This series includes a representative selection of the most interesting and influential journal articles on revolutionary and early national America. The essays in these volumes show that the revolutionary era was an extraordinarily complex "moment" when the broad outlines of national history first emerged. Yet if the "common cause" brought Americans together, it also drove them apart: the Revolution, historians agree, was as much a civil war as a war of national liberation. And, given the distinctive colonial histories of the original members of the American Union, it is not surprising that the war had profoundly different effects in different parts of the country. This series has been designed to reveal the multiplicity of these experiences in a period of radical political and social change.
“The Disciples of Samuel Ely: Settler Resistance Against Henry Knox on the Waldo Patent, 1785-1801,” Maine Historical Society Quarterly, 1986, “‘Cementing the Mechanic Interest’: Origins of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers,” Journal of the Early Republic, 1988, “Emerging Republicanism and the Standing Order: The Appropriation Act Controversy in Connecticut, 1793 to 1795,” William and Mary Quarterly, 1972, “New York State Indian Policy After the Revolution,” New York History, 1976, “The Mechanics and the Jeffersonians: New York, 1789-1801,” Labor History, 1964, “Property Qualifications and Voting Behavior in New York, 1807-1816,” Journal of the Early Republic, 1981, “New Jersey Wealthholding and the Republican Congressional Victory of 1800,” New Jersey History, 1982, “Politics, Parties, and Pestilence: Epidemic Yellow Fever in Philadelphia and the Rise of the First Party System,” William and Mary Quarterly, 1972, “Philadelphia’s Manufacturers and the Excise Taxes of 1794: The Forging of the Jeffersonian Coalition,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1982, “Cultural Conflict in Early Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Politics,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1986, “William Duane, Philadelphia’s Democratic Republicans, and The Origins of Modern Politics,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1977, “Maryland Sectionalism and the Development of the Potomac Route to the West, 1768-1826,” Maryland Historian, 1983, “The Potomac Company: A Misadventure in Financing an Early American Internal Improvement Project,” Business History Review , 1984, “The Baltimore Riots of 1812 and the Breakdown of the Anglo-American Mob Tradition,” Journal of Social History, 1980, “A Bridge, A Dam, A River: Liberty and Innovation in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 1987, “The Formation of the Republican Party in Virginia, 1789-1796,” Journal of Southern History, 1953, “The Evolution of Political Parties in Virginia, 1782-1800,” Journal of American History, 1974, “On the Liberty of the Press in Virginia: From Essay to Bludgeon, 1798-1803,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1976, “Legislative Privilege in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina,” William and Mary Quarterly, 1989, “The Experience of Revolution and the Beginnings of Party Politics in Ohio, 1776-1816,” Ohio History, 1976, “‘A Quiet Independence’: The Western Vision of the Ohio Company,” Ohio History, 1981