Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

1917–1929

Recent Tendencies

Source: Charles E. Merriam, A History of American Political Theories (London: Macmillan, 1903), 305–33, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust. org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030798600;view=1up;seq=7. We have edited the author’s original

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1764–1787

Common Sense

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the

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1764–1787

Foraging for Valley Forge

Source: [Joseph Plumb Martin,] A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier…. (Hallowell, Maine, 1830), 75–83. The army… marched for the Valley Forge in

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1764–1787

Account of the British Surrender at Yorktown

Source: James Thacher, A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783…. (Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1823), 345–48. https://archive.org/details/militaryjournal00thac/page/344 This is to us a most glorious day,

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1764–1787

An Officer’s Account of Washington’s Remarks

Source: The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw…, ed. Josiah Quincy (Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1847), 103–5. https://archive.org/details/journalsofmajors00shaw/page/102 The meeting of the officers was in itself exceedingly respectable,

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1825–1860

Sociology for the South

Sociology for the South proclaimed that the free labor society of Northern industrialism was fundamentally flawed because, adhering to the principles of liberty and equality, it sought only the betterment of the strong while oppressing the weak.

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