Center for History Education
Should the Colonists Have Revolted Against Great Britain?
Should the Americans have taken the plunge and revolted against Great Britain? Using documents, including the famed Common Sense and a Loyalist response, pupils conduct a lengthy investigation of the question. The interesting resource...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Battle of Saratoga and Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Making the Revolution: War, 1775 1783
Contains 9 sections of primary resource material, introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links to resources on the American Revolutionary War era from 1775 to 1783.
Yale University
Yale Law School: Avalon Project: British American Diplomacy: Paris Peace Treaty
Primary documents related to the signing of the Peace of Paris Treaty in 1783 between Britain, France, and America. This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge
The resources here, including letters, lithographs, official documents, and maps, document the Revolutionary War battles of Saratoga and Valley Forge.
Other
Positive Atheism: Life of Thomas Paine
This site features the complete text of Thomas Clio Rickman's 1819 biography of the chief political philosopher of the American Revolutionary War.
Other
American Revolution: Military Journal of James Thacher m.d. From 1776 to 1783
The original text of the "Military Journal, During The American Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1783" written by James Thacher on his observations of the events of the revolutionary period.
Sam Houston State University
The Revolutionary War in the West: The Conquest of the Illinois Country (I779)
Primary source document journal entry written by Colonel George Rogers Clark, describes the conquest of the Illinois country in 1779 during the Revolutionary War.
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: The American Revolution: First Phase
A military history of the first years of the Revolutionary War from Lexington and Concord to the Battle of Trenton. Included is information about the problems of maintaining the Continental Army and problems for the British Army.
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
Read the complete text of the Canandaigua Treaty signed by President Washington and the tribes of the Six Nations after the Revolutionary War; it was a treaty of peace and friendship and established land rights.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Road to Revolution: 1763 1776
This collection of primary sources helps students explore the events that led up to the American Revolutionary War.
US National Archives
Our Documents: Treaty of Paris (1783)
A wonderful interactive look at an original copy of the Treaty of Paris (1783). This treaty ended the Revolutionary War. Along with the original copy is a brief, informative paragraph. Also find links to larger images and downloadable...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Soldiers: Making of African American Identity: 1500 1865
Photographs of and letters from black soldiers-both enslaved and free-from the late-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries that examine military experience for African Americans.
Yale University
Yale: Treaty of Amity and Commerce, France and u.s.
The actual treaty that was signed between France the U.S. during the Revolutionary War in which France recognized American independence.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Making the Revolution: Independence: 1783 1791
A collection of eight primary resources with introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links on the period following the Revolutionary War, 1783-1791 and the making of a new nation.
PublicBookshelf Corporation
Public Bookshelf: Alexander Mc Dougall
An article on the revolutionary political activities of Boston Son of Liberty Alexander McDougall. Taken from "Our Country", published in 1877.
US Army Center
U.s. Army Center of Military History: New England in Arms
A detailed explanation of the organization of British and Revolutionary forces at the start of the American Revolution.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Paine
The complete original text of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" originally published in January 1776.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: The British Surrender at Yorktown, 1781
This article describes the issues and troop movement leading up to the British surrender to Washington at Yorktown. A chart shows the statistics of both the British and American forces' resources and causalities.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Declaration of Independence
The Independence Hall Association provides an online image of the original document of the Declaration of Independence.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Shays' Rebellion
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Shays' Rebellion.
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Vienna: Interview With General Aguinaldo
Complete text of an interview with the famous Filipino leader conducted by an American historian.
US National Archives
Our Documents: Lee Resolution (1776)
The Our Documents group offers information on Richard Henry Lee's 1776 resolution proposing colonial independence. See the original document, read the transcript, and download a printer-friendly version.
Other
Schoolhouse Rock: No More Kings
This resource provides fun lyrics to a song called No More Kings about the beginnings of the American Nation. This is taken from the popular 1970s cartoon series, Schoolhouse Rock.