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American Revolution: Resources

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Lesson Plans
The Chronology Game PDF
Working with Readings Through Objects PDF
Application of Ideas PDF by Lynn Dole (See how "Working with Readings Lesson" has worked)

Videos Recommended
Search WGBY's Video library- A FREE lending library.
"Black Robe", film about the Jesuits in French Canada
"Families from a Distant Shore", film
"With These Arms"- Video SC Public Television (Rice production)
"Revolution" with Al Paccino- Film available at amazon.com
"April Morning" A Hallmark Hall of Fame film
"American Revolution" PBS 6 part video series (available for loan from our office. Contact Tammy Peters 256-8316)

Other
American Revolution Images PDF (Teaching using images)

Books Recommended
Extended Bibliography of the series -see below

Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, University Harvard Press: Cambridge, 2000.

Bruchac, The Arrow Over the Door (Fiction Native American story)

Collier, James, Christopher Collier Winter Hero, Library Binding, October 1999.(Story set in Amherst about Shay's Rebellion).

Countryman, Edward. Americans: A Collision of Histories, Hill and Wang, New York 1996.

Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution, Hill and Wang, New York 2000.

Raphael, Ray A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, The Free Press, New York 2001.

King George Can't You Make Them Behave (Children's book: a perspective of King George)

Childrens Books PDF (annotated by Rosemary Agoglia)

American Revolution- Extended Bibliography

Day 1: Chronological and Historiographical Overview (entire planning team, scholars and teachers).Traditional Approaches to the Study of the American Revolution and its Era.

Edmund Morgan, Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, selections.

Toward an Inclusive History of the Revolutionary Era (Neal Salisbury & Barry O'Connell)

Edward Countryman, The American Revolution, prologue.

Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, selections.
Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, intro.

Benjamin Quarles, "The Revolutionary War as a Black Declaration of Independence," in Berlin, Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution, pp. 283-301

Linda Kerber, "'History Can Do It No Justice': Women and the Reinterpretation of the American Revolution," in R. Hoffman and P. Albert (eds.), Women in the Age of the American Revolution.

Kenneth Morison, "Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict," in F. Hoxie and P. Iverson (eds.), Indians in American History.
Mechal Sobel, The World They Have Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, selections.

Day 2: The Geo-politics of the Revolutionary Atlantic World, 1740 to 1820 (Barry O'Connell, Amherst College & Rosemary Agoglia).
The major text for this session will be D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of American History. The selections will be from Vol 1: Atlantic America, 1492 and Vol. 2: Continental America, 1800-1867. Meinig's exceptionally comprehensive study makes it possible to review concisely the movements of population from all over Europe and Africa into North America. His texts also provide clear descriptions of differences in settlement, economic, and other major cultural patterns among all the constituent groups of North American history in our period. This session will intensively examine various maps, demographic charts, and elements of material culture through which we can explore the range of geographical movement and change within and to North America with a comprehensive review of regional and group differences.

Day 3: The Enduring Ambiguity and Exultation of "Liberty" (Neal Salisbury, Smith College and Bob Hansbury).
Edward. Countryman, chs. 1-4, 5-8.

Alfred Young, "George Robert Twelves Hewes," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 38 (1981), 561-623;

Holton, Forced Founders, ch. 2;

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (ed. Kramnick), intro. and text.;

Thomas Slaughter, Whiskey Rebellion, pp. 3-8, 28-60, 125-231;

William Manning, Key of Liberty: The Life and democratic writings of Wm Manning, "a laborer," pp. 3-28, 39-48, 125-70;

Selections from The Federalist Papers.

Day 4: Sovereignty: Who Rules, Who is Ruled, and By What Means (Alice Nash and Virginia Ahart).

Colin G. Calloway, "'We Have Always Been the Frontier': The American Revolution in Shawnee Country," American Indian Quarterly 16:1 (1992): 39-52.

Walter L. Williams, "From Independence to Wardship: the Legal Process of Erosion of American Indian Sovereignty, 1810-1903," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 7:4 (1983): 5-32.

John Hope Franklin, "The North, the South, and the American Revolution," Journal of American History 62:1 (1975): 5-23.

