American Revolution (1775 - 1783)
Online Reference | Overviews | Magazines and Newspapers | Web Sites
Reference Books
American Eras - vol. 2 - R 973.8 A5123
The American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Encyclopedia - R 973.303 A5126
The American Revolution: Eyewitness History - R 973.3 B9543 a
America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents... - vol. 3 - R 342.73 A5123
Annals of America - vol. 2 (primary sources) - R 973 A613, 2003
Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America - R 973.303 E563
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History - R 973.3 E563, 2006
Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War - R 973.303 E564
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation - R 973.03 E566
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America - vol. 1 - R 973.03 G8165
Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution - R 973.303 M4743 h
Revolutionary War Almanac - R 973.33 F8526 r
Who Was Who in the American Revolution - R 973.3 P9853 w
Online Reference
American National Biography (also in print)– Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades, Great Lives from History, and Great Events from History.
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Overviews
The American Revolution - floor 2 - 973.3 C8556 a, 2003
The American Revolution: A History - floor 2 - 973.3 W8752 a
The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789 - floor 2 - 973.3 N527 a
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 - floor 2 - 973.3 M6274 g, 2005
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic - floor 2 - 973.3 F3575 l
Liberty's Daughters - floor 2M - 305.4 N8862 l
1776 - floor 2 - 973.3 M1335 s
The Unknown American Revolution - floor 2 - 973.3 N2492 u
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Magazines and Newspapers
American Periodicals Series Online – More than 1500 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 scholarly journals.
Search for magazines or newspapers by title:
Click here to find if the library has a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper.
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Web Sites (primary-source materials)
The American Revolution and Its Era - Library of Congress - Images of over 2000 maps and charts from the time of the American Revolution.
Religion and the American Revolution - Library of Congress - An online exhibition of primary-source documents that illustrate the role of religion in the American Revolution.
Spy Letters of the American Revolution - University of Michigan - A collection of letters written by wartime spies; also includes a brief description of each letter, background information about the spies and their methods, and a timeline.
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