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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:
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
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.