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Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

The Rights of the British Colonies

1764

James Otis

TL 2026.1.34

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

An Oration; Delivered March 5, 1774 by John Hancock, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston

March 5, 1774

John Hancock

TL 2026.1.35

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

A Declaration…Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity [of] Taking up Arms

1775

John Dickinson

TL 2026.1.36

Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America…

1776

Thomas Paine

TL 2026.1.37

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

April 20, 1773

Peter Bestes

TL 2026.1.26

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

[First Continental Congress]
Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774

October 27, 1774

William and Thomas Bradford

TL 2026.1.16

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Le Général Washington Ne Quid Detrimenti Capiat Res Publica

1780

TL 2026.1.41

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Journals of Congress. Containing the Proceedings From Sept. 5. 1774 to Jan. 1.1776. Published by Order of Congress…

1777

Robert Aiken

TL 2026.1.38

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

[The Magna Carta] By Permission of Trustees of the Cottonian Library decorative copy of the Magna Carta

1733

John Pine

TL 2026.1.30

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776

1876

John Trumbull

TL 2026.1.2

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

[The Declaration of Independence] In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America

1823

William James Stone

TL 2026.1.1

Courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

A Proclamation. The Frailty of Human Nature, the Wants of Individuals, and the Numerous Dangers which Surround Them… [Have] Impell'd Them to Form Societies, and establish Governments

1776

John Adams

TL 2026.1.42