Principal Sources
Franklin, Writings - refers to The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth, 10 vol., Macmillan, (New York: 1905)
Franklin, Works - refers to The Works of Benjamin Franklin; containing Several Political and Historical Tracts not Included in any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private not hitherto Published; with Notes and A Life of the Author, edited by Jared Sparks, (Boston: Hilliard Gray, 1840)
Washington, Writings - refers to The Writings of George Washington, ed. Jared Sparks, ( American Stationers Company, 1837)
Adams, Papers - refers to The John Adams Papers, ed. Frank Donovan (Dodd, Mead, 1965)
Adams, Works -- refers to The Works of John Adams, by his Grandson Charles Francis Adams (Little Brown and Company, 1851)
ME - refers to The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) ed. Lipscomb and Bergh
FE - refers to The Works of Thomas Jefferson, (Federal Edition) ed. Paul L. Ford (New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904-05). 12 vols.
Madison Writings - refers to The Writings of James Madison, edited by Gaillard Hunt (New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1900-10)
Madison, 1865 - refers to Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, ed. Philip R. Fendall, (Published by order of Congress, 1865, Philadelphia: Lippincott.
Madison, Papers, - refers to Papers of James Madison, ed. Robert Rutland, et al. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1962)
Madison, “Detached Memoranda” - refers to a series of handwritten documents discovered in 1946 among the papers of Madison scholar William Cabell Rives. Undated, they are believed to have been written somewhere between 1817 and 1832. The document was published by Elizabeth Fleet in the William and Mary Quarterly of October 1946.
Hamilton, Works - refers to the Federal Edition of The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge (Federal Edition, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904)
Hamilton, Writings - refers to Alexander Hamilton: Writings, ed. Joanne B. Freeman, (The Library of America edition 2001)
Hamilton, Papers - refers to The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (27 vol., Columbia University Press, 1961–87); eds. Harold C. Syrett, Jacob E. Cooke, and Barbara Chernow
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Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny, Richard B. Morris, Harper & Row, 1973
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The First American: The life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H.W. Brands, Doubleday, 2000
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University Press, 2002
Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography
Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution, Bruce E. Johansen, Gambit Incorporated, 1982
Washington: The Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner, Little Brown, 1974
Main Currents In American Thought, Vernon Louis Parrington, 1927, Online: xroads.virginia.edu - /~HYPER/parrington/
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Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts, Morrow, 2004
Moral Minority, Brooke Allen; Ivan R. Dee, 2006
Online
Founder's Library: the 18th century letters, tracts, and essays of the founders.
The Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents
The Founders Constitution
From Revolution to Reconstruction: John E. Remsburg
18th Century Primary Sources
Jefferson on Politics & Government
Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition
Works of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition
The James Madison Center (JMU/Madison/Archives/Quotes)
The Online Library of Liberty
Papers of George Washington
classics network
The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Cabot Lodge, ed. (1904)
Works of Benjamin Franklin
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
State Conventions on Ratification of Constitution
Rediscovering George Washington
Dawn Dragon
Gilder Lehrman Collection Documents (Pre-Presidential Years, Letters to George Washington)
Classical Liberal, classicliberal.tripod.com
Alexander Hamilton: From Caesar to Christ DONALD D'ELIA
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