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4. The American Revolution and the Era of the Confederation

Almon, John. A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America, 1764-1775. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. (Reprint of the 1777 ed.) PCL Stacks: E203 A44 1971

Balderston, Marion, and David Syrett, eds. The Lost War: Letters from British Officers during the American Revolution. New York: Horizon Press, 1975. PCL Stacks: E 203 L67

Braeman, John. The Road to Independence: A Documentary History of the Causes of the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York, 1963. PCL Stacks: 973.311 B73R

Brown, Marian R., and Ralph A. Brown, eds. Europeans Observe the American Revolution. New York: J. Messner, 1976. (Excerpts from diaries, journals, pamphlets, debates, letters, and articles.). PCL Stacks: E 275 A2 E87

Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 9 vols. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964- . PCL Stacks: 973.35 UN32N

Cray, Catherine S. The Price of Loyalty: Tory Writings from the Revolutionary Era. (Bicentennial of the American Revolution.) New York: McGraw Hill, 1973. PCL Stacks: E 277 C72

Cumming, William Patterson, and Hugh F. Rankin. The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution through Contemporary Eyes. London: Phaidon, 1975. PCL Stacks: D 208 C87 1975

Davies, K. G., ed. Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783. 21 vols. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972-1981. (Documents selected from the Colonial Office records in the Public Record Office of the British government in London.) PCL Stacks: E 203 G68 1972

Dorson, Richard Mercer. America Rebels: Narratives of the Patriots. New York: Pantheon, 1953. PCL Stacks: 973.38 D738A

Force, Peter. American Archives. 9 vols. Washington, D.C.: [N.p.], 1837-1853. (Collection of various public documents having to do with the American Revolution.) PCL Stacks: -Q- (Oversized) 973.3 AM3

Greene, Jack P., ed. Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789. (A Documentary History of American Life, Vol. 2.) New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. PCL Stacks: 973.3 G823C

Hunt, Gaillard. Fragments of Revolutionary History; Being Hitherto Unpublished Writings of the Men of the American Revolution. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Historical Printing Club, 1892. PCL Stacks: 973.3 H912F

Jensen, Merrill, ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976- . (Contents: Vol. l, Constitutional documents and records, 1776-1787; Vol. 2, ratification of the Constitution by Pennsylvania; Vol. 3, ratification of the Constitution by Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut; Vols. 8-10, ratification of the Constitution by Virginia; vols. 13-16, commentaries on the Constitution, public and private. There are also microfiche supplements containing peripheral documents such as newspaper items, pamphlets, letters, petitions, manuscripts, and other miscellaneous documents.) Law Library: LAW KF 4502 D63. The supplements on microfiche are in the Law Library Media Center Microfiche KF4502.D63 Suppl.

Kaminski, John P., and Richard Leffler, eds. Creating the Constitution: A History in Documents. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of the American Constitution, 1991. Law Library: LAW JK 11 1991

McDonald, Forrest, and Ellen Shapiro McDonald, eds. Confederation and Constitution, 1781-1789. (Documentary History of the United States.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1968. PCL Stacks: 973.318 M145C

Moore, Frank. Diary of the American Revolution; from Newspapers and Original Documents. 2 vols. New York: C. Scribner, 1860. PCL Stacks: 973.3 M78

Morris, Richard B., ed. The American Revolution, 1763-1783: A Bicentennial Collection. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1971. PCL Stacks: 973.3 M8329AM 1971

Morris, Richard B. Basic Documents of the Confederation and Constitution. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1970. Law Library: LAW E 303 M88.

Murdoch, David H., ed. Rebellion in America: A Contemporary British Viewpoint, 1765-1783. Santa Barbara, California: Clio Books, 1979. (The Anglo-American conflict as it appeared in the volumes of the Annual Register, 1765-1782.) PCL Stacks: E 249.3 R43

Niles, Hezekiah. Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America . . . . Baltimore, 1822. (Speeches, orations, and other documents relating to the American Revolution.) PCL Stacks: 973.3 N591

Padover, Saul K, ed. The World of the Founding Fathers. South Brunswick, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977. PCL Stacks: E 203 P33 1977

Pole, J. R. The Revolution in America, 1754-1788: Documents and Commentaries. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1970. PCL Stacks: 973.3 P757R

Rankin, Hugh F. The American Revolution. New York: Capricorn, 1965. ((First-hand accounts by eyewitnesses and partaicipants, including soldiers and civilians, British and Americans.) PCL Stacks: E 203 R3 1965

Ryan, Dennis P., ed. A Salute to Courage: The American Revolution as Seen through the Wartime Writings of Continental Army and Navy Officers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. PCL Stacks: E 203 S15

Saffell, William Thomas Roberts. Records of the Revolutionary War: Containing the Military and Financial Correspondence of Distinguished Officers . . . New York: Pudney & Russell, 1858. PCL Stacks: 973.3 SA1

Schecter, Stephen L., ed. Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted. Madison: Madison House, 1990. PCL Stacks: E 187 R66 1990

Simmons, Richard C. and Peter D. B. Thomas, eds. Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783. 6 vols. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1982-1987. Law Library: LAW E 187 G79 1982

Sparks, Jared, ed. Correspondence of the American Revolution; Being Letters of Eminent Men to George Washington, from the Time of His Taking Command of the Army to the End of His Presidency. 4 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. PCL Stacks: 973.3 SP26

Willard, Margaret Wheeler, ed. Letters on the American Revolution, 1774-1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. (Selection of letters from F. Farley's Bristol Journal, the Bristol Gazette, and London newspapers.) PCL Stacks: 973.3 W661L

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