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| The Bonds of Empire | |
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| “The Revolution Ode” (1760) | |
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| Montesquieu, “On the Constitution of England” (1748).Britain's Commercial Interest Explained and Improved(1757) | |
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| “Just Imported … | |
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| Letter to the People of Pennsylvania(1760) | |
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| Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts(1763) | |
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| On the British Constitution (1766) | |
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| The Supremacy of Parliament (1766) | |
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| Languages of Liberty | |
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| Gilbert Tennent,The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry(1740) | |
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| The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants(1744) | |
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| Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes(1762) | |
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| The Paxton Boys' Remonstrance (1764) | |
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| The Colonel Dismounted … Containing a Dissertation upon the Constitution of the Colony(1764) | |
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| The Rights of the Colonies Examined(1765) | |
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| A Vindication of the British Colonies(1765) | |
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| Grievances of the North Carolina Regulators (1769) | |
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| Reform and Resistance | |
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| A French Traveler Visits Virginia's House of Burgesses (1765) | |
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| Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies(1765) | |
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| Destruction of the Home of Thomas Hutchinson (1765) | |
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| Proceedings of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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| The New York Stamp Act Riot (1765) | |
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| Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania(1767-68) | |
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| “Address to the Ladies” (1767) | |
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| The “Liberty Song” and the Parody (1768) | |
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| Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions (1769) | |
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| An Exemplary Funeral (1769) | |
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| The Road to Rebellion | |
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| The Soldiers and the “Mob” (1770) | |
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| The Boston Massacre (1770) | |
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| Bostonians Oppose the Tea Act (1773) | |
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| A Peaceable Uprising (1773) | |
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| A Gentleman Fears the Power of the People (1774) | |
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| The Continental Association (1774) | |
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| A Virginia County Committee Punishes an “Enemy to America” (1774) | |
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| “The Testimony of the People Called Quakers” (1775) | |
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| On the Mistreatment of North Carolina Loyalists (1775) | |
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| Asserting Independence | |
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| The Mecklenburg Resolves (1775) | |
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| Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775) | |
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| The Olive Branch Petition (1775) | |
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| Proclamation of George III (1775) | |
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| Lord Dunmore's Appeal to the Slaves of Virginia (1775) | |
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| A White Virginian's Response to Dunmore's Proclamation (1775) | |
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| A Call to Revolution: Thomas Paine | |
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| Common Sense(1776) | |
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| An Appeal to Caution: James Chalmers | |
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| Plain Truth(1776) | |
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| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| Times that Tried Men's Souls | |
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| “The Crisis #1” (1776) | |
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| Anne Terrel Addresses the Wives of Continental Soldiers (1776) | |
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| Baroness Riedesel at Saratoga (1777) | |
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| The Burning of Fairfield, Connecticut (1779) | |
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| A Winter Encampment (1779-80) | |
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| The Murder of Hannah Caldwell (1780) | |
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| The Sentiments of an American Woman(1780) | |
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| A World Turned Upside Down | |
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| North Carolina Tories Await the British (1778) | |
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| The British Capture Savannah (1778) | |
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| Charleston Prepares for Invasion (1779) | |
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| Wartime Experience (1779) | |
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| Partisan War in the Carolina Backcountry (1779-81) | |
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| Life and Death on the British Prison Ships (1780-81) | |
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| A Common Soldier's Account of the Battle of Yorktown (1781) | |
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| Petition of the Whig Women of Wilmington, North Carolina (1782) | |
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| The British Evacuate Charleston (1782) | |
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| Who Should | |