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Hidden Histories of the American Revolution: Research

A virtual book display featuring our current holdings for exploring the founding of our nation

Signing of the Declaration of Independence  Smithsonian American Art Museum

"Signing of the Declaration of Independence," Smithsonian American Art Museum

Secondary Sources

Recommended Reading

cover art - George Washington - The Political Rise of Americas Founding Father
cover art - Winning Independence
cover art - The Founders Fortunes
cover art - hero of two worlds
cover art - The Cause
cover art - The Last King of America
cover art - Liberty Is Sweet
cover art - Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
cover art - American Revolutions - a continental history
cover art - The Expanding Blaze
cover art - Washington - A Life
cover art - Passion Is the Gale
cover art - Apostles of Revolution
cover art - Daily Life During the American Revolution
cover art - Independence
cover art - 1774
cover art - Franklin and Washington
cover art - Fourteenth Colony
cover art - Washingtons End
cover art - Washingtons Revolutionary War Generals
cover art - Southern Gambit
cover art - The Life of John André
cover art - To Begin the World over Again
cover art - The First Conspiracy
cover art - Cabal!
cover art - Americas First Ally
cover art - Justifying Revolution
cover art - Frontier Rebels
cover art - Unlikely General
cover art - Washingtons Crossing
cover art - Choosing Sides
cover art - Alexander Hamilton
cover art - Hamilton

eBooks

cover art - Smugglers and Patriots
cover art - After the Siege
cover art - Bunker Hill
cover art - March to Victory: Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign Of 1781
cover art - A Leap in the Dark
cover art - The Meaning of Independence
cover art - The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy
cover art - The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789
cover art - Storm over Savannah

Periodicals

American Periodicals

Reproductions of American periodicals from colonial days until the late 19th century. 1741 - 1900. Early periodicals in the collection focus on colonial life and the growing tensions between colonists and their oversea rulers leading up to the American Revolution.

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American Antiquarian Historical Periodicas

APS chronicles the development of America across 150 years including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800, America's transition from colonial times to independence. 

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Early American Newspapers

Full-text of more than 700 historical American newspapers from 1690-1876. 

 

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Pennsylvania Gazette

The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the America’s most prominent newspapers from 1728—before the time period of the American Revolution—until 1800. This collection includes full-text articles, editorials, letters, news items, and advertisements from colonial America.

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

This collection provided by the Library of Congress and the National Digital Newspaper Program contains America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963. 

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Letters, Documents, Images, and Artifacts

Books

cover art - The Partisan
cover art - Lachlan Mcintosh Papers in the University of Georgia Libraries
cover art - The American Crisis
cover art - The Revolutionary Era
cover art - The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution
cover art - Colonial Records of the State of Georgia
cover art - The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate
cover art - The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Open Access Primary Sources

national archives

Founders Online provides free access to thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic.

Harvard Logo Worlds of Change: Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to ;more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.

library of congress collections The American Revolution Resource Guide provided by The Library of Congress contains a wide variety of primary source materials associated with the American Revolution era including manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, images, and maps. Check out the following collections:

documenting the American south

Documenting the American South(DocSouth) is a digital archive that provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture