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2000

Eloquence Is Power
Oratory & Performance in Early America
     Sandra M. Gustafson 

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Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
     Ronald Hoffman  Sally D. Mason 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume X
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions January 1827-March 1827
     Charles F. Hobson  Susan Holbrook Purdue  Robert W. Smith 

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The Persistence of Empire
British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
     Eliga H. Gould 

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1999

A Speaking Aristocracy
Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
     Christopher Grasso 

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Empire’s Nature
Mark Catesby's New World Vision
     Amy R.W. Meyers  Margaret Beck Pritchard  Mark Laird  Joyce E. Chaplin  David R. Brigham  Therese O’Malley 

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Forced Founders
Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
     Woody Holton 

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The Other Founders
Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
     Saul Cornell 

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1998

Contact Points
American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
     Andrew R. L. Cayton  Fredrika J. Teute  Claudio Saunt  John Mack Faragher  Gregory Evans Dowd  Stephen Aron  Jill Lepore  James H. Merrell  Jane T. Merritt  William B. Hart  Elizabeth A. Perkins  Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 

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Revolutionary Brotherhood
Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
     Steven C. Bullock 

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Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
     Philip D. Morgan 

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The Lord Cornbury Scandal
The Politics of Reputation in British America
     Patricia U. Bonomi 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume IX
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions January 1820-December 1823
     Charles F. Hobson  Susan Holbrook Purdue  Laura S. Gwilliam  Robert W. Smith 

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A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
     Jon F. Sensbach 

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1997

Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
     David S. Shields 

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In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820
     David Waldstreicher 

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Through a Glass Darkly
Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
     Ronald Hoffman  Mechal Sobel  Fredrika J. Teute  Donna Merwick  W. Jeffrey Bolster  T. H. Breen  Greg Dening  Rhys Isaac  James H. Merrell  Elaine Forman Crane  Mary Beth Norton  Alan Taylor  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich  Richard White  Kenneth A. Lockridge  Philip Greven 

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1996

Adapting to a New World
English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
     James Horn 

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An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
     Joyce E. Chaplin 

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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
     Kathleen M. Brown 

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Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
     Michael Meranze 

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1995

America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750
     Karen Ordahl Kupperman  Peter Burke  David Armitage  J. H. Elliott  Christian Feest  Roland Greene  Luca Codignola  John M. Headley  Henry Lowood  Richard C. Simmons  Sabine MacCormack  David Quint 

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In Public Houses
Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts
     David W. Conroy 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VIII
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, March 1814-December 1819
     Charles F. Hobson  Laura S. Gwilliam 

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The Tuesday Club: A Shorter Edition of “The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club,” by Dr. Alexander Hamilton
     Robert Micklus 

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Women before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
     Cornelia Hughes Dayton 

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1994

Early American Technology
Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850
     Judith A. McGaw  Sarah F. McMahon  Robert C. Post  Patrick W O’Bannon  Carolyn C. Cooper  Robert B. Gordon  Donald C. Jackson  Michal McMahon  Susan E. Klepp  Nina E. Lerman 

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Farmers and Fishermen
Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
     Daniel Vickers 

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1993

In Search of Early America
"The William and Mary Quarterly," 1943-1993
     William and Mary Quarterly Staff  Rhys Isaac  Alfred F. Young  Gordon S. Wood  Lorena S. Walsh  Edmund S. Morgan  Perry Miller  Pauline Maier  Michael McGiffert  Cecelia M. Kenyon  Ronald Hoffman  James A. Henretta  Lois Green Carr  Jesse Lemisch 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VII
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1807-December 1813
     Charles F. Hobson  Suzanne E. Coffman  Mark A. Mastromarino  Laura S. Gwilliam 

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1992

Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783
     Daniel H. Usner, Jr. 

