Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

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Broadsides and Early Printing

Barnhill, Georgia, B. American Broadsides: Sixty Facsimilies Dated 1680-1800. Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971.

Evans, Charles. American Bibliography. New York: P. Smith, 1941-1959. 14 vols. Reprint in one volume -- Metuchen, NJ: Mini-Print Corp., 1967.

Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America, 1810. New York: Weathervane Books, distributed by Crown, 1970.

America During the Revolutionary Period

Bernstein, Richard B., with Rice, Kym S. Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Boatner, Mark M. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: D. McKay Co., 1966, 1974.

Burnett, Edmund Cody. The Continental Congress, 1941. Reprint -- Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Commager, Henry Steele, and Morris, Richard B., eds. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants. New York: Harper & Row, 1958, 1976.

Cresswell, Donald H., comp. The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints: A Checklist of 1765-1790 Graphics in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975.

Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911, 1986. 4 vols.

Hutson, James, ed. Supplement to Max Farrand's "The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Gephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984. 2 vols.

Jensen, Merrill. The Articles of Confederation. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1940, 1970.

________. The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789, 1950. Reprint -- Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1981.

Madison, James. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987. Paperback edition -- New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

Morris, Richard B. The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Prucha, Francis P. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Rossiter, Clinton L. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

Rossiter, Clinton L., ed. The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. New York: New American Library, 1961.

Sellers, John R. Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975.

Smith, Paul H., ed. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976-.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

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Books for Young Readers:  Biography

Alderman, Clifford L. Samuel Adams, Son of Liberty. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961.

Andrist, Ralph K., ed. George Washington: A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek. Distributed by Harper & Row, 1972.

Bishop, James, ed. John Adams; A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek. Distributed by Harper & Row, 1973.

Campion, Nardi Reeder. Patrick Henry, Firebrand of the Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

Eaton, Jeanette. That Lively Man, Ben Franklin. New York: W. Morrow, 1948.

Fleming, Thomas, ed. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek. Distributed by Harper & Row, 1972.

Forbes, Esther. America's Paul Revere. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.

Gurko, Leo. Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle. New York: Crowell, 1957.

Hall-Quest, Olga Wilborne. Guardians of Liberty: Sam Adams and John Hancock. New York: Dutton, 1963.

Holbrook, Stewart H. America's Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.

Judson, Clara Ingram. George Washington, Leader of the People. Chicago: Wilcox & Follett, 1951.

Kline, Mary-Jo, ed. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek, 1973.

Moscow, Henry. Thomas Jefferson and His World. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1960.

Peterson, Merrill D., ed. James Madison, A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek, 1974.

Sperry, Armstrong. John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor. New York: Random House, 1953.

Thomas Jefferson: A Biography in His Own Words. New York: Newsweek. Distributed by Harper & Row, 1974.

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Books for Young Readers:  General History

Bliven, Bruce. The American Revolution. New York: Random House, 1958.

Commager, Henry Steele. The Great Declaration: A Book for Young Americans. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.

Lancaster, Bruce. The American Revolution. Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1957.

Lens, Sidney. A Country Is Born: The Story of the American Revolution. New York: Putnam, 1964.

Mason, Van Wyck. The Winter at Valley Forge. New York: Random House, 1953.

Morris, Richard B. The First Book of the American Revolution. New York: Watts, 1956.

__________. Witnesses at the Creation, 1985. New York: New American Library, 1986.

Nolan, Jeannette Covert. The Shot Heard 'Round the World: The Story of Lexington and Concord. New York: J. Messner, 1963.

Russell, Francis. Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1963.

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