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		History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution,
		Interspersed with Biographical, Political, and Moral Observations In Two Volumes By Mercy Otis Warren Edited and annotated by Lester H. Cohen
		Table of Contents Publication Date: January 1989 6 x 9. 821 pages. Foreword, bibliography, editor's note, list of abbreviations, index.

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A modern edition of Warren's History is indeed a publishing event. Because Warren was deeply engaged in the political and moral issues of her day, her writing represents a treasure trove, especially for those interested in the political response of women to the republican and liberal ideas animating public debate.

— Joyce Appleby, University of California

Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788–1789.

Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.