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Additional Resources

Content Resources

A Biography of America: The Coming of Independence
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog04/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 4: The Coming of Independence. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.

Primary Sources: Common Sense and the American Revolution
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/ revolution/ introduction.html
On this site, you can view the Primary Sources video (or read the transcript) for Program 2: Common Sense and the American Revolution. You can also access lectures, activities, classroom applications, and additional print and Web resources.

Liberty!
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
This comprehensive Web site features visuals and facts about the American Revolution, and includes a teacher's guide and information about the Liberty! documentary.

Modules on Major Topics in American History: The Revolutionary War
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module1/
In The Revolutionary War module, you can access a brief overview of the war, primary source documents, learning tools, visual aids, and additional resources.

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=4
This site includes readings, primary sources, audio and visual materials, and resources for teachers related to the American Revolution.

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/SPIES/
On this site you will find a collection of letters and stories from the Revolution era along with timelines and a teacher reference page.

Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/History/teaching/
With maps, lesson plans, and videos, this site offers teachers resources about Colonial Williamsburg.

American Revolutionary War History Resources
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/amrevmil.html
On this site you will find an extensive list of links to Web sites related to the American Revolution.

The History Place: American Revolution
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution
This site provides timelines detailing the events of the American Revolution.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974.

Berkin, Carol. Jonathan Sewall; Odyssey of an American Loyalist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.

Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. 1st Vintage Books ed.

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Rev. and expanded ed.

Nash, Gary B. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Smith, Paul Hubert. Loyalists and Redcoats: A Study in British Revolutionary Policy. Chapel Hill, NC: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. 1st Vintage Books ed.

Strategy Resources

Voices of the American Revolution
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=423
This site features a lesson plan that uses primary sources to evaluate why some people became patriots while others remained loyalists.

Loyalty or Liberty? A Web Adventure
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/revolution/ loyalty.html
This online simulation activity asks you to gather information about the loyalist and patriot perspectives and then choose a side based on what you have learned.

Online Interactive Simulations
http://www.socialstudiescentral.com/?q=node/88
On this site, checkout a series of links to online simulations, interactive Web sites, virtual museums, and lessons for face-to-face simulations.

History Globe: The Jamestown Online Adventure
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
In this online simulation, you are the captain of the Jamestown colony. Can you fare better than the actual colonists?

Experiences of the Civil Rights Movement: A Roundtable Project
http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/kcmayrie4212004021
This site features a lesson plan in which students participate in a roundtable discussion by taking on the role of someone who lived and experienced the Civil Rights Movement.

Fugitive Slave Law Simulation
http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/mmcglinn8202004707
This site features a lesson plan for a classroom simulation in which students critique arguments in favor of and opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law bill.

Congressional Politics in the Gilded Age: A Classroom Simulation
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/gilded/ghere.html
This classroom simulation introduces students to congressional politics using the national issues of the Gilded Age.