Charles Thomson and the making of a new nation, 1729-1824

Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens : the parallel lives of two American patriots

John Hancock : merchant king and American patriot

Declaration of Independence

Suspected of independence : the life of Thomas McKean, America's first power broker

Declaration of Independence

John Witherspoon's American Revolution

Declaration of Independence

Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor : the forging of American independence, 1774-1776

The Continental Congress : A Chronology -- The Genesis of Revolution, 1763-1774 -- The Quest for a Unified American Resistance -- The Delegates Gather in Philadelphia -- Two Different Paths to Liberty : John Adams and John Dickinson -- The Congress Organizes -- "Fight Against Them That Fight Against Me" -- Galloway's Last Stand -- Getting Acquainted in the City of Brotherly Love -- Power to the People -- The First Congress Completes Its Business -- Escalation -- A New Congress, Changed Circumstances -- John Hancock Enters the Drama -- Congress Assumes Command of a War -- Desperate Efforts at Reconciliation Amidst an Escalating War -- Managing a War While Seeking Peace -- Waiting for King George III -- Small Steps Toward Independence -- The Year 1776 Dawns -- "The Scales Have Fallen from Our Eyes" -- "The Child Independence Is Now Struggling for Birth" -- Fourteen Paths to Independence -- "The Greatest Debate of All" -- Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence -- America's Declaration of Independence.

Roger Sherman : signer and statesman

Frontmatter -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. THE SHERMAN FAMILY -- II. THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN 1721 -- III. YOUTH IN STOUGHTON -- IV. EARLY YEARS IN NEW MILFORD -- V. THE SHERMAN ALMANACS -- VI. LATER YEARS IN NEW MILFORD -- VII. SHERMAN IN NEW HAVEN -- VIII. STAMP ACT DAYS -- IX. FROM STAMP ACT REPEAL TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS -- X. THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS -- XI. THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS -- XII. THE WYOMING CONTROVERSY -- XIII. REVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS, PERILS, AND VICTORY -- XIV. LEGISLATOR, MAYOR, AND JUDGE -- XV. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION -- XVI. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (continued) -- XVII. THE CONSTITUTION RATIFIED -- XVIII. IN THE FEDERAL CONGRESS -- XIX. THEOLOGY AND RELIGION -- XX. "A BRIGHT LUMINARY SETS" -- APPENDICES -- A. FURTHER DATA ON SHERMAN ALMANACS -- B. PROPOSITIONS EMBODYING CHANGES IN THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION -- C. COMMITTEES ON WHICH SHERMAN SERVED -- D. LIST OF LETTERS QUOTED IN THIS VOLUME, WITH LOCATIONS -- E. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.