LibGuides: Primary Sources: Revolution & Early Republic

Revolutionary America

18th Century Documents : 1700 - 1799
Yale Law Library's Avalon Project provides documents in law, history and diplomacy by century in America.
American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776
Digitized collection of the printer Peter Force, including pamphlets, booklets and newspaper articles, published and reindexed by Northern Illinois University Libraries.
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750 to 1789
Library of Congress collection that represents an historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean with over 2,000 items.
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Digital collection from the Boston Public Library encompasses approximately 900 maps covering Boston and New England, as well as the remainder of eastern North America and the West Indies from 1750-1800..
Benjamin Franklin Papers
The Library of Congress collection consists of approximately 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s.
George Washington Papers
Digital collection of a portion of the 135,000 pages of correspondence collected by the University of Virginia
Spy letters of the American Revolution
Online exhibit from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan aims to showcase the spy letters of the Sir Henry Clinton Collection.
Witness to the Early American Experience
Archive of hundreds of eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution in and around New York City provided by New York University Libraries

Books at Reed Library

Women's letters : America from the Revolutionary War to the present by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler eds.
Call Number: HQ1410 .W6845 2005
ISBN: 9780385335539
Classical Black nationalism: from the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey
Call Number: E184.6 .C62 1996
ISBN: 0814755240
The Annals of America by Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E173 .A793
ISBN: 9780852293164
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
Ten volume set organized chronologically containing reprints of the original documents that were pivotal in the development of the United States.
A Documentary History of the United States by Richard Heffner
Call Number: E173 .H5 1991
ISBN: 0451624130
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
This expanded and revised eighth edition of the single volume contains the complete texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and other significant documents and speeches in American history. It also includes a new chapter on Barack Obama and his Inaugural Address. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.
Revolutionary America, 1763 - 1815 by Francis D. Cogliano (Editor); Kirsten Phimister (Editor); Kirsten E. Phimister (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203852903
Publication Date: 2010-07-15
Founding the Republic by John J. Patrick
ISBN: 9780313008481
George Washington Collected Writings by George Washington; John H. Rhodehamel (Editor)
ISBN: 9781883011239
Publication Date: 1997-02-22
Writings by Alexander Hamilton; Joanne B. Freeman (Editor); Alexander Hamilton; Joanne Freeman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781931082044
Publication Date: 2001-10-15
Voices of Revolutionary America by Carol Sue Humphrey (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313377334
Publication Date: 2011-05-23