Park Service Resources

• The President's House  
  • History of the President's House  
  • The President's House: Washington And Adams  
  • Enslaved People in the Household of George And Martha Washington  
  • Archeology Methods and Interpretation of the Site  
• Public Involvement The President's House Site
• President's House Forum October 30, 2004
• Liberty Bell Center [cached version]
• Photographs of the icehouse pit [cached version]
• The Liberty Bell [cached version]
• Site Plan and Design Guidelines for Independence [cached version]
• The Robert Morris Mansion [cached version]
• Daily Life and Diversity in 18th Century Philadelphia Click on the President's House on the picture to proceed

City of Philadelphia Resources

• City's Project Homepage  

Other Resources

• Ad Hoc Historians Press Packet 9/03  
• Archaeology for the public from the Society for American Archaeology
• ATAC Avenging the Ancestors Coalition A broad-based coalition of African historians, activists, attorneys, elected officials, religious leaders, media personalities, and other tax-paying voters formed in response to the President's House controversy.
• The Devil in the (Liberty Bell's) Belfry [PDF An address presented by Richard Rabinowitz at the MARCH Forum on the President's House controversy, May 16, 2003]
• Frontline Report: The Private Lives of George Washington's Slaves by Mary V. Thompson, a research specialist at Mt. Vernon
• Kelly/Maiello, Architects & Planners, Inc.  
• The Liberty Bell on ushistory.org
• Ona, Runaway Slave of George Washington During May of 1796, Ona Judge Staines, a slave belonging to the First Family, escaped from the Philadelphia house.
• The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography  
• Philadelphia Inquirer Extensive coverage of the archaeological dig and discussion of discoveries, challenges, and issues
• The President's House Site Marker
• Representing Slavery: A Roundtable Discussion by Karen E. Sutton. "The challenge of representing eighteenth-century black chattel slavery is to strike a balance between being truthful and being tasteful..."
• Robert Morris whose house this was.
• Slave Lists from The Papers of George Washington
• Slavery in Pennsylvania  
• WHYY Radio has a series of streaming archives of their radio programs relating to the President's House

Blogs, Newsgroups, Newsletters

• The Archaeology of Freedom and Slavery at the President's House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Patrice L. Jeppson, African Diaspora Archaeology Network, Newsletter, June 2007
• Fugitive Profile I: Oney Judge Staines The Educational Tour Marm
• Changing Skyline Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer
• Washington's Presidential Residence in Philadelphia discussion in soc.history.war.us-revolution.
• More Pennsylvania Pork! from Classical Values
• The Early Republic  

Websites of the Semi-Finalists

• Amaze Design, Inc.  
• Davis Buckley Architects & Planning Consultants  
• EwingCole  
• Howard+Revis Design  
• Kelly/Maiello, Architects & Planners, Inc.