Further Reading


  • Abbot, Henry L.Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare Under Captain Lieutenant David Bushnell. Edited by Frank Anderson. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1966.
  • Alden, John R.General Gage in America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948.
  • Anderson, Troyer Steele.The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936.
  • Andrews, Joseph L., Jr.Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord: The Shots Heard Round the World. Concord, Mass.: Concord Guides Press, 1999.
  • Apple, R. W., Jr. “Benedict Arnold, Hero: A Revolutionary Turning Point.”The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999, p. 141.
  • Babits, Lawrence.A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Bailey, J. D.Commanders at King’s Mountain. Greenville, S.C.: A Press, 1980.
  • Barefoot, Daniel W.Touring South Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites. Touring the Backroads Series. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1999.
  • Beer, George L.British Colonial Policy, 1754–1765. New York: Macmillan, 1907.
  • Bellesiles, Michael A.Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
  • Bemis, Samuel Flagg.The Diplomacy of the American Revolution. 1935. Reprint. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1957.
  • Bennett, Charles E.A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
  • Bobrick, Benson.Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
  • Borick, Carl P.A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Boston City Council.A Memorial of Crispus Attucks, [et al.] from the City of Boston. Miami, Fla.: Mnemosyne, 1969.
  • Brant, Irving.James Madison: The Virginia Revolutionist. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941.
  • Breen, T. H.The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • __________.Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. 2d ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Brooke, John.The Chatham Administration, 1766–1768. Vol. 1 in England in the Age of the Revolution, edited by Louis Namier. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1956.
  • Buchanan, John.The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: Wiley, 1997.
  • __________.The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
  • Burgess, Robert Forrest. “The Eagle and the Turtle.” InShips Beneath the Sea: A History of Subs and Submersibles. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
  • Burt, Alfred L.The United States, Great Britain, and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace After the War of 1812. 1940. Reprint. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968.
  • Butterfield, Herbert.George III and the Historians. New York: Macmillan, 1957.
  • Calhoon, Robert M.The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760–1781. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
  • Coakley, Robert W., and Stetson Conn.The War of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, Government Printing Office, 1975.
  • Coggins, Jack.Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1969.
  • Cohen, Warren, ed.Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. 4 vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Commager, Henry, and Richard Morris.The Spirit of Seventy-Six. 1975. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
  • Conway, Stephen.The British Isles and the War of American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Cook, Don.How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
  • __________.The Long Fuse: England and America, 1760–1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
  • Corwin, Edward S.French Policy and the American Alliance of 1778. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1916.
  • Countryman, Edward.The American Revolution. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
  • Darling, Arthur B.Our Rising Empire, 1763–1803. 1972. Reprint. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940.
  • Davis, Burke.The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown. Philadelphia: Eastern Acorn Press, 1970.
  • __________.The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
  • Draper, Lyman C.King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: A History of the Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1997.
  • Dull, Jonathan R.A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.
  • Dupuy, Trevor N.People and Events of the American Revolution. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1974.
  • Dwyer, William M.The Day Is Ours! November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York: Viking Press, 1983.
  • Edgar, Walter B.Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: Morrow, 2001.
  • Ellis, Joseph J.Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
  • __________.His Excellency: George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
  • Evans, Sara M.Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.
  • Ferling, John E.A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Ferrie, Richard.The World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown. New York: Holiday House, 1999.
  • Fischer, David Hackett.Paul Revere’s Ride. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • __________.Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Fleming, Thomas.Liberty! The American Revolution. New York: Viking, 1997.
  • Foote, Timothy, and Mark S. Wexler. “Shadows on the Rock.”Smithsonian 28, no. 6 (September, 1997): 30.
  • Forbes, Esther.Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
  • French, Allen.The Taking of Ticonderoga in 1775: The British Story. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928.
  • Fuller, J. F. C.The Decisive Battles of the Western World. Vol. 3. London: Eyre & Spottiswode, 1955.
  • Gabriel, Michael P.Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.
  • Glover, Michael.General Burgoyne in Canada and America: Scapegoat for a System. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976.
  • Golway, Terry.Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: H. Holt, 2005.
  • Gordon, John W.South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Gottschalk, Louis.Lafayette Comes to America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935.
  • Grinde, Donald A., Jr., and Bruce E. Johansen. “Mohawks, Axes, and Taxes.” InExemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
  • Griswold, Wesley S.The Night the Revolution Began: The Boston Tea Party, 1773. Brattleboro, Vt.: S. Greene Press, 1972.
  • Hallahan, William H.The Day the Revolution Ended, 19 October 1781. New York: Wiley, 2004.
  • Hamilton, Edward P.Fort Ticonderoga: Key to a Continent. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
  • Hansen, Harry.The Boston Massacre: An Episode of Dissent and Violence. New York: Hastings House, 1970.
  • Hargrove, Richard J., Jr.General John Burgoyne. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
  • Harvey, Maurice.Gibraltar. Staplehurst, England: Spellmount, 1996.
  • Hatch, Charles E.Yorktown and the Siege of 1781. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1957.
  • Hatch, Robert McConnell.Thrust for Canada: The American Attempt on Quebec in 1775–1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
  • Hibbert, Christopher.Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
  • Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds.Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1999.
  • __________.Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
  • Howson, Gerald.Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography. New York: Times Books, 1979.
  • Hoyt, Edwin P.Submarines at War: The History of the American Silent Service. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein & Day, 1983.
  • Hunt, Agnes.The Provincial Committees of Safety of the American Revolution. New York: Haskell House, 1968.
  • Ingraham, Leonard W.An Album of the American Revolution. New York: Franklin-Watts, 1971.
