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Recommended
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| Amish
and Mennonites
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Merle Good, Who Are the Amish? (Intercourse, Penn.: Good
Books, 1985)
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John A. Hostetler Mennonite Life (Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald
Press, 1983)
Biographies
- Richard
Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
(The Free Press, 1996)
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Norine Dickson Campbell, Patrick Henry (The Devin-Adair
Co., 1975)
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John Cary, Joseph Warren (University of Illinois Press,
1974)
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Ronald W. Clark, Benjamin Franklin: A Biography (Random
House, 1983)
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James Thomas Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man
(New American Library, 1984)
- Eva
C. Hartless, Sarah Winston Syme Henry: Mother of Patrick Henry
(Brandon Press, 1977)
- F.
J. Hudleston, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne (Garden City
Publishing Co., Inc., 1927)
- B.
J. Lossing, Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
(reprint ed. of 1848 original, Wallbuilder Press, 1995)
- David
McCullough, John Adams (Simon and Schuster, 2001)
- Moses
Coit Tyler, Patrick Henry (Chelsea House Publishers,
1980)
- Henry
Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves,
and the Creation of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)
Boston
- Hiller
B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre (Norton, 1970)
- George
F. Weston, Jr., Boston Ways (Beacon Press, 1967)
New
York
- Richard
M. Ketchum, Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution
Came to New York (Holt, 2002)
Colonial
Life
- Alice
Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days (The Berkshire
Traveller Press, 1974, reprint of 1898 ed.)
- Colonial
Dames of America, Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America
(Dover Publications, 1995)
- Edmund
S. Morgan, Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth
Century (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1952)
- William
Peirce Randel, The American Revolution: Mirror of a People
(Hammond Inc., 1973)
- Mara
Riley, A Guide to Assembling a Woman’s Basic 18th Century
Wardrobe (Graphics/Fine Arts Press, 2002)
- Ted
Ruddock, ed., Travels in the Colonies in 1773–1775 Described
in the Letters of William Mylne (University of Georgia Press,
1993)
- C.
Keith Wilbur, Revolutionary Medicine, 1700–1800
(Globe Pequot Press, 1983)
American Revolution
Overview
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Bruce Catton and William B. Catton, The Bold and Magnificent
Dream: America’s Founding Years 1492–1815 (Doubleday,
1978)
- Theodore
Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
(Times Books, 1996)
- Alan
Taylor, American Colonies (Penguin, 2001)
War
on Land
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Michael A. Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen
and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier
(University of Virginia Press, 1993)
- Bruce
Chadwick, The First American Army: The Untold Story of George
Washington and the Men Behind America’s First Fight for
Freedom (Sourcebooks, 2005)
- John
Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War
of Independence (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- David
Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride (Oxford University
Press, 1994)
——Washington’s Crossing (Oxford University
Press, 2004)
- Thomas
Fleming, Liberty! The American Revolution (Viking Penguin
1997)
- Allen
French, The Day of Concord and Lexington (Copyright 1925;
reprinted in 1984 by Eastern National Park Monument Association)
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Curt Johnson, Battles of the American Revolution (Bonanza
Books, 1984)
- Richard
M. Ketchum, Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill
(Doubleday, 1974)
——The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton
and Princeton (Holt, 1973)
——Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the
Revolution (Holt, 2004)
- Edward
G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life
(Random House, 2005)
- Joseph
Plumb Martin, Private Yankee Doodle, ed. George F. Sheer
(Eastern National, 2002)
- Barnet
Schecter, The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of
the American Revolution (Walker, 2002)
- George
F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats (World,
1957)
- Michael
Stephenson, Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was
Fought (HarperCollins, 2007)
War
at Sea
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William M. Fowler, Jr., Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy
During the Revolution (Scribner’s, 1976)
- Nathan
Miller, Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution
(Nautical and Aviation Publishing Co. of America, 2002)
- Evan
Thomas, John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American
Navy (Simon and Schuster, 2003)
- The
Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, ed. by Tim Flannery
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997)
Civil
War
- Bruce
Catton, Bruce Catton’s Civil War, 3 vol. set including
Mr. Lincoln’s Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness
at Appomattox (Random House, 1988)
- Shelby
Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, 3 vol. set (Vintage, 1986)
French
and Indian War
- Fred
Anderson, The War that Made America: A Short History of the
French and Indian War (Viking, 2005)
- Colin
G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation
of North America (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Timothy
J. Todish, America’s First First World War: The French
and Indian War, 1754–1763 (Purple Mountain Press, 2002
Military
Uniforms and Equipment
- Don
Troiani, Soldiers in America: 1754–1865 (Stackpole
Books, 1998)
Native
Americans
- Colin
G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis
and Diversity in Native American Communities (Cambridge University
Press, 1995)
——The Shawnees and the War for America (Penguin,
2007)
- Michael
G. Johnson, American Woodland Indians (Osprey Publishing,
2005)
- James
H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania
Frontier (Norton, 1999)
- Candy
Moulton, Everyday Life Among the American Indians: 1800 to
1900 (Writer’s Digest Books, 2001)
- C.
