"The object of this work is to set forth in its true light, and with its right perspective, the military record of George Washington, American Commander in Chief throughout the Revolution. The many biographies of Washington have not approached their subject from the military point of view, with the account of the actual military operations as the inflexible basis for the text. There is an urgent need for such a book, because, especially of late, the...

Papers, 1838-1889, consist of mss. ([1875]-1889), scrapbooks (1838-1889), and printed pamphlets (1849-1876). Mss. include [1875] "New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill" (printed in Boston Daily Herald, also separately by Lee and Shepard of Boston) and piece relating to Battle of Concord and North Bridge. Scrapbooks include: Wheildon's "Editorial Correspondence," clipped from Bunker Hill Aurora and other papers; his Boston Sunday Herald column "Curiosities...

"From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by Parliament's imposition of new taxes and regulations designed to...