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A. General Works

• Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History, vols. 1-3
• Bancroft, George. History of the United States (6 vols.)
• Becker, Carl L. The Beginnings of the American People
• Channing, Edward. History of the United States, vols. 1-3
• Craven, Wesley Frank. The Colonies in Transition, 1660-1761
• Doyle, James A. The English Colonies in America (5 vols.)
• Gipson, Lawrence H. The British Empire Before the American Revolution (15 vols.)
• Hofstadter, Richard. America at 1750
• Jernegan, Marcus W. The American Colonies, 1492-1750
• Nettels, Curtis P. The Roots of American Civilization
• Osgood, Herbert L. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (3 vols.)
• ________. The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century (4 vols.)
• Pomfret, John, and Floyd M. Shumway. Founding the American Colonies, 1583-1660
• Savelle, Max. The Origins of American Diplomacy: The International History of Anglo-America, 1492-1763
• Smith, James Morton, ed. Seventeenth-Century America: Essays in Colonial History
• Taylor, Alan. American Colonies
• Ver Steeg, Clarence L. The Formative Years, 1601-1763
• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. The Old South
• ________. The Middle Colonies
• ________. The Puritan Oligarchy

B. Backgrounds

• Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
• ________. Voyages to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of British North America on the Eve of the Revolution
• Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642
• Cheyney, E. P. The Dawn of the New Era
• ________. The European Background of American History, 1300-1600
• Dorn, Walter L. Competition for Empire, 1740-1763
• Fagan, Brian M. The Great Journey: The People of Ancient America
• Heckscher, Eli F. Mercantilism (2 vols.)
• Innes, A. D. The Maritime and Colonial Expansion of England under the Stuarts, 1603-1714
• Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World
• Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus
• Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost
• Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• Notestein, Wallace. The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 1603-1630
• Parks, George B. Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages
• Pirenne, Henri. Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
• ________. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and Revival of Trade
• Rowse, A. L. The Expansion of Elizabethan England
• Tawney, Richard H. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
• Trigger, Bruce G. and Wilcomb E. Washburn. Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the New World, vol 3: North America
• Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Wright, Louis B. Religion and Empire: The Alliance Between Piety and Commerce in English Expansion

C. Exploration and Settlements

• Adams, James T. The Founding of New England
• Andrews, Charles M. Our Earliest Colonial Settlements
• Barbour, Philip L. The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith
• Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation
• Brebner, John B. The Explorers of North America, 1492-1806
• Bronner, Edwin B. William Penn’s Holy Experiment
• Crane, Verner W. The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732
• Craven, Wesley F. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689
• Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
• Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
• Fisher, Sydney G. The Making of Pennsylvania
• Fiske, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies
• Greven, Philip. Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
• Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange
• Johnson, Amandus. The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware
• Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
• Lockridge, Kenneth. A New England Town, The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736
• Morgan, Edmund, ed. The Founding of Massachusetts
• Morison, Samuel E. Admiral of the Ocean Sea (2 vols.)
• ________. Builders of the Bay Colony
• ________. The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages
• ________. The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages
• Morton, Richard L. Colonial Virginia (2 vols.)
• Nash, Gerald B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
• Parry, J. H. The Age of Reconnaissance
• Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
• Powell, Sumner Chilton. Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
• Quinn, David B. Raleigh and the British Empire
• Rutman, Darrett. Winthrop’s Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649
• Vaughan, Alden T. American Genesis
• Weir, Robert M. Colonial South Carolina: A History
• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. The First Americans
• Willison, George. Behold Virginia, the Fifth Crown
• ________. Saints and Strangers
• Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century

