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FOUNDING FATHERS & MOTHERS
websites
The following websites have been pre-approved for this particular project.
If you are in need of additional web resources, use REAL to determine whether or not a website is reliable
(REAL cheat sheets are available in the SAMS Media Center).
**DON’T FORGET TO WRITE DOWN YOUR SOURCE INFORMATION!
Feel free to print out any Webpages that you may need to refer to later.**
GENERAL sites (cover multiple individuals)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/presidents.php
 America’s Story from America’s Library: U.S. Presidents
 John Adams
 Thomas Jefferson
 James Madison
 George Washington
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohdr2.cfm
 Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/index.htm
 The Connecticut Society of the Songs of the American Revolution: Patriots
 Captain Nathan Hale
 Thomas Paine
 Paul Revere
 Roger Sherman
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
 IPL (Internet Public Library: POTUS: Presidents of the United States
 American Presidents
http://millercenter.org/president
 Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
 American Presidents
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/index.htm
 From Revolution to Reconstruction…Biographies
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http://www.masshist.org/bh/bios.html
 The Massachusetts Historical Society
 John Adams
 Abigail Smith Adams
 John Quincy Adams
 Joseph Palmer
 Mercy Otis Warren
 James Warren
 John Burgoyne
 Israel Putnam
 Joseph Warren
 Peter Brown
 John Waller
 Nathaniel Ober
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies
 National Women’s History Museum (NWHM)
 Abigail Adams
 Sybil Ludington
 Dolley Madison
 Eliza Lucas Pinckney
 Mercy Otis Warren
 Phyllis Wheatley
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html#people
 PBS
 Abigail Adams
 John Adams
 Samuel Adams
 Benedict Arnold
 Benjamin Franklin
 Alexander Hamilton
 Patrick Henry
 Thomas Jefferson
 James Madison
 Mercy Otis Warren
 Thomas Paine
 George Washington
 Phyllis Wheatley
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http://www.clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/spies/people.html
 Spy Letters of the American Revolution: From the Collections of the Clements
Library
 Benedict Arnold
 Paul Revere
 George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents
 The White House
 The Presidents
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies
 The White House
 The First Ladies
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/
 National First Ladies’ Library
 The First Ladies
SPECIFIC sites (individuals listed alphabetically)
Adams, Abigail
http://www.masshist.org/adams/abigail_adams
Massachusetts Historical Society
Adams, John
http://www.masshist.org/adams/john_adams
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Adams__John.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Adams, Samuel
http://georgewbushwhitehouse.archives.gov/kids/dreamteam/samueladams.html
White House Kids
Allen, Ethan
http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/history.html
The Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
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Arnold, Benedict
http://home.nps.gov/york/historyculture/arnoldbio.htm
National Park Service
http://www.history.navy.mil/muexhib/lakech-7.htm
U.S. Navy Museum
Arnold, Peggy Shippen
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Shippen__Peggy.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
http://amrevmuseum.org/blog/peggy-shippen-treacherous-beauty
Museum of the American Revolution
Burr, Aaron
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande01.html
PBS
Franklin, Ben
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/
PBS
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Franklin__Benjamin.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Freeman, Elizabeth (a.k.a. Mum Bett)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p39.html
PBS
Greene, Catherine (or Catharine) Littlefield
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2711
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Greene, Nathanael
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2556
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Hale, Nathan
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2007-featuredstory-archive/nathan-hale.html
CIA
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http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=885&q=246500
The Official State of Connecticut Website
Hamilton, Alexander
http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/
The New-York Historical Society
Hancock, John
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_hancock_1.html
America’s Story from America’s Library
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/hancock.htm
Independence Hall Association
Hays, Mary Ludwig (a.k.a. Molly Pitcher, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley)
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Pitcher__Molly.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20130302/NEWS01/303020032?nclick
_check=1
Courier-Post
http://www.biography.com/people/molly-pitcher-9390922
Biography.com
Hemings, Sally
http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/sally-hemings
Monticello (the home of Thomas Jefferson)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/cron/1977wolf.html
PBS: The Sally Hemings Story
Henry, Patrick
http://www.redhill.org/biography.html
Red Hill: Patrick Henry National Memorial
Jay, John (Chief Justice John Jay)
