Primary Source Learning: American Revolution
Primary source sets with teaching resources
- American Revolution and U.S. Constitution Emerging America
- American Revolutionary War and Its Impact on the West State Historical Society of Iowa
- Coming of the American Revolution TPS-MTSU
- Revolutionary America (1755-1787) Inquiry in the Upper Midwest
Collection Connections
- American Memory Timeline: American Revolution select primary sources & primary source analysis prompts
- The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
- George Washington Papers
More Library lessons & activities
- The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal?
- The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
- George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
- Jefferson’s Rough Draft of the Declaration
TPS Consortium lessons
- The Declaration, Her Declaration, Your Declaration Primary Source Nexus
- Guided Primary Source Analysis: Pulling Down the Statue Primary Source Nexus
- How did the Patriots justify their separation from Great Britain? Teaching with Primary Sources program at the University of California, Davis
- How did the Stamp Act increase tensions in the colonies? (and lesson PowerPoint) Teaching with Primary Sources program at the University of California, Davis
- Learning from the Source: Minutemen & the Start of the Revolution Primary Source Nexus
- Making a Declaration – Beginning | Intermediate | Advanced Our American Voice
Teacher-created lessons
- How British Taxes Sparked the American Revolution TPS-GSU
- Fighting for Freedom TPS-GSU
- Political Cartoons During the Revolutionary War TPS-GSU
Teacher-created professional development activities, TPS Eastern Region
- Book Backdrops and the American Revolution elementary
- Book Backdrops and the American Revolution middle & high school
- Maps Tell Stories: The American Revolution middle school
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