Time Magazine: A History Of His Own Making
- Essay examining reasons why Ellis would have fabricated a story about a Vietnam tour of duty.
- http://www.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,165156,00.html

Pulitzer Prize Winners: History
- The 2001 citation for Ellis' "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," including a list of his other major works, biography, and the jurors.
- http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/history/

Frontline - Jefferson's Blood: Joseph Ellis
- A lengthy interview with the historian on slavery, Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with Sally Hemings, and the social and intellectual climate of the revolutionary-era United States.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/interviews/ellis.html

New York Times Books: Founding Brothers
- An excerpt from and review of Ellis' The "Revolutionary Generation."
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/ellis-founding.html