Standard 2 Archives
(The American Revolution)
Master List
Literary Texts
 Dear America—Love they Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson (Ann
Turner)
 Dear America—The Winter of Red Snow, Valley Forge 1777 (Kristiana
Gregory)
 Hope’s Revolutionary War Diary, Books One-Three (Kristiana Gregory)
 My Name is America: The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary
War Patriot (Barry Denenberg)
 Betrayal at Cross Creek (Kathleen Ernst)
 War Comes to Willy Freeman (James & Christopher Collier)
 The Fighting Ground (Avi)
 Guns for General Washington (Seymour Reit)
 Toliver’s Secret (Esther Wood Brady)
 The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson (Ann McGovern)
 Give Me Liberty (L.M. Elliot)
 Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of…as Revealed by his Horse (Robert
Lawson)
 The Keeping Room (Anna Myers)
 Divided Loyalties: A Revolutionary War Fifer’s Story (Phyllis Hall Haislip)
 Kings Mountain (G. Clifton Wisler)
 Betsy Zane, The Rose of Fort Henry (Lynda Durrant)
 Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South (Ann Rinaldi)
 How George Washington Saved the American Revolution (The Crossing) (Jim
Murphy)
PICTURE BOOKS
 Redcoats and Petticoats (Katherine Kirkpatrick)
 The Scarlet Stockings Spy (Trinka Hakes Noble)
 Sleds on Boston Common: A Story from the American Revolution (Louise
Borden)
 George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides (Rosalyn
Schanzer)
 John, Paul, George & Ben (Lane Smith)
 Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak (Kay Winters)
 Let it Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord—First Battles of the American
Revolution (Dennis Fradin)
Informational Texts
 From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791: History of US, Book 3 (Joy Hakim)
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We Were There Too! (Philip Hoose)
Yankee Doodle America: The Spring of 1776 from A to Z (Wendell Minor)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You’d
Rather Not Drink (Peter Cook)
Tales of Famous Americans (Peter Roop)
Video
 Liberty’s Kids—the complete series: http://www.amazon.com/Libertys-KidsComplete-Jill-Anderson/dp/B001B73PO4/ref=pd_sim_b_24
Letters
 Letter concerning Lexington&Concord
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=264
Letter from Theophilius Lillie—a loyalist in Boston http://www.missionus.org/pages/primary-sources
Pro-British letter about the Stamp Act crisis
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=258
Letters from a Loyalist Englishwoman in Boston http://www.missionus.org/pages/primary-sources
Letter from Ezra Stiles to Catharine Macaulay (American Patriot to a
sympathizer in Britain)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=262
Letter from John Adams to his wife, Abigail 1774
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17740908ja&
archive=&hi=&mode=&noimages=&numrecs=&query=&queryid=&rec=&star
t=1&tag=
Letter from John Adams to his wife, Abigail 1776
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17760703ja&
archive=&hi=&mode=&noimages=&numrecs=&query=&queryid=&rec=&star
t=1&tag=
Journals
 Loyalist governor’s journal excerpt on Sons of Liberty http://www.missionus.org/pages/primary-sources
 Narrative of the Boston Tea Party by a participant, George Robert Twelve
Hewes http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5799
 Boston Massacre as reported by Deacon John Tudor, 1770
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/searchdisplay.cfm?ID=293
Art
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Murals of Freedom—Declaration & Constitution (online!)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_murals.html
Percy Moran’s “Battle of Bunker Hill”
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96516282/
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Trumbull’s “Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown”
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994023265/PP/
Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006691567/
Newspapers
 Boston Gazette’s Article on the Murder of Christopher Seider
http://www.mission-us.org/pages/primary-sources
 Boston Gazette’s Article on Stamp Act protests
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/docviewer.php?old=1&mode=nav&item_id=317
 Article on battles at Lexington & Concord
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/docviewer.php?old=1&mode=nav&item_id=505
 British perspective of events at Lexington & Concord—printed as a
Broadside http://www.masshist.org/revolution/docviewer.php?old=1&mode=nav&item_id=536
Poetry/Music
 Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth," 1773
http://www.mission-us.org/pages/primary-sources
 “The Liberty Song” by John Dickinson, 1768 http://www.missionus.org/pages/primary-sources
 Spinning Bee poem http://www.mission-us.org/pages/primary-sources
 Battle of Bunker Hill (composed by the British)
http://www.masshist.org/revolution/docviewer.php?old=1&mode=nav&item_id=763
Documents
 Statement of Enlistment in the Continental Army
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+0390140a))
 Declaration of Independence (Preamble only in archives):
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
 Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=267
 Fragment of earliest draft of “Declaration of Independence”
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/frag1.jpg
Maps
 Online interactive maps of “liberty sites”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/maps/maps_text_01.html
 Map of British & French settlements of North America
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3300+ar0044
01%29%29
 New Map of North America, 1783 http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3300+ar0100
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 Map of Yorktown Battle—French & American forces
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-binquery/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3884y+ar146200))
 The Nystrom Atlas of United States History (8th grade level) Pages 36-41
 The Nystrom Atlas of Our Country’s History (8th grade level) Pages 32-37
Pictures
 King George the III: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006677496/
 Funeral for the repeal of the stamp act (Political Cartoon)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006678564/
 “Join, Or Die” woodcut http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695523/
 Boston Massacre engraving by Paul Revere
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661777/
 George Washington http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96510309/
 Struggle for America (Political cartoon)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514672/
 Thomas Jefferson portrait http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009631979/
 John Adams, portrait http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003677111/
 Valley Forge http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006691573/