Revolutionary War Education presented by the WASSAR

Specific educational objectives of the Washington Society of the Sons of the American Revolution served by this page include:

patriotic, historical and educational and include those intended to perpetuate the memory of those who, by their service or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American people

to inspire them and the community at large reverence for the principles of the government founded by our forefathers

to encourage historical research in the relation to the American Revolution

to acquire and preserve the records of individual services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics, and landmarks

to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate materials

to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of the war and of the Revolutionary period

to foster true patriotism

to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, and to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble of the Constitution of our country and the injunctions of General George Washington in his Farewell Address to the American People.

There is a plethora of excellent information available on the Internet, we could not possibly hope to mirror all that information here. Instead, we present selected links to exceptional information currently available. As sites content change constantly, every effort is made to maintain these links. Index is by Source.

The sites are the responsibility of the owner. The WASSAR, officers, and members assume no responsibility for content. The sites receive an initial thorough review prior to posting and is selected for accuracy, content, and quality of the educational experience. Not all submitted sites will be posted.

Public Television and Broadcast Related Websites

LIBERTY ! - The American Revolution - LIBERTY! The American Revolution is a dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. The George Foster Peabody award-winning series brings the people, events and ideas of the revolution to life through military reenactments and dramatic recreations performed by a distinguished cast.

Site by PBS.

Institutions of Higher Learning Websites

Spy Letters of the American Revolution - The Revolutionary War was not fought by proclamations and battles alone. A major component of the war was the challenge of organizing military strategies over thousands of miles of battlefield. From the very beginning of the war, a complex network of spies, double agents, and traitors began to emerge in an effort to learn the plans of the enemy before they were enacted. The preservation and availability of the Sir Henry Clinton collection at the Clements Library provides an amazingly complete look at the everyday intelligence operations of both the British and American armies. Many of the letters highlighted in this digital exhibit were pivotal to the success and failures of sieges, battles, and surprise attacks.
Biographies on many primary personalities of the time.

Site by University of Michigan, School of Information (from The Collections of the Clements Library).

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Independence - The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

Site by Fordham University.

[The American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins.]

The American Revolution - This site was created by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line thanks to the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities to serve as a complement to the official companion site to PBS's Liberty! documentary series. We invite teachers, students, scholars and the public to join us in this opportunity to discuss and explore the American Revolution. Companion site to LIBERTY!

Site by Humanities & Social Sciences On-Line, hosted by Michigan State University.

Not-Profit Organization Websites

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution - Created by a nonprofit organization, with its headquarters located at historic Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. Our goal is to provide students, teachers, libraries and interested people worldwide with a vivid, exciting and accessible way to learn about the people, ideas, places and events that defined Revolutionary times and to help us understand through history who we are as a people today.

An online educational and information service presented by the Independence Hall Association

Private Websites

The American Revolution - Includes links to other sites developing American History and diversity. Complete history of the founding of the US, presented in a series of articles. Some advertising.

Site by americans.net.

Governmental Websites

The American Revolution and its Era - The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.

Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately 2,000 maps and charts. Over the next several years many of the maps and charts in this bibliography will be added to the online collection each month.

Site by The Library of Congress.

Cover: American Military History, Volume I American Military History, Volume I - The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775 - 1917. On-line book available in HTML or downloadable as a PDF document.

This first volume covers the Army’s history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917 the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war—global war—was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century.

Click on the image to view full resolution image of The American Soldier, 1782 CMH Pub 70-5, Soldiers of the American Revolution
Large (22 1/4" X 17 1/4") full-color reproductions of ten McBarron paintings depicting the American soldier in important episodes in the nation's fight for independence.

Site by US Army Center for Military History.

This page was last updated: February 10, 2008