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This site was created by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, representing a group of interdisciplinary scholars committed to developing educational resources on the internet and the world wide web. Underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and designed as a supplement to the PBS's Liberty! documentary series, this site contains scholarly essays, reviews, bibliographies, and resources pertaining to the American Revolution.
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http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
at the Yale Law School Documents in Law, History and Government
Hypertexted documents relating to law, history, government, politics, economics and diplomacy. Collections include: Nuremberg trials, Constitution, Colonial Charters, United States Treaty, Native American Treaty, and World War II.
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
An interdisciplinary institute dedicated to promoting public understanding of American state constitutions and of subnational constitutions in other federal systems.
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http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/
Created by Philadelphia's Independence Hall Association, this site hosts a variety of sites relating to 18th century American history and the founding of the United States, with a focus on the Revolutionary and Constitutional periods in Philadelphia.
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http://www.ushistory.org/
A joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities. This site lists all the top humanity sites, including a section on history, and a roster of indexed lesson plans.
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/
The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York
Historical Society, contains more than 70,000 documents detailing the political
and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include
manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets
ranging from 1493 through modern times.
The Institute has undertaken to publish some of the rarest and
most valuable materials in the Gilder Lehrman Collection, including this rare
first page of the working draft of the Constitution, submitted for debate at the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in August 1787. Newly Discovered
Documents are published monthly on the Gilder Lehrman website.
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive_constitution.html
Narratives and searchable database of documents relating to the work of the Continental Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdexhome.html
Created by the National Archives and National History Day, Inc. this website transports students and educators back in time to 100 critical moments in our nation's history. Visitors can see the original speeches, international treaties, Supreme Court cases, patent designs and Constitutional amendments that changed the course of history, as well as read transcriptions and historical interpretations of these documents.
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http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
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