D. Puritanism

• Adams, Brooks. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
• Adams, Charles Francis. Three Episodes of Massachusetts History
• Battis, Emery. Saints and Sectaries
• Cohen, Charles L. God’s Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience
• Craven, Wesley F. The Legend of the Founding Fathers
• Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700
• Hall, David D. The Faithful Shepherd, A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century
• Hambrick-Stowe, Charles. The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Discipline
• Marsden, George. Jonathan Edwards: A Life
• Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness
• ________. Jonathan Edwards
• ________. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
• ________. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
• ________. Orthodoxy in Massachusetts
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
• ________. The Puritan Family
• ________. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
• Oberholzer, Emil, Jr. Delinquent Saints: Disciplinary Action in the Early Congregational Churches of Massachusetts
• Pope, Robert G. The Halfway Covenant: Church Membership in Puritan New England
• Rutman, Darrett B. American Puritanism: Faith and Practice
• Schneider, Herbert W. The Puritan Mind
• Simpson, Alan. Puritanism in Old and New England
• Stout, Harry S. The New England Soul
• Winslow, Ola. Meetinghouse Hill

E. The British Colonial System and Its Applications

• Abbot, William W. The Royal Governors of Georgia, 1754-1775
• Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History, vol. 4: England’s Commercial and Colonial Policy
• Barnes, Viola F. The Dominion of New England
• Barrow, Thomas C. Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America
• Bayse, A. H. The Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations
• Beer, George L. Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660
• ________. The Old Colonial System, 1660-1754 (2 vols.)
• ________. British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765
• ________. The Commercial Policy of England Toward the American Colonies
• Billias, George A. Law and Authority in Colonial America: Selected Essays
• Bond, Beverly W. The Quit-Rent System in the American Colonies
• Cambridge History of the British Empire, vol. 1: The Old Empire
• Clark, Dora Mae. The Rise of the British Treasury: Colonial Administration in the Eighteenth Century
• Dickerson, Oliver M. American Colonial Government, 1696-1765: A Study of the Board of Trade in its Relation to the American Colonies
• ________. The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution
• Fisher, Edgar J. New Jersey as a Royal Province
• Flippin, Percy S. The Royal Government in Virginia
• Greene, Evarts B. The Provincial Governor
• Greene, Jack P. The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
• Harper, Lawrence A. The English Navigation Laws
• Henretta, James A. Salutary Neglect
• Kammen, Michael. Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the Politics of Mercantilism
• ________. A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution
• Knorr, Klaus E. British Colonial Theories, 1570-1850
• Labaree, Leonard W. Royal Government in America
• Lonn, Ella. Colonial Agents of the Southern Colonies
• Namier, Sir Lewis. England in the Age of the American Revolution
• Raper, Charles L. North Carolina, a Study in English Colonial Government
• Root, Winfred T. Relations of Pennsylvania with the British Government, 1696-1765
• Sirmans, Eugene. Colonial South Carolina, a Political History, 1663-1763
• Smith, W. Roy. South Carolina as a Royal Province
• Sydnor, Charles S. Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington’s Virginia
• Ubbelohde, Carl. The Vice Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution
• Williamson, Chilton. American Suffrage from Property to Democracy, 1760-1860

F. Economic Activity

• Albion, R. G. Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy
• Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
• Bailyn, Bernard and Lotte Bailyn. Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study
• Baxter, William T. The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1724-1776
• Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
• Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860
• Bining, A. C. British Regulation of the Colonial Iron Industry
• Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.)
• ________. Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols.)
• Carman, Harry, ed. American Husbandry
• Clark, Victor S. History of Manufactures in the United States, vol. 1
• Curtin, Philip. The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
• Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
• East, Robert A. Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era
• Ernst, J. A. Money and Politics in America, 1755-1776
• Fairchild, Byron. Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua
• Galenson, David. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis
• Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860, vol. 1
• Harrington, Virginia D. The New York Merchants on the Eve of the Revolution
• Inness, Stephen, ed. Work and Labor in Early America
• Hedges, James B. The Browns of Providence Plantations, vol. 1
• Jensen, Arthur L. The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia
• Johnson, Edgar A. J. American Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century
• Johnson, Emory R., and others. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States, vol. 1
• Jones, Alice Hanson. Wealth of a Nation To Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution
• McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
• Middleton, Arthur P. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
• Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
• Morris, Richard B. Government and Labor in Early America
• Pares, Richard. Yankees and Creoles: The Trade Between North America and the West Indies Before the American Revolution
• Pope-Hennessy, James. Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807
• Rappleye, Charles. Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
• Rutman, Darrett B. Husbandmen of Plymouth: Farms and Villages in the Old Colony, 1620-1692
• Sachs, William S., and Ari Hoogenboom. The Enterprising Colonials: Society on the Eve of the Revolution
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution
• Sellers, Leila. Charleston Business on the Eve of the American Revolution
• Shepherd, James F., and Gary F. Walton. Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America
• Smith, Abbott E. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
• Tolles, Frederick B. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
• Tryon, R. M. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860
• Ver Steeg, Clarence L. Robert Morris: Revolutionary Financier
• Weeden, W. B. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 (2 vols.)
• White, Philip L. The Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce, 1647-1877