Day 5: The Many Struggles for Citizenship, 1740-1840 (Joyce Berkman and Tracey Pinkham).
Chapters from the following books:
James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870;

Rogers Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History;

J.C. Wise and Vine Deloria ,Jr., The Red Man in the New World Drama;

Candace Lewis Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own : Women, Marriage and The Law of Citizenship;

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America;

Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.
Essays and Articles:

Linda K. Kerber, "The Paradox of Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Case of

MARTIN VS. MASSACHUSETTS, 1805" American Historical Review 97 (April, 1992):349-378;

Michael Walzer, "Citizenship" in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change;

Melvin Yazaria, "Creating a Republican Citizenry" in The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits.
Selected Articles and Amendments from the US Constitution Selected Court Cases

Day 6: Equality: Americans' Ambivalent and Reluctant Ideal (Marla Miller and Tracey Pinkham)

David Brion Davis, "American Equality and Foreign Revolutions," Journal of American History 1989 76(3): 729-752;

Allan Kulikoff, "Was the Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?" in Hoffman and Albert, eds., The Transforming Hand of Revolution: The American Revolution as Social Movement, 38-89;

W.J. Rorbaugh, "I thought I Should Liberate Myself from the Thraldom of Others": Apprentices, Masters and the Revolution" in Alfred F. Young, ed., The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism , 185-220;

Peter Wood, "The Dream Deferred': Black Freedom Struggles on the Eve of White Independence," in Gary Okihiro, ed., In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean and Afro-American History;

Selections from Hoffman and Albert, The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribes.

Day 7: Empire: From an Anti-Imperial Revolution to the Manifest Destiny of a Democracy. (Neal Salisbury and Bob Hansbury)
T.H. Breen, "'Baubles of Britain': The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century," Past and Present 119 (1998), 73-104.

Woody Holton, "Land Speculators versus Indians and the Privy Council," In Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, and Slaves in the Making of the American Revolution, ch. 1.

John M. Murrin, "A Roof without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity," in R. Beeman, et al (eds.), Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, 333-48.

Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., "Early United States Policy: Expansion with Honor," in Berkhofer, White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present, pp. 134-45.

Primary Source Readings:
James Seaver, Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison, chs. 7 (excerpt), 8.

Alexander McGillivray, Letter to Arturo O'Neill [Governor of Florida], 10 July 1785, in J. Caughey (ed.), McGillivray of the Creeks, 90-93.

Brutus I, "To the Citizens of the State of New-York" [1787], in J. Kaminski and R. Leffler (eds.), Federalists and Antifederalists, pp. 4-13.

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, no. 11.

Thomas Jefferson, Third Annual Message [1803].

Meriwether Lewis, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1806, in R. Thwaites (ed.), Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (New York, 1905), 334-37.

