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)