Revolutionary War and National Expansion

American Memory Collection

from The Library of Congress.
To Form a More Perfect Union

American Revolution Reference Library

 [v. 4.] Primary Sources  -- edited by  Linda Schmittroth

History Matters

more digitized primary sources on the Internet.
Revolution and the New Nation 1754 - 1820s

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789

Available online at the American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress

Primary Documents in American History: National Expansion and Reform (1815-1860)

From the Library of Congress

Primary Documents in American History: The American Revolution and the New Nation (1763-1815)

From the Library of Congress

The American Revolution: A history in documents

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Uses documents of the time to explore the American Revolution, from the colonists' break with Great Britain through the struggle to create a successful government for the new United States.

The American Revolutionaries: A history in their own words

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Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the years of the Revolutionary War.