History Web Links:
Early National Period 
of the United States, 1789-1820
Dr. Chris Schutz, Tennessee Wesleyan College

 
 
PBS website on Lewis and Clark expedition
George Washington's first inaugural address, 1789 (image of original and a tyyped transcript)

 
Slavery in the Early National Period
1788 account of  slave ship surgeon Alexander Falconbridge's observations
on the slave trade