G. General Works on the American Revolution

• Alden, John R. A History of the American Revolution
• ________. The American Revolution, 1775-1783
• Aptheker, Herbert. The American Revolution
• Brinton, Crane. The Anatomy of Revolution
• Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution
• Fisher, Sydney. The Struggle for American Independence (2 vols.)
• Greene, Evarts B. The Revolutionary Generation
• Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits
• Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776
• Lacy, Dan. The Meaning of the American Revolution
• Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1783
• Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution
• ________. Triumph of Freedom
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
• Morris, Richard B. The American Revolution Reconsidered
• ________, ed. The Era of the American Revolution
• Palmer, R. R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution (2 vols.)
• Robson, Eric. The American Revolution, 1763-1783
• Trevelyan, Sir George Otto. The American Revolution (4 vols.)

H. Origins and Causes of the American Revolution

• Adams, Randolph G. Political Ideas of the American Revolution
• Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
• Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution
• Barger, Bradley D. Lord Dartmouth and the American Revolution
• Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
• Becker, Carl L. The Eve of the Revolution
• ________. The Declaration of Independence
• Brown, Gerald Saxon. The American Secretary: The Colonial Policy of Lord George Germain, 1775-1778
• Clinton, Sir George. The American Rebellion
• Colbourn, H. Trevor. The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
• Donoughue, Bernard. British Policy and the American Revolution: The Road to War
• Gipson, Lawrence H. The Coming of the Revolution
• Gordon, William. History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States (4 vols.)
• Hawke, David. A Transaction of Free Men: The Birth and Course of the Declaration of Independence
• Knollenberg, Bernhard. Origin of the American Revolution
• Labaree, Benjamin. The Boston Tea Party
• McIlwain, Charles H. The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
• Meier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1766
• Morgan, Edmund S. and Helen Morgan. The Stamp Act Crisis
• Morgan, Edmund S. Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
• Mullett, Charles F. Fundamental Law and the American Revolution
• Pole, J. R. Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic
• Ritcheson, Charles R. British Politics and the American Revolution
• Rossiter, Clinton. Seedtime of the Republic: The Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty
• Schuyler, Robert L. Parliament and the British Empire
• Tyler, John W. Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution
• Van Tyne, C. H. Causes of the War of Independence
• Walsh, Richard. Charleston’s Sons of Liberty
• White, Morton. The Philosophy of the American Revolution
• Wills, Gary. Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
• Withington, Ann F. Toward a More Perfect Union
• Wood, Gordon. Creation of the American Republic
• ________. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
• Wright, Benjamin. American Interpretations of Natural Law

I. State and Regional Studies of the American Revolution

• Abbott, W. C. New York in the American Revolution
• Adams, James T. Revolutionary New England
• Alden, John R. The South in the Revolution
• Barker, Charles A. The Background of the Revolution in Maryland
• Becker, Carl L. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776
• Brown, Robert E. Middle-Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780
• Coleman, Kenneth. The American Revolution in Georgia
• Crowl, Philip. Maryland During and After the Revolution
• Eckenrode, Hamilton J. The Revolution in Virginia
• Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
• Kemmerer, Donald L. Path to Freedom: The Struggle for Self Government in Colonial New Jersey, 1703-1776
• Lincoln, Charles H. The Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania, 1760-1776
• Lovejoy, David S. Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution
• Lundin, Leonard. Cockpit of the Revolution: The War for Independence in New Jersey
• Mason, Bernard. The Road to Independence: The Revolutionary Movement in New York, 1773-1777
• Nevins, Allan. The American States During and After the Revolution
• Taylor, Robert J. Western Massachusetts in the Revolution
• Zeichner, Oscar. Connecticut’s Years of Controversy

