LINKS
Walt Whitman
- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Lilac/Star/Thrush Tracker)
- The Walt Whitman Archive
- Audio recording of Walt Whitman reading "America" from a wax cylinder
- A recording of a hermit thrush singing
- Image of a lilac
- The Western Star/Venus
Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine (UShitsory.org: offers full-text versions of major works that you can search)
- Thomas Paine Timeline
- Benjamin Franklin's letter to Paine on The Age of Reason (Thanks, James!)
Thomas Jefferson
- Tour of Monticello
- The Jefferson Digital Archive (UVa: a very comprehensive archive of Jefferson's letters, major works, and some digital images of the original documents. A great source for documents to search)
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers (Library of Congress: see digital images of handwritten documents. Limited offerings but provides access to his personal documents in a way that used to require physical travel and special permission).
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive (The Massachusetts Historical Society: offers digital images of handwritten catalogue of books owned by Jefferson, hundreds of architectural drawings, and his original draft of the Declaration of Independence)
- Thomas Jefferson Foundation Report on "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings."
Of Plymouth Plantation
- The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
- William Bradford Web Site
- A virtual tour of the Mayflower and their route
- The Mayflowr Compact (Bradford's handwritten transcription and a typed version)
- A pilgirm's view of Thomas Morton's Maypole
Cabeza De Vaca