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Adults

American Revolution — General

  • Billias, George, ed. George Washington’s Opponents. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969.
  • Gruber, Ira D. Lord Howe and George Germain, British Politics and the Winning of American Independence.” William and Mary Quarterly 22 (April 1965): 225-243.
  • Purcell, Edward L. and David F. Burg, ed. The World Almanac of the American Revolution.  New York: Scripps Howard Company, 1992.

Digital Exhibits

  • Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. “An Explanation of K-12 User Needs for Digital Primary Source Materials.” American Archivist 61 (Spring 1998): 136-157.

Paul Revere

  • Fischer, David Hackett.  Paul Revere’s Ride.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sir Henry Clinton

  • Clinton, Sir Henry.  The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative of his Campaigns, 1775-1782, with an Appendix of Original Documents.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.  Edited by William B. Willcox.

Spies in the Revolutionary War

  • Bakeless, John.  Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes.  New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
  • Ford, Corey. A Peculiar Service. Boston: Little Brown, 1965.
  • Hall, Charles Swain. Benjamin Tallmadge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.
  • Kaplan, Roger. “The Hidden War: British Intelligence Operations during the American Revolution.” William and Mary Quarterly 47 (January 1990): 115-138.
  • Martin, James Kirby.  Benedict Arnold: Revolutionary Center.  New York: New York University Press, 1997.
  • Peckham, Howard H. “British Secret Writing in the Revolution,” Michigan Alumnus XLIV (February 1938):126-131.
  • Pennypacker, Morton. George Washington’s Spies: In Long Island and New York. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1939.
  • Van Doren, Carl.  Secret History of the American Revolution.  New York: The Viking Press, 1951.

Women in the Revolutionary War

  • Claghorn, Charles E.  Women Patriots of the American Revolution: A Biographical Dictionary.  Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1991.
  • Clyne, Patricia Edwards.  Patriots in Petticoats.  New York:  Dodd, Mead, 1976.
  • DePauw, Linda Grant.  Founding Mothers:  Women of the Revolutionary Era.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
  • Ellet, Elizabeth F.  The Women of the American Revolution.  1850 reprint.  New York:  Haskell House, 1969.  2 vols.

Young Adults

American Revolution — General

  • Collier, Christopher.  The American Revolution, 1763-1783.  New York: Benchmark Press, 1998.

Multi-culturalism and the Revolutionary War

  • Davis, Burke.  Black Heroes of the American Revolution.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
  • Zell, Fran.  A Multi-Cultural Portrait of the American Revolution.  Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark Books, 1996.

Secret Writing

  • Fletcher, Helen Jill. Secret Codes. New York: Franklin Watts, 1980.
  • Janeczko, Paul B.  Loads of Codes and Secret Cipher.  New York:  Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984.
  • Lamb, Geoffrey.  Secret Writing Tricks.  New York: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1975.

Spies in the Revolutionary War

  • Bakeless, John and Katherine Bakeless. Spies of the Revolution.  New York:  J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962.

Women in the Revolutionary War

  • Silcox-Jarrett, Diane.  Heroines of the American Revolution: America’s Founding Mothers.  Chapel Hill, NC:  Green Angel Press, 1998.
  • Zeinert, Karen.  Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution.  Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.