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LEGENDARY AMERICANS
websites
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If you are in need of additional web resources, use REAL to determine whether or not a website is reliable
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**DON’T FORGET TO WRITE DOWN YOUR SOURCE INFORMATION!
Feel free to print out any pages that you may need to refer to later.**
GENERAL sites (provide information on a variety of people)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/presidents.php
 America’s Story from America’s Library: U.S. Presidents
 Includes information on the following individuals:
o Adams, John
o Adams, John Quincy
o Buchanan, James
o Harrison, William Henry
o Jackson, Andrew
o Jefferson, Thomas
o Lincoln, Abraham
o Madison, James
o Monroe, James
o Tyler, John
o Van Buren, Martin
o Washington, George
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
 IPL (Internet Public Library: POTUS: Presidents of the United States
 Includes information on all former and current United States Presidents
http://millercenter.org/president
 Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
 Includes information on all former and current United States Presidents
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http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/index.htm
 From Revolution to Reconstruction…Biographies
 Includes information on the following individuals:
o Adams, John
o Burr, Aaron
o Douglass, Frederick
o Franklin, Benjamin
o Hamilton, Alexander
o Jackson, Andrew
o Jefferson, Thomas
o Lee, Robert E.
o Lincoln, Abraham
o Madison, James
o Marshall, John (Chief Justice)
o Washington, George
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies
 National Women’s History Museum (NWHM)
 Includes information on the following women:
o Adams, Abigail
o Madison, Dolley
o Tubman, Harriet
o Washington, Martha
o Wheatley, Phillis
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html#people
 PBS
 Includes information on the following individuals:
o Adams, Abigail
o Adams, John
o Adams, Samuel
o Arnold, Benedict
o de Lafayette, Marquis
o Franklin, Benjamin
o Hamilton, Alexander
o Jefferson, Thomas
o Lincoln, Abraham
o Madison, James
o Washington, George
o Wheatley, Phillis
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/founders/#jay
 The Library of Congress: Web Guide: The American Founders Online: An Annotated
Guide to Their Papers and Publications
 Includes papers related to the following individuals:
o Adams, John
o Adams, Samuel
o Franklin, Benjamin
o Hamilton, Alexander
o Jefferson, Thomas
o Madison, James
o Marshall, John (Chief Justice)
o Washington, George
o Founders’ Family Members (Adams Family, Madison Family & Jefferson
Family)
http://www.clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/spies/people.html
 Spy Letters of the American Revolution: From the Collections of the Clements
Library
 Includes information on the following individuals:
o Paul Revere
o George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents
 The White House
 Includes information on all former and current United States Presidents
http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/swearing-in/addresses
 Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
 Provides information on all past Presidential Inaugurations, including:
o chronology
o addresses/speeches
o weather
SPECIFIC sites (individuals listed alphabetically)
Adams, Abigail
http://www.masshist.org/adams/abigail_adams
Massachusetts Historical Society
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/fihttp://www.firstladies.org/biographies/fir
stladies.aspx?biography=4rst-ladies/abigailadams
The White House
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2
National First Ladies’ Library
http://firstladies.c-span.org/FirstLady/3/Abigail-Adams.aspx
C-SPAN: First Ladies: Influence and Image
Adams, John
http://www.masshist.org/bh/jadamsbio.html
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Adams__John.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Adams, John Quincy
http://www.masshist.org/bh/jqabio.html
The Massachusetts Historical Society
Adams, Samuel
http://georgewbushwhitehouse.archives.gov/kids/dreamteam/samueladams.html
White House Kids
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000045
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://www.mass.gov/portal/government-taxes/laws/interactive-statehouse/historical/governors-of-massachusetts/commonwealth-ofmassachusetts-1780-1850/samuel-adams-1722-1803.html
The Official Website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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
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http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/bioarnold.cfm
Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/35767/Benedict-Arnold
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Austin, Stephen Fuller
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/austin.htm
PBS: New Perspectives on The West
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/biographies/stephen_austin.html
PBS: U.S. - Mexican War 1846-1848
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fau14
Texas State Historical Association
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/adp/history/bios/austin/austin.html
Texas A & M University
Brown, John
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
PBS: Africans in America: Judgment Day
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html
IATH: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/81549/John-Brown
Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Brown__John.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
Buchanan, James
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesbuchanan
The White House
http://millercenter.org/president/buchanan
Miller Center: University of Virginia
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jbuchanan.html
IPL (Internet Public Library): POTUS: President of the United States
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http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Buchanan__James.html
Pennsylvania Center for the Book / Penn State University
http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumbe
r=15
C-SPAN: American Presidents: Life Portraits
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/people/4277/buchana
n,_james/443538
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
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
http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=885&q=246500
The Official State of Connecticut Website
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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
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay/biography.html
Columbia University Libraries
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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
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/
The Dolley Madison Project
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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
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/esther-deberdt-reed/
National Women’s History Museum
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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
http://www.sharonhistoricalsociety.org/All_Else/All_Pages/DEBORAH%20SA
MPSON.pdf
Sharon County Historical Society
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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
Wheatley, Phyllis (or Phillis)
http://www.masshist.org/endofslavery/index.php?id=57
The Massachusetts Historical Society
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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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