The Revolution in Virginia
The following resources lead the researcher to bibliographic and textual information
from the period or about the American Revolution, especially in Virginia.
Internet Resources from Colonial Williamsburg
The American
Revolution
Read, listen and see images about the war, the philosophy, the material culture,
and the people who lived through the Revolution in America.
Choosing
Revolution
The "Choosing Revolution" story line traces the beginnings of the new nation
by exploring the complex decisions every Virginian faced as the colony moved
toward independence. For further understanding, please read the
key points for this storyline.
Principles
of Freedom
The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution and the role of
Virginians are showcased. Included are facsimiles of some of the manuscripts
owned by the Rockefeller Library.
Politics
in Virginia
Events and documents leading up to the Revolution
Virginia Gazette
Read about the events as they happened. Use the alphabetical index with
terms such as Tea, Revolutionary War, Continental Army, and by location
of action.
Revolutionary
War Virginians (PDF)
This finding aid describes selected resources to consult when looking for information
about patriots and loyalists. While these resources are all available in the
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, they may also be obtained in other libraries.
Images are available in the Library's Visual Resources Center. Look at some
samples:
George
Washington
Revolutionary
War
Articles from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal
The
Truth About Betsy Ross: Popular Lore Says She Made First Flag, but Evidence
for the Tale Is Scarce by Ed Crews, Summer 2008.
Of
Rocks, Trees, Rifles, and Militia, Thoughts on Eighteenth-Century Military Tactics
by Christopher Geist, Winter 2008
Fighting...
Maybe for Freedom, but probably not by Lloyd Dobyns, Autumn 2007. (African-Americans
in the Revolution)
A
Look at the Revolutionary City by James Horn, Spring 2006
The
Alternative of Williams-Burg: "Monster madness... the Patriots are in high
Spirits just now." by Robert Doares, Spring 2006
A Common American Soldier by Christopher Geist, Autumn 2004
Spies
and Scouts, Secret Writings and Sympathetic Citizens by Ed Crews, Summer
2004
Promises
to Pay, Promises Unkept: How We Won a War and Lost Our Shirts by Richard
G. Doty, Summer 2003
Enduring
Images of War by J. Hunter Barbour, Winter 2002-2003
A
Patriot, a Traitor, and a Bill of Attainder by Jack Lynch, Spring 2002
Virginia’s
Very Own Navy by Edwards Park , Spring 2002
Selected Books and Journal Articles in the Rockefeller Library
Cometti, Elizabeth. Social life in Virginia during the War for Independence.
Williamsburg, Va.:Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1978. [F230
.C66 1978]
Eckenrode, H. J. The Revolution in Virginia. Hamden, Conn., Archon
Books, 1964. [E263.V8 E2 1964]
Hart, Freeman Hansford. The Valley of Virginia in the American Revolution,
1763-1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1942. [F232 .S5
H3]
Herndon, G. Melvin. Financing the Revolution in Virginia: taxes, trade,
and tobacco. Yorktown, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission,
1981. [HJ742 .H47 1981]
Maccubbin, Robert P. Williamsburg, Virginia: a City Before the State, 1699-1999.
Williamsburg, Va.: City of Williamsburg, 2000, pp 61-72.[ Ref and stacks,
F234 .W7 W768 2000]
Minnis, M. Lee. The First Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1775-1783. Lovettsville,
Va.: Willow Bend Books, 1998. [E263 .V8 M56 1998]
Rankin, Hugh F. The War of the Revolution in Virginia. Williamsburg,
Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1979. [E263 .V8 R23]
Rutyna, Richard A. Virginia in the American Revolution: a collection of
essays. 2 vols. Norfolk, Va.: Old Dominion University, 1977-. [E263 .V8
V85]
Selby, John E.
A Chronology of Virginia and the War of Independence, 1763-1783.
Charlottesville: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, University
Press of Virginia, 1973. [E263 .V8 S44 1973]
The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation ; Charlottesville, Va.: Distributed by University
Press of Virginia, 1988. [E263 .V8 S45 1988]
Frey, Sylvia R. "BETWEEN
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: VIRGINIA BLACKS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION." Journal
of Southern History 1983 49(3): 375-398. [online
version, CW only]
McDonnell, Michael A. "CLASS
WAR: CLASS STRUGGLES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN VIRGINIA." William
and Mary Quarterly 2006 63(2): 305-344.
