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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America's Historical Documents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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