Shays' Rebellion and Related Resources
K-12 Teachers' Workshop
March 7, 1998
Sponsored by the History Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Primary Source Materials
Related Resources
Overviews of Shays' Rebellion
- Shays' Rebellion, Peg Larson, Wintergreen Associates, Amherst, MA -- contains an overview of Shays' Rebellion with the possibility of going on a "walking tour" of Amherst, MA
- Shay's Rebellion: An Exhibit Located at the Hampden County Superior Court, Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society
Other Rebellions
- Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion (1704), MidAmerica Nazarene University -- transcribed notes of one of Virginia's earliest historians on the topic of Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
- Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People (30 July 1676), The American Revolution HTML project -- transcription of the declaration
- Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion (19 May 1676), The American Revolution HTML project
- The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington's Proclamation (August 7, 1794), The Early America Review
- Whiskey Insurrection, excerpts from the diaries of George Washington, University of Virginia
Maps
- Historical Map Collection, University of Texas. Check out territorial maps among others.
19th Century References to Shays' Rebellion
- Eight Years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865. Memoir and Speeches, Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1865, see pp. 192 - 193, from the University of Michigan Making of America project
- A Comprehensive View of Our Country and Its Resources, James Dabney McCabe, 1876, see p. 1221, from the University of Michigan Making of America project
- Celebration by the inhabitants of Worcester, Mass., of the centennial history of the declaration of independence, Worcester (Mass.), 1876, see pp. 131 - 132, from the University of Michigan Making of America project
- Chit Chat, from Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 29, Issue 174, June 1897, see pp. 660, from the University of Michigan Making of America project
Additional Resources
- The American Revolution, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-line -- companion site to the PBS documentary series Liberty!
- Massachusetts Facts: A Review of the History, Government, and Symbols of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth
- The Charters of Freedom, National Archives and Records Administration -- Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights
- Constitution Day, National Archives and Records Administration -- Primary documents and lesson plans
- The Federalist Papers, The Constitution Society
- The Anti-Federalist Papers, The Constitution Society
- Chief Justice (1792 - 1806) Francis Dana, Edgar J. Bellafontaine, Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society
- Events in History (1775 - 1828), Worcester, MA K-12 project -- includes summaries of Whiskey Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion