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A fascinating Web site about the American Revolution. The site offers a set of primary source letters written by spies on both sides of the conflict, plus the stories surrounding them. Learn about the methods that secret agents used to encode and hide their information.
A digital resource learning and new media initiative produced by the New-York Historical Society. The Web-based program aims to enrich teaching and learning in K-12 classroom history curricula, uses primary documents and artifacts.
This National Park Service site includes educational resources for students and teachers with activities and primary documents, historic sites, timeline.
This outline covers the time leading to the Declaration of Independence. While written for educators, the numerous links provide detailed information about the people, battles and events on the road to war.
Learn about what was accomplished at the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention by representatives from each of the colonies.
Includes a full text version of the historic document.
Get detailed information about the documents that shaped America: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights.
Site has the complete text of the Declaration of Independence with information about the signers.
Provides biographical information on the signers and the history of the Declaration of Independence. Read first-hand accounts from this period by signers.
See a chronology of events in the creation of this famous document from the Library of Congress.
Facts and information about what lead to the American Revolutionary War and the war itself.
Explores the history of enslaved African Americans who fought for the British during the Revolution and later settled in Canada after the war.
Read the text of the treaty between the U.S. and Britain which formalized Britain's recognition of the United States of America.
Discusses specific women who contributed to Revolutionary War efforts.
Read documents from these historic gatherings from the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress.
Over thirty historical documents, sixty-seven biographical sketches, and some twenty-five essays about the causes and circumstances of the American Revolution.
Causes, battles, and biographies, writings, and links.
A brief history of the tribe in the years prior to the War, and the story of the alliance with the new government during the Revolution.
Smithsonian interactive web exhibit features artifacts, documents and information on the American Revolution.
Explore the Colonial Period of our history through the Internet. You'll find maps, lesson plans, bibliographies and curriculum content materials here.
Collection of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings related to the Revolutionary War and colonial times.
Descriptions of colonial life and government.
The site contains some census records, general histories of each colony and early wars.
Electronic Copies of Poor Richard's Almanac and other materials from 1700's. Contains primary documents and information about education in Colonial America, Calvinist Theology and Early American Child-Rearing.
Non-profit, women's organization for the descendants of individuals who aided in achieving American independence. Engaged in historic preservation, genealogy and education.
Non-profit, organization for the descendants of individuals who aided in achieving American independence. Site provides historical information and interpretation of the basis, events and people related to the Revolution.
A multi-park on-line exhibit showcases museum and archival collections at selected National Park Service sites. Featured sites and collections commemorate significant events and individuals of the American Revolutionary War.
Timeline, letters and links related to the impact of the Revolution along the New York State frontier.
Colonial Albany Social History Project, New York State Museum. The site provides census data, biographies and information on African American colonial life.
New York Revolutionary War Battle Flag descriptions and images for the 3rd New York and Huntington Regiments.
Newspaper excerpt from the Brooklyn Eagle listing Long Island Revolutionary War soldiers.
Information and links related to soldiers from Rensselaer County that fought during the Revolution.
An online exhibit from the New York Historical Society that explores the crucial role of New York City as a place of dissent prior to the Revolution then as a British stronghold.
Online lesson project by the National Park Service exploring the major figures in the battle.
Chronological listing of Revolutionary War battles, most with full descriptions of the battle maneuvers.
Site includes a map of the battlefield and general information about the battle from the Archiving Early America site.
Read an essay about this Revolutionary War battle.
A description of the British defeat at the hands of the combined force of American militia and Continental regulars.
A brief summary of the history and founding of the park and surrounding area.
This site provides resources and information on all aspects of the Sullivan/Clinton Campaign. This private web site contains letters, lesson ideas, maps and articles.
This site contains graphic first-hand accounts of the incidents during the campaign from the letters of soldiers. Site is maintained by the Captain Selin’s Rifle Company Re-enactor group.
A description of the impact and influence of French forces on the conflict. Information on the Washington-Rochambeau campaign.
PRISON SHIPS
This Fort Greene Park Conservancy website describes the history of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument and a brief history of the prison ships.
Provides images and descriptions of articles and other documents from the latter half of the 18th century in relation to the prison ships.
A list of 8,000 men who were prisoners on board the Old Jersey taken from papers of the British War Department.
Article describing conditions on prison ships.
