The American Revolution and Early Republic

What do Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Paine have in common? They all wrote about the American Revolution and/or the Early Republic and their works are on the same CD.

This CD includes the full text of The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution . The original 3-volume work is 1317 pages long.

Mercy wrote early drafts of this work near the time of the events described, and completed the work about four years before its appeared in 1805. She explains the delay as due to health problems, temporary bouts of blindness, and grief at the death of her only son. James Otis (early advocate of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, James Warren (speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives) was her husband, Abigail and John Adams were close friends and correspondents.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

This CD also includes dozens other books about the Revolution and the Early Republic, and dozens of related historical documents, including five plays that Mercy wrote during and about the Revolution:

• The Adulateur, a five-act play, published in 1773
• The Defeat, excerpts from a play, published 1773
• The Group, a three-act play, published in 1775
• The Blockheads, a three-act play, published in 1776, after the British withdrew from Boston
• The Motley Assembly, a farce, published in 1779.

and "Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, 1788" an anti-Federalist pamphlet, formerly attributed to Elbridge Gerry, now acknowledged as written by Mercy Otis Warren plus --

• Chronology of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University
• Introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University
• Introduction to Observations on the New Constitution by Mercy Otis Warren by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

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History books dealing with the American Revolution and the Early Republic

• Samuel Adams
• Original Writings of Samuel Adams
• Volume 2 of 4
• Volume 3 of 4
• Volume 4 of 4
• Daniel Boone
• The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson
• The First White Man of the West by Timothy Flint, 1856
• The Life and Times of Daniel Boone
• Wild Western Scenes by J.B. Jones, 1875
• Aaron Burr
• The Memoirs of Aaron Burr
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Benjamin Franklin
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Thayer, 1889
• Thomas Jefferson
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
• Jefferson and His Colleagues, a Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty by Allen Johnson
• Thomas Jefferson by Edward S. Ellis
• Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox")
• The Life of Francis Marion by W. Gilmore Simms
• The Life of General Francis Marion by Mason Locke Weems
• Sketch of the Life of General Francis Marion by William Dobein James
• Thomas Paine
• The Age of Reason
• The American Crisis
• Common Sense
• The Rights of Man
• George Washington
• The Americanism of Washington by Henry Van Dyke, 1906
• The Life of George Washington, volume 1 of 5,  by Washington Irving
• The Life and Times of Washington, volume 2, by John Schroeder and Benson Lossing
• George Washington by Henry Cabot Lodge, 1889
• volume 1
• volume 2
• George Washington by William Thayer, 1922
• George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth, 1915
• George Washington's Rules of Civility by Moncure Conway, 1890
• The True George Washington by Paul Leicester Ford
• Washington and His Colleagues by Henry Jones Ford, 1918
• Washington in Domestic Life by Richard Bush, 1857
• Beacon Lights of History, volume 11 American Founders by John Lord
• The American Republic by O.A. Brownson
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Count the Cost, an address to the people of Connecticut on sundry political subjects by Jonathan Steadfast, 1804
• The Federalist Papers
• The Formation of the Union 1750-1829 by Albert Hart
• Les Francais en Americque pendant la Guerre de l'Independence by Thomas Balch, 1872
• Memoirs of General Lafayette
• Revolutionary Heroes by James Parton
• American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
• Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving, 1809
• John Marshall And The Constitution, A Chronicle Of The Supreme Court by Edward S. Corwin
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa but Resident above 60 Years in the USA by Venture Smith, 1798
• The Naval War of 182 by Theodore Roosevelt
• The Star-Spangeled Banner by John Carpenter
• The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams
• Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, sometime Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of General Washington, historical novel by S. Weir Mitchell
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Merriweather Lewis and William Clark
• Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
• Select Speeches of Daniel Webster
• Native Americans
• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (Black Hawk War 1832)
• An Account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha or Red Jacket and His People 1750-1830 by John Hubbard
• Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Morgan
• Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois or Six Nations and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson
• The Iroquois Book of Rites edited by Horatio Hale

Historical Documents relating to the American Revolution and Early Republic

• Revolution
• Charlotte Town Resolves 1775
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms 1775
• Declaration of Independence 1776
• Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776
• Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress 1777
• Paris Peace Treaty 1783
• Articles of Confederation
• Annapolis Convention 1786
• Articles of Confederation
• Northwest Ordinance 1787
• Constitution
• Letter Transmitting the Constitution 1787
• Constitution 1787
• Bill of Rights
• Amendments to the Constitution
• Early Republic
• Proclamation of Neutrality 1793
• Treaty of Greenville 1795
• Washington's Farewell Address 1796
• The Monroe Doctrine 1823
• A Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents compiled by James Richardson
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• John Quincey Adams
• Inaugural Addresses of Presidents Washington to Jackson
• State of the Union Speeches of Presidents
• Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• James Monroe
• John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson

Fiction relating to the American Revolution and Early Republic

• The Bride of Fort Edward, founded on an incident of the Revolution by Delia Bacon
• The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Atherton, 1904
• The Dare Boys of 1776 by Stephen Angus Cox, 1910
• The Last of the Foresters or Humors on the Border: a Story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke, 1856
• The Lords of the Wild: a Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph Altsheler, 1919
• The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis, 1911
• A Soldier of Virginia: a Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's Defeat by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1901
• The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
• Sustained Honor by John R. Musick
• An Unwilling Maid by Jeanie Gould Lincoln
• Whig Against Tory, a tale of the military adventures of a shoemaker, 1851

You can see a detailed review of Mercy Warren's history of the Revolution at www.samizdat.com/warren/warren.html