Alan Taylor: American Colonies: The Settlement of North America
A landmark work that greatly affected the historiography of the war:
Gordon Wood: The Radicalism of the American Revolution (first published 1992)
Overviews of the Revolutionary era:
Robert Middlekauf: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution (1763- 1786)
The first book in the Oxford History of the United States series (3rd before Battle Cry of Freedom)
John Ferling: A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Stresses contingency & experimental approach of the founders (always guessing what they should do next) 😀
Alan Taylor: American Revolutions: A Continental History of the United States: 1750-1804)
Recent, 2021, highly praised, I haven't read it yet. The same Alan Taylor as above.
Joanne Freeman: 25 YouTube videos of a Yale professor's undergrad course on the American Revolution
Pre-war Books:
Fred Anderson: Crucible of War: The 7 Years' War & the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Brendan McConville: The Three Faces of the King: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688. 1776
Post War Books: The U.S. Constitution and more:
Gordon Wood: Empire of Liberty: The Early Republic (1789 - 1815)
The second book in the Oxford History of the United States. The same Gordon Wood as above)
Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick: The Age of Federalism
Joseph Ellis: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Ellis' American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Jefferson biography.
Pauline Mayer: American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Pauline Mayer (again): Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Saul Cornell: The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Anti-Federalists were those who opposed the proposed Constitution and the Federalist Papers
Antebellum History Overview (1815-1848):
Daniel Walker Howe: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America (1815-1848)
The third book in the Oxford History of the United States series (the one before Battle Cry of Freedom)
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