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General sites
with numerous documents, images, and scholarly articles:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/---A
very large site with perhaps the largest existing compilation
of documents
about the American Revolution. See, e.g.:
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Seven Years' War
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Boston
Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Stamp Act
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Tom
Paine writings
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Articles
of Confederation
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Documents
about loyalists
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Albany
Plan
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Correspondence
during the revolutionary war
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Journal
of A. Waldo, a war surgeon
www.longman.awl.com/nash/ --- a long,
good site that gives you maps, quizzes, links
to other sites, study guides for your textbook, etc.
www.nara.gov/education/cc/main.html
--- images of the American Revolution, including maps
www.americanrevoluton.org---has
numerous letters, excerpts from documents, journals
of soldiers, etc. see,
e.g.,
www.earlyamerica.com---mostly
visual materials, some of which are printable. See, also, "notable
women of early America", including short
bios of Molly Pitcher, Abigail Adams, Mercy
Otis Warren,
and other. This is not as full
and rich a site as others -- it used to be much
larger, and seems to be under construction recently.
www.revolution.h-net.msu.edu
www.clements.umich.edu/spies/---some
good letters from spies are reproduced at this site.
The
Avalon Project (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm)---
a treasure trove of documents! From earliest foundings to the
present. On the American Revolution, see, for example:
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An
Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 1780
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Paine,
The American Crisis
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Alien
and Sedition Acts
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Barbary
Treaties
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Albany
Plan
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Constitutions
and Charters of all colonies and states
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The
Federalist Papers
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Documents
of diplomacy and foreign affairs
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Opinions
on the Constitutionality of the BUS
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Treaties
with Native Americans
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Documents of the Whiskey
Rebellion
www.ushistory.org---numerous branches within
the site, including "odur" ;
see esp:
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Valley
Forge links,
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Diary
of Albigence Waldo
www.historyplace.com---for everything
from Stamp Act to Congresses, Tea Parties, Patrick Henry, etc. has
the best timelines for the Revolution, too
For
the Stamp Act, see Colonial Williamsburg's called "Teaching Resources" for
documents and commentary that cover
both north and south during 1765.
www.law.umkc.edu
--for valuable information about the Boston Massacre, and a
complete transcription of the depositions of witnesses, the trial
testimony, and biographies of key players in this event. Good
pictures as well. This is the best site on the event.
www.bostonteaparty.nl/---for
a pretty good site on this event. There are no excellent
ones, but some prove adequate.
http://anza.uoregon.edu/archives.html
-- California and Oregon during the 1770s, much of it in Spanish;
timelines, biographies, maps, diaries and letters of two expeditions
of the Spanish to colonize California in 1774-1776
www.msstate.edu/archives/history ---
many different topics, mostly revolution era
www.memory.loc.gov/ --- Library of
Congress collections; some excerpts from Jefferson and Washington
papers, and from other early republic events.
www.fisher.lib.virgina.edu -- early census data
www.libertynet.org -- revolutionary
era and its aftermath; esp. from collections of the David Library
of the Amer. Rev.
www.h-net.msu.eduwww.state.de.uswww.oup.usa.org/anb -- American National Biography
www.digitalhistory.org --- good documents
on the 7 Years' War and Revolution beginnings; excellent place
to read about daily life of soldier; includes some items related
to life inside a fort on the frontier during the 7 Years' War.
www.ccs.neu.edu/home/bcortez/revwar --- mostly military history
www.lives/gwlife/ -- Washington biography; use to link to other bios of the
era's leaders
www.accessible.com --- to sample
the Pennsylvania Gazette on line
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu --- excellent
trove of graphics on the Rev.
www.angelfire.com --- esp. good
on the economics of the Rev.
www.plpsd.mb.ca/amhs/history -- links to
many events, and esp. good on Loyalists
http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/gwhtml/---For
the complete Library of
Congress collection of George Washington Papers; the
original
and first part of the released papers included his writings
through 1799, a great source for
teaching how to use documents
in multiple different ways.
For post-Revolutionary
years:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/---Washington's
Farewell Address
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Important
Court Cases of the early republic
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Monroe
Doctrine
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Marbury
v. Madison, 1803
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McCulloch
v. Maryland, 1819
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Dartmouth
College case, 1819
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Jefferson's
inaugural address
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Treaties,
bill of rights, northwest ordinances, etc.
www.nara.gov/education/cc/main.html
--- Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Anti-Railroad
Posters
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Alien
and Sedition Acts
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Whiskey
Rebellion
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Treaty
of Greenville
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Louisiana
Purchase
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Jay's
Treaty
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Northwest
Ordinances
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Washington's
Farewell Address
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Adventures
of Daniel Boone (3 parts)
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Vignettes
on notable early American women
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ETC.
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You
can do general web searches under "Philadelphia -- Revolution," or
"Delaware -- Revolution," and come up with numerous
possibilities to sift through.
This is somewhat tedious, but yields
good fruit, and is a valuable
activity for students to do themselves. You will have to
instruct them about how to tell good sites from
poor ones.
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You
can search under the names of events that took
place in the region, to narrow down the search and target
particular people and places. For
example, "Head of Elk," "March to Brandywine," "Battle
of Brandywine," "Paoli Massacre," "Cooch's
Bridge," and especially "Valley Forge." There
are others, of course.
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You
can narrow the searching even further by looking
for specific people and moments of the Revolution. E.g., "Stephen Girard”:
there is an elaborate site with his biography, extensive
activities in Philadelphia,
and legacy. Or try a year such as 1763 or 1765.
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