Includes personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield.

Features more than 150 important books, pamphlets and prints representing: the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States.

Makes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders.

The contents of Witness to the Early American Experience are drawn from the collections of New York University and the New-York Historical Society.