HIST 625: Corridor to Revolutions Research Resources

Anticolonialist actions, including

• Boston Tea Party
• Stamp Act riots
• Boston Massacre

The march to and naming of Liberty Square in response to the victory of the French revolutionary army at Valmy in 1792

The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society

Boston Committee of Correspondence Records, New York Public Library

The Coming of the American Revolution: 1764 to 1776, Massachusetts Historical Society

Many diaries, letters, and primary personal accounts were published in the nineteenth century. Search HathiTrust and the Internet Archive for old out-of-print volumes that have published accounts.

Allison, Robert J. The Boston Massacre. Beverly, Mass: Commonwealth Editions, 2006.

Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Hinderaker, Eric. Boston’s Massacre. Harvard University Press, 2017.

Kachun, Mitchell A. First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Newman, SImon. Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Raphael, Ray. A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. 1st Perennial ed. New York: Perennial, 2003.

York, Neil Longley. The Boston Massacre: A History with Documents. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Young, Alfred F. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 1999.

Zabin, Serena R. The Boston Massacre: A Family History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.

Revolutionary Spaces