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