General Online Resources
Also consult Supplemental Sites included in the Toolbox sections.


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The American Revolution: 1763-1783, primary documents with introductory essays (American Memory Timeline)

The American Revolution and the New Nation: 1763-1815 (Web Guides), primary documents

The American Revolution, in John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British American Relations

Creating the United States (Creating the Declaration of Independence, Creating the U.S. Constitution, Creating the Bill of Rights)

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

A Guide to the American Revolution

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

A Century of Law-Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875

The Constitution: Primary Sources

Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words

The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress

The Historian's Sources: Lesson Plan on Using Primary Sources

Analysis Guides (primary sources, maps, oral interviews, and more)

Lesson Plans (in Government, Law and Politics)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES

The Charters of Freedom: "A New World Is At Hand" (Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights)

America's Historical Documents

Revolution and the New Nation: 1754-1820s, Lesson Plans

Teaching with Images: The American Revolution

Revolutionary America, 1763-1789 (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum)

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

The American Revolution

  –Timeline: Day-by-Day

Honored Places: The National Park Service Teacher's Guide to the American Revolution

American Revolutionary War: National Park Service Museum Collections

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY (Smithsonian)

The Price of Freedom: Americans At War

  –War for Independence

"Myths of the American Revolution," by Prof. John Ferling, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (Smithsonian)

Blacks in the Revolution

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (Smithsonian)

George Washington: A National Treasure

Thomas Paine: The Radical Founding Father

Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence: 1763-1848

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: EDSITEment

The American War for Independence (curriculum unit)

We the People (lesson plans)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

1773-1783: Diplomacy and the American Revolution

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America

STATES

The Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776 (Massachusetts Historical Society)

  –Document Analysis Worksheet

Maine: Tension, War, and Separation, 1775-1820 (Maine Historical Society)

The American Revolution in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission et al.)

Maryland in the American Revolution: Documents for the Classroom (Maryland State Archives)

All the News?: The American Revolution and Maryland's Press (Maryland State Archives)

Becoming Americans: Virginia in the American Revolution (The Story of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society)

Shaping the Constitution: Resources from the Library of Virginia and Library of Congress

Revolutionary North Carolina (LearnNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

South Carolina: The Revolution and the New Nation: Primary Sources (South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History)

American Revolution in Georgia (About North Georgia)

Georgia and the American Revolution (Our Georgia History)

Nation at the Crossroads: The Great New York Debate over the Constitution, 1787-88 (New-York Historical Society)

Shaping the Constitution: Resources from the Library of Virginia and the Library of Congress (Library of Virginia)

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

The American Revolution: A Documentary History (Avalon Project, Yale Law Library)

American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution (Northern Illinois University, from the Peter Force Collections)

E Pluribus Unum: America in the 1770s / Communications in the Revolutionary Era (Assumption College)

The Founders' Constitution (University of Chicago Press & The Liberty Fund)

The American Constitution: A Documentary History (Avalon Project, Yale Law Library)

John Jay and the Constitution (Columbia University)

James Madison and the Great Events of His Era (James Madison University)

The American Constitution: A Documentary Record (Avalon Project, Yale Law Library)

THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY

The American Revolution, History Now: A Quarterly Journal

The Constitution, History Now: A Quarterly Journal

Teaching the Revolution, succinct accessible overview by Prof. Carol Berkin, Baruch College (CUNY)

Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States

The American Revolution, 1763-1783

The American Revolution: Primary Sources

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION

Principles of Freedom: The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution

Colonial Williamsburg (journal): Archives (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

The American Revolution

ASHBROOK CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY (TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY)

The American Founding, including

   Constitutional Convention, by Gordon Lloyd

   Ratification of the Constitution, by Gordon Lloyd

PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE

Liberty! The American Revolution

Patriots Day (Battle of Lexington and Concord) (American Experience)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (New York)

Timeline of Art History

  –Art and Identity in the British North Atlantic Colonies, 1700-1776

  –Art and Society of the New Republic, 1776-1800

  –George Washington, Man, Myth, Monument

CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM

Canada and the American Revolution

BRITISH LIBRARY

The American Revolution

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

British History in Depth: Rebellion, Revolution, and Union

   Was the American Revolution Avoidable?

   The Rebels and the Red-Coats

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES

Online Library of Liberty: Primary Sources of the American Revolution and the Constitution (Liberty Fund, Inc.)

Documents from the American Revolution (Teaching American History, Ashland Center for Public Affairs, Ashland University)

Common-Place: An Interactive Journal of Early American Life (American Antiquarian Society with the University of Oklahoma)

  –Issue archives

The American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins (H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online)

Boston 1775 (J. L. Bell)








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