Amish and Mennonites

• Merle Good, Who Are the Amish? (Intercourse, Penn.: Good Books, 1985)
• John A. Hostetler Mennonite Life (Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1983)

Biographies

• Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (The Free Press, 1996)
• Norine Dickson Campbell, Patrick Henry (The Devin-Adair Co., 1975)
• John Cary, Joseph Warren (University of Illinois Press, 1974)
• Ronald W. Clark, Benjamin Franklin: A Biography (Random House, 1983)
• 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

• 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

• 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)
• 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

• 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)