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court/chief-justices/johnjay-1789-1795/
The Supreme Court Historical Society
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay/biography.html
Columbia University Libraries
Jefferson, Thomas
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson
Monticello (the home of Thomas Jefferson)
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Jefferson__Thomas.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Jones, John Paul (Captain John Paul Jones)
http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/jones_jp.htm
Naval History and Heritage Command
Knox, Henry
http://knoxmuseum.org/knoxbio.html
Montpelier: The General Henry Knox Museum
http://www.nps.gov/york/historyculture/knoxbio.htm
U. S. National Park Service
Livingston, Robert
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/livingston.cfm
Architect of the Capitol
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Livingston__Robert.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Ludington, Sybil (or Sibbell, Sebal, Sebil)
http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01901.html
American National Biography Online
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=24513&Print=1
The Historical Marker Database
Madison, Dolley
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Madison__Dolley.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
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http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/
The Dolley Madison Project
Madison, James
http://www.montpelier.org/james-and-dolley-madison/james-madison
James Madison’s Montpelier
Mason, George
http://www.gunstonhall.org/georgemason/
Gunston Hall: Home of George Mason
Otis, James
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/722/pg722.html
Project Gutenberg
**To read the article, click on a format and then scroll down the page until you
see “James Otis the Pre-Revolutionist” in bold font.**
Paine, Thomas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8089115.stm
BBC
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/paine/
National Portrait Gallery
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Paine__Thomas.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/eliza-lucaspinckney/
National Women’s History Museum
http://cwh.ucsc.edu/SocialBiog.Martin.pdf
University of California, Santa Cruz
Reed, Esther DeBerdt
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/kids/dreamteam/estherreed.html
White House Kids
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http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/esther-deberdt-reed/
National Women’s History Museum
Revere, Paul
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/
The Paul Revere House
http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/
Paul Revere Heritage Project
Ross, Betsy
http://historicphiladelphia.org/betsy-ross-house/woman/
Betsy Ross House
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Ross__Betsy.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer08/betsy.cfm
Colonial Williamsburg
Rush, Benjamin
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rush_benj.html
Penn University Archives and Records Center
http://deila.dickinson.edu/theirownwords/author/RushB.htm
Their Own Words (through Dickinson College)
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Rush__Benjamin.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Sampson, Deborah
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archivefree/pdf?_r=2&res=9402E3D71139E433A2575BC0A9669D94699ED7CF&oref=sl
ogin
New York Times
http://www.canton.org/samson/
Canton Massachusetts Historical Society
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http://www.sharonhistoricalsociety.org/All_Else/All_Pages/DEBORAH%20SA
MPSON.pdf
Sharon County Historical Society
Sherman, Roger
http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/sherman.htm
U. S. Army Center of Military History
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000349
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Sherman__Roger.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Warren, Joseph (Dr. Joseph Warren)
http://www.nps.gov/bost/historyculture/warren.htm
U. S. National Park Service
http://www.masshist.org/bh/joswarrenbio.html
The Massachusetts Historical Society
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Warren__Joseph.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Warren, Mercy Otis
http://www.masshist.org/bh/mercybio.html
The Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.greatwomen.org/component/fabrik/details/2/194
National Women’s Hall of Fame
Washington, George
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/index.cfm/ss/21/
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Washington__George.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Washington, Martha
http://marthawashington.us/
Martha Washington: A Life
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Wheatley, Phyllis (or Phillis)
http://www.masshist.org/endofslavery/index.php?id=57
The Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html
PBS
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/philbio.htm
Virginia Commonwealth University
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Wheatley__Phillis.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Wythe, George
http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/biowythe.cfm
The Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site
ADDITIONAL Resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/founders/#jay
The Library of Congress: The American Founders Online
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