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Resources

List of Period Sources and Useful Websites for Revolution 250

Manuscript Records

Adams Family Papers

Massachusetts Historical Society

Alexander Hamilton Papers

Library of Congress

American Archives (Peter Force Collection)

Northern Illinois University Libraries

Boston by Manuscript

Massachusetts Historical Society

Boston Committee of Correspondence Records

NYPL

Correspondence of Elbridge Gerry

NYPL

Revolutionary War Muster Rolls

NARA

Samuel Adams Papers

NYPL

The American Revolution – A Documentary History

Yale Law School

United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900

NARA

Benjamin Franklin Papers

Library of Congress

George Washington Papers

Library of Congress

James Madison Papers

Library of Congress

Thomas Jefferson Papers

Library of Congress

Thomas Jefferson Papers

Massachusetts Historical Society

American Slave Trade…Papers of the Tarleton Family ($25\wk or $51\month)

British Online Archives

The Georgian Papers (Papers of King George, etc.

Royal Collection Trust

Correspondence of Elbridge Gerry

NYPL

The Founders Online

National Archives & Records Administration

Journal of John Boyle

Harvard University

 

Digitized Published Collections:

Colonial Society Publications

Massachusetts Colonial Society

Adams Papers

Massachusetts Historical Society

18th Century Collections Online

Gale Cengage Group – see local Public Library

Evans Early American Imprint

AAS & UMICH

American Antiquarian Periodical Collection

AAS \ Ebsco

HathiTrust Books

Hathitrust.org

Sabin Americana

Gale Cengage Group – see local Public Library

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789

 

Library of Congress

Printed Ephemera – 3 centuries of Broadsides

Library of Congress

The Avalon Project – Legal Documents – Royal Procs.

Yale Law School

American Archives

Northern Illinois University

American Records in the House of Lords ($25\wk or $51\month)

British Online Archives

The American Revolution from the British Perspective ($25\wk or $51\month)

British Online Archives

 

Newspaper Collections:

GenealogyBank.com ($55.95 \ yr)

Readex & American Antiquarian Society

Newspapers.com ($79.95 \ yr)

Ancestry.com

Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ($120 \ yr)

British Library

Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Door, Jr.

Massachusetts Historical Society

Burney Collection (British Library)

Gale Digital Group – see local Public Library

Nichols Collection (Bodleian Library)

Gale Digital Group – see local Public Library

British Library Newspapers

Gale Digital Group – see local Public Library

Virginia Gazette

Colonial Williamsburg

Boston Gazette (July 1775 – Dec 1776)

Internet Archive

 

Websites, Podcasts & Blogs:

Ben Franklin’s World

Liz Covart

Boston 1775

J. L. Bell

Journal of the American Revolution

Don Hagist

Brigade of Guards Blog

4th Company Brigade of Guards

 

Digital Exhibitions:

The Coming of the Revolution

Massachusetts Historical Society

Adams Papers – Digital Editions

Massachusetts Historical Society

Perspectives on the Boston Massacre

Massachusetts Historical Society

Siege of Boston

Massachusetts Historical Society

Bunker Hill

Massachusetts Historical Society

The American Revolution – Lighting Freedom’s Flame

National Park Service

Liberty! The American Revolution

Public Broadcasting Service

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

Clements Library, University of Michigan

Geometry of War; Fortification Plans

Clements Library, University of Michigan

George Washington; Man behind the Image

Clements Library, University of Michigan

Teaching American History: American Revolution

Ashbrook Center, Ashland University

Women in the American Revolution

American Battlefield Trust

The American Revolution – A World War

Smithsonian Institution

 

Material Culture:

Revolutionary Art & Artifacts

Massachusetts Historical Society

Collection – Museum of the American Revolution

Museum of the American Revolution – Philadelphia

Collection – Museum of the American Revolution

Museum of the American Revolution – Yorktown

Objects – Our American Revolution

Colonial Williamsburg

Collections of the DAR

Daughters of the American Revolution

 

Images & Maps:

GIGI – Digital Image Archive

American Antiquarian Society

European Political Print Collection

American Antiquarian Society

Paul Revere Collection Inventory

American Antiquarian Society

Photographs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Structures in Massachusetts taken 1887-1945 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes

 

American Antiquarian Society

Leventhal Map Collection

Boston Public Library

Archive of Early American Images

Brown University

American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750 to 1789

 

Library of Congress

British Cartoon Prints

Library of Congress

Rochambeau Map Collection

Library of Congress

David Rumsey

David Rumsey

William L. Clements Image Bank

Clements Library; University of Michigan

 

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