This online exhibit from Canada's Digital Collections Program documents an often overlooked group who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War: freed and escaped slaves. After the British government offered freedom to any slaves who fought on Britain's behalf, as many as 30,000 people of African descent escaped to aid the British war effort. When the war ended in an American victory, these...

Before the American Revolution, the British colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America were a rather disparate group of competing entities. Strong dissatisfaction with various policies of the British government stirred them to action during the 1760s and 1770s. This fine website from the Massachusetts Historical Society takes visitors inside that struggle through official documents,...

Created and maintained by Chris Whitten, this site is devoted to telling the story of the United States during its first few decades of existence, with a special emphasis on the lives of the American Presidents during this period. Different sections of the site contain photo galleries (primarily consisting of portraits), a history of the American flag, quotations from the founding fathers, and a...

For educators, students, and persons looking for information about any period in American history will find the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Web site an excellent resource containing thousands of helpful materials ranging from the colonial period to the present day. The site is divided into three main sections: Resources by Period, Resources by Topic, and the Reference Room. Users...

This site was launched as companion site to the PBS documentary Liberty!: The American Revolution. The PBS site is divided into five sections. Chronicle of the Revolution contains significant successes and setbacks in the revolution, as well as a bibliography, time line, index of varied related subjects, and collection of annotated links. Perspectives on Liberty offers information that places the...

The Open Yale Courses YouTube series allow learners from around the world to access lectures from Yale University scholars about a wide variety of topics. This recording from 2011 is part of a history course at Yale University, taught by Professor and Historian Joanne B. Freeman. Professor Freeman presents a series of engaging lectures about the American Revolution. As Freeman stresses in her...

In 2009, Sid Lapidus, an alumnus of Princeton University, gifted over 150 books, pamphlets, and prints related to the intellectual origins of the American Revolution to the Princeton University Library. The items here also cover the early years of the republic, efforts to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain and the United States, and the Revolution itself. These materials have been digitized...

This site was launched as companion site to the recently-aired PBS documentary Liberty!: The American Revolution. H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online--discussed in the June 14, 1996 Scout Report) has also created a site that contains program notes on each series episode, a bibliography, essays on central issues of the revolution by leading scholars, and an interactive question-and-answer...

Contributor to The Federalist, the first Chief Justice of the United States and a two-term governor of New York, John Jay gave much of himself to the fledgling nation. Given that he was an alumnus of Columbia University, it is fitting that this institution has created this omnibus of his collected papers and placed them online. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the...