This New York City Department of Parks & Recreation website describes the monument and history.
An online reference tool and a forum for discussion on American History around the time of the Revolution (1763-1810); an illustrated tour of Valley Forge and Washington's Crossing.
The site includes a timeline, information about the uniforms, women, and leaders of the period.
On this site visitors are given the choice of becoming Patriots or Loyalists and learn about the Revolution and the consequences of choosing each side.
The lyrics, sound, and video of this SchoolHouse Rock cartoon which describes the Revolutionary War.
This site contains resources links useful for students studying the Revolutionary War.
Activity based learning that allows children to compare their lives to their colonial counterparts.
A Revolutionary War timeline and general fun facts about the American Revolution, created by a parent and writer.
Kid and parent oriented site that gives helpful facts and narrative about the creation of the Declaration of Independence.
A general overview of the war for children including information about major events, battles and heroes.
This site was created as a meeting place for instructors who are interested in exchanging ideas on how to best present American history to students. Site contains lesson ideas and an activity focused on the Revolutionary War and Colonial History.
On this website visitors can read lessons, complete activities, then take a quiz on the information they have just learned.
The site includes general information on the Revolutionary War for educators and includes teacher guides and biographies.
This private educational site includes activities and games for Elementary Students focusing on the life and accomplishments of George Washington.
This lesson plan featured on the National Archives Records Administration Constitution Community web site focuses on the American Revolution and includes resources for document analysis and teaching activities.
American history curriculum for grades K-12 including essays and background materials related to the Revolutionary War.
Course models for teaching the American Revolution, includes vocabulary lists, writing exercises, sample topics and more.
The American Revolution section of this site contains lesson plans and activities which address a variety of learning standards.
Student activities and searchable lesson database for educators. There are a variety of lessons and activities related to the Revolutionary War and colonial history for multiple grade levels.
Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s) contains lesson plans, activities and resources for grades 5-12 related to the Revolutionary War.
The lesson plans explore colonial life and the events that led to the Revolutionary War.
Lessons, activities and quizzes that relate to colonial history, economics and the revolution.
Thematic Units, Lesson Plans and Teacher Resources related to the Revolutionary War.
The site explores the role African Americans played in the Revolutionary War on both sides. Available resources include essays, a teacher guide and primary documents.
This 4th grade lesson activity and assessment from the Oswego NY city school district, is specifically for language arts and social studies and focuses on the Revolutionary War in New York.
High School teacher’s exercises and evaluation tools for exploring multiple points of view in the story of the American Revolution.
Online lesson project by the National Park Service exploring the major figures in the battle.
The Living History Education Foundation offers all expense paid courses (Graduate and In-service) for teachers. All subject area teachers are welcomed to experience innovative cross-curriculum programs.
The packet contains materials such as lesson plans, maps, a vocabulary list, DBQs and CRQs at the 4th, 7th, and 11th grade levels. A variety of reproducible documents are also included for use by teachers in their own lesson plans.
American patriot and leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
American Revolutionary War hero who later fought on the side of the British and became an infamous traitor.
How Polly Cooper, an Oneida Indian Nation Citizen, helped to save Washington's troops at Valley Forge.
American politician and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Author of the Declaration of Independence, patriot and thinker and politician.
Get a biography of this famous American philosopher whose writings stirred Americans to war.
Read a brief biography of this Revolutionary War heroine.
Known for his midnight ride warning of the coming of the British.
Read about her life and the legend of how she came to sew the first flag.
Revolutionary War Soldier - read about this woman that fought in the Revolutionary War before women were allowed to fight.
Biography and portrait of the commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and first president of the United States.
Biographies of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and many of the signers of the Articles of confederation.
at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century including many maps from the colonial and Revolutionary war period.
Historical Maps of the United States at the University of Texas, Austin.
State University of New York at Stony Brook, historic maps from 1556-1895.
Map of the battlefield and general information about the battle from the Archiving Early America site.
Contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution. The maps were from Rochambeau's personal collection, cover much of eastern North America, and date from 1717 to 1795.
Maps and Charts of North America and the West. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
Bernard Bailyn and Jane Garrett, eds. Pamphlets of the 1750-1776, I, 1750-1765. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1965.
Davies, K. G., ed. Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783. 21 vols. Kill-o'the'Grange: Irish Univ. Press, 1972-1981.
Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution. Library of Congress Symposium on the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1973.