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The Ordeal of the Longhouse
The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
     Daniel K. Richter 

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1991

Profits in the Wilderness
Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
     John Frederick Martin 

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Robert Cole’s World
Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland
     Lois Green Carr  Russell R. Menard  Lorena S. Walsh 

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Strangers within the Realm
Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
     Bernard Bailyn  Philip D. Morgan  Jacob M. Price  Michael Craton  J. M. Bumsted  Nicholas Canny  Eric Richards  A. G. Roeber  Maldwyn A. Jones  James H. Merrell 

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The Long Argument
English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700
     Stephen Foster 

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Colonial Chesapeake Society
     Lois Green Carr  Jean B. Russo  Philip D. Morgan  Henry M. Miller  Lorena S. Walsh  Russell R. Menard  Jean Butenhoff Lee  James Horn  Michael Graham  Douglas Deal  J. Frederick Fausz 

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1990

Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
     Alan Taylor 

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The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615–1655
     James R. Perry 

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The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club by Dr. Alexander Hamilton Dr. Alexander Hamilton
     Robert Micklus 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume VI
Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicia Opinions, 1800-1807
     Charles F. Hobson  Fredrika J. Teute 

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Unification of a Slave State
The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808
     Rachel N. Klein 

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1989

Books about Early America: 2001 Titles
     David L. Ammerman  Philip D. Morgan 

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The Indians’ New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal
     James H. Merrell 

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1988

Captain John Smith
A Select Edition of His Writings
     Karen Ordahl Kupperman 

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To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
     Theodore Dwight Bozeman 

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Work and Labor in Early America
     Stephen Innes  Marcus Rediker  Lorena S. Walsh  Daniel Vickers  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich  Lucy Simler  Philip D. Morgan  Lois Green Carr  Paul G. E. Clemens  Billy G. Smith 

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1987

The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674–1744
     Kenneth A. Lockridge 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume V
Selected Law Cases, 1784-1800
     Charles F. Hobson  Ingrid M. Hillinger  Fredrika J. Teute  George H. Hoemann 

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The Road to Mobocracy
Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
     Paul A. Gilje 

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Beyond Confederation
Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity
     Edward C. Carter II  Stephen Botein  Richard Beeman  Gordon S. Wood  Drew R. McCoy  John M. Murrin  Richard D. Brown  Janet A. Riesman  Stanley N. Katz  Richard E. Ellis  Jack N. Rakove  Lance Banning  Paul Finkelman  Ralph Lerner 

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1986

The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580–1631
     Philip L. Barbour 

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Tobacco and Slaves
The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
     Allan Kulikoff 

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A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise
Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
     Thomas M. Doerflinger 

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1985

King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
     Richard L. Bushman 

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The Economy of British America, 1607–1789
     Russell R. Menard  John J. McCusker 

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1984

A People’s Army
Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
     Fred Anderson 

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Presidents Above Party
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829
     Ralph Ketcham 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume IV
Correspondence and Papers, January 1779-October 1800
     Charles T. Cullen  Leslie Tobias 

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1983

The Early American Historian’s Travel Guide
     The Institute Staff 

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1982

The Practice of Piety
Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England
     Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe 

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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
     Rhys Isaac 

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1981

In English Ways
The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century
     David Grayson Allen 

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Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context
     Norman Fiering 

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Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard
A Discipline in Transition
     Norman Fiering 

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Sources for “The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century,” by Perry Miller
     James Hoopes 

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1980

The Elusive Republic
Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
     Drew R. McCoy 

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The First American Constitutions
Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
     Willi Paul Adams  Rita Kimber  Robert Kimber 

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Women of the Republic
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
     Linda K. Kerber 

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1979

A Revolutionary People at War
The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
     Charles Royster 

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The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century
Essays on Anglo-American Society
     Thad W. Tate  David L. Ammerman  James P. P. Horn  Lorena S. Walsh  Carole Shammas  Darrett B. Rutman  Anita H. Rutman  Russell R. Menard  David W. Jordan  Carville V. Earle  Lois Green Carr  Kevin P. Kelly 

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The Governors-General
The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681
     Stephen Saunders Webb 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume III
Correspondence and Papers, January 1796-December 1798
     Charles T. Cullen  William C. Stinchcombe 

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1978

Circular Letters of Congressmen to their Constituents, 1789–1829
     Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. 

