The following are my reasonings for including each and every one of the websites I chose for this project. Each served a purpose, as will be explained.
Explanations
I chose this website because it appears to be a first hand account from Paul Revere himself about that evening. Unfortunately, nothing on the site backs those claims up, nor is any source given to where the information came from. The page does include a link back to more information. The page is a member of "The History Channel.com Network", but offers little evidence of any credentials of the authors.
This website is well documented and full of information. In the page that I provided for students, his site links to many other sites as well. This website is very "pro-Revere" in relation to his importance in American history.
This site is an extensive collection of information including timelines, overviews, audio, video and links to numerous other websites. A bibliography is given, although it is simply links to Amazon of the books used. This site does contain advertisements for various products.
The Wikipedia entry was included because students today have embraced using Wikipedia as an authority in whatever they are researching. This entry also has a "Historical criticisms and inaccuracies" section, which could be very beneficial here is what is posted is true.
This page reminds me very much of the www.martinlutherking.org website we examined, just not nearly as thorough. It includes a short anecdote about Revere that may not paint him in the best light, but may very well be true. It is also a visually exciting website, which may lead students to believe it to be true lacking any support.
This is a video that looks and sounds very good, but seems to follow much of the information from Longfellow's poem. Students will probably take everything here as fact without the benefit of links to the rest of the site which does have a wealth of information.
This blog simply has Longfellow's poem on it, preceded by "I can't tell the story any better than the famous poem". This blog also has numerous comments after it on the relevance or falsities of Longfellow's poem.