I. General Resources
II. Primary Resources
III. Women's History
IV. Reenactment Groups
V. Other Archives and Manuscript
Repositories
VI. Bibliographies of DLAR Holdings by Subject
These bibliographies were originally compiled for inclusion in the US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY's publication "The Continental Army" (1983). Due to limitations of space, only part of each bibliography were published. The bibliographies have been maintained by the Center and are subjected to continuous revision and updating. The versions offered here are considerably longer than the original publication's versions.
Compiled from archive, library and Internet source
documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of Racism, has
been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of
enslaved Americans of African descent.
H-OIEAHC is sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, and is a member of the H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online,
initiative. H-OIEAHC provides the scholarly community with a variety of
on-line resources.
Chronological exhibitions dedicated to educators, students
and all who enjoy history.
OpenHere Network is a directory search
engine that has an informative site on the American Revolution complete with a
link to the David Library.
The ushistory.org
"Congress of Websites" was created and is hosted by the Independence Hall Association in
Philadelphia. Its mission is to bring American history to life on the Internet
for visitors worldwide.
Some of the featured sites are:
The Electric Franklin
The Betsy Ross Homepage
The Liberty Bell
The Philadelphia Campaign,
1777: Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution
Brandywine Battlefield
The Declaration of
Independence
Thomas Paine
The Electronic Text
Center at the University of Virginia
Library contains both the Federalist Papers and letters from Hamilton in
the Angelica Schuyler Church Collection, all in electronic format so they are
100 percent searchable and completely accessible by remote computer.
American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
Specific collections in American Memory that pertain to the American Revolution and Early Republic Era:
The Continental Congress
and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789: A Broadside Collection
The Thomas Jefferson
Papers
Early Virginia
Religious Petitions, 1774-1802
The American
Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies,
1750-1789
A Century of Lawmaking
for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
The George Washington
Papers, 1741-1799
The First Federal Congress Project, a chartered University
Research Center and affiliated with the Department
of History at the George Washington University,
has a dual mission: collecting, researching, editing and publishing the
universally acclaimed and well reviewed Documentary History of the
First Federal Congress, l789-l791, and serving as a research center on
the most important and productive Congress in U.S. history. The Johns Hopkins University Press
has published fourteen volumes of the records of this Congress and the editing
of five volumes of the correspondence to and from the members. The First
Federal Congress Project is also part of the Model
Editions Partnership, exploring ways to present historical editions in
electronic formats (internet and CD-rom).
The Liberty Library is a list of classic books and other
works on constitutional government put together by The Constitution Society, a private
non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education on the
principles of constitutional republican government. The items in the
library are arranged chronologically from the ancient world until modern day,
obviously including the span of the American Revolution and early Republic.
The goal of this site is to provide an online
cross-referenced index of all surviving orderly books of the Continental Army
in order to assist students and researchers in accessing these primary
resources. Its goal is to present a data base for researchers of the
“micro-history” of the Continental Army which can be found in no other single
source and which provides cross-referencing options to assist in research focus
on particular units, on particular campaign theaters and time periods, and on
institutions holding within their collections specific manuscript books.
The documents contained in this mini-edition, maintained by
the Model Editions Partnership, comprise
the critical period of Greene's campaign in the South--19 January 1781 through
15 February 1781. Starting with the battle of Cowpens, a pivotal battle in the
war in the South, they highlight what has become known as the "Race to the
Dan" as the British general, Lord Cornwallis, used all his resources to
attempt to overtake and destroy Greene's army as the Americans retreated across
the Dan River toward safety and succor in Virginia.
The Papers of George Washington is a grant-funded
project. It was established in 1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint
auspices of the University and the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a complete edition of
Washington's correspondence. DLAR has all the current editions of this project
in the our holdings. Not every letter is searchable online, but some
items are at the above website.
Slavery was a crucial issue for the Founders. By collecting
and publishing here in one volume substantial documentation on the issue of
slavery during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, it is
hoped that readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the founding
generation--slaveholders, opponents of slavery, and slaves--as it grappled with
its seemingly insoluble moral, social, and economic dilemma. Many of the
documents are taken from the files of or have been published in The
Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, 1787-1791, published by the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin and maintained by the Model Editions Partnership.
The University of Virginia Library's
contains a collection of electronic texts in the Electronic Text Center by or to
Jefferson (More than 1,700 items, including some color manuscript images),
Quotations, Jefferson in the Oxford English Dictionary, Scholarship,
Bibliographies, The UVa Jefferson Collections, Online Exhibitions with
Jefferson Content (From the UVA Special Collections Dept), and information
about Jefferson Organizations.
