Selected Internet Sites on The Declaration of Independence, Human Rights, and Thomas Jefferson

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's site called Monticello: The Home Of Thomas Jefferson

A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial period to Modern Times at the University of Gronigen in the Netherlands. This site contains a lengthy biography of Jefferson and links to his presidential speeches and his letters.

This Library of Congress's website details the chronology of events that led up to the drafting of The Declaration of Independence and a history of Jefferson's actual drafting of the document. It also includes a letter of June 24, 1826, from Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman declining to attend the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the District of Columbia. The  Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress