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Hidden Histories of the American Revolution: A Research Guide

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

Secondary Sources

Letters, Documents, Images, and Artifacts

Open Access Primary Sources

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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

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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Signing of the Declaration of Independence  Smithsonian American Art Museum

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

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