Greene, Jack P., ed. Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 598 pp. Vol. II of David Donald, ed., A Documentary History of American Life. Reprinted separately with subtitle A Documentary History of the American Revolution.
Hyneman, Charles S., and Donald Lutz, eds. American Political Writing during the Founding Era: 1760-1805. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1983. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.
Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. 4 vols. Dallas, Texas: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987-88.
United States. Census Office. A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services. 1841. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965.
United States. War Dept. The Pension Roll of 1835. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Reprinted with new index.
Jensen, Merrill, ed. English Historical Documents: American Colonial Documents to 1776. Vol. IX of David C. Douglas, ed., English Historical Documents. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1955.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1929.
National Genealogical Society. Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives. Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 1976.
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR Lineage Books. 166 vols. Washington, DC: NSDAR, 1890-1939.
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition. 3 vols. Washington, DC: NSDAR, 1994.
Neagles, James. U.S. Military Records. Orem, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1994.
Simmons, R. C., and P. D. G. Thomas, eds. Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments respecting North America 1754-1783. 6 vols. to date. Millwood, White Plains, N.Y.: Kraus, 1982.
White, Virgil D. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files. 4 vols. Waynesboro, Tenn.: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990-92.
White, Virgil D. Index to Revolutionary War Service Records. 4 vols. Waynesboro, Tenn.: National Historical Publishing Co., 1995.
Read the text of the Declaration of Independence.
Read the text of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
A wealth of primary documents related to the Revolutionary War.
University of Virginia, a comprehensive web edition of Washington's correspondence.
Genealogical Forum of Oregon, A basic how to guide for finding Revolutionary War ancestors.
Primary document collection from the Library of Congress related to the Revolution and the start of America.
Alden, John R. A History of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967.
Bailyn, Bernard, and John B. Hench, eds. The Press and the American Revolution. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1980.
Bennett, Charles E., and Donald R. Lennon. A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Bowler, R. Arthur. Logistics and the Failure of the British Army in America, 1775-1783. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1975.
Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
Christie, Ian R., and Benjamin W. Labaree. Empire or Independence, 1760-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution. New York: Norton, 1976.
Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985.
Countryman, Edward. A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 99th Ser., 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1 981.
Douglass, Elisha P. Rebels and Democrats: The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule during the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1955.
Dworetz, Steven M. The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism and the American Revolution. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990.
Egnal, Marc. A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1988.
Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
Fowler, William M., Jr. Rebels under Sail: The American Navy during the Revolution. New York: Scribner's, 1976.
Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978.
Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole, eds. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 1991.
Higginbotham, Don. War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of Conflict. American Military History. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1983.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society , Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995.
Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1926.
Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968.
Kammen, Michael. A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. New York: Knopf, 1978.
Keller, Rosemary. Patriotism and the Female Sex: Abigail Adams and the American Revolution. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1994.
Kurtz, Stephen G., and James H. Hutson, eds. Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1973.
Langley, Lester D. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996.
Leckie, Robert. George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790. 2d ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979.
McIlwain, Charles Howard. The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York: Knopf, 1980.
Main, Jackson Turner. The Social Structure of Revolutionary America. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965.
Main, Jackson Turner. The Sovereign States, 1775-1783. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973.
Main, Jackson Turner. The Upper House in Revolutionary America, 1763-1788. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1967.
Martin, James Kirby. In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretative Exploration of the American Revolution. Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM, 1979.
Matson, Cathy D., and Peter S. Onuf. A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. American Political Thought. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1990.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Vol. II of the Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982.
Mintz, Max M. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gates. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Challenge of the American Revolution. New York: Norton, 1974.
Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979.
Nevins, Allan. The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
Parker, John, and Carol Urness, eds. The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1975.
Purvis, Thomas L. A Dictionary of Early American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.
Purvis, Thomas L. Revolutionary America, 1763-1800. New York: Facts on File, 1995.
Rahe, Paul A. Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Schlenther, Boyd Stanley. Charles Thomson: A Patriot's Pursuit. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1990.
Shelton, Hal T. General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1994.
Silverman, Kenneth. A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature, and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789. New York: Crowell , 1976.
Stinchcombe, William C. The American Revolution and the French Alliance. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1969.
Tiedemann, Joseph S. Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763-1776. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997.
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1969.
Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Young, Alfred F., ed. The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1976.
