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General References

• Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty! An American History. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.

• Murrin, John M., Paul E. Johnson, and James M. McPherson. Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People. 6th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2012.

• Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2003.

• McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Primary Source Collections

• Brunn, Erik and Jay Crosby, eds. Our Nation's Archive: The History of the United States in Documents. New York: Tess Press, 1999.

• Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Its Participants. Edison, N.J.: Castle Books, 2002.

• Greene, Jack P., ed. Colonies to Nation: A Documentary History of the American Revolution. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

• National Archives. "Founders Online." https://founders.archives.gov.