.... Through readings of Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Paine, and Phillis Wheatley, the chapter’s claim is that literatures of enthusiasm, as a discourse of the American Revolutionary event, do indeed draw upon the Puritan revolutionary and Great Awakening revival heritage. Specifically, these literatures invent...

... Farmer to the Republican 1787–88 Letters of Brutus 1787–88 Abigail Adams Benjamin Franklin William Herschel John Jay Thomas Jefferson Samuel Johnson John Locke Thomas Paine Benjamin Rush Stamp Act Mercy Otis Warren The founding fathers lived within and were shaped by three interlocking...

... Coffin Fuller Margaret Greeley Horace media Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Catharine Beecher Lydia Maria Child Declaration of Independence Abby Kelley Foster Sally Hemings Thomas Jefferson rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton Harriet Beecher Stowe Frances Trollope Mercy Otis Warren In 1787...

...Mercy Otis Warren was a white woman born into a socially connected family, which allowed her to interact with intellectual and political leaders of the American Revolution. She exchanged letters with Abigail and John Adams and participated actively in revolutionary causes alongside her brother...

... spirit. Over the course of their courtship and marriage, Abigail and John wrote more than 1,100 letters to one another, exchanging political ideas. Abigail also lamented the unequal status of women in revolutionary America. In a letter to her friend Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail discussed the question...

...This chapter examines the prolix writings—newspapers satires, letters, poems, rebuttals to the Constitutional Convention of 1787—authored by Mercy Otis Warren. The connection between the gendered protocols of eighteenth-century writing and Revolutionary activity are brought into focus here...

... party system Fourth of July Mercy Otis Warren Democratic-Republicans Federalists despite many of the founders’ belief that political parties or factions were harmful in a republic, it did not take long after the federal government went into operation in 1789 for the nation’s first two...

...This essay argues that both George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren understood their experiences of the Revolutionary era through a shared discourse of classical republicanism, a set of beliefs that interpreted modern events in terms of their continuities with ancient Greece and Rome. By the time...

...This essay examines the history of drama and theater during the American Revolution. It suggests that politics dominate the dramatic theme during this period, particularly in such works as Mercy Otis Warren’s propaganda play The Blockheads, John Leacock’s patriotic tragedy...

... Dickinson’s passing on February 14. The narrative gives an overview of his character, relationships, accomplishments, and reputation as a leading patriot. It mentions friends and allies such as Charles Thomas and Mercy Otis Warren and enemies such as Joseph Galloway and John Adams. It describes...

... to the eighteenth centuries, bringing in a wide range of American writers: Ursula Le Guin, John Williams, Upton Sinclair, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Louisa McCord, Mercy Otis Warren, and several others. Keeping the Roman analogy at the heart of its discussions, this chapter ultimately demonstrates the ways...

... Corbin and Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley West Point Young Alfred Bailey Ann Conscience Lane Anna Maria Shame Smith Anne Winthrop John Continental Army “Gentlemen Soldiers” Military texts Officers African Americans Female Patriots George Washington Nathanael Greene Mercy Otis Warren Abigail...

...This book brings together the voices and writings of English-speaking women that circulated around the North Atlantic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From Abigail Adams and Nanye’hi (Nancy Ward) to Mercy Otis Warren and Mary Robinson, it looks at women and their revolutionary...

... Warren Mercy Otis Warren Horace Walpole George Washington Richard Watson John Wilkes Reverend Wilson Mary Wollstonecraft The brief note from Catharine Macaulay to Dr. Thomas Birch demonstrates her acquaintance with a man who is now almost forgotten, but who is an interesting example of a popular...