A Republic in Motion

Research manifest · 123 records

A bibliography that distinguishes citation from possession.

A source can be known, linked, or available in the local research library. The site may use any locally available source; the repository separately tracks whether the underlying file should remain outside Git and the published build.

106 sources are held locally; 7 acquisition attempts are recorded as unsuccessful. Local copyrighted media and subtitles remain ignored and are never published.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 (W. W. Norton, 2016).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters, sections, and ebook note numbers. The plain-text derivative is for discovery, not stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 50th anniversary ed. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017; orig. 1967).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF; the local plain-text derivative preserves page breaks for search.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Cassandra Pybus, ‘Jefferson's Faulty Math: The Question of Slave Defections in the American Revolution,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 62, no. 2 (2005): 243–264.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite journal pages 243–264 and preserve the population, geography, and evidentiary limits of each estimate; do not turn a revision of Jefferson's number into a timeless total.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Cassandra Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty, foreword by Ira Berlin (Beacon Press, 2006).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite printed pages visible in the scan and verify OCR against the page image. Pair quantitative claims with Pybus's 2005 article and preserve geographic and archival limits.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 (University of North Carolina Press, 1979; digital edition, 2011).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: The local Project MUSE PDF reproduces the original printed pagination. Cite the printed page visible in the PDF and verify the proposition against that page; the plain-text derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF. A second local PDF with identical extracted text is retained as an alternate copy; the derivative is for search.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook note numbers; the derivative is for discovery rather than stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF; verify propositions and quotations against the page rather than the plain-text derivative.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

scholarly-biography · held locally · cache

Curtis Fahey, 'Arnold, Benedict,' Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval.

Copyrighted reference article; locally cached for research and quotation within fair-use limits.

Where to look: Use stable paragraph IDs: paragraph_291954 for the invasion's aims; paragraph_76137 for the Maine march; paragraph_320226 for Quebec and smallpox; paragraphs_291957 and 320228 for retreat and Canadian response; paragraph_76147 for the campaign assessment.

Local research path: scholarship/dcb-benedict-arnold-canada.html

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Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Harvard University Press, 2001; first paperback ed., 2003).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the 2003 Harvard paperback PDF; the local plain-text derivative is for search.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing (Oxford University Press, 2004; ebook reprint, 2006).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters, appendices, historiography sections, and note numbers from the ebook. The plain-text derivative is for discovery, not stable citation; do not cite the alternate PDF's reflowed file-page numbers as printed pages.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · not held · user-supplied-only

Donald A. Grinde Jr. and Bruce E. Johansen, Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991).

Copyrighted.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Edward C. Papenfuse and Gregory A. Stiverson, ‘General Smallwood's Recruits: The Peacetime Career of the Revolutionary War Private,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 30, no. 1 (1973): 117–132.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite journal pages 117–132. The reconstructed Maryland sample should not be generalized to the entire Continental Army without comparison.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Eliga H. Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF; the plain-text derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000; Knopf Doubleday ebook, 2007).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Use named parts and chapters from the ebook; the local plain-text derivative is for search, not stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Friederike Baer, ‘The Decision to Hire German Troops in the War of American Independence: Reactions in Britain and North America, 1774–1776,’ Early American Studies 13, no. 1 (2015): 111–150.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the journal pagination visible in the PDF and distinguish political reactions to hiring from the later experience of particular German soldiers.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Helene Olsen, ‘The Social Construction of Mercenaries: German Soldiers in British Service during the Eighteenth Century,’ Small Wars & Insurgencies 33, nos. 1–2 (2022): 92–111.

Copyrighted open-access article.

Where to look: Cite journal pages 92–111; preserve Olsen's distinction between contractual military service and the political speech act of naming soldiers mercenaries.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607–1788 (University of Georgia Press, 1986).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the scan. The OCR is noisy and must be checked against the page image.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender, A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763–1789, 3rd ed. (Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite printed pages visible in the third-edition PDF and verify claims against those pages; the derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

James Kirby Martin, ‘A Contagion of Violence: The Ideal of Jus in Bello versus the Realities of Fighting on the New York Frontier during the Revolutionary War,’ Journal of Military Ethics 14, no. 1 (2015): 57–73.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite journal pages 57–73. Treat Martin's Thirty Years' War analogy as an interpretation to test against place-specific evidence, not a neutral classification of all frontier warfare.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (John Wiley & Sons, 1997; Turner electronic edition).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook section or note locators. The EPUB reproduces the 1997 work in a later Turner electronic edition.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

primary-source-broadside · held locally · cache

John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, proclamation declaring martial law and offering freedom to qualifying servants and enslaved people held by rebels, November 7, 1775, Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress, portfolio 178, folder 18.

Underlying 1775 broadside is in the public domain; Library of Congress rights statement applies to the digital facsimile.

