| Tobias George Smollett.
1721–1771. |
Epigram from Independence |
| William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.
1708–1778. |
On the War with America |
| Benjamin Franklin.
1706–1790. |
Passages from his Autobiography |
| Franklin’s Discovery of the Positive and Negative States of Electricity |
| His Invention of the Lightning Rod |
| The Electrical Kite |
| That Lightning Usually Passes from Earth to the Clouds |
| A Theory of Light and Heat |
| The Way to Wealth |
| Franklin before the House of Commons |
| Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One |
| The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life |
| The Whistle |
| Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout |
| To George Whitefield, On Faith and Good Works |
| To Joseph Priestley, With a Method of Deciding Doubtful Matters |
| To William Strahan, After the War Had Begun |
| To His Daughter, Mrs. Sarah Bache, On Hereditary Titles and Honors |
| To Samuel Mather, With Biographical Anecdotes |
| To George Whatley, With Moral and Philosophical Reflections |
| To Mrs. Jane Mecom, On Good and Bad Spelling |
| To Thomas Paine, Dissuading Him from Publishing a Certain Work |
| To Noah Webster, On New-Fangled Modes of Writing and Printing |
| To Ezra Stiles, With a Statement of His Religious Creed |
| To David Hartley, Explaining the Origin of the Stamp Act |
| To Robert Morris, On the State of American Credit in Europe |
| Thomas Hutchinson.
1711–1780. |
The Regicides in New England |
| Religious Customs in New England |
| The Character and Rule of Governor Burnet |
| The Tragedy of Acadia |
| A Royalist View of the Patriot Leaders |
| Margaret Hutchinson |
Mistress Peggy Goes to Court |
| Samuel Curwen.
1715–1802. |
A London Promenade in the Last Century |
| King George’s Reluctant Submission |
| Personal Notes and Observations |
| Jonathan Mayhew.
1720–1766. |
On the Righteousness of Rebellion |
| A Patriot’s Thanksgiving |
| John Woolman.
1720–1772. |
How He Testified in Meeting against Slavery |
| An Exercise Concerning Dyed Garments |
| An Angelic Dispensation |
| On the Keeping of Slaves |
| Samuel Hopkins.
1721–1803. |
A New England Minister on Slavery |
| An Admonition to Aaron Burr |
| Samuel Adams.
1722–1803. |
Natural Rights of the Colonists as Men |
| To His Majesty’s Commissioners |
| James Rivington.
1724–1802. |
A Tory’s Petition to the Continental Congress |
| A Reckoning with Ethan Allen |
| John Witherspoon.
1723–1794. |
From His Parody on Rivington’s Petition |
| The Meaning of the Revolution |
| Some Reflections on Matrimony |
| Henry Laurens.
1724–1792. |
A Patriot in the Tower |
| James Otis.
1725–1783. |
Letter to a Noble Lord |
| Ezra Stiles.
1727–1795. |
The Fruits of the Contest |
| Anecdotes of the Three Judges |
| Mercy Otis Warren.
1728–1814. |
Woman’s Trifling Needs |
| The Death of Parson Caldwell’s Wife |
| John Adams’s Monarchical Ideas |
| Joseph Galloway.
1731–1803. |
The Commercial Argument against Separation |
| British Mismanagement in America |
| Thomas Jones.
1731–1792. |
How President Myles Cooper Ran away |
| The Wonderful Winter of 1779 |
| How the British Troops Protected the Loyalists |
| Sir William Johnson’s Baronial Hall |
| J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur.
1735–1813. |
The Happy Farmer |
| The American |
| Nantucket Customs a Century Ago |
| George Washington.
1732–1799. |
On His Appointment As Commander-in-Chief |
| The Soldier’s Farewell to His Wife |
| After the Fight at Bunker’s Hill |
| The Restless Army at Valley Forge |
| The Appeal of a Patriot |
| A Military Dinner-party |
| A Republican No |
| Advice to a Favorite Nephew |
| On Women and Matrimony |
| To the Wife of His Friend |
| To a Happy Bridegroom |
| The Approach of the Presidency |
| A Great Experiment |
| An Admonition to His Niece |
| Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America |
| John Dickinson.
