Background Material
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Colonial America : an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic historyCall Number: E162.C68 2006 -
Blackwell encyclopedia of the American RevolutionCall Number: E208.B635 1991
Primary Sources
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Colonies and revolutionCall Number: OnlinePresents a picture of life in America prior to and during the American Revolution using excerpts from diaries, advertisements, court proceedings, speeches, and political documents of the day. -
Narratives of early Maryland, 1633-1684Call Number: F184.H19 1959
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Websites
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Battle for Bunker HillIncludes 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.
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Collection on Liberty and the American RevolutionFeatures 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.
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Founders Early AccessMakes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders.
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Witness to the Early American ExperienceThe contents of Witness to the Early American Experience are drawn from the collections of New York University and the New-York Historical Society.
