Tradition and Change in Anglo-America
Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions
Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on "Race," Identity, and "Nation"
Missionary Voices in the Southwest



Tradition and Change in Anglo-America

Eighteenth Century Studies
This site provides links to electronic texts, mostly by British authors, but some Americans (Edwards, Franklin).
Eighteenth Century Resources
This extensive page with its own search engine provides information literature and history, electronic texts by indexed authors, and links to other pages on 18th century studies (as well as 17th and 19th century). Sarah Kemble Knight

William Byrd II

Artifacts and Pictures Relating to William Byrd II
This page includes links to primary documents on Byrd.
William Byrd II: The History of the Dividing Line Betweixt Virginia and North Carolina
This table of contents for a student project on Byrd includes links to analytical essays and primary materials on Byrd.

Jonathan Edwards

Writings of Jonathan Edwards
This site consists of electronic primary texts of four of Edwards writings.
Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
This site provides more primary electronic texts
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections in III Parts, by Jonathan Edwards
Another primary document by Edwards has been marked up here.
Jonathan Edwards On-line
This index provides an extensive collection of Edwards writings on-line.
Here's What's New
This site provides more electronic texts of Edwards works, divided by genre.
Jonathan Edwards; Theological Works
This site provides more electronic texts by Edwards.
Jonathan Edwards
This site provides a long biographical essay on Edwards life and work.

Elizabeth Ashbridge

John Woolman

The Wicked Bible of 1631
This short student essay discusses Woolman's Wicked Bible.
Welcome to the Quaker Writing Homepage
This index, divided into periods, consists of electronic texts of various Quaker writings including 3 by Woolman.
Journal of John Woolman
This electronic text is a primary document written by Woolman.

A Selection of Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions

Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
This site provides thorough biographical information, a timeline, and links to more Franklin resources.
Benjamin Franklin
This site provides a brief biography of Franklin and links to priamry sources by Franklin, including "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," "The 13 Virtues," "Autobiography" & "Poor Richard's Almanack"
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
This electronic version of Franklin's autobiography consists of the entire text and student analytical papers responding to the work.
Gopher Menu
This site provides an index of electronic texts by Franklin.
The Benjamin Franklin Centre
The homepage for a group restoring Franklin's house on Craven St,the site provides a good biographical essay and maps of the house.
Bright Ideas
This introductory page (one among many on the web) presents very basic backgorund information of Granklin, and a timeline of his life.

James Grainger

John Leacock

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

The Artist as Editor: Crèvecoeur's Dialogue
This college-student written analytical essay addresses the range of de Crèvecoeur's life and work, with quotations in French.
What is an American?
This site consists of the electronic primary text of "What is an American?"
Letters from an American Farmer
The table of contents page of this primary electronic text divides this work by each letter.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense
This electronic text includes both text version and enlargeable images of each printed original page.
The Rights of Man
This site consists of images ofthe first four printed original pages and an abstract of the work.
A Biography of Thomas Paine
This site, by the Thomas Paine Historical Association consists of a biographical essay with links in the text to electronic texts, including Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, American Crisis, and Rights of Man, sa well as information on names and events.
The Thomas Paine Library
This site has links to the electronic texts of Common Sense, Age of Reason, American Crisis.

John Adams and Abigail Adams

John Adams
This site, by the Internet Public Library, is part of a larger project of the Presidents of the United States, and consists of historical information, specific material on the presidency and election, and electronic texts of "Novanglus," Inaugural Address, "XYZ Affair," and "Thoughts on Government."

Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independence
This electronic text includes the primary document with a brief introduction explaining the Declaration's historical background.
Thomas Jefferson
This site provides links to other web sites on Jefferson.
Gopher Menu
This index consists of links to electronic texts by Jefferson.
Slaves, Jews, Jefferson, and Jesus
This analytical essay addresses the problematic nature and contradictions of Jefferson's life and morality.
Slavery and the American Revolution, from Chapter 4 of Coombs' Immigrant Heritage of American
This site provides an essay on the role of African Americans in early Amerian history.

Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads

The Liberty Song
This site provides the complete lyrics for this song.
Yankee Doodle
This site provides the complete original lyrics for this song.
An Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
This site provides the complete lyrics for this song.

Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on "Race," Identity, and "Nation"

Internet Resource for Students of Afro-American History - 18th Century
This index of electronic text links provides primary material on African Americans in the 18th century; the site also includes material from the 17th and 19th centuries.

Jupiter Hammon

An address to the negroes in the state of New York
This site provides the electronic text of this primary document.
Hartford Black History Projects; Great Minds, Great Deeds; Jupiter Hammon
This site includes a brief biographical essay and a llink to Hammon's "address to negroes in the state of New York."
Jupiter Hammon: A Selection of his Writing
This site includes a biographical essay on Hammon and a link to "A Selection of Hammon's Writings," consisting mostly of his poetry.