1732–1808. |
A Warning to the Colonies |
| Of the Right to Freedom; and of Traitors |
| A Duty to Posterity |
| The Declaration of the Representatives in 1775 |
| Joseph Stansbury.
1750–1809. |
Let Us Be Happy As Long As We Can |
| To His Wife |
| Richard Henry Lee.
1732–1794. |
The Colonies to the Mother Country |
| Benjamin Church.
1734–1778. |
To the Heirs of the Pilgrims |
| John Adams.
1735–1826. |
Characteristic Entries in His Diary |
| A Balanced Government |
| A Character of Franklin |
| To Nathan Webb, With a Strange Prediction |
| To James Sullivan, On Popular Suffrage |
| To His Wife, On the Birth of the New Nation |
| To Benjamin Rush, On Mrs. Adams’s Patriotism |
| To Timothy Pickering, With an Account of a Famous Document |
| To John Quincy Adams, On His Election to the Presidency |
| Samuel Peters.
1735–1826. |
The Frogs of Windham |
| Stories of Connecticut Towns |
| Manners and Customs of Connecticut in the Last Century |
| Patrick Henry.
1736–1799. |
The Alternative |
| Of the Return of the Refugees |
| Jonathan Odell.
1737–1818. |
Democracy |
| Thomas Paine.
1737–1809. |
Of the Separation of Britain and America |
| The Day of Freedom |
| The Birthday of the Republic |
| The Foppery of Titles |
| Representative Government |
| Paine Opposes the Execution of Louis XVI. |
| In a French Prison, 1794 |
| Man and His Maker |
| Liberty Tree |
| The Study of God |
| Francis Hopkinson.
1737–1791. |
Some Satirical Distinctions |
| The Organ |
| Benedick, the Married Man |
| The Battle of the Kegs |
| The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat |
| To a Recreant American |
| The Wasp |
| Ethan Allen.
1738–1789. |
The Capture of Ticonderoga |
| On a Prison-Ship |
| Joseph Warren.
1741–1775. |
Free America |
| In Solemn Commemoration of the Boston Massacre |
| James Wilson.
1742–1798. |
Loyalty to Law |
| William Henry Drayton.
1742–1779. |
The Arraignment of George III. |
| Nathaniel Niles.
1741–1828. |
The American Hero |
| Thomas Jefferson.
1743–1826. |
Passages from His Autobiography |
| An Anecdote of Doctor Franklin |
| Hamilton and Adams |
| To Peter Carr, With Good Advice to a Young Man |
| To Madame La Comtesse de Tesse, in a Complimentary Vein |
| To P. Mazzei, Upon the Political Condition of the Country |
| To Doctor Benjamin Rush, Upon the Christian Religion |
| To Governor Sullivan, Concerning Presidential Tours |
| To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Giving Some Rules of Conduct |
| To John Adams, Taking a Cheerful View of Life |
| To Doctor Vine Utley, Describing the Writer’s Physical Condition |
| To John Adams, On Political Parties |
| To Timothy Pickering, On a Sermon by Doctor Channing |
| To John Adams, Recalling Their Long Friendship |
| Declaration of Independence |
“The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America” |
| Josiah Quincy, Jr.
1744–1775. |
An Interview with Lord North |
| The Duty of Americans |
| The Feeling of Englishmen |
| The Consequences of “Taste” |
| Of Rebellion |
| Abigail Adams.
1744–1818. |
A Glimpse of Madame Helvetius |
| Opera Girls in the Last Century |
| At St. James’s |
| The Ambassador’s Ball |
| Washington, in the Second Presidency |
| Aaron Cleveland.
1744–1815. |
The Family Blood |
| James Moody.
1744–1809. |
Failure of the Plot to Seize the Federal Archives |
| Luther Martin.
1748–1826. |
An Early View of State-Rights |
| Jeremy Belknap.
1744–1798. |
The Siege of Louisbourg |
| Episodes of Warfare in New Hampshire |
| John and Roger: or New England Intolerance |
| Benedict Arnold.
1741–1801. |
His Proposal to His Peggy |
| John Jay.
1745–1829. |
An Appeal to Justice |
| An Appeal to Honesty |
| A Letter to a Lady |
| How Slavery Was Fastened on the United States |
| Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence |
| Oliver Ellsworth.
