United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources

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• United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
• United States -- Politics and government -- Sources

• Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, From the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation, by the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States (4 volumes; Boston: T. B. Wait, 1820), by United States Continental Congress
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Additions to Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (by various authors other than Thomas Paine; 1776) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Address of the Twelve United Colonies of North-America by Their Representatives in Congress to the People of Ireland (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1775), by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress (fourth edition; London: T. Cadell and T. Sewell, 1776), by John Lind (multiple formats at Google)
• The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries, and Other Documents (3 volumes; New York: Baker and Taylor, c1910), by Ellen Chase
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Burke's Speech on Concilation with America, by Edmund Burke, ed. by Sidney Carleton Newsom (Gutenberg text)
• Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1982), by E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody (PDF files at Newfound Press)
• Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML at Adelaide
  • Gutenberg text
• Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (John Adams Library copy, with some late pages damaged; second edition; Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776), by Thomas Paine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Declaration of Independence, by United States, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple editions)
• The Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England, by Carl L. Becker (Gutenberg text)
• Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (prepublication version, 1990), by Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen (illustrated HTML at ratical.org)
• Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution, by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• History of Schoharie County, and Border Wars of New York, by Jeptha Root Simms (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
• Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775 (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1775), by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journals of Congress (13 volumes; published 1777-1788), by United States Continental Congress
  • Volume I (1774-1775): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1776): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1777): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1778): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1779): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (1780): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (1781): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Nov 1782-Nov 1783): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Nov 1783-Nov 1784): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Nov 1784-Nov 1785): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Nov 1785-Nov 1786): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Nov 1786-Nov 1787): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Nov 1787-Nov 1788): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Journals of the Proceedings of Congress, Held at Philadelphia, From January to May, 1776 (Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1776), by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse (1839), by John Quincy Adams (HTML at lonang.com)
• The New England Clergy and the American Revolution (originally published 1928), by Alice M. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orations, Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770 (second edition; Boston: W. T. Clap, 1807), contrib. by James Lovell, Joseph Warren, Benjamin Church, John Hancock, Peter Thacher, Benjamin Hichborn, Jonathan Williams Austin, William Tudor, Jonathan Mason, Thomas Dawes, George Richards Minot, Thomas Welsh, Perez Morton, and James Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plain Truth: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, Containing Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, Intitled Common Sense (second edition; 1776), by James Chalmers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire, Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2 volumes; Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, 1801), by John Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, by John Adams, ed. by C. Bradley Thompson (PDF files with commentary at libertyfund.org)
• The Rights of Great Britain Asserted Against the Claims of America: Being an Answer to the Declaration of the General Congress (with a copy of the 1775 Continental Congress declaration on taking up arms; third edition; London: T. Cadell, ca. 1776), by James Macpherson, contrib. by United States Continental Congress (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, by William Wirt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Summary View of the Rights of British America, by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at Virginia)
• The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Constitutional edition, 12 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1903), by Alexander Hamilton, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (mislabeled as 8): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Samuel Adams (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904-1908), by Samuel Adams, ed. by Harry Alonzo Cushing
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text
• The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1905), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by Albert Ellery Bergh (text files at constitution.org)

• The Founders' Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders and Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding, ed. by Matthew Spalding (searchable HTML at heritage.org)

• Proceedings of the Conventions of the Province of Maryland, Held at the City of Annapolis, in 1774, 1775, and 1776 (Baltimore: J. Lucas and E. K. Deaver, 1836) (page images at Google)

• The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, by John Adams, ed. by C. Bradley Thompson (PDF files with commentary at libertyfund.org)

• Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the Convention of New-Jersey (Burlington, NJ: Printed and sold by I. Collins, 1776), by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)

• Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1982), by E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody (PDF files at Newfound Press)

• Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, by William Wirt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, From the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation, by the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States (4 volumes; Boston: T. B. Wait, 1820), by United States Continental Congress
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Off., 1893), by Benjamin Harrison (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974-1977), by Herbert Hoover
  • Volume 1 (1929): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 2 (1930): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 3 (1931): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 4 (1932-33): page images at Michigan

• The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (13 volumes, published 1938-1950), by Franklin D. Roosevelt, ed. by Samuel I. Rosenman (page images at Michigan)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954; made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy (PDF files at senate.gov)
• Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman: A Documentary History (online version; print version published 1992), ed. by Timothy Walch and Dwight M. Miller (illustrated HTML at trumanlibrary.org)