Living Voices Our Revolution bibliography1
Our Revolution bibliography
Reference
Elementary
A Picture Book of Samuel Adams
David Adler and Michael Adler
Valley Forge
Richard Ammon
Daily Life During the American Revolution
Dale Anderson
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Laurie Halse Anderson
Liberty or Death: The Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves who sided with the British
Margaret Whitman Blair
Revolutionary Rumblings (Chester Comix)
War for Independence (Chester Comix)
Bentley Boyd
The Black Regiment of the American Revolution
Linda Crotta Brennan
Let It Begin Here!
Don Brown
If You Were There in 1776
Barbara Brenner
Great Women of the American Revolution
Michael Burgan
The Eve of Revolution: The Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox
Barbara Burt
When Washington Crossed the Delaware
Lynne Cheney
The Black Soldier 1492 to the Present
Catherine Clinton
Liberty’s Children: Stories of Eleven Revolutionary War Children
Scotti Cohn
Lexington and Concord, 1776: What Really Happened
Jean Colby
The American Revolution: 1763-1783
Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier
The Alexander Hamilton You Never Knew
James Lincoln Collier
You Wouldn’t Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party
Peter Cook
Black Heroes of the American Revolution
Burke Davis
Primary Source Accounts of the Revolutionary War
James Deem
The American Revolution: How We Fought the War of Independence
Edward Dolan
Boston Tea Party
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Everybody’s Revolution
Thomas Fleming
Give me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence
Russell Freedman
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
Jean Fritz
The American Revolution
R.G.Grant
The American Revolution: A Picture Sourcebook
John Grafton
African Americans and the Revolutionary War
Judith Harper
Black Stars of Colonial and Revolutionary Times
Jim Haskins
Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier
Alice Hinkle
African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
Deborah Kent
Liberty or Death: The American Revolution 1763-1783
Betsy Maestro
African Americans and American Indians Fighting the Revolutionary War
The Brave Women and Children of the American Revolution
John Micklos, Jr.
Declaring Independence: Life During the American Revolution
Growing Up in Revolution and the New Nation
Brandon Marie Miller
A Colonial Quaker Girl: the Diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778
Megan O’Hara, editor
Yankee Doodle America
Wendell Minor
…If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
Kay Moore
The Liberty Tree: The Beginning of the American Revolution
Lucille Recht Penner
How to be a Revolutionary Soldier
Thomas Ratliff
The Boston Massacre: An Interactive History Adventure
Elizabeth Raub
Victory or Death: Stories of the American Revolution
Doreen Rappaport & Joan Verniero
Patriots in Petticoats
Shirley Raye Raymond
They Called Her Molly Pitcher
Anne Rockwell
Independence Now: The American Revolution 1763-1783
Daniel Rosen
The American Revolution
Stewart Ross
Haym Salomon: American Patriot
Susan Goldman Rubin
George vs. George
Rosalyn Schanzer
King George: What was His Problem?
Steve Sheinkin
Afro-Americans ’76: Black Americans in the Founding of our Nation
Eugene Winslow
The Real Patriots of the American Revolution
Robert Young
Intermediate
The Revolutionaries
The American Revolution: Strategic Battles
Nathan Aaseng
Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories and Redcoats Tell Their Stories
Thomas Allen
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence
Marc Aronson
The Real History of the American Revolution
Alan Axelrod
American Voices from the Revolutionary War
Yankee Doodle and the Redcoats: Soldiering in the Revolutionary War
Susan Provost Beller
The American Revolution
Bruce Bliven Jr.
Fight for Freedom
Benson Bobrick
The Hungry War
Albert Britt
Come All you Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War
Clinton Cox
The American Revolution
John Davenport
The Signers: the 56 Stories behind the Declaration of Independence
Dennis Brindell Fradin
Washington at Valley Forge
Russell Freedman
Why Not, Lafayette?
Jean Fritz
Women of the American Revolution
Mary Furbee
Sidelights of the American Revolution
Webb Garrison
Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman
Judith Greenberg & Helen Cary McKeever
Freedom: A History of US
A History of US: From Colonies to Country, 1735-1791
Joy Hakim
Who Were the Founding Fathers?
