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References

Content Resources

In Print

  • America at War – The Revolutionary War
    Minks, Louise and Benton Minks
    Ed. John Bowman
    New York: Facts on File
    1992. Print.
  • A Short History of the American Revolution
    Stokesbury, James L.
    New York: W. Morrow
    1991. Print.
  • As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of
    Boston and the Origins of Revolution

    Archer, Richard
    New York: Oxford University Press
    February 8, 2010. Print.
  • The Shot Heard ‘Round the World:
    The Beginnings of the American Revolution

    Bracken, Jeanne Munn
    History Compass
    January 1, 1970. Print
  • History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of the Shipbuilders, and Accounts of the Industries Upon its Tributaries, 1640 to 1872.
    Briggs, L. Vernon.
    Boston: Coburn Brothers
    1889. Print.
  • Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774
    Brown, Richard D.
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press
    1970. Print.
  • Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
    Dolin, Eric Jay
    W. W. Norton & Company
    July 2, 2007. Print.
  • The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775
    Hallahan, William H.
    New York: HarperCollins
    2000. Print.
  • The Yankee Fleet: Maritime New England in the Age of Sail
    Johnston Jr., James C
    Charleston: The History Press
    2007. Print.
  • The Boston Tea Party
    Labaree, Benjamin Woods
    London: Oxford University Press, 1996
    McCullough, David. John Adams
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001
    Print.
  • In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    Philbrick, Nathaniel
    New York: Penguin Books
    2000. Print.
  • A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
    Raphael, Ray
    Harper Perennial
    June 18, 2002. Print.
  • The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord
    Raphael, Ray
    New Press
    April 2002. Print.
  • Letters and Diary of John Rowe: Boston Merchant, 1759-1762, 1764-1779. Ed. Anne Rowe Cunningham
    Rowe, John
    Boston: W.B. Clarke Company
    1903. Print.
  • Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents Relating to the Shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the Year 1773, by the East India Tea Company
    Editor: Francis S.
    Drake. Boston: A.O. Crane
    1884. Print.
  • Defiance of The Patriots – The Boston Tea Party
    & The Making of America

    Benjamin L. Carp
    Yale University Press
    New Haven and London
    2010. Print.
  • Paul Revere’s Ride
    Fischer, David Hackett
    New York: Oxford University Press
    April 19, 1995. Print.
  • The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution
    Galvin, John R
    Pergamon-Brassey
    1989. Print.
  • The Life of Colonel Paul Revere
    Goss, Elbridge Henry
    Boston: Joseph George Cupples
    1891. Print.
  • The Minutemen and Their World
    Gross, Robert A.
    New York: Hill and Wang
    1976. Print.
  • A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence
    Shy, John
    University of Michigan Press; Revised Edition
    December 15, 1990. Print.
  • Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776
    Schlesinger, Arthur M.
    New York: Vintage
    1965. Print.
  • Samuel Adams: A Life
    Stoll, Ira
    New York: Free Press
    2008. Print.
  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution
    Hawkes, James
    New York: Vintage
    March 2, 1993. Print.
  • Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
    Wood, Gordon S.
    Penguin Books
    May 29, 2007. Print.
  • Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution
    Young, Alfred F.
    New York: New York University Press
    2006. Print.
  • The Boston Massacre
    Zobel, Hiller B.
    New York: W.W. Norton
    1970. Print.
  • Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation
    Editors: Gary Nash, Ray Raphael, Alfred F. Young
    Knopf
    April 19, 2011. Print.
  • The Fire of Liberty: The American War of Independence seen through the eyes of the men and women, the statesmen and soldiers who fought it
    Editor: Esmond Wright
    New York: St. Martin’s Press
    1983. Print.
  • The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence
    Editor: John C. Dann
    Chicago: University Of Chicago Press
    April 1, 1999. Print.
  • The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by its Participants
    Editors: Henry Steele Commager, Richard B. Morris
    Castle Books
    August 2002. Print.
  • King George III: A Personal History
    Hibbert, Christopher
    New York: Basic Books
    1998. Print.
  • King George III: America’s Last King
    Black, Jeremy
    Yale University Press
    2006. Print.

Online

  • Revolutionary War Timeline
    Kindig, Thomas
    Ushistory.org
    Independence Hall Association
    22 July 2011. Web.

Libraries & Historical Societies

Image Resources

In Print

Online
  • Military and Historical Image Bank
    PO Box 660
    Southbury, CT 06488
    historicalimagebank.com
  • North Wind Picture Archives
    12 Waterboro Road
    Alfred, ME 04002
    Phone (207) 490-1940
    (800) 952-0703 (USA)
    northwindpictures.com
  • Architect of the Capitol
    Washington, DC 20515
    New York: W. Morrow
    aoc.gov
  • Boston Public Library
    700 Boylston St.
    Boston, MA 02116
    bpl.org
  • Massachusetts Historical Society
    1154 Boylston Street
    Boston, MA 02215-3695
    Tel: 617.536.1608
    Fax: 617.859.0074
    masshist.org
  • Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
    PO Box 37012
    SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010
    Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    npg.si.edu
  • Nantucket Historical Association
    P.O. Box 1016
    Nantucket, Mass. 02554
    nha.org
  • Office of the Chaplain, U.S. House of Representatives
    U.S. Capitol, Room HB25
    Washington, DC 20515-6655
    Phone: (202) 225-2509
    chaplain.house.gov
  • New Bedford Whaling Museum
    18 Johnny Cake Hill
    New Bedford, MA
    whalingmuseum.org
  • National Portrait Gallery
    St Martin’s Place
    London, WC2H 0HE
    npg.org.uk
  • The Library of Congress
    101 Independence Ave, SE
    Washington, DC 20540
    (202) 707-5000
    loc.gov
  • The National Archives and Records Administration
    8601 Adelphi Road
    College Park, MD 20740-600
    archives.gov
    1992. Print.
  • The New York Public Library
    Digital Library Program
    188 Madison Avenue
    New York, NY 10016
    1992. Print.
    digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

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