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Primary
Source of the Month
“Le Marquis de La Fayette,”
engraved by Noel Le Mire, France, ca.
1775–1800. From the collections
of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
CONTENTS
"Brave and Gallant Soldiers "
Primary
Source of the Month
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quotation of the Month
The
next
Electronic Field Trip is
Yorktown
October 19, 2006
2006-2007 Teaching
Resources Catalog
2006–2007 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships
Games,
activities, and resources about life
in colonial America
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TOP STORIES
"Brave
and Gallant Soldiers: African-Americans
and the Continental Army" by Noel B.
Poirier
The
casual student of the American War for Independence
might assume that African Americans played
no significant part n the Continental Army.
Usually the layperson will take for granted
that African American patriots must have
fought in segregated, “all-black”
units, served simply as laborers in the
construction of fortifications and camps,
or as servants to wealthy army officers.
However, contemporary accounts reveals that
the Continental Army was the first integrated
army in American history.
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Primary
Source of the Month:
"Le Marquis de La Fayette"
This
print shows the Marquis de Lafayette accompanied
by his orderly, James Armistead. Armistead
served as a double agent during the Revolutionary
War. While Armistead gave irrelevant information
to General Cornwallis, he gave Lafayette
significant details about the British.
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More
Teaching
Strategy: African Americans during the American
Revolution
In
this lesson, students will learn about some
of the eighteenth-century African American
men and women who made choices and took
actions that affected American history.
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
- Hands-On History: Soldier’s Haversack (object kit)
- Slavery: A Colonial Odyssey (lesson unit)
- Echoes of Revolution (CD)
- The Tin Whistle Tune Book
- Tin whistles and fifes
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More
Teaching
News
Siege
of Yorktown Resources from the Library of
Congress and the National Archives
The Library of Congress and the National
Archives are important American history
resources. Among the vast holdings are many
primary sources related to all aspects of
the Revolutionary War, including the 1781
Siege of Yorktown. For ease of reference,
we have assembled links to a few resources
pertaining to Yorktown.
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More
Quotation
of the Month
“The irony and tragedy of the victory at Yorktown is that it gave one section of American society its independence while continuing another in bondage.”
—National Park Service, “Fortunes of War”
Yorktown teacher resource guide
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