This map, “American Revolution,” offers an overview of the Founding period and owes its greatest debt to Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution (2002), but also incorporates a host of online resources from Dickinson College and elsewhere.
HOW TO USE
Click on menu (upper left) for a chronological listing of place marks arranged in three layers (Colonial Crisis, War for Independence and Building a Republic) in order to find coverage of the period roughly from 1765-1788 with a concentration on the Revolutionary War itself. Each blue-and-gold Dickinson placemark contains images with short snippets of text from Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution (Modern Library, 2002), followed by links to the full text of related primary sources.
SELECTED DOCUMENTS
- George Washington to Committee of Congress (January 29, 1778)
- George Washington, Address to Officers at Newburgh (March 15, 1783)
- James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States (1787)
- Madison’s Notes in Federal Convention (Clickable Day-By-Day with Summaries) (1787)
- Founders’ Constitution (1787-91)