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Primary Resources

The People's War by Noel Rae; Acacia House Publishign Services, Inc
Call Number: E208 .R34 2012
This is the story of one of history's great events, the Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers and sailors who fought it and the civilians who endured it.
British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785, Part I by Harry T. Dickinson
Call Number: E203 .B75 2007
Presents a selection of British pamphlets, which represent the multi-faceted debate on both sides of the political divide in Britain. The pamphlets in this work are organised chronologically in two parts, taking the start of American armed resistance in 1775 as the dividing point.
Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine
Call Number: JC177 .A31 2009
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine written by legendary author Thomas Paine is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.

America & Great Britain: diplomatic relations, 1775-1815: British government documents This link opens in a new window
Digitized official diplomatic dispatches, letters, and other correspondence from British archival sources about relations between Great Britain and the newly formed United States.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Primary index to research in American and Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations).
American History, 1493 – 1945 This link opens in a new window
This unique collection of primary source material documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century. Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, Module I covers "Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859" and Module II "Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945."
British History Online This link opens in a new window
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes a newspaper title directory (1690 - present) and searchable digitized images of selected local and regional newspapers (1880- 1922).
Colonial America This link opens in a new window
Spanning from 1606-1822, the Colonial America collection provides access to a unique collection of manuscript and printed material detailing civil and cultural society in early America. Sourced from over 1,450 volumes of the Colonial Office files held at the National Archives, UK, the collection contains the original correspondence between London and the American colonial governments.
Early American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876. Focusing largely on the 18th century, Series 1 is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies.

Secondary Resources

A Mighty Empire by Marc Egnal
Call Number: E210 .E27 2010
First published in 1988, Marc Egnal's now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, focuses on five colonies - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina - from 1700 to the post-Revolutionary era.
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America by Lee Ward
Call Number: JA84.G7 W37 2004
This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England.
Defiance of the Patriots by Benjamin L. Carp
Call Number: E215.7 .C37 2010
An evocative and enthralling account of a defining event in American history. This thrilling book tells the full story of the an iconic episode in American history, the Boston Tea Party.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video of 1,000 documentaries on race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. From Alexander Street Press.
World History in Video This link opens in a new window
Online collection of 1750 streaming videos of critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.
World History in Video covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
20,000 streaming documentaries, educational films, and instructional videos from the Films Media Group. Collections include Humanities & Social Sciences and Archival Films & Newsreels.

Liberty! The American Revolution