1745–1807. |
A Tariff the Proper Source of National Revenue |
| Revolutionary Songs and Ballads |
Yankee Doodle |
| Taxation of America |
| A New Song |
| The Ballad of Nathan Hale |
| Battle of Trenton |
| The Fate of John Burgoyne |
| The Progress of Sir Jack Brag |
| Yankee Doodle’s Expedition to Rhode Island |
| A Fable |
| The Present Age |
| The Dance |
| The Congress |
| Bold Hawthorne |
| Lindley Murray.
1745–1826. |
The Happy and Virtuous Moravians |
| Account of a Famous Grammar |
| Benjamin Rush.
1746–1813. |
A Reformer of the Last Century |
| The Consistent Life of Benezet |
| Robert R. Livingston.
1746–1813. |
On the Condition of the Country |
| A Comparison of Two Nations |
| To the Society of the Cincinnati |
| John Paul Jones.
1747–1792. |
Chivalrous Letter to the Countess of Selkirk |
| Action between the “Bon Homme Richard” and the “Serapis” |
| Jonathan Mitchel Sewall.
1748–1808. |
A Cry to Battle |
| War and Washington |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
1748–1816. |
Bunker’s Hill |
| Provincial Honors to an Exciseman |
| William White.
1748–1836. |
He Visits Johnson and Goldsmith |
| Reminiscences of Washington |
| David Ramsay.
1749–1815. |
The Prisoners of the Revolution |
| Some Results of the Revolution |
| John Trumbull.
1750–1831. |
The Dunce’s Refuge |
| A Time-Worn Belle |
| M’Fingal’s Dole |
| Lemuel Hopkins.
1750–1801. |
On General Ethan Allen |
| On a Patient Killed by a Cancer Quack |
| John Ledyard.
1751–1789. |
The Death of Captain Cook |
| Russia and the Russians a Hundred Years Ago |
| The Traveller’s Tribute to Woman |
| “The Hartford Wits” |
From “The Anarchiad” |
| From “The Echo” |
| From “The Political Green-House” |
| James Madison.
1751–1836. |
On the Expediency of Adopting the Federal Constitution |
| View of the Powers Proposed to Be Vested in the Union |
| Whether the State Governments Are in Danger from the Federal Power |
| Concerning African Colonization |
| On the Theory of Secession |
| Advice to My Country |
| St. George Tucker.
1752–1827. |
Days of My Youth |
| Philip Freneau.
1752–1832. |
Prologue to a Comedy |
| Lord Dunmore’s Petition to the Legislature of Virginia |
| Eutaw Springs |
| On Barney’s Victory over the Ship “General Monk” |
| On a Travelling Speculator |
| The Indian Burying-Ground |
| The Wild Honeysuckle |
| The Parting Glass |
| On the Ruins of a Country Inn |
| To a Honey Bee |
| Death’s Epitaph |
| Alexander Graydon.
1752–1818. |
Wild British Officers in America |
| How Philadelphia Dealt with Loyalists |
| Some Remarkable Cavaliers |
| Timothy Dwight.
1752–1817. |
The Perilous Escape of Wadsworth and Burton |
| The Honesty of Richard Jackson |
| A Dog’s Fidelity |
| A Story of Gratitude |
| Anecdotes of a Traveller |
| Columbia |
| The Burning of Fairfield |
| The Smooth Divine |
| Ann Eliza Bleecker.
1752–1783. |
Of the Fair Susan |
| A Prospect of Death |
| Gouverneur Morris.
1752–1816. |
Cabinet Qualifications |
| He Dines with a Literary Woman |
| In the Last Days of King Louis’s Reign |
| A Strange Scene at Mass |
| David Humphreys.
1752–1818. |
His Battles o’er Again |
| On Life |
| Putnam and the Wolf |
| Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.
1753–1814. |
How Count Rumford Reclaimed the Beggars of Bavaria |
| Phillis Wheatley.
1753–1784. |
On Imagination |
| On the Death of C. E., an Infant of Twelve Months |
| To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth |
| Joseph Brown Ladd.
1764–1786. |
What Is Happiness? |
