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Online Sources: Samuel Adams

Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive
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"...presents images of manuscripts and digital transcriptions from the Adams Family Papers, one of the most important collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society."
On American Independence
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The World’s Famous Orations.
America: I. (1761–1837). 1906.
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The Rights of the Colonists (Hanover Historical Texts)
The Rights of the Colonists (Library of Congress)
Samuel Adams, Boston Gazette
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The Founders' Constitution
Volume 1, Chapter 3, Document 4
27 Feb. 1769
Teaching American History: Samuel Adams Documents

American Political Thought by Michael S. Cummings (Editor)
Call Number: JA84.U5 A73 2014
ISBN: 1483307719
Along with time-tested readings, about one-third of this edition's authors are new, including a number of thinkers from earlier periods, as well as more recent selections from liberal, conservative, and more unconventional thinkers.
An appeal to the World, or, A Vindication of the Town of Boston by Samuel Adams, William Cooper, Otis James
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Also issued as vol. 4, no. 3 in: A collection of tracts, on the subjects of taxing the British colonies in America, and regulating their trade. London : Printed for J. Almon, 1773.
Milestone Documents of American Leaders (online)
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Call Number: Online - Salem Press
ISBN: 9780979775857
Milestone Documents of American Leaders (print)
Call Number: E173 .M623 2009
ISBN: 9780979775857
Warren-Adams Letters by Massachusetts Historical Society
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Being chiefly a correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren, 1743-1814
Writings (of Samuel Adams) by Samuel Adams
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
The Writings of Samuel Adams by Samuel Adams
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Collected and edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing
Writings of Samuel Adams by Samuel Adams
Call Number: Online - free - Project Gutenberg

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