  • Jackson, John W.With the British Army in Philadelphia, 1777–1778. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1979.
  • Jacobson, David L.John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764–1774. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.
  • Jellison, Charles A.Ethan Allen: Frontier Rebel. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1969.
  • Johnston, Henry P.The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
  • __________.The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, 1781. 1881. Reprint. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1973.
  • Kennedy, Roger G.Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780–1820. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
  • Kerber, Linda K.Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
  • Ketchum, Richard M.Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill. New York: Owl Books, 1999.
  • __________.Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
  • __________.Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War. New York: H. Holt, 1997.
  • __________.Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution. New York: H. Holt, 2004.
  • __________.The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
  • Knollenberg, Bernard.Growth of the American Revolution, 1765–1775. New York: Free Press, 1975.
  • Kwasny, Mark V.Washington’s Partisan War, 1775–1783. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996.
  • Labaree, Benjamin W.The Boston Tea Party. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Landers, H. L.The Battle of Camden, South Carolina: Historical Statements. 1929. Reprint. Camden, S.C.: Kershaw County Historical Society, 1997.
  • Langguth, A. J.Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. New York: Touchstone, 1988.
  • Leckie, Robert.George Washington’s War: The Saga of the American Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
  • Lefkowitz, Arthur S.The Long Retreat: The Calamitous American Defense of New Jersey, 1776. Metuchen, N.J.: Upland Press, 1998.
  • Liss, Peggy K.Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713–1826. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  • Lumpkin, Henry.From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.
  • Lunt, James.John Burgoyne of Saratoga. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
  • McGuffie, Tom Henderson.The Siege of Gibraltar, 1779–1793. London: Batsford, 1965.
  • Macintyre, Donald G. F. W. “The Pioneers.” InFighting Under the Sea. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966.
  • Mackesy, Piers.The War for America, 1775–1783. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964.
  • Maier, Pauline.From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
  • Malcolm, Joyce Lee.The Scene of the Battle, 1775. Boston: Division of Cultural Resources, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1985.
  • Massachusetts Historical Society.Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1968.
  • Merinos, Samuel Eliot.Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1776–1788. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
  • Middelkauff, Robert.The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Miller, John C.Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936.
  • Millett, Allan Reed.For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America. New York: Free Press, 1994.
  • Mintz, Max M.The Generals of Saratoga. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.
  • Mitchell, Joseph.Decisive Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Putnam’s Son’s, 1962.
  • Morris, Richard B.The American Revolution Reconsidered. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
  • __________.The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. 1965. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Mott, Frank L.American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690–1940. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
  • Namier, Lewis B., and John Brooke.Charles Townshend. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1964.
  • Nelson, Paul David.General Sir Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester: Soldier-Statesman of Early British Canada. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.
  • Nickerson, Hoffman.The Turning Point of the Revolution. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1967.
  • Norton, Mary Beth.Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
  • Pancake, John S.1777: Year of the Hangman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
  • __________.This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780–1782. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
  • Pares, Richard.King George II and the Politicians. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1953.
  • Patterson, Benton Rain.Washington and Cornwallis: The Battle for America, 1775–1783. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004.
  • Pell, John.Ethan Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
  • Perlmutter, Tom, ed.War Machines: Sea. London: Octopus Books, 1975.
  • Raphael, Ray.A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York: New Press, 2001.
  • Roberts, Cokie.Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
  • Roberts, Kenneth.The Battle of Cowpens. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
  • __________, ed.March to Quebec: Journals of the Members of Arnold’s Expedition. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1945.
  • Russell, David Lee.The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.
  • Russell, Jack.Gibraltar Besieged, 1779–1783. London: Heinemann, 1965.
  • Schecter, Barnet.The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. New York: Walker Publishing, 2002.
  • Scheer, George, and Hugh Rankin.Rebels and Redcoats. New York: World Publishing, 1957.
  • Schlesinger, Arthur M.The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
  • Smith, Justin H.Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony: Canada and the American Revolution. 2 vols. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974.
  • Smith, Page.A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution. 2 vols. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.
  • Smith, Samuel Stelle.The Battle of Brandywine. Monmouth Beach, N.J.: Philip Freneau, 1976.
  • Stinchcombe, William C.The American Revolution and the French Alliance. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1969.
  • Stokesburry, James L.A Short History of the American Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
  • Taaffe, Stephen R.The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777–1778. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
  • Tebbel, John.Turning the World Upside Down: Inside the American Revolution. New York: Orion Books, 1993.
  • Thayer, Theodore.The Making of a Scapegoat: Washington and Lee at Monmouth. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1976.
  • Thomas, Peter D. G.Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773–1776. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  • __________.The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the Revolution, 1767–1773. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1987.
  • Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon.William Diamond’s Drum: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959.
  • Townsend, Joseph.Some Account of the British Army Under the Command of General Howe, and of the Battle of Brandywine. Philadelphia: Townsend Ward, 1846.
  • Tuchman, Barbara.The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
  • Ubbelohde, Carl.The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
  • Udoff, Irv.The Bunker Hill Story. Paducah, Ky.: Turner, 1994.
  • Van der Vat, Dan.Stealth at Sea: The History of the Submarine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
  • Varg, Paul A.Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1963.
  • Ward, Christopher.The War of the Revolution. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1952.
  • Ward, Harry M.The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved, 1763–1788. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
  • White, Katherine Keogh.The King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle, with Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1998.
  • Wood, Gordon S.The American Revolution: A History. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
  • Wood, W. J.Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775–1781. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
  • Young, Alfred F.The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
  • Young, Philip.Revolutionary Ladies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
  • Zobel, Hiller B.The Boston Massacre. New York: W. W. Norton, 1970.