1. The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1976
   Book review of 11 books about the American Revolution.
2. Black Loyalist
   Wikipedia article
   Resource Type: Article
   A Black Loyalist was an inhabitant of British America of African descent who joined British colonial forces during the American Revolutionary War. Many had been enslaved by the "Patriot" rebels and decided to join the British in return for promises of freedom.
3. Committees Of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom And Secure Good Government
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and formed their own government, which has now come to be controlled by powerful commercial interests. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls." What lessons can we learn from history to help us through this crisis?
4. Common Sense
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1776
   Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
5. Declaration of Independence
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1776
   The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
6. Inventing the People
   The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
7. Liberty's Exiles
   American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2011
   A global history of the Loyalist diaspora.
8. A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
9. The Nonviolent History of American Independence
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
10. On Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
11. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
12. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
13. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
14. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
15. Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    
16. Secret and Sanctioned
    Covert Operations and the American Presidency
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Knott presents a study of U.S. clandestine operations extending back to the American Revolution, and similar to those of the Cold War.
17. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
18. Underhanded History of the USA
    Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
19. Voice of the American Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
20. Voices of the American Revolution
    Celebrating 200 years of Independence 1776 - 1976
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
21. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.

Experts on United States/War of Independence in the Sources Directory

1. National Archives of the United States
2. National Museum of American History