For Red Sox Fans!This is usually the day that the Boston Marathon is held and the Red Sox play a morning video game. That tradition has returned this year! For my fellow Red Sox fans heres a well-known clip from the 2007 Patriots Day game.

Images of the Revolutionary War is a collection of images about the Revolutionary War. The images in the collection chronicle the stirrings of disobedience in the pre-revolution years, the war from both British and american viewpoints, and occasions following the Revolutionary War.

The Massachusetts Historical Society uses fourteen lesson strategies that are lined up to the style of The Coming of the American Revolution. The lesson strategies include a mix of document analysis activities and group conversation activities..

Video LessonsKeith Hughes has a popular video in which he explains the American Revolution for middle school and high school students.

Today is Patriots Day here in Maine, in Massachusetts, and in a handful of other states. Its a day to mark the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the very first battles of the American Revolutionary War. As a great New Englander and a former U.S. History teacher, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for teaching and learning more about the American Revolution..

Refresher course has a comprehensive series on U.S. History. Included because series is Taxes & & Smuggling – Prelude to Revolution.

Its a day to mark the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. Developing Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War battle sites is an activity that I did for numerous years with my U.S. History students. Students would create multimedia placemarks for each fight in sequence.

Mr. Betts has a YouTube channel on which he publishes cartoons and tune parodies to teach U.S. History lessons. Heres one he did about the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Creating Google Earth trips of Revolutionary War fight websites is an activity that I did for lots of years with my U.S. History trainees. Trainees would create multimedia placemarks for each fight in sequence. The placemarks included information about the result and significance of each battle. Heres a video on how to make a trip with the browser-based version of Google Earth.