The History and Research Area

This area provides a means to access various Revolutionary War related documents, mailing lists, and newsgroups available via the Internet.

Compliments of Col. Baileys 2nd Massachusetts Regiment

Online Internet Tutorial/Help For Historians

A Historian's Guide to Email and Internet Resources

Another great RevWar Website by a friend of mine and comarade in arms: Revwar.com by Mike Meals

Read about the historic struggles provided by the National Society of the Sons of the Revolution

18th Century Personalities Online
- Visit the online U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Boston Massachusetts (my backyard)
- Read the George Washington Papers in Virginia
- Nathan Hale and those surrounding him
- Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man in Philadelphia, PA

Online Research Archives
- Delve into a List of 18th Century Internet Resources
  - Search the TitleNet Gopher Cross-publisher index by:
- Here lies the story of The Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill
- Look through the Project Gutenberg Gopher
- Go online with the U.S. Government History Sites
  
  The Library of Congress' American Memory Project
  
  The Thomas Jefferson Project
  
  The Smithsonian Institute Research Institute S.I.R.I.S. (type 'ESC xx' to exit)
  
  The National Library of Medicines's HyperDOC Resources
- Do research in around the Globe {COUNTRY ABBREVIATION}
  
  {US} The Chicago Historical Society
  
  {UK} BCMSV: Searchable DataBase of 17th/18th-Century English Verse
  
  NOTE: (login=bcmsv; password=bcmsv)
  
  {NL} American Revolution - an .HTML Project developed by students
- Visit Online Historic Sites
  
  The Colonial Williamsburg, VA Home Page
  
  The WebMuseum: Revolution and Restoration
  
  The Official Lexington, Massachusetts Home Page
  
  Fortress of Louisbourg Online Tour
  
  Museum Online Resource Review (MORR)
- Browse through the World's Online University Libraries
  
  Tennesee Technical University History Web Site [WWW]
  
  The University of Chicago's Center for Research Libraries [TELNET]
  
  University of Illinois [TELNET]
  
  The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History [WWW]
  
  The London Institute for Historical Research [WWW]
  
  The University of Kansas Web Site (keyword searching) [WWW]
  
  The Mississippi State University Historical Text Archive [WWW]
  
  Tennesee Technical University Gopher Server [GOPHER]
  
  Cornell University [TN3270]
  
  Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America's Booknet Archive [WWW]
  
  Search the Amazon Bookstore [WWW]

Online Readable Documents
- The Keigwin and Mathews Collection of Original Early American Newspapers [WWW]
- "Mickey Looks Down the Barrel of a Flintlock" by Brian K. Cortez (bcortez@ccs.neu.edu) [18KB]
- The American Crisis by Thomas Paine [441KB]
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [380KB]
- Cast Upon the Breakers by Horatio Algers Jr. [306KB]
- The Federalist Papers (1-85) [1.2MB]
- The Bibliography of Funeral and Burial Practices by Michael D. Bathrick (mbathrick@vnet.ibm.com) and Charles M. Niquette (CMNIQUETTE@aol.com) [54KB]
- A quotation from R R Hinman, *A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut*, 1846, p 250: 1647 Tobacco Law of the Colony of Connecticut [4Kb]

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