Samson Occom (Mohegan)

Briton Hammon

Prince Hall

Prince Hall History
This brief history of Prince Hall Masonry is one among a number of pages on Prince Hall Masonry with religious biases.

Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano - An Introduction
This site provides a biographical essay written by a student.
Olaudah Equiano
This site includes an essay on Equiano's life, and an index of links for more material on slavery or electronic texts by Equiano.
Olaudah Equiano; "They...carry off as many as they can seize"
This electronic text consists of excerpts from "The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano."
California Newsreel 4
This index of electronic texts provides excerpts from Equiano's "The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano."

Judith Sargent Murray

Judith Sargent Murray
This brief essay provides material on Murray's work and the themes addressed in her writing.

Philip Freneau

Philip Freneau
This essay provides a good overview of Freneau's ideas and life, and the major themes in his poetry.
Philip Freneau: The Indian Burying Ground
This site includes the electronic text of a Freneau poem with a brief introduction.
Pulse Profile Modeling of Accreting X-ray Binaries
This scientific site contains a Freneau poem at the bottom of the page.
"Rules for Changing a Republic into a Monarchy"
This site provides the elctronic text of this primary document within the text of an e-mail message.

Timothy Dwight

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley
This site contains a brief biography and links to images of the first two pages of "Poems on Various Subjects..." with a portrait of Wheatley.
Phillis Wheatley
This site includes a short biography of Wheatley and the electronic text of "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
Phillis Wheatley: Precursor to American Abolitionism
This site includes another biography and the electronic text of a Wheatley poem.
A Letter from Phillis
This electronic text also includes an image of the primary document original
A Voice of Her Own
This site provides a brief biography and links to enlarged images of the first three pages of "Poems on Various Subjects..."
Gutenberg Project Files - W
Project Gutenberg contains a file called "Religious and Moral Poems" that can be downloaded.
African American Journey: Wheatley, Phillis
This site provides a short biographical essay of Wheatley.
An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr Samuel Cooper
This site provides the electronic text of this primary source by Wheatley.

Lemuel Haynes

Hartford Black History Project; Emerging from the Shadows. Lemuel Haynes
This site provides an introductory biography, and links off of a page that discusses the African American role during different historical periods

Joel Barlow

History of Joel Barlow
This site contains a thorough essay on Barlow and his poetry and links to electronic text excerpts from "Visions of Columbus."
The Reluctant Envoy
This long essay details Barlow's life
This Day in Diplomacy: Anniversary of the Release of the Algiers Hostages
This statement by Burns of the State Department in 19996 discusses Barlow's role in Algiers history

Royall Tyler

Gutenberg Project Files - T
The Gutenberg Project provides Tyler's "The Contrast" to be downloaded.

Hendrick Aupaumut

The Grant of Marshfield, Vermont, to the Stockbridge Indians
This primary document is a charter signed by Aupaumut.
The Canandaigua Treaty
This electronic primary text was an agreement signed between the US and the Iroquis Confederacy and was signed by Aupaumut; it is preceeded by a short introduction.

Hannah Webster Foster

Material Culture in Colonial American
This site contains images of colonial headstones and an essay on Foster's "The Coquette" as well as other materials.

Susanna Haswell Rowson

The Project Gutenberg Etext of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
This site includes the electronic text of Rowson's Charlotte Temple, preceeded by disclaimer material
Charlotte Temple; Susanna Haswell Roswson
This site provides the elctronic text of Charlotte Temple, without any of the disclaimer material.

Charles Brockden Brown

Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions

Liberty and Limits; The Federalist Papers
This site provides electronic texts of nine of the Federalist Papers by Hamilton and Madison.
Liberty and Limits
This site consists of historical information on federalism, links to other resources, essays, and discussion of the modern application of federalsim.
Historical documents
This site provides the complete electronic text of the Federalist Papers and Constitution; it is one among many sites that use the Gutenberg Project's text.
Thomas Jefferson
This site provides the Federalist essay on Federalism vs Republicanism during Jefferson's presidency.
About the Federalist Papers
This essay presents a brief but thorough explanation of the writing of the Federalist Papers and the ideas expressed therein.
Herbert J. Storing; What the Anti-Federalists Were For
This summary of a book presents the aims of anti-federalists (not a commercial site).
The Anti-Federalist Papers
This site contains the electronic text of the responses to the Federalist Papers.

Missionary Voices of the Southwest

Mision San Francisco de Assis (Mission Dolores)
This short essay discusses the founding of the mission.
Mission was slated for Ossos
This short essay, containing a quote by Palou, also discusses the founding of a mission.

Fray Carlos José Delgado

Francisco Palou