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Chapter 5 - The America Revolution

Images and Maps

The American Revolution Home Page: Timeline
(Click on the links to the events for images, maps, and text relating to Revolution.)

Liberty!: The American Revolution
(This site includes many images and maps depicting the places, people, issues, and themes explored in this chapter.)

The Colonies during the Revolutionary War
(This site contains numerous maps of battles of the war.)

The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
(From the Library of Congress)

Colonial and Revolution Songs
(This site includes sound clips and transcripts.)

Maryland Loyalism and the American Revolution
(This interesting site tells the previously untold story of the Maryland loyalists. It includes links to other similar pages.)

Old Barracks Museum
(From the New Jersey Historical Commission, this site explores the lives of soldiers in the Continental Army.)

 

Primary Sources

Letter Written by General George Washington at Valley Forge
(From the Historic Valley Forge)

The American Colonist's Library: A Treasury of Primary Documents

The Avalon Project: Eighteenth-Century Documents
(This site contains many of the documents issued by colonial legislatures and the Continental Congresses.)

A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
(From the University of Oklahoma Law School)

Documents on the American Revolution
(This site includes eyewitness accounts of the military clashes of the war.)

Thomas Paine National Historical Association
(This site contains the text of many of Paine's works, including those relating to women and slavery.)

The Revolutionary War: A Journey Towards Freedom, Historical Document Collection

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
(A digitized wealth of information sponsored by the Library of Congress American Memory project.)

Revolution and Independence: An Iconographic Analysis of Republican Motherhood
(This site contains several images and quotations that explore this topic.)

Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
(An e-text of this famous series of essays)

A Midwife's Tale
(From PBS, this site explores the 1780s through a woman's eyes.)

"Remember the Ladies"
(This site offers a transcript of this famous letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams.)

The Articles of Confederation

Texts
(This site offers numerous documents from eighteenth-century America. Scroll down for the appropriate material.)

 

Secondary Sources

Jon Swan, "America's Forgotten Patriots"
(An article from Military History that discusses African Americans and the Revolutionary War)

Bruce Heydt, "General Sir William Howe"
(An article from British Heritage that explores the British general's strategy in the war)

 

 

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