[online version, CW only]
McDonnell, Michael A. "POPULAR
MOBILIZATION AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY VIRGINIA: THE FAILURE OF
THE MINUTEMEN AND THE REVOLUTION FROM BELOW." Journal of American
History 1998 85(3): 946-981. [online version, CW only]
Subjects:
Virginia History Revolution
Yorktown (Va.) History Siege 1781
Revolution French Participation
Other Internet Resources
The Age of George III
The later Eighteenth Century was a time of change and conflict in Britain. This
web presents some of the major themes of the period 1760-1830.
William
Ancrum Papers, 1757-1789: Letter Book and Account Book
Wealthy Charleston merchant William Ancrum's letter book, 1776-1780, and financial
accounts, 1757-1789, reflect the financial impact of the American Revolution
on this South Carolina businessman and planter. View the records by date or
search by keyword.
Center
of Military History. Online Bookshelves: Revolutionary War.
Fulltext analyses of military operations in the Revolutionary War, including:
Supplying
Washington's Army (1981) which discusses provision by the Quartermaster's
Department of arms and ammunition, food, clothing and medical supplies to the
troops.
The
Virginia Campaign and the Blockade and Siege of Yorktown 1781 (1931) includes
French involvement in the Revolution, the troop movements and skirmishes leading
up to the confrontation at Yorktown and includes aerial photography of the battlefield
circa 1930.
Documents for the Study
of American History
AMDOCS offers transcriptions of documents from the period.
The
Avalon Project
Includes transcriptions of important legal documents such as the Quartering
Act, 1774, and the Articles of Capitulation, 1781.
Journals of the Continental Congress
The Journals of the Continental Congress are the records of the daily proceedings
of the Congress—the First Continental Congress met from September 5 to
October 26, 1774; the Second Continental Congress from May 10, 1775, to
March 2, 1789.
Letters
of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789
The surviving correspondence of the 344 delegates who attended the Continental
Congresses during and after the American Revolution.
The
Loyalist Collection
The Harriet Irving Library at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton,
N.B. is a repository of Loyalist resources in Canada and contains microfilm
of British, North American Colonial, and early Canadian primary sources from
approximately 1740 - 1870, with the chief focus being the American Revolution,
and the early years of Loyalist settlement in British North America.
Military
Records and Resources from the Library of Virginia
Includes service, pension, and land bounty records for Virginia soldiers from
the colonial period to the twentieth century.
A
New Nation: The Thomas Addis Emmet Collection of Illustrations Relating to the
American Revolution and Early United States History.
A digital presentation of more than 8000 images owned by the New York Public
Library.
Pictorial Americana. The Revolution.
Selected images from the collections of the Library of Congress.
George Washington
Papers at the Library of Congress
Washington, D.C., approximately 147,000 images online.
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799
All 38 volumes of John C. Fitzpatrick's 1931-44 edition are reproduced by
the University of Virginia.
Subscription Resources (available only to Colonial Williamsburg staff)
America: History and Life
Indexes over 2,000 historical journals published worldwide. Approximately 16,000
new entries are added each year. Enter “|American Revolution| and |Virginia|”
as a subject to see a broad array of articles.
The
American Founding Era Collection is made available by the University of
Virginia and cooperating institutions and offers digital editions of the papers
of major figures of the early republic, and presents all material from the published
volumes, including editorial annotations and careful transcriptions of hundreds
of thousands of documents, in a fully searchable online environment. Included
in this collection are:
America's Historical
Imprints
Search simultaneously: Early American Imprints Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. (Available only
on computers on the CWF network; contact Reference Desk, 565-8510, for assistance.)
Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned
bibliography by Charles Evans - the definitive resource for information about
every aspect of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, from
agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music,
religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any
other topic imaginable.
Early
American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Full-text books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished
bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
America's
Historical Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
Hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography
and in additional subsequent bibliographies.
Footnote / Revolutionary
War Archives
Searchable documents from the National Archives include Revolutionary War Pensions,
Prize Cases, Rolls and Service Records.
Parliamentary
Papers, 1688-1834
Search or browse bills, acts, sessional papers, journals, and history of the
House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Sources
in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution
The American Revolution digital collection contains nearly 500 significant documents
of the time--official correspondence, personal letters, collected writings of
key figures, political speeches, memoirs and narratives of soldiers and civilians,
histories, and biographies.
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