Item of the Day: Washington’s First Inaugural Address (1789)

Full Title: The Writings of George Washington; Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, selected and published from the original manuscripts, with A Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations. Volume XII. By Jared Sparks Printed in Boston by John B. Russell, 1837.
[Washington's retirement after 1783 was short-lived. The virtuous citizenry [...]

Item of the Day: George Washington’s Farewell Address to the Continental Army (1783)

Full Title: The Writings of George Washington Being his Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts: with A Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations. By Jared Sparks. Volume VIII. Printed in Boston by Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835.
Circular Letter Addressed [...]

Item of the Day: Hobbes’s Tripos (1684)

Full Title:
Hobbs’s Tripos, In Three Discourses: The first, Humane Nature, Or the Fundamental Elements of Policy. Being a Discovery of the Faculties, Acts and Passions of the Soul of Man, from their Original Causes, according to such Philosophical Principles as are not commonly known, or asserted. The second, De Corpore Politico, Or the Elements [...]

Item of the Day: Alexander Hamilton’s Defense to Callender’s Charge of Speculation (1797)

Full Title: Observations on Certain Documents continued in No. V and VI of “The History of the United States for the Year 1796,” in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully refused. Written by Himself. Published in Philadelphia for John Fenno by John Bioren, 1797.
[After the publication [...]