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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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Printed Resources:
You’ll find these books by Professor Holton very helpful:
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making
of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.
Colin Calloway’s essay in this issue on American Indians
in the Revolution provides more details on the background of the
Proclamation Line and Pontiac’s Rebellion, and my recommended
resources there should be helpful. [YOU DO THE LINKING, GUYS.]
In addition, you may wish to consult this book. I know it’s
old, but it’s good. Too bad there isn’t a more recent
reprint:
Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. Western Lands and the American
Revolution. New York: Russell & Russell, 1959. Reprint
of 1934 edition.
If your students are interested in the part played by “Jack
Tars” in the Revolution, take a look at these books by historian
Jesse Lemisch:
Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics
of Revolutionary America. Irvington reprint series. Manchester,
NH: Irvington Publishers, 1968.
Jack Tar Vs. John Bull: The Role of New York's Seamen in
Precipitating the Revolution. Studies in African American
history and culture. New York: Garland Pub, 1997.
I know it was published nearly forty years ago, but this remains
the best study of the Boston Massacre. The Norton paperback reprint
makes it easier to find:
Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1970. Norton paperback reprint, 1996.
This recent book provides a good analysis of the economic weapons
like boycotts used by patriots in the Revolution:
Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer
Politics Shaped American Independence. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004.
I’ll refer you to Holly Mayer’s essay on women in
the Revolution and the sources I’ve suggested there for
this subject. [GIVE US A LINK??]
These studies look at the broader role of African Americans in
the Revolutionary era:
Cox, Clinton. Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the
Revolutionary War. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
Egerton, Douglas R. Death or Liberty: African Americans and
Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford, 2009.
Van Buskirk, Judith L. “Claiming their due : African Americans
in the revolutionary war and its aftermath,” an essay in
John Resch and Walter Sargent, eds., War and Society in the
American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Dekalb:
Northern Illinois University Press. 2007
While these focus on African American resistance and revolt against
white masters:
Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a
Revolutionary Age. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1991.
McKissack, Pat, and Fredrick McKissack. Rebels against Slavery,
American Slave Revolts. New York: Scholastic, 1996.
Rodriguez, Junius P. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and
Rebellion. Greenwood milestones in African American history.
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows on: Black Resistance, Culture,
and Identity Formation in Early America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 2006.
Internet Resources:
As for I did for books, I’ll refer you to my resource pages
for other essays for Internet materials on American Indians and
women. Here I’ll limit myself to topics not covered in more
detail by other contributors.
You have a good choice of Websites for the Boston Massacre from
a variety of sources:
Boston Massacre Historical Society
http://www.bostonmassacre.net/
Famous American Trials: Boston Massacre Trial. University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/
bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html
The Website for the Discovery Channel’s 2004 documentary
on the Massacre boasts a Photo Gallery that I think you’ll
find particularly useful for classroom use:
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/history/unsolvedhistory/
bostonmassacre/photogallery/photogallery.html
Part 2 of PBS’s Africans in America series features
the Boston Massacre, and the website can be helpful. Be sure to
take close look at the “Resource Bank”:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p25.html
The Massachusetts Historical Society, not surprisingly, has a
great lesson plan on the Massacre online:
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/teachers/lessons/
lesson_concept_9b.php
My sentimental favorite, though is the online lesson plan prepared
by Betsy Newmark for her Raleigh Charter High School, Raleigh,
N.C., students. The links there are a model:
http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark/BostMassessay.html
For the role of African Americans in the Revolution, you might
want to start by taking a look at Wikipedia’s essay on African
Americans in the:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_Revolutionary_War
And BlackPast.org’s online encyclopedia entries on the
Revolution:
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=entries-categories/american-revolution
Robert Selig’s essay on “The Revolution’s Black
Soldiers” at the americanrevolution.org Website has much
to recommend it -- very good print bibliography and links, too:
http://americanrevolution.org/blk.html
BlackPast.org boasts a good article on Dunmore’s “Ethiopians”:
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/lord-dunmore-s-ethiopian-regiment
See this Website for the Nova Scotia-based Black Loyalist Heritage
Society site:
http://www.blackloyalist.com/
Wikipedia’s Sierra Leone has good brief section on the
nation’s founding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone
Our March 2006 issue boasts Judith Wellman’s article, “The
Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's
Suffrage.” My Additional Resources there should help out:
/historynow/03_2006/historian.php
The Smithsonian site on Revolutionary Money can help your students
with this topic:
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
lesson_plans/revolutionary_money/
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