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Print & Media Resources


Books

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Nonfiction
Biographies

Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington 

Norine Dickson Campbell, Patrick Henry

John Cary, Joseph Warren 

Ronald W. Clark, Benjamin Franklin: A Biography 

James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man 

Eva C. Hartless, Sarah Winston Syme Henry: Mother of Patrick Henry

F. J. Hudleston, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne 

Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life

B. J. Lossing, Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (reprint ed. of 1848 original, Wallbuilder Press)

David McCullough, John Adams

Moses Coit Tyler, Patrick Henry

Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America 

Boston

Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre

George F. Weston, Jr., Boston Ways 

New York

Richard M. Ketchum, Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York

Colonial Life

Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days

Colonial Dames of America, Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America

Edmund S. Morgan, Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century

William Peirce Randel, The American Revolution: Mirror of a People

Mara Riley, A Guide to Assembling a Woman’s Basic 18th Century Wardrobe

Ted Ruddock, ed., Travels in the Colonies in 1773–1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne

C. Keith Wilbur, Revolutionary Medicine, 1700–1800

Overview

Bruce Catton and William B. Catton, The Bold and Magnificent Dream: America’s Founding Years 1492–1815

Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution 

Alan Taylor, American Colonies

War on Land

Michael A. Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier

Bruce Chadwick, The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for Freedom

John Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride
  —--Washington’s Crossing

Thomas Fleming, Liberty! The American Revolution
  —--Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge

Allen French, The Day of Concord and Lexington 

Curt Johnson, Battles of the American Revolution

Richard M. Ketchum, Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill 
  —--The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton 
  —--Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution

Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life

Joseph Plumb Martin, Private Yankee Doodle, ed. George F. Sheer

Barnet Schecter, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats 
 
Michael Stephenson, Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought 

War at Sea

William M. Fowler, Jr., Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy During the Revolution

Nathan Miller, Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution

Evan Thomas, John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy

John Nicol (ed. by Tim Flannery), The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

French and Indian War

Fred Anderson, The War that Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Stephen R. Taaffe, The Philadelphia Campaign: 1777-1778

Timothy J. Todish, America’s First First World War: The French and Indian War, 1754–1763

Military Uniforms and Equipment

Stuart Reid, Marko Zlatich, Soldiers of the Revolutionary War

Don Troiani, Soldiers in America: 1754–1865

Native Americans
Colin G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities
  —--The Shawnees and the War for America


Sheryl Hartman, Indian Clothing of the Great Lakes: 1740-1840

Michael G. Johnson, American Woodland Indians

James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

Candy Moulton, Everyday Life Among the American Indians: 1800 to 1900

C. Hale Sipe, The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania

Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

Colin F. Taylor, Native American Hunting and Fighting Skills

Carl Waldman, Word Dance: The Language of Native American Culture

Religion and the Founding of America

Frederick A. Norwood, The Story of American Methodism 

William J. Federer, The Original 13: A Documentary History of Religion in America’s First Thirteen States

Spies

Thomas B. Allen, George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War

Women in the Revolution

Carol Berken, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence 

Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence (Excerpted from The Pioneer Mothers of America, 1912; repr. by Wallbuilder Press)

Cokie Roberts, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Fiction

Allan W. Eckert, Winning of America Series
  -----The Frontiersmen
  -----Wilderness Empire 
  -----The Conquerors 
  -----The Wilderness War
  -----Gateway to Empire 
  -----Twilight of Empire

Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain 

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
  —--Dragonfly in Amber 

Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Valley Forge

Patrick O’Brian, Aubrey-Maturin Series
  —--Master and Commander
  —--Post Captain 
  —--H.M.S. Surprise
  —--The Mauritius Command 
  —--Desolation Island
  —--The Fortune of War
  —--The Surgeon’s Mate 
  —--The Ionian Mission 
  —--Treason’s Harbor
  —--The Far Side of the World

Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage 
  —--Arundel
  —--Rabble in Arms

Rafael Sabatini, The Sea-Hawk 
  —--Scaramouche
  —--Captain Blood: His Odyssey

Jeffrey Shaara, Rise to Rebellion
  —--The Glorious Cause
 
 James Alexander Thom, Follow the River 
  -----From Sea to Shining Sea
  -----Long Knife
  -----Panther in the Sky

Downloadable Files

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Baroness von Riedesel at Saratoga.pdf
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18th Century Language
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Blue Jacket DNA Evidence
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Colonial Medicine
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Father's Legacy to His Daughters
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French Navy in American Revolution
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Old Boston Taverns
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Peter Williamson's Experiences Among the Indians
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Practice of Domestic Medicine in Colonial Period
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Wallabout Prison Ships
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Magazines

American History Magazine 
American Spirit (DAR)

Maps

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​The American Revolution and Its Era
George Washington, Surveyor and Mapmaker
Rochambeau Map Collection
Maps of Early America
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection--Revolutionary America


Music

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Music of the American Revolution: The Birth of Liberty, Sherrill Milnes

Colonial & Revolution Songs, with historical narration by Keith and Rusty McNeil. 2 disc set. (WEM Records, Riverside, CA, 1989)

Sing We All Merrily: A Colonial Christmas, Linda Russell & Company (Flying Fish Records, Chicago, Ill., 1986)

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Videos

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John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. HBO, 2008

Biography--George Washington: Founding Father. A&E Home Video. 2004

Founding Brothers. A&E Home Video. 2002

George Washington, starring Barry Bostwick. 1984

Johnny Tremain. Disney Studios. Originally broadcast in 1957

The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Madeline Stowe. 1992

Liberty—The American Revolution. PBS. 2004

Master and Commander—The Far Side of the World, starring Russell Crowe, 2003

The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. 2000


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The header image is a detail view from The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 20 November 1759, by Nicholas Pocock.



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