History Web Links:
Revolutionary Era America, 1760-1789
Dr. Chris Schutz, Tennessee Wesleyan College

 
 
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
"Founding Fathers"
PBS website on Benjamin Franklin
PBS website on George Washington
PBS website on Thomas Jefferson
Univ. of Virginia website on James Madison (including several documents)

 
 
Excerpts from Thomas Paine's Common Sense, a primary inspirational
document for the American Revolution
image of the original Articles of Confederation document (and a typed transcript)