19th Century U.S. Historical Figures

Revolutionists, Founders, and Political Figures

• George Washington Papers (Virginia)
• Papers of James Madison (Virginia)
• Maryland Loyalists and the American Revolution
• The Best of Ethan Allen (AOL)
• Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son
• Selected Slave Narratives, seventeenth- through nineteenth-century
• Benjamin Franklin:
  • The World of Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History (J. A. Leo Lemay, Delaware; requires frames)
• Thomas Jefferson:
  • Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government (Virginia)
  • The Libertarian "Ask Thomas Jefferson" at MIT
• Thomas Paine:
  • The Frethought collection of the works of Thomas Paine
  • Thomas Paine National Historical Association
  • Thomas Paine Page (J. Ward Regan and Philip A. Aromando)
• Lewis & Clark pages
• The Jefferson Papers Aaron Burr
• Andrew Jackson
  
• Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son
• Abraham Lincoln
• U.S. Grant Network
• Salmon P. Chase
• William McKinley: The Presidency
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
• Lewis and Clark
• Joshua Derman, " Frederick Jackson Turner and the Gospel of Wealth Concord Review (Spring, 1995)

Presidents, 1776-1900

• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• Martin Van Buren
• William Henry Harrison
• John Tyler
• James Polk
• Zachary Taylor
• Millard Fillmore
• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchanan
• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• James Garfield
• Chester A. Arthur
• Grover Clevland
• Benjamin Harrison
• William McKinley

Influential Women

• Susan B. Anthony University Center
  provides information related to upstate New York, birth of the American women's rights movement. Resources, sites, events, and historic background information.
• African-American Women
  scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of several African-American women detail the slave experience in at the personal level.
  
• African American Women: Our Story
  provides biographies, articles and links regarding historically and culturally important African-American women.
  
• Betsy Ross Homepage Some useful information despite being a rather jingoistic site.
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
  information about Bethune and the extensive archives collection.
• Sojourner Truth
  abolitionist, women's rights activist. Biography, life chronology, bibliography, photographs.
• Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
  biography and photos of the self-made millionaire, philanthropist, and social activist.

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