Where to look: The proclamation begins on PDF page 1 and concludes on page 2. It limits the freedom offer to indentured servants, enslaved people, or others held by rebels who were able and willing to bear arms and joined British forces.

Local research path: primary/dunmore-proclamation-broadside-1775-loc.pdf

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

John Phillip Reid, Constitutional History of the American Revolution, vol. 2, The Authority to Tax (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: The local holding is volume 2 only. Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF; its OCR-derived text is useful for search but contains recognition noise.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Jon Chandler, ‘The Continental Army and “Military Europe”: Professionalism and Restraint in the American War of Independence,’ War in History (online 2020): 1–18.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite manuscript pages and section context; verify against the version of record before quoting if wording precision matters.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Kevin J. Weddle, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook note numbers. Internal copyright and catalog data identify the work as the 2021 Oxford edition despite the package's 2020 metadata date.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (University of North Carolina Press, 1998; electronic edition, 2017).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook notes. The electronic edition reproduces the 1998 work; the plain-text derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

institutional-source-guide · held locally · cache

Library of Congress, 'Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents,' exhibition essay.

Library of Congress institutional page; underlying eighteenth-century documents are in the public domain and individual digital items carry repository terms.

Where to look: Use the essay paragraphs beginning 'Thomas Jefferson drafted,' 'Jefferson then made,' 'Congress then ordered,' and 'On July 19.' They distinguish committee, congressional, printing, reading, engrossing, and signing stages.

Local research path: primary/loc-declaration-drafting-essay.html

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, first ed. (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook note numbers. The plain-text derivative is for discovery rather than stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Max M. Edling, A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783–1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite printed pages visible in the PDF. Only the early national chapters are in the series' immediate scope; the derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named parts, chapters, and ebook notes. A second user-supplied Vintage conversion is retained privately as a duplicate but is not a separate source record.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

primary-source-transcription · held locally · cache

New Jersey Legislature, ‘An Act to regulate the election of the members of the legislative council and the general assembly, sheriffs and coroners, in this State,’ 22 February 1797, New Jersey State Library Digital Collections.

Public-domain state law; repository metadata reports no known copyright restriction.

Where to look: Use the repository date and description, especially sections IX and XI and the ‘his or her’ ballot language. The cached page embeds repository metadata; consult the linked enrolled-law facsimile for exact diplomatic transcription.

Local research path: primary/nj-state-library-election-act-1797.html

primary-source-broadside · held locally · cache

Patrick Henry circular warning that Lord Dunmore's proclamation threatened public safety, Williamsburg, November 20, 1775, Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress, portfolio 178, folder 18a.

Underlying 1775 broadside is in the public domain; Library of Congress rights statement applies to the digital facsimile. The PDF also contains a later bibliographical article.

Where to look: PDF page 1 is Henry's November 20 circular. It says that the proclamation is enclosed, but this digital object does not contain Dunmore's proclamation text; pages 2–4 are later bibliographical material.

Local research path: primary/dunmore-proclamation-1775-loc.pdf

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972; Random House ebook, 2012).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Use part, chapter, and note number from the ebook; the local plain-text derivative is for search, not stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · cache

Rachel B. Herrmann, No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2019).

Copyright 2019 Cornell University; open-access text licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Where to look: For Dunmore, use chapter 4, 'Black Victual Warriors and Hunger Creation,' especially printed pages 89–103; pages 100–103 center self-liberation, provisioning, and the limits of the proclamation.

Local research path: scholarship/herrmann-no-useless-mouth-2019.pdf

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Ricardo A. Herrera, Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook notes. Preserve Herrera's distinction between the Valley Forge encampment and the wider forage-and-supply geography.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

scholarly-article · held locally · cache

Richard G. Wax, 'Manipulation of Human History by Microbes,' Clinical Microbiology Newsletter 29, no. 2 (2007): 9–16, doi:10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2006.12.004.

Copyright Elsevier; full text made available through Europe PMC. Local research copy is ignored and must not be republished.

Where to look: Use the section 'Skirmishes with smallpox in the American Revolution,' journal pages 11–13; treat its counterfactual claims cautiously and prefer it for disease, inoculation, and military-policy context.

Local research path: scholarship/smallpox-revolution-medical-history.xml

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Robert G. Parkinson, The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook note numbers. The plain-text derivative is for discovery, not stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

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Sarah J. Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite printed pages visible in the PDF and distinguish wartime commemoration from later memory; the derivative is for discovery.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

journal-article · held locally · user-supplied-only

Stephen Conway, ‘The British Army, “Military Europe,” and the American War of Independence,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 67, no. 1 (2010): 69–100.

