals of the Continental Congress are the records of the daily proceedings of the Congress as kept by the office of its secretary, Charles Thomson.
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774–present. Searchable database with biographies, histories, and dates for all U.S. Congress members.

Biographical

• Colonial Williamsburg: George Washington
• Biography from Mount Vernon
• George Washington Picture Gallery
• The Life of George Washington, by David Ramsay, 1807. On-line copy of the book produced by D.E. Vitale, archivist.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: George Washington
• The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
• The Miller Center’s American President page on George Washington

Other Documentary Editing Projects

• The Association for Documentary Editing

George Washington Slept Here

• Mount Vernon. Home of George and Martha Washington.
• The George Washington Foundation. Caretakers of Ferry Farm, VA, and Historic Kenmore.
• The Moland House. Bucks County, Pennsylvania. George Washington was camped here, in August 1777 and the American flag first flew over American troops here.
• The National Park Service. George Washington Birthplace National Monument
• George Washington in Williamsburg
• Archive of Washington’s Writings on Berkeley Springs & Vicinity, 1748-1799

Historic Sites

• History is Fun: Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center.
• Sulgrave Manor is the ancestral home in England of George Washington’s family. The property is situated in the beautiful rural village community of Sulgrave, near to Banbury and about 30 miles from both Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford. It was bought by Lawrence Washington, a wealthy wool merchant and Mayor of Northampton, when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. Lawrence’s descendants lived for over 120 years (1539–1659) in the home that he built.

Washington and Politics

• The Internet Public Library: Presidents of the United States
• The Founders’ Constitution. Sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Liberty Fund. “In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.”

Washington and War

• The Council of American Revolutionary Sites (CARS)
• New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Experience. A series of pamphlets published by the New Jersey Historical Commission that discuss the state’s contributions to the war effort and explore life in New Jersey during the American Revolution.

Washington Papers

• The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
• The Writings of George Washington edited by John C. Fitzpatrick

Maps

• The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789. Hosted by the Library of Congress, the site features full-color maps from the Revolutionary era.
• The George Washington American Atlas. Yale University Library. For information about this collection, see the article “George Washington’s American Atlas” by Abraham Kaleo Parrish as well as “George Washington and His Maps.”

Martha Washington

• Information on Martha from Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg.

For Kids

• Learn About George Washington in a special program sponsored by the Library of Congress.
• Resources For Teachers and Students of Early American History

Links, &c.

• Eighteenth-Century Resources. Link portal including information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics.
• USHistory.org. History site created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia that focuses on colonial-era Pennsylvania.
• The Avalon Project. A collection of addresses, proclamations, and messages given by Washington.