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Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York

Government and Civics

Historian Richard Ketchum is the author of the classic studies Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill ; The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton ; and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War . In...

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The Origins of the French Revolution: American Influence, Domestic Discontent

World History

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

History Now Issue

Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam

#43 Fall 2015

Lesson Plan

Spain and the American Revolution: Contributions to the Patriot Cause

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

About This Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore Spain’s contributions to the American Revolution. Students will read and examine correspondence, a royal order, a map, and a combat diary. You will assess the...

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Autograph letter signed

to Friedrich Von Steuben re: financing American Revolution [in French]

1780/04/08

Beaumarchais, Pierre A.C., fl. 1780

"As for what concerns me, that which prevents you from gaily beating the English. Money? Soon I will take it, when it will come; but grace troubles you by means, I am much more curious about our laurels..."

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History Now Essay

Spain’s Black Militias in the American Revolution

Jane Landers

In 1775, Virginia’s governor, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, issued a proclamation offering liberty to all enslaved Blacks who would join Great Britain’s military forces and defeat the rebellious Americans fighting for their...

Appears in:

68 | The Role of Spain in the American Revolution Fall 2023

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The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [American Revolution]

1776/05/27-06/01

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, especially in the difficult time of...

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History Now Essay

Teaching the Revolution

Carol Berkin

Government and Civics

For most Americans, young and old, the history of the American Revolution can be summed up something like this: In 1776, all the colonists rose up in unison to rebel against a tyrannical king and the horrible burden of unfair taxes...

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21 | The American Revolution Fall 2009

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Autograph document signed

[Request to pay bearer for military service during the American Revolution]

1 April 1776

Morse, David, 1756-1830

Asks for pay for one month and ten days of enlistment. Signed on the verso by David's father, Pelatiah Morse, who was possibly the bearer.

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Printed document signed

[Joint resolution of congress for paying veterans of the American Revolution]

7 June 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State.

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