PaulReveresRideSuggestedResources

** Suggested Web Resources: **

** Paul Revere House ** [] On the night of April 18, 1775, silversmith Paul Revere left his small wooden home in Boston's North End and set out on a journey that would make him into a legend. Today that home is still standing at 19 North Square and has become a national historic landmark. It is downtown Boston's oldest building and one of the few remaining from an early era in the history of colonial America. The website for the Paul Revere House contains a multimedia depiction of the famous ride and a variety of primary source accounts.

** Coming of the American Revolution, 1764-1776 ** [] Extensive site with rich primary sources sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

** Paul Revere ** [] Informational site with student-friendly biography of Patriot Revere.

** ‘Patriots of the Revolution’ ** [] Biographies of a number of “patriots of the Revolution,” including Paul Revere.

** The American Revolution ** [] Comprehensive site with timeline of the revolution and lots of information about the revolution including battle information, African-American participation in the war, links to numerous other revolutionary war websites and the intriguing ’13 things you never knew about the American Revolution’.

** Paul Revere Images on Google ** [] Link to 10s of images of ‘Paul Revere’. Shows how his image has been used and abused up to an including the dreadful rock band, Paul Revere and the Raiders!

** Longfellow’s Poem ** [] ‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’

** Virtual Midnight Ride ** [] Link to an interactive map that students can use to learn about the ride.

** Mass Moments: “William Dawes Dies” ** [] MassMoments link to information on William Dawes, the sadly overlooked other rider.

**Liberty****! The American Revolution, Boston 1774** [] PBS excellent interactive site on the revolution, with a specific focus on Boston. There is an interactive ‘Road to Revolution’ game there that could possibly work with your students.

** Suggested Book Resources: **

Bernard Bailyn, //The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution//, Harvard University Press, 1992.

Woody Holton, //Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia//, The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Pauline Maier, //From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776//, W. W. Norton and Co., 1992.

Gordon S. Wood, //The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787//, The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Alfred F. Young, //The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution//, Beacon Press; 1st edition, 2000.

On the early Republic: Gordon S. Wood, //Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815//, Oxford University Press, 2009.