Steven Jaffe
Life During the American Revolution
Stuart Kallen
Revolutionary Citizens: African Americans 1776-1804
Daniel Littlefield
Private Yankee Doodle: Being a Narrative of some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier
Joseph Plumb Martin
The Revolutionary War: America’s Fight for Freedom
Bart McDowell
The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words, 1750-1800
Milton Meltzer
I was a Teenager in the American Revolution
Elizabeth Metz
The Revolutionary War
Louise and Benton Minks
A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
The Real Benedict Arnold
Jim Murphy
American Revolution Battles and Leaders
Aaron Murray, editor
The American Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints Digest
Don Nardo
Women of the American Revolution
Louise Slavicek
The Revolutionary War: A Sourcebook on Colonial America
Edited by Carter Smith
Picture Book of the Continental Soldier
C. Keith Wilbur
Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution
Karen Zeinert
A Multicultural Portrait of the American Revolution
Secondary
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Morristown Official National Park Handbook
George Washington’s War in Caricature and Print
Kenneth Baker
Red Dawn at Lexington
Louis Birnbaum
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
Benson Bobrick
The First American Army
Bruce Chadwick
The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six: the Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants
Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris
The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence
Edited by John Dann
America’s Hidden History
Kenneth Davis
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Douglas Egerton
American Creation
Joseph Ellis
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
Paul Revere’s Ride
Washington’s Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
The Negro American: A Documentary History
Leslie Fishel Jr. & Benjamin Quarles
Liberty! The American Revolution (companion to PBS series)
Thomas Fleming
Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
Joseph Glatthaar & James Kirby Martin
“A Few Bloody Noses:” The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Robert Harvey
The Cartoon History of the American Revolution
Michael Wynn Jones
The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution
Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan
The Winter Soldiers
Richard Ketchum
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
A.J. Langguth
Defenders of Liberty: African Americans in the Revolutionary War
Michael Lee Lanning
Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Elise Lemire
46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense & the Turning Point to Independence
Scott Liell
Peter’s War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
Joyce Lee Malcolm
We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History
Nathaniel May and Clint Willis, editors
1776
David McCullough
The Diary of the American Revolution
Compiled by Frank Moore
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
Edmund Morgan
The American Revolution
Joseph Morton
The Forgotten Fifth: African-American in the Age of Revolution
The Unknown American Revolution
Gary Nash
The Negro in the American Revolution
Benjamin Quarles
The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord
Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation
Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past
A People’s History of the American Revolution
Ray Raphael
The American Revolution
Hugh Rankin
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
Charles Royster
A Salute to Courage
Edited by Dennis Ryan
The Battle for New York
Barnet Schecter
Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence was Fought
Michael Stephenson
Daily Life During the American Revolution
Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo
Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Fiction
Elementary
Encounter at Easton
The Fighting Ground
Night Journeys
Avi
Samuel’s Choice
Richard Berleth
Toliver’s Secret
Esther Wood Brady
Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776
Laurie Calkhoven
Attack of the Turtle
Drew Carlson
Jump Ship to Freedom
My Brother Sam is Dead
War Comes to Willy Freeman
Who is Carrie?
James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot
Barry Denenberg
Hoofbeats: Silence and Lily 1773
Kathleen Duey
Betrayal at Cross Creek (American Girl History Mystery)
Kathleen Ernst
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
Early Thunder
Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?
Jean Fritz
Five Smooth Stones: Hope’s Diary
We Are Patriots: Hope’s Revolutionary War Diary
When Freedom Comes: Hope’s Revolutionary War Diary
The Winter of Red Snow: the Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
Kristiana Gregory
Phoebe and the General
Judith Griffin
Midnight Rider
Joan Hiatt Harlow
Lady Margaret’s Ghost
Peril at King’s Creek
Traitor in Williamsburg
Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Redcoats and Petticoats
Katherine Kirkpatrick
Dangerous Crossing: The Revolutionary Voyage of John Quincy Adams
Stephen Krensky
Charlotte
The Hollow Tree
Janet Lunn
Road to Revolution!
