Background Material
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
Colonies and revolutionCall Number: eBookPresents 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
Websites
- 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.
- Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American RevolutionFeatures more than 150 important books, pamphlets and prints representing the major themes of 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.
