Suggested Reading

Boston National Historical Park

Bibliography

Elementary and Middle School

Adkins, Jan, John Adams, Young Revolutionary, Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002. (3rd - 6th grades)

Alsheimer, Jeanette E. & Patricia J. Friedle, The Trouble with Tea, Pentland Press, Inc., 2001, (5th - 8th graders).

Appleseeds Magazine, Growing up in the American Revolution. Vol. 3, No. 2, Cobblestone Publication, October, 2002. (3rd - 5th grades).

Berleth, Richard, Samuel's Choice, Whitman & Co., 1990, (5th - 8th grades) Fictional story about a young black slave boy who helps Washington's army in the Battle of Long Island in 1776.

Bliven, Bruce, American Revolution, Random House, 1958. (5th - 8th grades)

Bober, Natalie S., Countdown to Independence, Simon & Schuster, 2001 (5th-8th grades)

Borden, Louise, Sleds on Boston Common, A Story of the American Revolution, McElderry Books, 2000. (5th -7th grades)

Brennan, Linda Crotta, The Black Regiment of the American Revolution, Moon Mountain Publishing, 2004. (3rd- 5th grades) Story of black regiment in Battle of Rhode Island, 1777.

Cobblestone Magazine, Boston Massacre, March, 1980. (3rd - 5th grades)

Cobblestone Magazine, British Loyalists in the Revolutionary Era, August, 1987. (3rd - 5th grades)

Cobblestone Magazine, Patriotic Tales of the American Revolution, September 1983. (3rd- 5th grades)

Cobblestone Magazine, Spain and the American Revolution, November 2000. (3rd - 5th grades) $4.95

Day, Nancy, Your Travel Guide to Colonial America, Runestone Press, 2001 (5th - 8th grades) A travel guide to colonial life.

Davis, Burke, Black Heroes of the American Revolution, Odyssey Publications, 1976. (5th grade)

Davis, Kate, Samuel Adams, Triangle Histories: The Revolutionary War, Blackbirch Press, 2002, (5th - 7th grades)

Dutcher, David C.G., Concise History of the American Revolution, American History Series, Eastern National Publication, 1999. (5th-8th grades).

Earle, Alice Morse, Diary of Anna Green Winslow, Applewood books, 1894. (5th - 8th grades)

Edwards, Ben L., One April in Boston, Spyglass Books, Inc. 2000. (5th - 8th grades).

Ferris, Jeri Chase, Remember the Ladies- A Story About Abigail Adams, Carolrhoda Books, 2001 (3rd - 5th grades)

Forbes, Esther, Johnny Tremain, Houghton Mifflin, 1943. (5th - 8th grades)

Fradin, Dennis, Samuel Adams, The Father of Independence, Clarion Books, 1998, (5th - 8th grades)

Franklin Institute Science Museum Book, The Ben Franklin Easy & Incredible Experiments, John Wiley & Sons Publ., 1995 (3rd - 7th grades)

Fritz, Jean, Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? Coward-McCann, 1977. (3rd - 5th grades)

Fritz, Jean, Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? Coward-McCann, 1977. (3rd - 5th grades)

Gaines, Ann Graham, King George III, Chelsea House, 2001, Revolutionary War Leaders Series. (5th grade)

Griffin, Judith Berry, Phoebe the Spy, Puffin Books, 1977 (3rd - 6th grades)

Hakim, Joy, From Colonies to Country, Oxford University Press, 1993. (5th - 8th grades)

Haskins, Jim, ed., Black Stars of Colonial and Revolutionary Times, African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams, John Wiley & Sons, 2002. (4th - 8th grades)

Heinemann, Sue, Amazing Women in American History, A Book of Answers for Kids, Stonesong Press, 1998. (4th - 8th grades)

Kelley, Nancy, The Whispering Rod, White Maine Kids, 2001. (5th - 8th grades)

Kids Discover Magazine, American Revolution, 2000. (3rd - 5th grade)

Kids Discover Magazine, Colonial America, 2002, (3rd -5th grades)

Kids Discover Magazine, 1776, 2002. (3rd - 5th grades)

Kids Discover Magazine, Revolutionary Women, 2005.

Kroll, Steven, The Boston Tea Party, illustrated by Peter Fiore, Holiday House, 1998. (3rd- 6th grades)

Lasky, Kathryn, A Voice of Her Own, The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet, illustrated by Paul Lee, Candlewick Press, 2003. (3rd- 6th grades)

Lehey, Patrick M., What Was the Name of Paul Revere's horse? Eastern National Association & Paul Revere Memorial Association, 2001. A good reference book on myths vs. facts of Revere written by the Paul Revere House historian.

