AMERICAN LIT LINKS

Edgar Allan Poe

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!)

Size of the 13 colonies compared to other geographic regions.

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

• Historical views of his route

Theodore De Bry's Illustrations for Bartolome de Las Casas's Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

"America" engraving by Theodore Galle

Native American and Indigenous Histories Links

Early American Links