Documents

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html

Newspaper accounts

All the News?
The American Revolution and Maryland’s Press

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/5912/html/0000.html

18th century life and the advent of the American Revolution as reported in the Maryland Gazette.

Boston Massacre

“Boston Massacre - A Behind-the-Scenes Look At Paul Revere's Most Famous Engraving”

from The Early America Review.

For accounts of the Massacre, see:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html

Battles

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Military Science

:Battle of Lexington and Concord

Battle of Breed's Hill / Bunker Hill

[Painting] Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Monmouth

Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University

Battles of the American Revolutionary War

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha/battles.html

Student projects on various Revolutionary War battles include images and general information.

1932 US Monument at Cowpens NB National Park Service: Cowpens National Battlefield.

National Park Service site that commemorates a decisive battle that helped turn the tide of Revolutionary War in the South.

Essays

[The American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins.]

Essays by professional historians on the Revolution

http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu

Intelligence

Intelligence in the War of Independence

Information about espionage and special operations during the Revolution from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

Explains espionage of the time with intercepted letters and the stories and methods behind them.

Maps

West Point Military Atlas

Maps of Revolutionary War campaigns.

Religion and the American Revolution

Religion and the American Revolution--Religion and the Founding of the America.

Part of a Library of Congress exhibition on Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Religion and the American Revolution

Sponsored by the National Humanities Center and written by Christine Heyrman of the Department of History, University of Delaware.

Revolutionary Era Timelines

The Boston Massacre History Place - American Revolution

Timeline of the Revolution, PBS Series “Liberty”

Songs of the Revolutionary Era

Fife & Drum

Loyalist and British Songs of the American Revolution

THE FOUNDERS

Biographies

Independence Hall in Philadelphia

The Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention

http://wae.com/freedom/confath.html

Brief biographies of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention from the National Archives.

Independence Hall, Philadelpia, PA Biographical Sketches

-Signers of the Declaration
-Signers of the A. O. C.
-Signers of the U. S. Constitution

Biographical sketches of America's founding fathers from the Rev. Charles A. Goodrich’s 1829 book, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence.

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

For an indepth look at the Constitutional Convention and the ratification process, see an on-line exhibit entitled "A More Perfect Union," created by the National Archives.

"Questions and Answers Pertaining to the Constitution" presents facts about the Constitution.

Essays

The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle

http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/thisconstitution/

Essays by leading historians and political scientists, sponsored by the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association.

PATHWAYS TO THE PAST

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

General information