The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

	Additional resources for this issue of History Now General Resources Lockean Liberalism Unruly Americans Mercy Otis Warren Native Americans Camp Followers American Diplomacy

Print Resources

These are recent surveys of the American Revolution:

Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Revised version of the 1998 original.

Middelkauff, Robert H. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Ward, Harry M. The American Revolution : Nationhood Achieved, 1763-1788. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1995.

Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2002. Concise survey by one of the leading historians of the era. Also available in a 2005 edition from Phoenix.

These focus more narrowly on the non-military aspects of the conflict that you’ve read about in this issue:

Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York: New Press, 2001.

Ward, Harry M. The War For Independence And The Transformation Of American Society. London : UCL Press, 1999. Available in a 2000 hardcover reprint from Routledge

Internet Resources

There are two nonprofit Internet sites devoted to the American Revolution. The older one, founded in 1999 by attorney Ed St. Germain is americanrevolution.org:

http://americanrevolution.org/home.html

The newer one, “The American Revolution,” has a tidier web design than americanrevolution.org, but it offers far less meat in terms of scholarly essays and other features. Many of its links will take you to “dot.com” sites, too. Still, I think you should check out both of them and do your own “compare and contrast”:

http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/default.aspx

PBS’s Website for its series Liberty!: The American Revolution provides six teacher’s guides, one for each apisode:

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/teachers.html

And you’ll find brief segments on several of the figures discussed in this issue, as you’ll see by going to the convenient subject index:

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html

For images, look at the National Archives Pictures of the Revolutionary War:

http://www.archives.gov/research/american-revolution/pictures/#british

The Library of Congress ‘s “Guide to the American Revolution” provides a handy guide to the Library’s online resources for the subject:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/revolution/home.html

The Massachusetts Historical Society has mounted its own “Coming of the Revolution” webpage, whose excellent set of links constitute a critical Internet bibliography:

http://www.masshist.org/revolution/resources/useful_links.php

And don’t miss the lesson plans:

http://www.masshist.org/revolution/teachers/
lessons/lesson_concept_9b.php

Finally, our own Gilder Lehrman Collection has always boasted the American Revolution as one of its greatest strengths. The “Treasures of the Collection” series for the Revolution contains a trio of items relating directly to topics and figures dicussed in this issue (the Proclamation of 1763 and Mercy Otis Warren and Lucy Knox):

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/treasures1.html

Let me remind you, too, of the classroom “Module” on the Revolution – and don’t forget the links to documents here:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module1/mod_primary.html

I’ll be citing other individual items-of-interest from the Collection in resource pages for the essays in this issue, but don’t stop there – or with the documents highlighted in the “Module” I’ve just mentioned. I urge you to go to the Collection’s Search page and have some fun for yourselves.

If you just want to search for documents by a specific person, you can use the “Advanced Search” function, and enter the figure’s name in the “Author” field. I’d suggest that you also check the boxes for “transcript” and “image” in the “Restrict your search to” area below. Then you’ll get hits only for materials for which the Collection curators have been able to provide reproductions and easily-read transcriptions:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/index.php

Unfortunately, you can’t restrict your search in that way if you just do a Keyword or “Simple Search.” But, as we used to say in Upstate New York, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

For some terms, you can get around this by doing an Advanced Search putting your keyword in the “Description” box – and then limiting your results to records with reproductions, images, or annotation.

If you need to use the keyword field in “Simple Search” rather than Advanced Search, you can fine-tune the results once you have your list of hits. Click on top of the “date” column, and they’ll rearrange themselves in chronological order. Click on the top of the “keys” field, they’ll resort themselves to show you, first, those that have an image and transcript; then those with annotation; finally, those with only barebones records.