Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
The Letters of Richard Henry Lee (Volume 2); 1779-1794
by Richard Henry Lee
Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: The Philosophy of Jesus and the Life and Morals of Jesus
by Dickinson W. Adams
Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776 (The John Harvard Library)
This is the first volume of a four-volume set that will reprint in their entirety the texts of 72 pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American controversy that were published in America in the years 1750-1776. They have been selected from the corpus of the pamphlet literature on the basis of their importance in the growth of American political and social ideas, their role in the debate with England over constitutional rights, and their literary merit. All of the best known pamphlets of the period, s...
The Most Successful American Privateer, an Episode of the War of 1812
by Wilfred Harold Munro
Nathan Hale. The Martyr-Hero of The Revolution
by Charlotte Molyneux Holloway
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period-some known and some forgotten-from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention. Published in association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, America's Beginnings takes the reader throughout the American colonies and introduces many leading figures, fr...
Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States (Senate Document) (Senate Publication)
by George Washington
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A Certain Way to Save Our Country, and Make Us a More Happy and Flourishing People, Than at Any Former Period of Our History
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The History of the Wonderful Battle of the Brig-of-war General Armstrong With a British Squadron, at Fayal, 1814 [microform]
Although the friendship between George Washington and James Madison was eclipsed in the early 1790s by the alliances of Madison with Jefferson and Washington with Hamilton, their collaboration remains central to the constitutional revolution that launched the American experiment in republican government. Washington relied heavily on Madison's advice, pen, and legislative skill, while Madison found Washington's prestige indispensable for achieving his goals for the new nation. Together, Stuart Le...
David Carter American Revolutionary War Soldier, his Family and Their Descendants
Report on the Chalkley Manuscripts, 21st Congress, the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
by Thomas Forsythe Nelson
History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York, Vol. 2 of 2
by William Dunlap