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Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York
Manorial Society, 1664-1775
     Sung Bok Kim 

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Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600–1775
A Handbook
     John J. McCusker 

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Tench Coxe and the Early Republic
     Jacob E. Cooke 

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The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870
     James H. Kettner 

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1977

Germany and the American Revolution, 1770–1800
     Horst Dippel  Bernhard A. Uhlendorf 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume II
Correspondence and Papers July, 1788-December 1795; Account Book, July 1788-December 1795
     Charles T. Cullen  Herbert A. Johnson 

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The Portraits of John Marshall
     Andrew Oliver 

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1976

The Character of John Adams
     Peter Shaw 

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The Fledgling Province
Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia, 1733-1766
     Harold E. Davis 

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1975

The Invasion of America
Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest
     Francis Jennings 

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The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689
     Warren M. Billings 

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1974

Fame and the Founding Fathers
Essays by Douglass Adair
     Trevor Colbourn 

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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume I
Correspondence and Papers, November 10, 1775-June 23, 1788; Account Book, September 1783-June 1788
     Herbert A. Johnson  Charles T. Cullen 

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1973

Essays on the American Revolution
     Stephen G. Kurtz  James H. Hutson  H. James Henderson  John Shy  John M. Murrin  William G. McLoughlin  Edmund S. Morgan  Bernard Bailyn  Rowland Berthoff  Jack P. Greene 

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Money and Politics in America, 1755–1775
A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution
     Joseph Albert Ernst 

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Political Parties before the Constitution
     Jackson Turner Main 

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Seeds of Extinction
Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
     Bernard W. Sheehan 

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1972

Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia
The First American Porcelain Factory, 1770-1772
     Graham Hood 

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Sugar and Slaves
The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
     Richard S. Dunn 

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The Faithful Shepherd
A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century
     David D. Hall 

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The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution
     Ira D. Gruber 

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The Partisan Spirit
Kentucky Politics, 1779-1792
     Patricia Watlington 

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1970

The Great Awakening
Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745
     Richard L. Bushman 

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The Papers of George Mason, 1725–1792
     Robert A. Rutland 

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1969

Essays in the History of Early American Law
     David H. Flaherty  George E. Woodbine  Milton M. Klein  Thorp L. Wolford  Richard B. Morris  Mark DeWolfe Howe  Julius S. Waterman  Charles McLean Andrews  Joseph H. Smith  George L. Haskins  Zechariah Chafee, Jr.  Jr. Julius Goebel  Samuel E. Ewing 

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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
     Gordon S. Wood 

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1968

Rufus King
American Federalist
     Robert Ernst 

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The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts
     John J. Waters, Jr. 

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White over Black
American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
     Winthrop D. Jordan 

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1967

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Founding Father
     Marvin R. Zahniser 

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New Jersey’s Jeffersonian Republicans
The Genesis of an Early Party Machine, 1789-1817
     Carl E. Prince 

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The Democratic Republicans of New York
The Origins, 1763-1797
     Alfred F. Young 

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1966

Colonial South Carolina
A Political History, 1663-1763
     M. Eugene Sirmans 

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Technology in Early America
     Brooke Hindle 

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1965

Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution
Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783
     Marvin L. Brown, Jr. 

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Fisher Ames
Federalist and Statesman, 1758-180
     Winfred E. A. Bernhard 

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The Arts in Early American History
     Walter Muir Whitehill 

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The Lamp of Experience
Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
     H. Trevor Colbourn 

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Winthrop’s Boston
Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649
     Darrett B. Rutman 

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1964

Loyalists and Redcoats
A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
     Paul H. Smith 

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The Glorious Revolution in America
Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689
     Michael G. Hall  Lawrence H. Leder  Michael G. Kammen 

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1963

The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power
Party Operations, 1801-1809
     Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. 