This site contains comprehensive information on one of the
many women recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a Patriot
during the American Revolutionary War.
This is a site by United States Field Artillery Association
and contains a brief biography with two images.
This site holds biographies of Deborah Sampson, Anne Bailey,
Rachel and Grace Martin, and many more women whose bravery helped the United
States achieve independence from Great Britain.
This site is a wonderful tool for searching in-depth
biographies of many eighteenth century women, among others by subject and
name. It provides a quick and easy way to access biographical information
on some very famous ladies.
The IV Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons is a recreated
Revolutionary War Cavalry Unit of Larkin Smith's Troop Brigade of the American
Revolution Unit #240.
A listing of some of the major living history groups around
the U.S. and Canada, including contact information and schedules of events, a
photo gallery, and organizational list.
V. Other Archives and Manuscript Repositories
American
Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634
(508) 755-5221
Email: library@mwa.org
Web: www.americanantiquarian.org
77 Grenville Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1B3
416-327-1583
Email: reference@ontario.ca
Bucks County Historical
Society
84 Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901-4999
(215) 345-0210
Email: info@mercermuseum.org
Web: www.mercermuseum.org
DAR Library
1776 D Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
(202) 628-1776
Web: www.dar.org
Fort Ticonderoga National Historic Landmark
PO Box 390
Ticonderoga NY 12883
(518) 585-2821
Email: fort@fort-ticonderoga.org
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699
(215) 732-6200
Fax: (215) 732-2680
Web: www.hsp.org
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association
(For
Hessian Studies)
PO Box 127
Scotland, PA 17254
Email:
halschwalm@prodigy.net
Web: www.jsha.org
The Library
Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 546-3181 general information
(215) 546-2456 reading room
(215) 546-8229 print room
Fax: (215) 546-5167
Email:
nscalessa@librarycompany.org
Web:
www.librarycompany.org
Library of
Virginia
Archives Research Services
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
(804) 692-3500 general information
(804) 692-3888 archives research service
They are unable to accept queries through email.
Web: www.lva.lib.va.us
Maryland State Archives
350 Rowe Boulevard
Annapolis, MD 21401
(800) 235-4045 MD toll free
(410) 260-6400
Fax: (410) 974-3895
Email: archives@mdarchives.state.md.us
Web: www.mdarchives.state.md.us
Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania
Masonic Temple
One North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-2520
Email: MUSEUMANDLIBRARY@pagrandlodge.org
Web: www.pagrandlodge.org/mlam
Monmouth
County Archives
125 Symmes Drive
Manalapan, NJ 07726
(732) 308-3772
Email: Mary Ann Kiernan,
Research Assistant
Web: www.shore.co.monmouth.nj.us/archives
Monmouth County Historical Association
Freehold, NJ 07728
(732) 462-1466
Email: mchalib@excite.com
Kew
Richmond, Surrey
TW9 4DU
Telephone Enquiries: 44 (0) 20 8392 5200
Fax Enquiries:44 (0) 20 8878 8905
E-mail:
enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.us
Web: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National Archives and Records Administration
Attn: NWCTB
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20408-0001
(866) 272-6272
Email:
inquire@nara.gov
Web: www.nara.gov
New Jersey State
Archives
225 West State Street-Level 2
Department of State Building
P.O. Box 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
(609) 292-6260 general information
(609) 633-8334 administrative office
(609) 396-2454 fax
Email: info@archive.sos.state.nj.us
Web: www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/archives.html
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-3400
Web: www.nyhistory.org
Cultural Education Center
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12230
(518) 474-5355.
Web: www.nysl.nysed.gov
Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
6016 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 1W4
(902) 424-6060
Email: nsarm@gov.ns.ca
Web: www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
Pennsylvania State Archives
350 North Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090
(717) 783-3362
(717) 783-9924 fax
Web: www.phmc.state.pa.us
No email inquiries accepted
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Bonar Law - Bennett Building
23 Dineen Drive
UNB Campus
Fredericton, NB
Canada
(506) 453-2122
Web: www.archives.gnb.ca
Email: provincial.archives@gnb.ca
The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
Dominion Head Office
50 Baldwin St. Suite 202,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5T 1L4
Telephone (416) 591-1783
Fax (416) 591-7506
Email: uela@becon.ca
Web: www.uelac.org
VI. Bibliographies of Selected DLAR Holdings
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