Pamphlets and Treatises

John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717)

Benjamin Franklin, On the Freedom of the Press, 1737

Thomas Paine’s 1776 popular and influential pamphlet arguing for American independence.

A Short History of Standing Armies in England

Abner Goodell, The Trial and Execution of Mark and Phillis (1883)

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734)

Alexander Pope, Of False Taste (1731)

Alexander Pope, Of the Uses of Riches (1732)

Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728)

Benjamin Franklin, An Emblem of Human Life (1778)

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (1791)

Benjamin Franklin, Morals of Chess (1779)

Benjamin Franklin, Narrative of the Massacre of Friendly Indians in Lancaster County (Jan 30, 1764)

Benjamin Franklin, Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich (1736)

Benjamin Franklin, On Human Vanity (1735)

Benjamin Franklin, On Lurxury, Idleness, and Industry (1784)

Benjamin Franklin, On Privateering (1785)

Benjamin Franklin, On Smuggling and its Various Species (1767)

Benjamin Franklin, On True Happiness (1735)

Benjamin Franklin, On Truth and Falsehood (1730)

Benjamin Franklin, Public Men (1731)

Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth (1758)

Cesare Beccaria, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1764)

Colden Cadwallader,Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1724)

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1740)

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)

David Hume, Political Discourses (1752)

Francesco Bressani, Captivity among the Iroquois (1644)

George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland (1666)

George Washington, Letter to Phillis Wheatley (Feb 2, 1776)

Hector St John de Crevecoeur, Description of Charlestown (1782)

Hector St John de Crevecoeur, Dsitresses of a Frontier Man (1782)

Hector St John de Crevecoeur, What is an American (1782)

James Smith, Life among the Delawares (1759)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of the Inequality of Men (1754)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of the Inequality of Men(1754)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)

John Trenchard, A Short History of Standing Armies in England (1698)

John Woolman, Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind (1774)

John Woolman, The Journal with other Writings (1775)

Mercy Harbison, Capture and Escape of Mercy Harbison (1792)

Montesquieu, Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire (1734)

Montesquieu, Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire (1734)

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1771)

Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency George Washington (1776)

Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776)

Samuel Maverick, A Briefe Discription of New England and the Severall Townes Therein (1660)

Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1786)

Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590)

Thomas Paine, The Crisis (1776)

Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)

Voltaire, Letters on the English Nation (1733)

William Bradford, Bradford's History of Plimoth Plantation (1651)

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