American History ~

 

General ~ 18th Century ~ 19th Century ~ French & Indian War ~ Revolutionary War ~ War of 1812 ~ American Civil War ~ Regional History 

 
 
 
 
 

General:

Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of American History in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen
       ~Edited by David Colbert, Pantheon Books, New York ISBN: 0-679-44224-3

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
       ~ John Ferling, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN: 019518906X

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
       ~ Woody Holton, Will and Wang; 1st Edition, ISBN: 0809016435

18th Century:

 1700: Scenes from London Life
       ~ Maureen Waller, Basic Books, ISBN: 1568581645

1700s in America  
       ~ C.M. Sprengel, Heinz Dutt, and Karin Dutt, ISBN 0972430490

American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA)        ~ Alan Taylor

Colonial America: A History, 1565 - 1776  
       ~ Richard Middleton

Colonial American History (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History) 
        ~ Kirsten Fischer and Eric Hinderaker

Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Opus Books)          
       ~ Douglas Hay, Nicholas Rogers, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0192891944

Major Problems In American Colonial History: Documents and Essays  
       ~ Karen Ordahl Kupperman and Thomas Paterson

The Americans: The Colonial Experience
        ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

19th Century:               

Outdoor Recreation and Leisure in 19th Century America
 ~ Victoria R. Rumble, Thistle Dew Books, ISBN: 097535891X

French & Indian War:

 People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War  
      ~ Fred Anderson, The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 0807845760

Revolutionary War:

1776
       ~ David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 0743226720

1776: Year of Illusions 
       ~ Thomas Fleming, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 0393336727

A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens
       ~ Lawrence E. Babits, The Univeristy of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 080784926X

A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
       ~ Charles Royster, The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 0807846066

Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781
       ~ WJ Wood, John SD Eisenhower (Editor), Da Capo Press, ISBN: 0306806177

Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution 
       ~ George C Neumann, Frank J Kravic George C Woodbridge, Scurlock Publishing Company, ISBN: 0960566678

Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
       ~ Mark Mayo Boatner, Stackpole Books, ISBN: 0811705781

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture)  
      ~ Woody Holton, The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN: 0807847844

Liberty! The American Revolution
       ~Thomas Fleming, Viking, ASIN: B000NW9B8W

Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It 
       ~ George F Scheer (Editor), Hugh F Rankin (Photographer), Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306803070

Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution
       ~ Benjamin L. Carp, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN: 0195378555

Redcoats and Rebels
       ~ Christopher Hibbert, Pen and Sword, ISBN: 1844156990

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
       ~ Gordon S. Wood, Penguin ISBN: 0143112082

Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution  
      ~ Terry Bouton, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN: 0195378563

The First Salute
       ~ Barbara W Tuchman, Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345336674

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1898
       ~ Robert Middlekauff, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195035755

The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785
       ~ Don Cook, Atlantic Monthly Press, ISBN: 0871136619

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence  
       ~ T. H. Breen, Oxford University Press, USA, ISBN: 019518131X

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
      ~ Gordon S. Wood, Vintage, ISBN: 0679736883

The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution
       ~ John Buchanan

The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
       ~ John Buchanan, Wiley, ISBN: 0471327166

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
      ~ Gary B. Nash, Penguin Books, ISBN: 014303720X

The War for America 1775-1783
       ~ Piers Mackesy, Univeristy of Nebraska Press, ISBN: 0803281927

Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes
       ~ Michael Pearson, Da Capo Press, ISBN: 0306809834

Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution
       ~ John Shy, ACLS Humanities E-Book, ISBN: 1597404144

Turning the World Upside Down: Inside the American Revolution
       ~John Tebbel, Orion Books, Crown Publishers, New York ISBN: 0-517-58955-9

 

War of 1812:

American Civil War:

Regional History:

The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720--1830 (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)
       ~ R. Douglas Hurt, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN ISBN: 0-253-33210-9

Daniel Smith: Frontier statesman
        ~ Walter T. Durham, Parthenon Press, Nashville, TN

Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (Early America: History, Context, Culture)
       ~ Cathy Matson, The Johns hopkins University Press, ISBN: 0801872472

This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775 (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
       ~ Bradford J. Wood

Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
       ~ Dr. Thomas M. Truxes

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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