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The Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
     Jack P. Greene 

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Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782, by the Marquis de Chastellux
     Howard C. Rice, Jr. 

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1962

Moses Brown
Reluctant Reformer
     Mack Thompson 

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Puritan Protagonist
President Thomas Clap of Yale College
     Louis Leonard Tucker 

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Saints and Sectaries
Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
     Emery Battis 

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The Gentle Puritan
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
     Edmund S. Morgan 

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William Plumer of New Hampshire, 1759–1850
     Lynn W. Turner 

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1961

Daniel Morgan
Revolutionary Rifleman
     Don Higginbotham 

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Massachusetts, Colony to Commonwealth
Documents on the Formation of Its Constitution, 1774-1780
     Robert J. Taylor 

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Robert Livingston, 1654–1728, and the Politics of Colonial New York
     Lawrence H. Leder 

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The Antifederalists
Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788
     Jackson Turner Main 

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The Negro in the American Revolution
     Benjamin Quarles 

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The Power of the Purse
A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790
     E. James Ferguson 

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William Shirley
King's Governor of Massachusetts
     John A. Schutz 

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1960

Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker
The History of a Literary Deception
     Max Hall 

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Education in the Forming of American Society
     Bernard Bailyn 

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Edward Randolph and the American Colonies, 1676–1703
     Michael Garibaldi Hall 

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Samuel Vetch
Colonial Enterpriser
     G. M. Waller 

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The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution
     Carl Ubbelohde 

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1959

George Croghan
Wilderness Diplomat
     Nicholas B. Wainwright 

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Prologue to Revolution
Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766
     Edmund S. Morgan 

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Seventeenth Century America
Essays in Colonial History
     James Morton Smith  Nancy Oestreich Lurie  Wilcomb E. Washburn  Oscar Handlin  Philip S. Haffenden  Jr. Emil Oberholzer  Mildred Campbell  Bernard Bailyn  Richard S. Dunn  William H. Seiler 

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters
The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
     Lester J. Cappon 

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The Royal Governors of Georgia, 1754–1775
     W. W. Abbot 

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1958

The Revolutionary Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen, 1780–1783
     Evelyn M. Acomb 

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1957

American Indian and White Relations to 1830
An Essay
     William N. Fenton 

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The Governor and the Rebel
A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
     Wilcomb E. Washburn 

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The Jeffersonian Republicans
The Formation of Party Organization, 1789-1801
     Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. 

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1956

Freedom’s Fetters
The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties
     James Morton Smith 

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James Wilson
Founding Father, 1742-1798
     Charles Page Smith 

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The Origins of the American Party System
Three Essays
     Joseph Charles 

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The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735–1789
     Brooke Hindle 

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1955

Early American Science
     Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. 

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The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776–1791
     Robert Allen Rutland 

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The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
A Study of Amphibious Warfare
     Marshall Smelser 

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1954

Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson
     William Peden 

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1953

The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution
The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant
     Richard J. Hooker 

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The Stamp Act Crisis
Prologue to Revolution
     Edmund S. Morgan  Helen M. Morgan 

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1952

Gentlemen Freeholders
Political Practices in Washington's Virginia
     Charles S. Syndor 

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1950

Benjamin Franklin’s Letters to the Press, 1758–1775
     Verner W. Crane 

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Virginia Gazette Index: 1736–1780
     Stella F. Duff  Lester J. Cappon 

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1949

Connecticut’s Years of Controversy, 1750–1776
     Oscar Zeichner 

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Peter Harrison
First American Architect
     Carl Bridenbaugh 

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1948

Gentleman’s Progress
The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1774
     Carl Bridenbaugh 

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Meeting House and Counting House
The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
     Frederick B. Tolles 

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1947

Colonists in Bondage
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
     Abbot Emerson Smith 

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The History and Present State of Virginia, by Robert Beverly
     Louis B. Wright 

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