Biographies

Samuel Adams

• Samuel Adams: American Patriot & Politician
  http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/adams.html
• Colonial Hall: Biography of Samuel Adams 1722-1803
  http://www.colonialhall.com/adamss/adamss.php

Abigail Adams  

• The White House - First Ladies of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/aa2.html

John Adams  

• Spotlight Biography - Founding Fathers
  http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/july4.html
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Biographies
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ja2/about/bio/adamsxx.htm
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Presidents
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ja2/index.htm
• The White House - Presidents of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html

Benedict Arnold

• Historic Valley Forge
  http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/arnold.html
• Benedict Arnold - Virtualalogy.com
  http://www.benedictarnold.org/

Crispus Attucks

• The Murder of Crispus Attucks - Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr046.html
• Crispus Attucks - Encyclopedia Britannica
  http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=11185
• Africans in American - Crispus Attucks - PBS
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html (with link to Boston Massacre)

Benjamin Banneker

• About Banneker - The Benjamin Banneker Association - see correspondence between Banneker and Thomas Jefferson on this site
  http://www.bannekermath.org/about.html
• Benjamin Banneker - Inventors - About.com
  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbanneker.htm

Charles Cornwallis

• The Patriot Resource
  http://www.patriotresource.com/people/cornwallis.html
• Virtualology.com
  http://virtualology.com/lordcornwallis.com/

Lydia Darragh

• Lydia Darragh
  http://www.ushistory.org/march/bio/lydia.htm
• Lyde Darragh - from the Daughters of the American Revolution
  http://www.lexidigital.com/bcdarwomen4.htm

Benjamin Franklin

• The Franklin Institute - Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man
  http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
• The Electric Franklin - ushistory.org
  http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/

King George III

• Britannia - America's Gateway to the British Isles- http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon55.html
• The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Story
  http://www.cmstory.org/people/people.asp?id=-746409156
• British Monarchy Official Web Site - Historic Royal Profiles
  http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page111.asp

Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison University
  http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives
  /era/parties/power/hamilton.htm
• Alexander Hamilton on the Web
  http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hamilton/index.html

Patrick Henry

• Colonial Williamsburg Historical Almanack Online
  http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm
• ushistory.org
  http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/henry.htm

Thomas Jefferson  

• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Biographies -
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/about/jeffersonxx.htm
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Presidents -  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/index.htm
• The White House - Presidents of the United States - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html

John Paul Jones

• John Paul Jones - A founder of the Unites State Navy
  http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/traditions/html/jpjones.html
• 250th Anniversary of the birth of John Paul Jones -
  with a timeline from the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard -
  see also the "I have not yet begun to fight link".
  http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq58-1.htm

Thaddeus Kosciusko

• Learning Network - Factmonster-
  http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0828138.html
• Thaddeus Kosciusko - Virtualology.com
  http://www.virtualology.com/virtualwarmuseum.com/
  revolutionarywarhall/THADDEUSKOSCIUSKO.COM
• Thaddeus Kosciusko: A Polish Son of Liberty, A Hero of the American Revolution
  http://wings.buffalo.edu/info-poland/classroom/kosciuszko/son.html
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko - InfoPoland -University of Buffalo
  http://wings.buffalo.edu/info-poland/web/history/hist_persons/kosciuszko/link.shtml

James Armistead Lafayette

• James Armistead Lafayette - from the CIA Kidspage Hall of Fame
  http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/history/james.html
• Lafayette and Slavery - from Lafayette College
  http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/special/specialexhibits/slaveryexhibit/
  onlineexhibit/james.htm
• James Lafayette - American Revolution Home Page
  http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/JAMES.HTM
• America's Forgotten Patriots: Part 3 - The Spy - from the African-American History
  http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/prm/blforgottenpatriots3.htm

Marquis de Lafayette

• Lucidecafé
  http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/lafayette.html
• Historic Valley Forge
  http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/lafayette.html

James Madison  

• James Madison - Godfather of the Constitution
  http://earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/madison.html
• The White House - Presidents of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html

Dolly Payne Todd Madison  

• Dolly Madison - History Central
  http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/ladies/madison.html
• The White House - First Ladies of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/dm4.html

Thomas Paine

• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Biographies
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm
• Thomas Paine - UsHistory.Org
  http://www.ushistory.org/paine/index.htm

Molly Pitcher

• Molly Pitcher - Movie
  http://earlyamerica.com/molly_pitcher.html-
• Molly Pitcher - Valley Forge
  http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/youasked/070.htm

Edmund Randolph

• American Memory Collection - Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/randolph.html
• Historical Almanack of Colonial Williamsburg
  http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/bioraedm.cfm

Paul Revere

• Paul Revere House
  http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/bio.shtml
• Paul Revere House -Midnight Ride
  http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/
• Midnight Rider Virtual Musuem
  http://www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/paulvm/foyer.html
• Paul Revere - The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
  http://www.ctssar.org/patriots/paul_revere.htm

Mercy Otis Warren

• Sunshine for Women
  http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2002/warren.html
• Women in American History - Encyclopædia Britannica
  http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Warren_Mercy_Otis.html

George Washington  

• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . . - Presidents
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/gw1.htm
• The White House - Presidents of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
• Colonial Williamsburg Historical Almanack Online- 
  http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/washhdr.cfm
• Rediscovering George Washington
  http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/

Martha Washington

• The White House - First Ladies of the United States
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html
• Historic Valley Forge
  http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html 

Phyllis Wheatley

• Phyllis Wheatley
  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/poets/bio/wheatley_p.htm
• PBS - Diversity and Phyllis Wheatley
  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html

General Links

•  Multimedia Biographies
  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/index.html
• From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards. . .
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm
• PBS - Road to Revolution: A Revolutionary Game
  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html
• University of Michigan - Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/
• National Archives and Records Administration - The Founding Fathers
  http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/
  charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html
• Archiving Early America - The Lives of Famous Early Americans
  http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/index.html
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress -
  http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
• Revolutionary War Biography Sites
  http://www.todaysteacher.com/JourneyQuest/RevolutionaryWarPeople.htm
• The American Revolution and Its Era:
  Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html