Part of Gales American Revolution Reference Library, American Revolution: Primary Sources, allows students and researchers to study the full text of or excerpts from 32 related Revolutionary era speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, poems and other documents.

Arranged in subject chapters, each entry provides introductory material, things to remember, the text itself, explanations and definitions, what happened next, Did You Know facts and a further reading section. Sidebars contain short biographies on the speaker or author or related information. Some of the primary sources covered include the Stamp Act (1765), portions of the Intolerable Acts (1774) and more. 01