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	American Revolution: Resources Related Websites Lesson Plans The Chronology Game PDF Working with Readings Through Objects PDF Application of Ideas PDF by Lynn Dole (See how "Working with Readings Lesson" has worked) Videos Recommended Search WGBY's Video library- A FREE lending library. "Black Robe", film about the Jesuits in French Canada "Families from a Distant Shore", film "With These Arms"- Video SC Public Television (Rice production) "Revolution" with Al Paccino- Film available at amazon.com "April Morning" A Hallmark Hall of Fame film "American Revolution" PBS 6 part video series (available for loan from our office. Contact Tammy Peters 256-8316) Other American Revolution Images PDF (Teaching using images) Books Recommended Extended Bibliography of the series -see below Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, University Harvard Press: Cambridge, 2000. Bruchac, The Arrow Over the Door (Fiction Native American story) Collier, James, Christopher Collier Winter Hero, Library Binding, October 1999.(Story set in Amherst about Shay's Rebellion). Countryman, Edward. Americans: A Collision of Histories, Hill and Wang, New York 1996. Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution, Hill and Wang, New York 2000. Raphael, Ray A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, The Free Press, New York 2001. King George Can't You Make Them Behave (Children's book: a perspective of King George) Childrens Books PDF (annotated by Rosemary Agoglia) American Revolution- Extended Bibliography Day 1: Chronological and Historiographical Overview (entire planning team, scholars and teachers).Traditional Approaches to the Study of the American Revolution and its Era. Edmund Morgan, Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, selections. Toward an Inclusive History of the Revolutionary Era (Neal Salisbury & Barry O'Connell) Edward Countryman, The American Revolution, prologue. Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, selections. Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, intro. Benjamin Quarles, "The Revolutionary War as a Black Declaration of Independence," in Berlin, Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution, pp. 283-301 Linda Kerber, "'History Can Do It No Justice': Women and the Reinterpretation of the American Revolution," in R. Hoffman and P. Albert (eds.), Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Kenneth Morison, "Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict," in F. Hoxie and P. Iverson (eds.), Indians in American History. Mechal Sobel, The World They Have Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, selections. Day 2: The Geo-politics of the Revolutionary Atlantic World, 1740 to 1820 (Barry O'Connell, Amherst College & Rosemary Agoglia). The major text for this session will be D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of American History. The selections will be from Vol 1: Atlantic America, 1492 and Vol. 2: Continental America, 1800-1867. Meinig's exceptionally comprehensive study makes it possible to review concisely the movements of population from all over Europe and Africa into North America. His texts also provide clear descriptions of differences in settlement, economic, and other major cultural patterns among all the constituent groups of North American history in our period. This session will intensively examine various maps, demographic charts, and elements of material culture through which we can explore the range of geographical movement and change within and to North America with a comprehensive review of regional and group differences. Day 3: The Enduring Ambiguity and Exultation of "Liberty" (Neal Salisbury, Smith College and Bob Hansbury). Edward. Countryman, chs. 1-4, 5-8. Alfred Young, "George Robert Twelves Hewes," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 38 (1981), 561-623; Holton, Forced Founders, ch. 2; Thomas Paine, Common Sense (ed. Kramnick), intro. and text.; Thomas Slaughter, Whiskey Rebellion, pp. 3-8, 28-60, 125-231; William Manning, Key of Liberty: The Life and democratic writings of Wm Manning, "a laborer," pp. 3-28, 39-48, 125-70; Selections from The Federalist Papers. Day 4: Sovereignty: Who Rules, Who is Ruled, and By What Means (Alice Nash and Virginia Ahart). Colin G. Calloway, "'We Have Always Been the Frontier': The American Revolution in Shawnee Country," American Indian Quarterly 16:1 (1992): 39-52. Walter L. Williams, "From Independence to Wardship: the Legal Process of Erosion of American Indian Sovereignty, 1810-1903," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 7:4 (1983): 5-32. John Hope Franklin, "The North, the South, and the American Revolution," Journal of American History 62:1 (1975): 5-23. Day 5: The Many Struggles for Citizenship, 1740-1840 (Joyce Berkman and Tracey Pinkham). Chapters from the following books: James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870; Rogers Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History; J.C. Wise and Vine Deloria ,Jr., The Red Man in the New World Drama; Candace Lewis Bredbenner, A Nationality of Her Own : Women, Marriage and The Law of Citizenship; Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America; Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. Essays and Articles: Linda K. Kerber, "The Paradox of Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Case of MARTIN VS. MASSACHUSETTS, 1805" American Historical Review 97 (April, 1992):349-378; Michael Walzer, "Citizenship" in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change; Melvin Yazaria, "Creating a Republican Citizenry" in The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits. Selected Articles and Amendments from the US Constitution Selected Court Cases Day 6: Equality: Americans' Ambivalent and Reluctant Ideal (Marla Miller and Tracey Pinkham) David Brion Davis, "American Equality and Foreign Revolutions," Journal of American History 1989 76(3): 729-752; Allan Kulikoff, "Was the Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?" in Hoffman and Albert, eds., The Transforming Hand of Revolution: The American Revolution as Social Movement, 38-89; W.J. Rorbaugh, "I thought I Should Liberate Myself from the Thraldom of Others": Apprentices, Masters and the Revolution" in Alfred F. Young, ed., The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism , 185-220; Peter Wood, "The Dream Deferred': Black Freedom Struggles on the Eve of White Independence," in Gary Okihiro, ed., In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean and Afro-American History; Selections from Hoffman and Albert, The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribes. Day 7: Empire: From an Anti-Imperial Revolution to the Manifest Destiny of a Democracy. (Neal Salisbury and Bob Hansbury) T.H. Breen, "'Baubles of Britain': The American and Consumer Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century," Past and Present 119 (1998), 73-104. Woody Holton, "Land Speculators versus Indians and the Privy Council," In Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, and Slaves in the Making of the American Revolution, ch. 1. John M. Murrin, "A Roof without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity," in R. Beeman, et al (eds.), Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, 333-48. Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., "Early United States Policy: Expansion with Honor," in Berkhofer, White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present, pp. 134-45. Primary Source Readings: James Seaver, Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison, chs. 7 (excerpt), 8. Alexander McGillivray, Letter to Arturo O'Neill [Governor of Florida], 10 July 1785, in J. Caughey (ed.), McGillivray of the Creeks, 90-93. Brutus I, "To the Citizens of the State of New-York" [1787], in J. Kaminski and R. Leffler (eds.), Federalists and Antifederalists, pp. 4-13. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, no. 11. Thomas Jefferson, Third Annual Message [1803]. Meriwether Lewis, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 23 September 1806, in R. Thwaites (ed.), Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (New York, 1905), 334-37.