The Baldwin Project is a site which presents books from the past on the internet. This excerpt from American History Stories, Volume II by Mara L. Pratt provides a description of the Daughters of Liberty from a different point of view.

From a chapter on "Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests", this section explains the purpose of the 1765 Stamp Act and looks at the colonial responses to it.

Read the full text of the captivating novel "The Argonauts of North Liberty" by Bret Harte which is full of twists and turns.

This site provides students access to the full text of selected Thomas Jefferson's speeches.

Provides brief biographical details on Alexander Hamilton with links to electronic versions of books he has authored that can be viewed in their original text.

This article contains information about the principles used to create the Constitution of the United States.

A complete, searchable text of "Illustrated Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," which was illustrated by George Randolph Barse and others.

By reading this section of a chapter on "Westward Expansion," students will be able to describe the terms of the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850, discuss why the Free-Soil Party objected to the westward expansion of slavery and...