Letters to and from Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784 : Member of the Stamp Act Congress and the First and Second Continental Congresses ; Speaker of the Delaware Colonial Assembly /

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Roger Sherman : signer and statesman / by Boardman, Roger Sherman

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John Adams, founder of the American political tradition /

Table of Contents: “…Beginning a life of leadership -- Passionate revolutionary, the First and Second Continental Congresses -- John Adams as diplomat to France, victory in the Revolutionary War -- Foreign ambassador in London -- John Adams as Vice President -- The Presidency of John Adams -- John Adams; Presidency concluded -- A life well-lived -- John Adams' legacy.…”
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The Provincial Congress at their meeting, having unanimously chosen the following worthy gentlemen, to represent this colony at the General Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on...

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To the free and respectable mechanicks, and other inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. : In this perilous time, when the iron hand of tyranny is held over our heads ... by Tincker

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The following extracts from the proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the City and County of New York, are by them directed to be published.

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Jefferson's Declaration of independence : origins, philosophy, and theology / by Jayne, Allen

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Carefully taught : American history through Broadway musicals / by Ginell, Cary

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Doug Reside -- 1776 : the Second Continental Congress -- Dearest enemy : the American Revolution -- Ben Franklin in Paris : Revolutionary War diplomacy -- Hamilton : the life of Alexander Hamilton -- Bloody bloody Andrew Jackson : the life of Andrew Jackson -- Big River : Mark Twain's America -- Bloomer girl : the women's reform movement and the Underground Railroad at the dawn of the Civil War -- Shenandoah : the Civil War -- The Civil War : the Civil War -- Miss Liberty : the construction of the Statue of Liberty -- Annie get your gun : the life of Annie Oakley -- Show boat : the era of floating theaters in the American frontier -- Newsies : the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 -- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue : the White House and its occupants during the nineteenth century -- Teddy & Alice : President Theodore Roosevelt and his daughter Alice -- Ragtime : racism and immigration at the turn of the twentieth century -- Oklahoma! …”

The formation of the Union : a documentary history based upon an exhibit in the National Archives Building.

Table of Contents: “…Credentials of the Pennsylvania Delegates to the Second Continental Congress, May 6, 1775 -- 6. Washington's Acceptance of the Post of Commander in Chief, June 16, 1775 -- 7. …”
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Disestablishment and religious dissent : church-state relations in the new American states, 1776-1833 /

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The Trafalgar chronicle. journal of the 1805 Club /

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The storm gathering : the Penn family and the American Revolution / by Treese, Lorett, 1952-

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The Declaration of Independence : America's first founding document in U.S. history and culture / by Vile, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Legislation -- Maryland and Its Signers -- Massachusetts and Its Signers -- Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence -- Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence -- Moral Virtues in the Declaration of Independence -- Musical Play 1776 -- Native American Indians (Charge #27) -- Necessity -- New Hampshire and Its Signers -- New Jersey and Its Signers -- New York and Its Signers -- Nor Have We Been Wanting in Attention to Our English Brethren -- North Carolina and Its Signers -- Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- Obstructed the Administration of Justice (Charge #8) -- Olive Branch Petition -- Originality of the Declaration of Independence -- Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor -- Outline and Organization of the Declaration of Independence -- Pennsylvania and Its Signers -- People -- Petition to King George III (1774) -- Petitions for Redress Ignored (Charge #28) -- Philadelphia -- Plundered Our Seas (Charge #24) -- Preamble to the Resolution of Virginia Convention (May 15, 1776) -- Preserving the Declaration of Independence -- Proclamation, Reading, and Reception of the Declaration of Independence -- Property Rights -- Protecting Troops by Mock Trials (Charge #15) -- Prudence -- Quartering Troops (Charge #14) -- Quebec Act of 1774 (Charge #20) -- Reason -- References to King George III in the Declaration of Independence -- Refused Assent to Colonial Laws (Charge #1) -- Refused to Cause Others to Be Elected (Charge #6) -- Refused to Pass Other Laws (Charge #3) -- Remember the Ladies -- Representative (Republican) Government -- Reputation of the Declaration of Independence -- Resolutions Introduced by Richard Henry Lee (June 7, 1776) -- Revolution -- Rhode Island and Its Signers -- The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the Claims of America (Macpherson) -- Rush's (Benjamin) Characters of the Signers -- Scottish Enlightenment -- Second Continental Congress -- Secrecy -- Self-Evident Truths -- Signers, Collective Profile -- Signing of the Declaration of Independence -- Slavery -- South Carolina and Its Signers -- Standing Armies (Charge #11) -- State Constitutions and the Declaration of Independence -- Statue of Liberty -- Stone Engraving of the Declaration of Independence -- Strictures upon the Declaration of Independence (Hutchinson) -- Style of the Declaration of Independence -- Suffolk Resolves of 1774 -- A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Jefferson) -- Supreme Court and the Declaration of Independence -- Suspending Legislatures (Charge #22) -- Sussex Declaration -- Syng Inkstand -- Taking Away Our Charters (Charge #21) -- Taxes (Charge #17) -- Temperature on July 4, 1776 -- Timing of the Declaration of Independence -- Tories -- Trade (Charge #16) -- Translations of the Declaration of Independence -- Transporting Large Armies of Foreign Mercenaries (Charge #25) -- Transporting Us beyond Seas (Charge #19) -- Treason -- Trial by Jury (Charge #18) -- Trumbull, John (Paintings) -- Tyler Engraving of the Declaration of Independence -- Tyranny -- Unalienable Rights -- United States of America (Name) -- U.S. …”
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American immigration and citizenship : a documentary history /

Table of Contents: “…., 1755 -- A citizen may therefore quit the state of which he is a member / Emer de Vattel, The law of nations, 1758 -- Free and natural-born subjects / Declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774 -- A right...of going in quest of new habitations / Thomas Jefferson, A summary view of the rights of British Americans, 1774 -- Obstructing the law for naturalization of foreigners / Thomas Jefferson, The declaration of independence, July 4, 1776 -- Paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted / Second Continental Congress, The articles of confederation, 1781 -- Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men / J. …”

King and Congress : the Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776. by Marston, Jerrilyn Greene, 1945-

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