Additions 1996

December 5, 1996

The complete (incomplete) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin in a frame-based html-version done by Danny Barnhoorn and George Welling

November 24, 1996

Three new essays added to the project:

• The Battle of Lake Champlain
• Nova Scotia during the American Revolution
• Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850's

October 15, 1996

New biographies of Richard Henry Lee by James A. Pavolini, and of Salmon Portland Chase and Edwin McMasters Stanton by Lydia L. Rapoza.

September 19, 1996

We have a added a facility to search all the pages of the project for keywords.

June 26,1996

• Completion of the Autobiography of Geronimo
• Added the chapters Early America and Toward the 21st Century to the project: the text of these chapters comes from the 1994 Version of An Outline of American History.
• Those sections that were rewritten for the 1994 version have been linked to the pre-1994 versions. This gives an enlightening view on how official historiography changed.

June 25, 1996

Major parts of the Autobiography of Geronimo are ready.

June 4, 1996

An article by Richard H. Gassan about Carey & Lea, Printer and Publisher: Seasonal Variations in its Business Cycle, 1833-1836

May 24, 1996

An article about the missing 13th amendment was added to the project.
We scanned and converted a paper written by Doug Robertson A Right to Liberty - the Story of Ethan Allen for this project.

May 10, 1996

Hypertext version of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man.

April 30, 1996

Part 6 of the John Adams Biography by Jim Liesenfelt

April 24, 1996

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was converted to HTML by GMW.

April 2, 1996

Astrid Baas and Alien Wolbink prepared the State of the Union speeches of Bill Clinton and provided a short biography of Bill

March 31, 1996

An essay by Mike Crane, Progressive Historiography of the American War for Independence

March 28, 1996

Paula Broekman, Jan Hendrik Smeenge and Albert Everaarts prepared the State of the Union speeches of George Bush. They also wrote a short bio.

March 26, 1996

The Virginia Resolutions of 1798, and the Kentucky Resolution of 1799 have been added to the list of sources. Also Martin Luther King's famous I have a dream speech from 1963 has been added.

March 25, 1996

John Marshall's opinion in Marbury v. Madison was presented to the project by Alexander Grey.

March 21, 1996

Bronja Prazdny and Raïna Commandeur prepared the State of the Union speeches of Lyndon B. Johnson. They also wrote a short bio of LBJ.

March 18, 1996

Jackson's Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832 provided by Alexander Grey of the American Patriot Network.

March 12, 1996

We have made a start with the Letters of Thomas Jefferson

March 11, 1996

The complete text of the Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, 1856 was contributed by Alexander Grey of the American Patriot Network. The team took care of the HTML-mark-up.

February 29, 1996

A paper on The Role of Philosophy and Literature in building up the National Identity of the early 19th century United States by Keijo Virtanen

The Alexander Hamilton biography is now complete: some minor lay-out changes may still follow, but the text is complete.

February 14, 1996

First parts of the John Adams Biography by Jim Liesenfelt

February 8, 1996

Synopsis and excerpts from The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850, contributed by Christine MacLeod of the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

February 4, 1996,

Beginning of Alexander Hamilton Biography by Lisa Marie DeCarolis

February 1, 1996

Chapter 8, WWII to Modern times, was added.

January 19, 1996

Completely redone biography of Andrew Jackson by Hal Morris
Chapter 7 from an Outline of American History has been added to the project in marked up form. This Chapter covers the period from the outbreak of WW I to the end of WW II.

January 9, 1996

With a new group of students we have started the mark-up proces of the two remaining chapters of "An outline of American History", which will bring the scope of the project upto modern times. The markup will take some time, but in the meantime the plain text of the chapters will be available. We invite everyone to contribute essays on topics from this period.

January 7, 1996

Essay on the Federalist Papers Explaining the Constitution by Nathan Glick, scanned from An Outline of American Government, a publication of the United States Information Agency.

January 3, 1996

Biography of Lord North by Matthew Snow.