History - Primary Sources: American Revolution & Early Republic

1,852 historical maps, including regional, state, and city maps, land surveys, coast surveys, nautical charts, military maps, ornamental maps, maps revealing early transportation routes, and maps of American Revolution battle sites. (New York Public Library)

Letters and documents by Washington, as well as letters to him. Especially click "Documents & Articles" and then "Revolutionary War Series." (Univ. of Virginia)

French maps from Revolutionary era, largely military in nature. (Library of Congress)

Books, pamphlets and prints documenting the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States. (Princeton Univ.)

Images of letters from spies, double agents, etc., pertaining largely to military strategy. (Univ. of Michigan)

Letters, newspapers, broadsides, legal records, and maps that tell the story of New York from the early Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam up to the British occupation of the city during the American Revolution. (New York Univ.)

In the ICPSR database - SHSU users only

(Library of Congress) Also available in the Library, at JK1033 .L47 vol. 1-26.

Digitized documents spanning from the Continental Congress in 1774 to the 43rd Congress in 1875. Arranged in four categories: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention; Journals of Congress; Debates of Congress; and Statutes and Documents.

Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy. (American Antiquarian Society and Tufts Univ.)