Links to Online Resources
Religion and the American Revolution
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel03.html
Religion and the Congress of the Confederation, 1774-1789
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html
Generously illustrated with artifacts and documents from the
Library of Congress, these concise overviews are very accessible
to secondary level students. Part of the Library's outstanding
online exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American
Republic.
Religion and Revolution
http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/five.html
Highly readable lecture from Dr. Terry Matthews for his course
"Religious Life in the United States" at Wake Forest University
(NC).
Religion and Revolution
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/religion/religionrev.cfm
A brief scholarly look at the conflict between the Anglican
Church and evangelical dissenters over religious freedom in
colonial Virginia. From the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
"Sins of the Fathers: Religion and the Revolution"
http://www.americanrevolution.org/gaustad.html
Highly accessible essay on the British "sins of the fathers" ecclesiastical and ethical, especiallyand their role in generating
revolutionary unity in the American colonies. By Edwin S. Gaustad,
Professor of History and Religious Studies, Emeritus, University of
California, Riverside; posted on the site AmericanRevolution.org.
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/paine/CM/sensexx.htm
One of the best online sources for the full text of Paine's
"Common Sense," which Professor Heyrman compares to a sermon in
its purpose and rhetoric. From an American history hypertext
project at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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