Millender, Dharathula, Crispus Attucks, Aladdin Paperbacks, 1982, (3rd - 5th grades)

Moore, Kay, If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution. Scholastic, 1997. (3rd - 5th)

Osborne, Mary Pope, Revolutionary War on Wednesday, Magic Tree House # 22, 2000. (3rd - 6th grades)

Rappaport, Doreen, The Boston Coffee Party, An I Can Read Book, Level 3, Harper Trophy Publishers, 1988. (2nd - 4th grades)

Schanzer, Rosalyn, George vs. George, The Revolutionary War as Seen by Both Sides. King George III and General George Washington. National Geographic Society Children's Books. 2004. (3rd - 6th graders)

Stephens, Amanda, Liberty's Kids, Freedom at Any Price, March 1775- April 19, 1775, Grosset & Dunlap, 2003. (3rd - 6th grades)

Stephens, Amanda, Liberty's Kids, Justice for All, December 5, 1773- September 5, 1774, Grosset & Dunlap, 2003. (3rd - 6th grades)

Tucker, Mary, Boston Tea Party, History Hands On, Teacher & Learning Company, #TLC 10302, 2001 (Activity Book for Grades 1st - 4th)

Walker, Niki & Bobbie Kalman, The Milliner, Crabtree Publishers, 2002. (5th - 7th grades)

Weidt, Maryann N., Revolutionary Poet- a story about Phillis Wheatley, Carolrhoda Books, 1997. (3rd - 5th grades)

Weir, Sarah, ed. America's War of Independence 1763-1783- A Concise Illustrated History of the American Revolution. Silver Moon Press, 1992. (5th - 8th grades)

Teachers

Allison, Robert, Short History of Boston, Beverly, MA, Commonwealth Editions, 2004.

Applewhite, Harriet B. & Darline G. Levy, Women & Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996. Read "The Women of Boston" by Alfred Young and "I have don…much to Carrey on the Warr" by Linda Kerber.

Bahne, Charles, The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail, Cambridge, MA, Newtowne Publishing, 1985.

Bober, Natalie, Abigail Adams - Witness to a Revolution, Atheneum Book, 1995.

Boston National Historical Park Handbook, Boston and the American Revolution, National Park Service, 1998.

Cleary, Patricia, Elizabeth Murray- A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America, University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

Copeland, David A., Debating Issues in Colonial Newspapers. Primary Documents on Events of the Period. Greenwood Press, 2000.

Cott, Nancy F., The Bonds of Womanhood, "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977.

Curran, Emily and Sanderson, Jill. Phillis Wheatley and the Origins of African American Literature. Boston, MA: Old South Association, 1999.

Diamant, Lincoln, ed., Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence, A one volume revised edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 Landmark series.Praeger Publishers, 1998.

Emery, Michael, The Press and America: An Interpreter's History of the Mass Media, Allwyn & Bacon Publishers, 1996.

Fischer, David, Paul Revere's Ride, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.

Fischer, Max W., American History Simulations, Teacher Created Materials, 1993.

Fowler, William, Samuel Adams, Radical Puritan, Longman, 1997.

Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Dover Publications, New York, 1996 edition. Published posthumously in 1867.

Gundersen, Joan R., To Be Useful to the World, Women in Revolutionary American, 1740-1790. Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Hinkle, Alice, Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier, Pleasant Mountain Press, 2001.

Humphrey, Carol Sue, This Popular Engine: New England Newspapers During the American Revolution, 1775-1789, University of Delaware Press, 1992..

Humphrey, Carol Sue, The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800. Greenwood Press, 2003.

Kerber, Linda. Toward an Intellectual History of Women, University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect & Ideology in Revolutionary America, University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Kaplan, Sidney & Emma Nogrady, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, Univ. of Mass. Press, 1989.

Ketchum, Richard M., Decisive Day- The Battle of Bunker Hill, Holt & Co. 1962.

Langguth, A.J. Patriots, Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Martineau, Harriet, Retrospect of Western Travel, (1834-1835 first-hand account of United States from 19^th century English author and traveler), M.E. Sharpe, new edition, 2000.

McCullough, David, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, 2001.

McCullough, David, 1776, Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Moore, Christopher, The Loyalists, McClelland & Stewart, 1984.

Norton, Mary Beth, The British-Americans, The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789. Little, Brown & Co., 1972.

Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Little & Brown, 1980.

Norton, Mary Beth, "Eighteenth-Century American Women in Peace and War: The case of the Loyalists," William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 33, 1976.

Old South Meeting House, Slave to Poet: Phillis Wheatley curriculum packet, Old South Association.

Old South Meeting House, Tea is Brewing curriculum packet, Old South Association.

Old State House, Prisoners of the Bar, What Really Happened on King Street on the Night of March 5, 1770, curriculum packet, Bostonian Society, 2000.

Quintal, George, Jr. Patriots of Color 'A Peculiar Beauty and Merit', African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Sloan, William David & Julie Hedgepeth William, The Early American Press, 1690 - 1783, Greenwood Press, 1994.

Unger, Harlow Giles, John Hancock, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000.

Young, Alfred, The Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party, Beacon Press, 1999.

Other Teacher Research Sources

Bodley Library, www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej.

Elizabeth Murray Project, www.csulb.edu/elizabethmurray.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. www.gilderlehrman.org.

Library of Congress www.loc.gov

Massachusetts Archives, http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ARC/.

Massachusetts Historical Society, www.masshist.org

National Archives & Records Administration, www.nara.gov

National Council for Social Studies. www.ncss.org.

National Park Service, National Park Service's American Revolution website: www.nps.gov/revwar.

Primary Source www.primarysource.org.