HIST 105 American History I

Fordham University online access to the American Independence project includes documents on the history of the American revolution.

A documentary history since 1764-1783.

Through this website, you will be able to read and search through thousands of records from Alexander Hamilton as well as records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic.

The Boston Massacre Historical Society website, a digital gateway to the famous event.

National Archives project. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 181,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

Research Materials about George Washington, the Culper Spy Ring, and the American Revolutionary War. From Stony Brook University.

The Massachusetts Historical Society is one of the nation’s most respected research libraries. Our extraordinary collections provide an unparalleled record of American history and are enjoyed by scholars and the public alike. The MHS possesses a remarkable assembly of personal papers of three presidents, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The collections also contain accounts of the lives of thousands of ordinary Americans.

The Museum of the American Revolution has an impressive collection of several thousand objects, works of art, manuscripts, and printed works from the period of the American Revolution. The collection includes objects that span the scope of the war—from British, French, and American arms used in battles to a soldier's wooden canteen branded "UStates," at a time when the phrase was merely an aspiration.

National Archives: American Revolution

Yale University project. Forty-two volumes have been published to date. The entire edition is projected to reach 47 volumes and will publish in full or in abbreviated from the total corpus of Franklin’s approximately 30,000 extant papers.

Columbia University project. The Papers of John Jay is an image database and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000 page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents.

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 presents this collection of more than 42,000 documents in a free, online format with extensive and searchable metadata linked to digitized images of each document, thereby insuring free access for a wide range of users. Scholars will find new evidence on many subjects in the history of the Early Republic, from the handling of Indian affairs, pensions and procurement to the nature of the first American citizens’ relationship with their new Federal government.

National Archives and various university and trade presses have been editing and publishing the papers of different American Presidents and their Associates for years. University of Virginia provides access.