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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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