Stan Mack and Susan Champlin
Guns for the Saratoga
Stephen Meader
The Keeping Room
Anna Myers
John’s Story: 1775
Joan Lowery Nixon
Sons of Liberty (graphic novel)
Marshall Poe
Thomas
Thomas in Danger
Bonnie Pryor
Daughter of Liberty
Robert Quackenbush
Guns for General Washington
Seymour Reit
Buttons for General Washington
Peter and Connie Roop
John, Paul, George and Ben
Lane Smith
Treason Stops at Oyster Bay
Anna Sweetzer
Meet Felicity
Felicity Learns a Lesson
Felicity’s Surprise
Happy Birthday, Felicity
Felicity Saves the Day
Changes for Felicity
Valerie Tripp
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia: What I learned of Freedom, 1776
Ann Turner
Hannah of Fairfield
Hannah’s Helping Hands
Hannah’s Winter of Hope
Jean Van Leeuwen
Mary Geddy’s Day: A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg
Kate Waters
Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak
Kay Winters
Intermediate
The Trouble with Tea
Jeanette Alsheimer
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom of the Waves
M.T. Anderson
The Year of the Hangman
Gary Blackwood
Drums
James Boyd
Peggy
Lois Duncan
Betsy Zane: The Rose of Fort Henry
Lynda Durrant
Give Me Liberty
L.M. Elliott
April Morning
Howard Fast
Through the Wormhole
Robert Favole
George Johnson’s War
Maureen Garvie & Mary Beaty
The Riddle of Penncroft Farm
Dorothea Jensen
Moon of Two Dark Horses
Sally Keehn
Soldier’s Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson
Sheila Solomon Klass
Just Jane
William Lavender
Son of Liberty (Young Founders 1776)
Elizabeth Massie
Sarah Bishop
Scott O’Dell
Woods Runner
Gary Paulsen
The Sherwood Ring
Elizabeth Marie Pope
Cast Two Shadows
The Family Greene
Finishing Becca
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family
A Ride into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Taking Liberty
Time Enough for Drums
Ann Rinaldi
John Treegate’s Musket
Peter Treegate’s War
Sea Captain from Salem
Treegate’s Raiders
Leonard Wibberley
Secondary
Cardigan
Robert Chambers
The Spy
James Fenimore Cooper
Conceived in Liberty
The Proud & the Free
The Unvanquished
Howard Fast
My Thomas
Roberta Grimes
Bound
Sally Gunning
Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill
Rise to Rebellion
Jeff Shaara
Film/Video
Liberty’s Kids (animated series)
Rebels and Redcoats
Liberty!
Africans in America, Part 2: Revolution (1750-1805)
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots:Part One
Patriot’s Day: Lights! Camera! Revolution!
Morristown: Where America Survived
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Websites(many sites include further links and resources)
Ray Raphael: Revolutionary Historian
National Park System American Revolution
PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION
History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)
From Revolution to Reconstruction primary texts
Library of Congress: America’s Story
American Revolution.org
The Revolution's Black Soldiers
Boston 1775 blog
The American Revolution home page
The American Revolutionary War
National Park System Museum Collections American Revolutionary War
National Park System Teacher Guides
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Black Loyalists
The Music of the Army
Liberty! The American Revolution
American Revolution National Discussion: companion guide to Liberty!
American Experience: Patriot’s Day
Africans in America
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots
Charters of Freedom
The Massachusetts Historical Society
Paul Revere’s account of his midnight ride
America’s Library: Revolution
American Revolution battle maps
The Military Journal of George Ewing: A Soldier of Valley Forge
George Washington’s Mount Vernon
British Battles: American Revolution
Songs of War
Selections from the Diary of Private Joseph Plumb Martin
Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown
Library of Congress American Memory: Today in History: April 19
National Archives Pictures of the Revolutionary War
Hoover Presidential Library-Museum exhibit: Revolutionary America!
Fiction about the Revolutionary War for 4th -10th Grades
Six Nations campaign
History Matters
The President’s House
The Battle of New York walking tour
Slavery in the North
When America won its independence, what became of the slaves who fled for theirs?
American Revolution Center
articles on Black Patriots
Privateers and Mariners in the Revolutionary War
The Hartford Black History Project: A Struggle from the Start
African Americans in the Revolutionary Period
American Revolution blog
African Americans in the early Republic by Gary Nash
A Brief Profile of the Continental Army
Uniforms of the American Revolution
Eyewitness to History, 18th century
Google Books
I was a teenager in the American Revolution
Liberty’s Children
The Revolution Remembered
A narrative of a Revolutionary soldier: some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin