Have a long weekend free and want to learn about the Revolutionary War?
Impress your friends with your history knowledge.
Learn about the Revolutionary War in three days:
- Gain a quick overview of the Revolutionary War:
- Browse the Revolutionary War Timeline to help put the war’s events into context and relationships.
- Read American Revolution Facts to learn basic facts, dates, and information about the war while answering commonly asked questions.
- Watch the Revolutionary War Animated Map. This 18-minute video chronologically follows the war’s events from Lexington to Yorktown.
- Read Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution: a History to learn why the Thirteen Colonies took up arms against Great Britain.
- Watch videos about and influential battles throughout the war, like the battles of Lexington and Concord and Brandywine.
- Meet influential people from both sides of the conflict by reading their biographies, such as George Washington and Charles Cornwallis.
- Browse original documents from the Revolutionary War, such as Common Sense by Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence to learn about the tumultuous political sphere
- Learn about the different wartime strategies that the British and the Continental Army had during the war.
- Explore the lives of everyday soldiers with articles like Three Men from Acton and Human Heroes.
- Discuss the role of women and African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies and the Revolutionary War.
- Gain an understanding of what happened after the war by reading the Treaty of Paris and watching Wars for Independence In4
- Understand how the war was remembered with the video Monuments of the Revolutionary War In4 and the article The Society of Cincinnati.
- Finish by exploring the technologies used during the war, such as Small Arms Weapon and Gunpowder.
Total time: 1331 minutes (22.2 hours)
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