Daily Almanac for
Jan 17, 2009
Search White Pages
Info search tips
Bio search tips

Encyclopedia

American Revolution

American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

    • Cite
    • Print
    • Bookmark

More on American Revolution from Infoplease:

See more Encyclopedia articles on: U.S. History


Premium Partner Content
HighBeam Research

Related content from HighBeam Research on: American Revolution

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale (African Studies Review)

The American Choice-of-Law Revolution in the Courts: Past, Present and Future.(Book review) (Stanford Law Review)

Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation.(Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution)(Book review) (Journal of Social History)

The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.(books on American history)(Book review) (Journal of the Early Republic)

Two discs on war history cover the American Revolution and the Vietnam War. (Primary Source Media's 'American Journey: History in Your Hands. The American Revolution')(Macmillan Digital USA's 'The War in Vietnam: A Multimedia Chronicle') (Information Today)

Domestic insurrection: sowing the seeds of disorder in Revolutionary America.(Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution)(Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution)(Book review) (American Scholar)

The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement (The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography)

The late loyalists: northern reflections of the early American republic.(American Revolution, 1775-1783) (Journal of the Early Republic)

The time is now: Dr. Ernest J. Wilson comments on the technology revolution and African American competitiveness.(Interview) (Black Issues in Higher Education)

Another Test of the News: American Partisan Press Coverage of the French Revolution (Journalism History)

Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.