1774-1789: Revolution and Forging a Constitution

 

Primary Source Material from the Eighteenth Century
http://www.earlyamerica.com/

Samuel Adams: The Rights of the Colonists, 1772
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/adamss.html

Maps and Charts of North America, 1750-1789
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/

Thomas Paine: Common Sense
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/paine-common.html

The writings of a Loyalist
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/libertydebate/inglis.htm

From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/war/waldo.htm

Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
http://www.hcsi.com/Hcsarc/Data/firstcc.html

Articles of Confederation
http://www.csusm.edu/public/guests/history/docs/artcon.html

Madison’s notes on the debates at the Constitutional Convention
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/debcont.htm

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/ccongquery.html

The Federalist Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/const/fed/

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