This article, written by Dr. Abby Chandler of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, chronicles the key historiography and historiographical debates concerning the American Revolution and provides a compilation of open access primary source databases to give educators knowledge of and access to the tools necessary to properly teach their students about the Revolutionary era.

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