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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Source: Virginia Tech
Author: Edmund Burke
City: Blacksburg, State: VA, Country: United States

E-text version of Burke's 1790 letter.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -- e-text
Source: Bartlelby.com
Author: John Bartlett
Country: United States

Search the most famous resource for quotes online. Includes quotes from many of the most important historical heroes of liberty. (1919)

My Bondage and My Freedom
Source: Project Gutenberg
Author: Frederick Douglass
Country: United States

Story of a self-educated, freed slave, inspiring for any reader. Also includes Douglass' argument for the abolition of slavery.

Selected Works of Jefferson
Source: Virginia Tech
Author: Thomas Jefferson
City: Blacksburg, State: VA, Country: United States

List of online e-texts available, via gopher server, from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Includes letters, "Indian Addresses," and Jefferson's first inaugural address.

The Rights of Man
Source: The American Revolution Project
Author: Thomas Paine
City: Blacksburg, State: VA, Country: United States

A text-only version of Paine's defense of individual liberty. As always, Paine is quick to make valuable suggestions for proper government.

Democracy In America
Source: Hypertexts @ The University of Virginia
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Country: United States

Classic social commentary on America during what some historians have called "the golden age of American liberty."

Age of Reason
Source: LibertyOnline
Author: Thomas Paine
Country: United States

Paine's masterwork on religion and its role in a free society.

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Source: LibertyOnline
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Country: United States

Chronicles his life from his service in the Virginia legislature through his return to America after the French Revolution.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: Hypertexts @ University of Virginia
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Country: United States

The Great American Novel. Heartwrenching, hilarious story of a rebel who stands up for liberty against a hypocritical society at great personal cost. Site includes contemporary reviews, illustrations, sources and pre-texts.

American Slave Narratives
Source: Hypertexts @ University of Virginia
Country: United States

Stirring narratives from former slaves interviewed in the 1930s. A real insight into the slave life and, conversely, the blessings of liberty.

The Life of George Washington
Source: Archiving Early America
Author: David Ramsay
Country: United States

Written eight years after Washington's death, this is the book that made the cherry tree story known to every preschooler in America.

The Communist Manifesto
Source: Tapestry
Author: Karl Marx and Frederik Engels
Country: United States

Full text of the book that made a million would-be dictators wet their pants with joy. Read it again, for the first time.

Antifederalists v. Federalists
Source: Ted Kegebein
Author: Various
Country: United States
E-mail: kegebein@planttel.net

The complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, listed and linked in columnar format -- follow the debate of the ages as it happened!

Thomas Paine Archive
Source: Thomas Paine National Historical Association
Country: United States

A linked index to the complete works of "the prophet of the American Revolution."

Areopagitica
Source: The Library of Economics and Liberty
Author: John Milton
Country: United States
E-mail: webmaster@econlib.org

Milton, the poet and author of such acclaimed works as "Paradise Lost," delivered this speech "for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England" in 1664.

Thoreau archive
Source: Strike the Root
Country: United States

Archive of articles published by STR on Thoreau.

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