Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: The Battle of King's Mountain

Read the complete text to David Ramsey's book The Life of George Washington. It covers Washington's life from his early years to his death in 1799.

This interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner Jack Rakove about his book Original Meanings is very informative. He discusses the ideology of the framers of the US Constitution and the debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

This is the last chapter of a biography of Washington which was written only eight years after his death by David Ramsay, a man who had known Washington personally, and who had been "an active player in the momentous events of America's...

This is a well-written and supported essay on the Constitution. It describes natural law as the basis for understanding the Constitution and argues that all constitutional interpretation should be based on the framers' intent.

Here you will get good information on Ben Franklin, George Washington, Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, and Paul Revere.

Learn about the waterways in Virginia that colonists used to expand their way of life, especially for tobacco sales.

Loyalist James Chalmers answers Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

Watch this movie that explains why the Declaration of Independence was written and why it was important. [3:15]

This is a discussion of the economic reasons for the 1783 Newburgh Conspiracy, a plot by some of the officers in the Continental Army. The site summarizes the events of the conspiracy.

Early America shows a newspaper clipping of Martha Washington's obituary in the Hartford "American Mercury" newspaper.