02: Revolutionary America

02: Revolutionary America

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Boston 1775: Henry Pelham and History Painting
Boston 1775: Henry Pelham and History Painting
Teachers using the Revere engraving to teach about the Boston Massacre would be well served by reading this essay about the artist who Revere copied from in order to make his engraving. They may well find what they are telling students is inaccurate
Boston 1775: Henry Pelham and History Painting
Boston 1775: Fears in Framingham and Elsewhere
Boston 1775: Fears in Framingham and Elsewhere
The fear of colonists that the American Revolution would spark a slave rebellion can't be found in the narrative canon, but it is found in the discipline and the primary source documents. Fear of a slave rebellion can be found in just one quicks little story right at the start. Women and children hiding in a house along the road from Lexington to Concord, some holding axes in fear of the British and slaves taking advantage of the fighting to kill them
Boston 1775: Fears in Framingham and Elsewhere
Was Dr. Benjamin Church a Traitor? - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Was Dr. Benjamin Church a Traitor? - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
A deep drive article for teachers to see an historian at work. The value of this essay is the manner in which the author takes the reader along with her on her research journey, suggesting, changing, discarding and creating new conclusions on the way. Teachers should be doing the same with students - on a journey of discovery, not conclusion
Was Dr. Benjamin Church a Traitor? - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
The 25 Deadliest Battles of the Revolutionary War - Journal of the American Revolution
The 25 Deadliest Battles of the Revolutionary War - Journal of the American Revolution
Teachers routinely share casualty numbers assuming the numbers they have are accurate and teach students in the process that the numbers are accurate - when in fact, they are not. This is a violation of the "Do No Harm" rule, if you are teaching that these numbers are reliable, stop. This essay provides just some of the reasons why.
The 25 Deadliest Battles of the Revolutionary War - Journal of the American Revolution
Starving Memory: Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Starving Memory: Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Now that access to primary source evidence of the Revolution is widespread, teachers must face an increasingly hard decision - what to include and what to leave out. Martin's memoir was helpful for the "How I escaped the Revolution" book and a Scholastic essay as well. Yet, he also wrote about how he returned enslaved people to their owners after Yorktown and got drunk on the money he was paid.
Starving Memory: Joseph Plumb Martin Un-tells the Story of the American Revolution - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Harry Washington Discovery Cart - Museum of the American Revolution
Harry Washington Discovery Cart - Museum of the American Revolution
Harry Washington (or the man given that name by his captors) was kidnapped in Africa in 1763, taken to North America, purchased as an enslaved person by George Washington. He escaped under Dunmore's Proclamation, served in the Ethiopian Regiment, went to Nova Scotia after the war and made his way back to Africa
Harry Washington Discovery Cart - Museum of the American Revolution
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners - Teaching American History
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners - Teaching American History
Jefferson explains how slavery is a bane on both the slave and the master - then he expresses his fear of what slavery will do to the young country. This is Query 13, where Jefferson shared his fears of slavery, Query 14 is where he explains his justifications for slavery.
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners - Teaching American History
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
This is a description of the "Notes on the State of Virginia" that are commonly used for research, essays and lessons regard Jefferson's views of slavery. This is not the source itself, but Monticello's description of the source, when (1780s) and why he wrote it and how we have copies of it.
1780s: Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Season of Independence - Museum of the American Revolution
Season of Independence - Museum of the American Revolution
An excellent interactive teacher that allows users to survey public opinion across time and region in the form of individual quotes and comments from individuals as well as town, county, and state actions and resolutions. Perfectly accessible to students as part of a lesson that has them doing history, using this evidence as a way to make understandings of the past
Season of Independence - Museum of the American Revolution
Read the Revolution - Museum of the American Revolution
Read the Revolution - Museum of the American Revolution
Short excerpts from recent scholarship and books on the American Revolution that could be assigned to students as part of an exercise that exposes them to the real work of historians
Read the Revolution - Museum of the American Revolution
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in the Case of Howell vs. Netherland, [ca. April 1770] [Quote] | Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in the Case of Howell vs. Netherland, [ca. April 1770] [Quote] | Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters
As a young lawyer, Thomas Jefferson in 1770 makes an argument that "all men are born free" . He makes the argument in favor of an indentured servant suing for his freedom - he he kept as a slave because his grandmother is black. Jefferson loses, but his use of the language of the Declaration of Independence was used in a legal argument against slavery
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in the Case of Howell vs. Netherland, [ca. April 1770] [Quote] | Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters
Who Was Paul Revere and Why Should You Care? | PragerU
Who Was Paul Revere and Why Should You Care? | PragerU
This five minute video can be used by teachers to acknowledge that they are indeed using alternate resources, but also showing how they are propaganda, particularly the first minute. What is the thesis? What is the evidence used to support it?
Who Was Paul Revere and Why Should You Care? | PragerU
1774 The Long Year of Revolution - YouTube
1774 The Long Year of Revolution - YouTube
This hour is for teachers only, a great way to see how what you teach in the classroom is not really accurate. Mary Beth Norton has read every printed protest in the colonies in 1774. She not only opens up the Revolutionary stage to all 13 colonies, but brings attention to the broad differences of opinion across all of them
1774 The Long Year of Revolution - YouTube
From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 27 November 1775
From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 27 November 1775
George Washington calls Lore Dunmore a "monster" who should be shot. This is the Lord Dunmore who offered slaves freedom for fighting with the British at the start of the American Revolution.
From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 27 November 1775
From George Washington to James Warren, 31 March 1779
From George Washington to James Warren, 31 March 1779
George Washington despairs for the patriot cause and questions whether the greed of the colonists themselves is a bigger threat to victory in the War for Independence that the British
From George Washington to James Warren, 31 March 1779
Revolutionary Mothers - Reading
Revolutionary Mothers - Reading
This is a readable piece of appropriate length to provide US I students a perspective of the Revolutionary War ignored by the taught narrative canon. It details the "camp followers", the women who accompanied the continental army
Revolutionary Mothers - Reading
1777: Lucy to Henry Knox Letter
1777: Lucy to Henry Knox Letter
This letter from a wife to a husband in the midst of the Revolutionary War says much about what life was like at the time. Lucy's references to her lost family illustrate the difficulties of families split by the Revolution. Her family was loyalist but she fell in love and married a Patriot
1777: Lucy to Henry Knox Letter
Homepage - The Society of the Cincinnati
Homepage - The Society of the Cincinnati
How many teachers and students would believe that an organization of officers who fought in the American Revolution still exists? Passing on membership to their children, each of the members of this organization can trace their family tree back to an officer in the American War for Independence
Homepage - The Society of the Cincinnati