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Introduction to U.S. History: The American Revolution documents the revolution and war that created the United States of America, from the earliest protests in 1765 through the peace treaty of 1783.

The collection examines the political, social, and intellectual upheaval of the age, as well as the actual war for American independence through its eight long years of conflict. This archive focuses on a diversity of issues through a wealth of original documentary material; allowing the reader to examine economics and international relations, contemporary religion and science, and the strategies and battlefield realities of combatants on both sides of the conflict. The experiences of commanders and common soldiers, women and slaves, Indians and Loyalists are all recorded in this collection, providing a richer sense of the causes and consequences of one of the great turning points in human history. The archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, political pamphlets and speeches, sermons and poems, legislative journals and popular magazines, as well as documents pertaining to the Boston Massacre, military recruitment, Abigail Adams, and the surrender at Yorktown, among other topics.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Works of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life written by himself, together with essays, humorous, moral & literary, ... In two volumes. 3rd ed., vol. 2, printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, [1794]. Archives Unbound, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0112432110/GDSC?u=pa_de_ccc&sid=bookmark-GDSC&xid=2096ba38&pg=1.