Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: The American Revolution: Experiences of Rebellion
Through a series of scholar videos and links to supplemental reading, students explore the complex factors that led to rebellion, war, and, ultimately, the independence of the United States considering the perspectives of European...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Idea of America: Reflections on Birth of the u.s.
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interview conducted with Pulitzer Prize winner, Gordon S. Wood, author of "The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States" about the book. What does it mean to be American? Wood...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: The Revolutionary War
This video presents the battles and events during the American Revolutionary war using vintage art and animation.
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: The American Revolutionary War
Each FREE Revolutionary War video below focuses on different aspects of the war for our independence. Learn about this early period in our nation's history and the events which forged our country's beginnings.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1578: The Revolution Begins
On today's podcast, the American Revolution begins.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1587: The Shot Heard Round the World
Today: the shot heard round the world.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1592: French Aid Turns the Tide in the War
On today's podcast, we learn how French aid helped turn the tide in the Revolutionary War.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1593: The South During the Revolution
The Revolutionary War wasn't going too well for the Americans in 1780: Charleston fell to the British and Benedict Arnold defected.
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #6: Taxes & Smuggling: Prelude to Revolution
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. [12:20]
Crash Course
Crash Course World History #28: Tea, Taxes, and the American Revolution
I this video John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American...
Other
North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati: First in Victory: American Revolution
A short dramatization depicting North Carolina's role in the American Revolution. [21:56]
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Fact Tracker: American Revolution
This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #22: Revolutionary War by Mary Pope Osborne. [0:47] The book Fact Tracker: American Revolution, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: What Caused the American Revolution?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Professor from MIT, Pauline Maier, concisely answers the question: "What Caused the American Revolution?" [1:03]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: Latin American Independence Movements
A series of independence movements in the Americas in the late 1700s and early 1800s are sparked by the Enlightenment and conflict in Europe. This includes revolutions that will lead to the United States, Haiti, Mexico, Venezuela,...
PBS
Liberty's Kids Hd 111 Postmaster General Franklin
A Liberty's Kids video that tells the story of the Roya Mail Service sabotaging mail delivery and Ben Franklin being appointed Postmaster General by the Second Continental Congress. [23:05]
PBS
Liberty's Kids Hd 113 the Turtle
A Liberty's Kids video that tells the story of Admiral Lord Richard Howe's siege on New York Harbor and the submarine nicknamed The Turtle created by David Bushnell. [23:06]
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Liberty's Kids Hd 139 Going Home
A Liberty's Kids video telling about the conditions of Revolutionary War veterans and other issues immediately following the Revolutionary War. [23:06]
PBS
Liberty's Kids Hd 134 Conflict in the South
A Liberty's Kids video [23:07] telling the story of General Nathanael Greene's campaign in the South and Thomas Jefferson's ownership of slaves.
PBS
Liberty's Kids Hd 131 Bostonians
A Liberty's Kids video telling about John Adams drafting the Massachusetts Constitution and showing the horrible effect of the war for Native Americans through the voice of Iroquois chief Joseph Brant. [23:06]
PBS
Liberty Kids 128 Hd Not Yet Begun to Fight
A Liberty's Kids video telling the story of John Paul Jones and his naval ship Bonhomme Richard defeating the British ship Serapis off the coast of England. [23:06]
PBS
Liberty Kids 125 Allies at Last
A Liberty's Kids video describing Newport, Rhode Island, British occupied Philadelphia, and telling about a treaty of alliance Benjamin Franklin was able to negotiate with King Louis XVI in France. [23:07]
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Liberty's Kids Hd 122 Places of Versailles
A Liberty's Kids video that tells the story of Benjamin Franklin visiting France to ask for French support and the arrival of Marquis de Lafayette to address the Second Continental Congress and serve in the Revolutionary War. [23:06]
PBS
Liberty's Kids Hd 119 Across the Delaware
A Liberty's Kids video that tells the story of George Washington crossing the Delaware before the Battle of Trenton. [23:07]