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite journal pages 69–100; the article reconstructs Britain's military-European connections and should not be confused with Conway's separate global-war chapter.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Sylvia R. Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (Princeton University Press, 1991; ebook, 2020).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook note locators. This is the 2020 Princeton electronic issue of the 1991 work.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

T. H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, first ed. (Hill and Wang, 2010).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite the printed page number visible in the PDF. The embedded OCR and local derivative are discovery aids and must be checked against the page image.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

book · held locally · user-supplied-only

Terry Bouton, Taming Democracy: ‘The People,’ the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Copyrighted.

Where to look: Cite named chapters and ebook notes. The package does not expose a reliable page number, so the derivative is for discovery rather than stable citation.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 1: In Order to Be Free, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 1: In Order to Be Free, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 2: An Asylum for Mankind, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 2: An Asylum for Mankind, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 3: The Times That Try Men’s Souls, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 3: The Times That Try Men’s Souls, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 4: Conquer by a Drawn Game, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 4: Conquer by a Drawn Game, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 5: The Soul of All America, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 5: The Soul of All America, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-video · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 6: The Most Sacred Thing, user-supplied 1080p local viewing copy.

Copyrighted program; local research and viewing use only. Never commit or republish the video.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

user-supplied-film-transcript · held locally · user-supplied-only

The American Revolution, Episode 6: The Most Sacred Thing, user-supplied SRT subtitle file.

Copyrighted program transcript; local research use only. Never commit or republish the subtitle text.

Local research use only; no file is published with the site.

primary-source-facsimile · held locally · cache

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Philadelphia, printed; Providence: John Carter, 1776), Batchelder Collection copy, Library of Congress, item 18023774.

Underlying 1776 work is in the public domain; Library of Congress rights statement applies to the digital facsimile.

Where to look: Cite the pamphlet's printed page number; the locally derived OCR preserves the scan page breaks. The 'period of debate' passage is on printed pages 15–16 and the continental-government discussion begins on printed page 24.

Local research path: primary/common-sense-1776-loc.pdf

primary-source-transcription · held locally · cache

United Indian Nations, ‘Speech to Congress,’ Confederate Council near the mouth of the Detroit River, 18 December 1786, Papers of the War Department, document 1786121890001.

Archival document metadata and machine transcription published under CC BY 4.0; original image permissions remain with the holding repository.

Where to look: Use document number 1786121890001 and the dated council speech. The site labels its transcription machine-generated, so verify exact quotations against the image or a documentary edition; metadata and broad propositions are directly reviewable.

Local research path: primary/war-department-united-indian-nations-1786.html

primary-source-facsimile · acquisition attempted; not held · metadata-only

United States, ‘An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters,’ 12 February 1793, 1 Stat. 302.

Public-domain federal statute; Library of Congress delivery blocked the automated request with HTTP 403.

Where to look: Target 1 Stat. 302, chapter VII. One direct Library of Congress request returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-22. Obtain the official page image or another authoritative facsimile before quoting exact statutory language.

primary-source-documentary-edition · held locally · cache

William MacDonald, ed., Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606–1775 (New York: Macmillan, 1899), no. 80, 'Act Prohibiting Trade and Intercourse with America.'

Public-domain documentary edition; Internet Archive item terms apply.

Where to look: Prohibitory Act, 16 Geo. III c. 5, in no. 80, printed pages 391–396; section I prohibits trade and treats colonial vessels as enemy property, and section XLIII gives the staggered effective dates.

Local research path: primary/macdonald-select-charters-1899.pdf

primary-source-documentary-edition · held locally · cache

Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, vol. 2, May 10–September 20, 1775 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905), Library of Congress.

Public-domain government documentary edition; Library of Congress digital-file terms apply.

Where to look: Use the edition's printed pages: Continental Army and Washington's appointment, 89–97; Olive Branch Petition agreed to and ordered engrossed July 5 at 127, then compared and signed July 8 at 158–162; final Declaration of Causes and Necessity at 140–157.

Local research path: primary/journals-continental-congress-v2-1775.pdf

primary-source-documentary-edition · held locally · cache

Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, vol. 4, January 1–June 4, 1776 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906), Library of Congress.

Public-domain government documentary edition; Library of Congress digital-file terms apply.

Where to look: Use printed pages 257–259 for the April 6 trade resolutions; 342–343 for the May 10 governments resolution; 357–358 for the May 15 preamble.

Local research path: primary/journals-continental-congress-v4-1776.pdf

primary-source-documentary-edition · held locally · cache

Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, vol. 5, June 5–October 8, 1776 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906), Library of Congress.

Public-domain government documentary edition; Library of Congress digital-file terms apply.

Where to look: Use printed pages 425–426 for Lee's June 7 resolutions; 428–431 for postponement and the Committee of Five; 490–502 for the reported draft; 506–507 for the July 2 vote; 509–516 for the July 4 text and publication order.

Local research path: primary/journals-continental-congress-v5-1776.pdf