Educational Outreach

 

The following links are provided for those needing teaching resources on American Revolution subjects.  All links lead to off-site YouTube videos and the Texas SAR is not responsible for and does not endorse any advertising that may be seen as a result of viewing a YouTube site.

Prelude to War: Reasons for the Revolution | Over-View | Declaration of Independence, Constitution & Other Documents | Enlightenment & Its Influence | Battle Maps: Conflicts in Detail | The Types of Soldiers in the Revolution | Individual Campaigns & Conflicts | Little Known Facts & What-Ifs? | Washington | Leaders & Important Figures of the American Revolution:

 

Prelude to War: Reasons for the Revolution

Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution:  Crash Course World History #28
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw

Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution:  Crash Course US History #6
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eytc9ZaNWyc

The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening:  Crash Course US History #5
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vKGU3aEGss

Boston Massacre:  Animated Graphic Novel
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1NRTmVOtV4&list=RDCMUCUfsbWIraXIl7a6HKSJINUg&index=4

The American Revolution From Colonies to Constitution:  The Road to Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZgc1-nNoYU

 

 

Over-View

The American Revolution Explained in 10 Minutes
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOTAe-sNa4

 

 

Declaration of Independence, Constitution & Other Documents

Why the Colonies Declared Independence from Britain (1764-1776)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1kSyR5uIQ

The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE-tqe0xsQ

John Adams - Writing the Declaration of Independence (with subs)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7o5kWrbJJE

What Were the Articles of Confederation? | History
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWs9LpCg8I

The Articles of Confederation - Becoming the United States - Extra History - #1
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rHSiN0vKk
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLA_VPMsUg
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvRJpDjxVk
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wds6kpbpLlA
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL09tawX9sc
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-y94G59XU

 

 

Enlightenment & Its Influence

America and the Enlightenment
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDut5MTnDjs

The Enlightenment and Great Awakening in America
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avfutoKUZsQ

The Great Awakening
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrbUWqOotw0

John Locke, Natural Rights
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-Abmn9lZY

Essential John Locke:  Natural Freedom and Rights
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocJ2fPk5FGE

Essential John Locke:  The Purpose of Government
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1WKgCT7Sw

"Two Treatises of Government" by John Locke
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVYBRhqT3Qs

 

 

Battle Maps:  Conflicts in Detail

The Revolutionary War:  Animated Battle Map
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JLvRJzvOic

The Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War:  Animated Battle Map
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOZTT2sDePc&list=RDCMUCUfsbWIraXIl7a6HKSJINUg&index=12

 

 

The Types of Soldiers in the Revolution

Who Were Hessian Soldiers in the American Revolution?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOZTT2sDePc&list=RDCMUCUfsbWIraXIl7a6HKSJINUg&index=12

 

 



Individual Campaigns & Conflicts

Now Or Never:  Yorktown Campaign of 1781 (Full Movie)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXmpIp6_7c

A Bold Gamble:  Washington Crossing the Delaware River
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CrPKYKckvY

The Crossing
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jgEMrK1lcM

History Brief:  The Battle of Yorktown
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhGGlDP6LOU

Battle of Monmouth New Jersey Part 1
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAV4966p7aQ

Revolutionary War Reenactment:  Battle of Germantown 2015
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuHU6ll-io

 

 

Little Known Facts & What-Ifs?

Revolutionary War:  Bet You Didn't Know | History
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQvxFZTpdYE

10 Uncomfortable Truths About the American Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZPDoEyEhA

What if the American Revolution was Crushed?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATk5bW4rEFs

Would You Have Joined the American Revolution?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqVKV465CM

 

 

Washington

Washington Leads the Revolution | America:  The Story of Us
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCE9JbVKcU

Washington's War - General George Washington and the Revolutionary War
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvx8n_9s9M

History Brief:  The Leadership of George Washington
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGb5WuycPE

The Evolution of George Washington's Leadership
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewqjbZwORg

General Washington and the Continental Army
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJXTrp5FSSA

 

 

Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De Lafayette William Howe George Washington Charles Cornwallis Benjamin Franklin Samuel Adams Henry Clinton Jean-Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur, Comte De Rochambeau Nathanael Greene Frederick North, 2nd Earl Of Guilford

Leaders & Important Figures of the American Revolution:

Brief Biographic:  Horatio Gates
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86j40O_S40

Brief Biographic:  King George III
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkZakeIGF4

Brief Biographic:  John Paul Jones
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MEgN1cn9Ko

Brief Biographic:  Banstre "The Butcher" Tarleton
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbAf9yXKrxI

  Banastre Tarleton Episode 1:  Welcome to America
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lso85BQ3u0

  Banastre Tarleton Episode 2:  Tarleton and Simcoe
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KP8LgDtKBg

  Banastre Tarleton Episode 3:  "The British Legion"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHQlR0hqMg

  Banastre Tarleton Episode 4:  "Inability to Lead an Army"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN42aEf97no

George Rogers Clark and the Vincennes campaign
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOK-ECPVZc

  George Rogers Clark Documentary
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRo7Zd7KRic

Paul Revere - Patriot Leader of the American Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH12l5NdJlY

Important People of the American Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcW4P8pPCc

Key Figures in the American Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdyONZ46dY

Heroes of the Revolution
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_d4T9CrqYw