Hale Sipe, The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania (Wennawoods
Publishing, 2004)
- Alan
Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern
Borderland of the American Revolution (Knopf, 2006)
- Colin
F. Taylor, Native American Hunting and Fighting Skills
(Lyons Press, 2003)
- Carl
Waldman, Word Dance: The Language of Native American Culture
(Facts on File, 1994)
Religion
and the Founding of America
- Frederick
A. Norwood, The Story of American Methodism (Abingdon
Press, 1974)
- William
J. Federer, The Original 13: A Documentary History of Religion
in America’s First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2007)
Spies
- Thomas
B. Allen, George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans
Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War (National
Geographic, 2004)
Women
in the Revolution
- Carol
Berken, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s
Independence (Knopf, 2005)
- 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, 1997, 2001)
- Cokie
Roberts, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
(HarperCollins, 2004)
World
War II
- Victor
Brooks, Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific, June-August
1944 (Perseus, 2007)
- Evan
Thomas, Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great
Naval Campaign 1941-1945 (Simon and Schuster, 2007)
Fiction
- Allan
W. Eckert, The Frontiersmen (Bantam, 1980)
- Esther
Forbes, Johnny Tremain (Yearling, reissued 1987; 1944)
- Diana
Gabaldon, Outlander (Dell, 2005
——Dragonfly in Amber (Delta, 2001)
- Patrick
O’Brian, Aubrey-Maturin Series
——Master and Commander (Norton, 1990)
——Post Captain (Norton, 1990)
——H.M.S. Surprise (Norton, 1991)
——The Mauritius Command (Norton, 1991)
——Desolation Island (Norton, 1991)
——The Fortune of War (Norton, 1991)
——The Surgeon’s Mate (Norton, 1992)
——The Ionian Mission (Norton, 1991)
——Treason’s Harbor (Norton, 1992)
——The Far Side of the World (Norton, 1992)
- Kenneth
Roberts, Northwest Passage (Down East Books, 2001)
——Arundel (Down East Books, 1995)
——Rabble in Arms (Doubleday, 1958)
- Rafael
Sabatini, The Sea-Hawk (Norton, 2002)
——Scaramouche (Dodo Press, 2007)
——Captain Blood: His Odyssey (Norton, 2002)
- Jeffrey
Shaara, Gods and Generals (Ballantine, 1998)
——Rise to Rebellion (Ballantine, 2002)
——The Glorious Cause (Fawcett, 2003)
——The Last Full Measure (Ballantine, 2000)
——Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
(Ballantine, 2001)
——To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World
War (Ballantine, 2005)
——The Rising Tide: A Novel of WWII (Ballantine,
2007)
——The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
(Ballantine, 2008)
- Michael
Shaara, The Killer Angels (Modern Library, 2004)
- James
Alexander Thom, Follow the River (Ballantine, 1981)
- Hermann
Wouk, The Winds of War (Back Bay Books, 2002)
——War and Remembrance (Back Bay Books, 2002)
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Media
Videos
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
Music
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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