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Title: Unknown author to Sons of Liberty of New York, 1766 February 15; 5. Unidentified. to Sons of Liberty of New York
Identifier(s): text:352114
Description: Letter from an unknown author to the Sons of Liberty of New York. A statement of support for non-importation and offer to organize a Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia.
Subject: Society of the Sons of Liberty
Date: 1766-02-15; 2022

Title: A catalogue of books written by Dr. Joseph Priestley
Identifier(s): text:297; APSimg6529; Goodman Number: 128; 973 C683 No. 21
Description: In addition to listing 108 works authored by Priestley, this broadside also advertises that the autobiographical Memoirs of Doctor Joseph Priestley to the year 1795 (with a continuation to the time of his death by his son) is in the press, as well as Observations on his life by Thomas Cooper and William Christie. The two works were published by Binns as a single volume in 1806.; Oversized. One of the three copies of this broadside is annotated with the publication dates of Priestley's works.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Chemistry; Liberty; Religion
Date: ca. 1806

Title: Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia, 1766 February 21; 15. Sons of Liberty of New York. Committee. to Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:352155
Description: Letter from the Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to Sons of Liberty of Philadelphia. "As you have expressed yourselves so warmly in the Glorious Cause of Liberty, we cannot help mentioning our Surprise at your suffering even the least Appearance of such an odious thing of a Stamp Distributor, to exist in your Province, and therefore, presume we may claim to know, from you, the reasons thereof."
Creator: Society of the Sons of Libertyet al
Subject: Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765); Society of the Sons of Liberty
Date: 1766-02-21; 2022

Title: Life in Common and Russian Ideas About Freedom
Identifier(s): video:542; 2005_04_021
Description: Awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in 2008, this lecture takes an anthropological look at the Soviet concept of "freedom" and how it differs from the US concept.
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Liberty; Human rights, Russia; Anthropolgy; Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-04-30

Title: Speech delivered from the chair of the Court of Session, by the Lord President, in name of the Court, to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh.
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 Sp3
Description: Campbell's response to ideas and activities of Scottish reformers and their "spirit of sedition".; Was published in: Association for preserving liberty and property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England). 1793. Association papers. Part I. Publications printed by special order of the Society for preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, ... Part II. A collection of tracts, ... To which are prefixed, a preface, and the proceedings of the Society. Addressed to all the loyal associations. London: printed for J. Sewell; J. Debrett; J. Downes; Hookham and Carpenter; T. N. Longman; and W. Lane.
Creator: Campbell, Ilay, Sir, 1734-1823
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; France--Revolution, 1792-1795; Great Britain. Constitution; Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)
Date: circa 1793

Title: Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to William Bradford, 1766 February 13; 14. Sons of Liberty of New York. Committee. to William Bradford
Identifier(s): text:352140
Description: Letter from the Sons of Liberty of New York Committee to William Bradford. Proposes forming an Association "in order to form an Union of the Colonies, in imitation of our brethren in Connecticut, Boston, etc... and you may be assured it is the deliberate and determined resolution of our Brethren to the eastward, as well as here, not to be enslaved by any power on Earth, without opposing force, to force."
Creator: Society of the Sons of Libertyet al
Subject: Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765); Bradford, William, 1719-1791; Society of the Sons of Liberty
Date: 1766-02-13; 2022

Title: French Liberty
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 N65f
Description: A negative representation of revolutionary France, with an allegorical figure of Liberty forcibly ejected from her temple while Paine, as a harlequin, floats above holding a pair of stays inscribed: "Rights of Man". He is identified in the inscription below: "over the Temple the Author of the Rights of Man is supported on bubbles that are blown up by two Devils; this represents his work to be Froth & Airy Vapour: tending to delude & mislead a Nation".; George: 8334
Creator: Nixon, John, circa 1750-1818
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)
Date: 1793

Title: The Work of the Supreme Court
Identifier(s): video:733; 2006_04_027
Description: Justice Breyer and Dr. Blumberg discuss the Supreme Court, the US Constitution, and Liberty
Subject: Early American History; Constitutional law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Judicial process, United States; Constituent power, United States; Liberty; Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-29

Title: A Conversation
Identifier(s): video:1532
Description: A conversation between Justice Elena Kagan and Professor Martha Minow.
Subject: Constitutional law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Judicial process, United States; Constituent power, United States; Liberty; Minow, Martha, 1954-, Contributor; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2016-11-11

Title: Loyalty - against - Levelling; Loyalty - against - Leveling
Identifier(s): : Paine 75 Sa9L
Description: Paine sees the sign of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Levellers and Republicans while attempting to cut off the sign of a crown with the assistance of Frenchmen. In his pocket are works by Priestley and his own Rights of Man. ; George: 8138 Gimbel: 241 Two copies
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823
Subject: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England)
Date: 1792-12-15