EARLY NATIONAL ERA WEB SITES
George Washington's Mount Vernon--This site illustrates Washington's life as a farmer and serves as an excellent tool for students to explore the nation's early farming practices.
Early Virginia Religious Petitions--A collaborative project between the Library of Congress and The Library of Virginia, this site includes more than 400 petitions submitted between 1774 and 1802.
Fort McHenry--This site provides music, images, and interactive maps of the famous fort and its famous song (the Star Spangled Banner).
The American Presidency in History--This site contains biographies of all American presidents, but for this period, we are concerned with Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation--This Library of Congress site documents the building of the nation's capitol and includes good text and visual materials.
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson--You can follow Thomas Jefferson through a typical day by visiting this site as well as explore the plantation and the grounds of Monticello.
The Louisiana Purchase Documents--These primary documents are from Yale University's Avalon Project.
The Louisiana Purchase--This site contains information about the purchase and images of the main participants in the sale.
The Louisiana Purchase: A Heritage Explored
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803--This site provides a "reference library" of diplomatic documents relating to the purchase.
Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507 to 1814--Tthis site traces the evolution of geographic views of North America from the first maps to represent the New World as continents to the beginning of French exploration in the Mississippi Valley.
Lewis and Clark (PBS Online)--You can lead the famed expedition by touring this site designed to accompany the Ken Burns film. Includes maps, an expedition timeline, and expert historians giving their thoughts on the expedition.
Discovering Lewis and Clark--This site highlights a 19-part overview of the expedition Journal selections, photographs, maps, moving pictures, and sound files compose this media-rich site.
Lewis and Clark @ National Geographic--This is a brief but good visual tour of the expedition; excellent listing o related resources.
The Life and Times of Martha Ballard--This excellent site invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard who lived from 1735 to 1812 (although her diary only covers the years 1785 to 1811). The site includes her diary as well as a great many additional primary sources.
The Erie Canal Online--A short overview and detailed map introduce this site that includes detailed journey descriptions from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
James Madison: His Legacy--This comprehensive site includes information about all facts of Madison's career; it even includes an online quiz!
The War of 1812--This site provides information about the events leading up to the war, the war itself (including maps and information about specific battlers), images of relevant historic buildings, and links to other sites about the War of 1812.
The War of 1812 in the Western District--This provides information about the importance of the War to Canada's history (the Western District is Upper Canada) and it reveals the long-standing relationship between the US and Canada.
The National Road--This privately-maintained site provides a nice, but brief, history of the building of the "Road Through the Wilderness."
The National Road Heritage Corridor--This site includes information, tours of historic homes, toll houses, and bridges along the road, and maps about the "the most historic transportation corridor, the road that built the nation."
The White House HIstorical Association--This site contains information about and images of the history about "the nation's house" and some of its famous residents. See the Learning Center for information about presidents and presidencies.
Africans in America (PBS)--America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860--This Library of Congress site provides over 100 pamphlets and books concerning the challenges faced by African Americans prior to emancipation.
This page is maintained by Vivian Bruce Conger,
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Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:32 AM