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• United States -- History -- 18th century

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States, From 1862 to 1882 (Chicago: Franklin printing co., 1882), by S. M. Brice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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
• Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects: published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791. / By Pelatiah Webster, A.M. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, no. 91, High Street., MDCCXCI. [1791]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A Resource of War: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available: History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion, Being a Loan Without Interest and a National Currency (Buffalo: Express Printing Co., 1869), by E. G. Spaulding (page images at MOA)
• A Critical Examination of Our Financial Policy During the Southern Rebellion, by Simon Newcomb (page images at MOA)

• A Populist Humbug Exploded: Refutation of the Alleged "Seven Financial Conspiracies"; Incurring and Paying the War Debt; Creating and Redeeming the Greenback; Where We Stood and Where We Stand; Fact Against Fiction (ca. 1896), by J. W. Babcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation, by Otto H. Kahn (Gutenberg ebook)

• Considerations on the subject of finance. In which the causes of the depreciation of the bills of credit emitted by Congress are briefly stated and examined, and a plan proposed for restoring money to a certain, known value. ([Philadelphia? : Printed by John Dunlap?, 1779?]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Thomas Bradford, at the Coffee-House., M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A fourth essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, opposite the Jersey Market., MDCCLXXX. [1780]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects: published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791. / By Pelatiah Webster, A.M. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, no. 91, High Street., MDCCXCI. [1791]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The New Tax Law of Indiana and the Science of Taxation: A Series of Letters Published in the Indianapolis Sentinel, August 14, 1891 to April 20, 1892, With Statistical Appendices (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Print. Co, 1892), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)

• History of Taxation in Rhode Island to the Year 1790, by Henry B. Gardner (Gutenberg ebook)

• A discourse on some events of the last century : delivered in the Brick Church in New Haven on Wednesday, January 7, 1801. (New Haven : Printed by Ezra Read, 1801), by Timothy Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• A vindication of the professors of the Church of England in Connecticut. Against the invectives contained in a sermon preached at Stanford by Mr. Noah Hobart, Dec. 31. 1746. In a letter to a friend. / By James Wetmore, A.M. Rector of the Parish of Rye, and missionary from the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. ; [One line in Latin from Cicero] (Boston: N.E. : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street., MDCCXLVII. [1747]), by James Wetmore (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa, by Thomas Bluett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Proceedings of a board of general officers respecting Major John André. (New York : Privately printed, 1867), by John André (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a board of general officers held by order of His Excellency Gen. Washington, commander in chief of the Army of the United States of America respecting Major John André, adjutant general of the British Army, contrib. by John André (Gutenberg ebook)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• On the Equality of the Sexes (as published in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790), by Judith Sargent Murray (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Adams Federalists (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Manning Julian Dauer (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, by Alice Morse Earle, illust. by Frank Hazenplug
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers. (Boston, Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1862), by George Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1864), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (with an appendix summarizing Mars's life after liberation; Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Private Soldier Under Washington (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902), by Charles Knowles Bolton
  • HTML at americanrevolution.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A narrative of his connection with the Old American Company, from the fifth September, 1792, to the thirty-first of March, 1797, / by John Hodgkinson. (New York: : Printed by J. Oram, no. 33, Liberty-Street., --1797.--), by John Hodgkinson, Lewis Hallam, and William Dunlap (HTML at Evans TCP)

• A sermon, of a new kind, never preached, nor ever will be; containing a collection of doctrines, belonging to the Hopkintonian scheme of orthodoxy; or the marrow of the most modern divinity. : And an address to the unregenerate, agreeable to the doctrines. : [Two lines from Solomon] (New-Haven; : Printed and sold by T. and S. Green., [1769]), by William Hart (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The American Colonial Militia, by James B. Whisker (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• On the Equality of the Sexes (as published in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790), by Judith Sargent Murray (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Women of the American Revolution (3 volumes; New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849-1850), by E. F. Ellet
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2, by E. F. Ellet, contrib. by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1, by E. F. Ellet, contrib. by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)

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