Part of: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution 2 vols History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2
- Mercy Otis Warren (author)
- Lester H. Cohen (editor)
Vol. 2 of a 2 volume work. Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789.
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Critical Responses
Correspondence
Correspondence between John Adams and Mercy Otis WarrenJohn Adams and Mercy Otis Warren
John Adams, who was initially very encouraging of Mercy Otis Warren’s historical project, was later highly critical of it.
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The Panoplist, Or, the Christian’s Armory, Volume 1Anonymous
Critical review of Mercy Otis Warren’s history. pp. 380–384, 429–432
Connected Readings
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Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States 1787-1788Tench Coxe
Observations / On the new Constitution, and on the Federal / and State Conventions. / By a Columbian Patriot. / Sic transit gloria Americana. / [Boston: 1788.]
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A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution, 2nd EditionRosemarie Zagarri
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The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line 8 Volume SetCatherine Macaulay
