The complete list of articles in Defining Documents in American History: The American Revolution (1754-1805).
Founding Documents
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
The Rights of the Colonists
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitution of New York
Constitution of Massachusetts
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
Constitution of the United States
George Washington’s First Inaugural Address
The Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
Speeches and Political Tracts
On the Right to Tax America
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
Paul Revere’s Engraving of the Boston Massacre
John Hancock’s Boston Massacre Oration
An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs
Proclamation on Behalf of King George III
The Farmer Refuted
Speech on Conciliation with America
Federalist No. 10
Speech Delivered at the Virginia Convention Debate on the Ratification of the Constitution
Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the Sedition Act
The Dangers of American Liberty
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
Supplemental Historical Documents
On American Independence
Brutus No. 1
Report on the Subject of Manufactures
The Revolution in Letters
Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Account of Shays’s Rebellion
Letter on the Rebellion in Springfield
Letters on Independence
Letter from George Washington to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775
Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London
Letter on the Virginia Constitution
Letters from an American Farmer
From the Commissioners for Negotiating a Peace with Great Britain
Letters of a Countryman
New York Legislature Committee of Correspondence to George Washington
Supplemental Historical Documents
Peter Brown’s Letter to His Mother, Following the Battle of Bunker Hill
Letter from Oliver Wolcott to Roger Newberry
Letters Concerning the Revolution
George Washington’s Letter to Bushrod Washington
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
Political Sermons
The Curse of Cowardice
A Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston
On the Right to Rebel against Governors
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men
The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor
A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Washington
Supplemental Historical Documents
A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution
An Oration in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence
Voice of Formation and Dissent
A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experience of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman
Liberty Further Extended
New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence
The Gleaner Contemplates the Future Prospects of Women in this “Enlightened Age”
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York
Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Letters on Education with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects
On the Education of Youth in America
An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., the Court of the Press
Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law
A Letter to Thomas Jefferson
A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge
Supplemental Historical Documents
Cato’s Letter and Petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly
American Indian Narratives
Beloved Brethren
Joseph Brant to Lord George Germain
We Can Retreat No Farther
Supplemental Historical Documents
Speech of Senghnagenrat, an Oneida Chief
Speech of the United Indian Nations, at Their Confederate Council, Held Near the Mouth of the Detroit River
Letter to President Washington (Seneca Chiefs Big Tree, Cornplanter, Half-Town)
African Slave Narratives
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa
Supplemental Historical Documents
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave
Chronological List
Historical Timeline
Web Resources
Bibliography
Index