Refresher course has an extensive series on U.S. History. Consisted of because series is Taxes & & Smuggling – Prelude to Revolution.

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 fights of the American Revolutionary War. As a good New Englander and a former U.S. History instructor, every year at this time I like to share a handful of resources for mentor and finding out about the American Revolution..

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

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

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

The Massachusetts Historical Society offers fourteen lesson strategies that are lined up to the theme of The Coming of the American Revolution. The lesson strategies include a mix of file analysis activities and seminar activities..

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 tours of Revolutionary War fight sites is an activity that I did for numerous years with my U.S. History trainees. Trainees would develop multimedia placemarks for each fight in sequence.

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

Images of the Revolutionary War is a compilation 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 perspectives, and events following the Revolutionary War.