J. The War for Independence: Military, Naval, and Diplomatic

• Allen, G. W. A Naval History of the American Revolution (2 vols.)
• Bemis, Samuel F. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution
• Corwin, E. S. French Policy and the American Alliance
• Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere’s Ride
• ________. Washington’s Crossing
• Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence
• Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783
• McCullough, David. 1776
• Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence
• Peckham, Howard. The War for Independence: A Military History
• Shy, John. Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution
• Stourzh, Gerald. Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy
• Wallace, Willard. Appeal to Arms
• Ward, Christopher. The War of the Revolution (2 vols.)

K. Special Aspects of the American Revolution

• Abernethy, Thomas P. Western Lands and the American Revolution
• Baldwin, Alice M. The New England Clergy and the American Revolution
• Boyd, Julian P. Anglo-American Union: Joseph Galloway’s Plans to Preserve the British Empire
• Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776
• Brown, Wallace. The King’s Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants
• Brown, William A. Empire or Independence: A Study in Failure of Reconciliation, 1774-1783
• Calhoon, Robert M. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781
• Davidson, Philip. Propaganda and the American Revolution
• Douglass, Elisha P. Rebels and Democrats: The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule During the American Revolution
• Dull, Jonathan R. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution
• Hoffman, Ronald and Peter Albert, ed. Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783
• Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
• Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement
• Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect & Ideology in Revolutionary America
• Koch, G. Adrienne. Republican Religion: The American Revolution and the Cult of Reason
• Nelson, William H. The American Tory
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
• Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1763-1776
• Smith, Paul H. Loyalists and Redcoats: A Study in British Revolutionary Policy
• Sosin, Jack M. The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763-1783
• ________. Whitehall and the Wilderness: The Middle West in British Colonial Policy, 1760-1775
• Taylor, Alan. Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderlands of the American Revolution
• Tyler, Moses C. Literary History of the American Revolution (2 vols.)
• Van Doren, Carl. The Secret History of the American Revolution
• Van Tyne, C. H. Loyalists in the American Revolution

L. Culture and Intellectual Life

• Axtell, James. The School Upon a Hill
• ________. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
• Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the Forming of American Society
• Bowes, Frederick P. The Culture of Early Charleston
• Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nussbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
• Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture
• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783
• Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in the Colonial South
• Demos, John P. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
• Eggleston, Edward. The Transit of Civilization
• Fisher, David H. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
• Gay, Peter. A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America
• Hansen, Chadwick. Witchcraft at Salem
• Hindle, Brooke. The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America, 1735-1789
• Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
• Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
• Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
• Kraus, Michael. The Atlantic Civilization
• ________. Intercolonial Aspects of American Culture on the Eve of the Revolution
• Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
• Levy, Leonard. Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History
• May, H. F. The Enlightenment in America
• Middlekauff, Robert. Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in 18th Century New England
• Morgan, Phillip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
• Morison, Samuel E. The Founding of Harvard College
• ________. Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century
• ________. The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England
• Parrington, Vernon S. Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800
• Rankin, Hugh. The Theater in Colonial America
• Savelle, Max. Seeds of Liberty: Genesis of the American Mind
• Starkey, Marion P. The Devil in Massachusetts
• Stearns, Raymond P. Science in the British Colonies of America
• Tolles, Frederick B. James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America
• Tyler, Moses C. History of American Literature, 1607-1765
• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. The Golden Age of Colonial Culture
• ________. The Planters of Colonial Virginia
• Wright, Louis B. The Atlantic Frontier
• ________. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763
• ________. The First Gentlemen of Virginia

M. Religion

• Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faiths, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics, 1689-1775
• Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
• Cousins, Norman. “In God We Trust”: The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers
• Gaustad, Edward S. The Great Awakening in New England
• Gewehr, Wesley. The Great Awakening in Virginia
• Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
• Heimart, Alan. Religion and the American Mind, from the Great Awakening to the Revolution
• Holmes, David L. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
• Lambert, Frank. The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
• Lovejoy, David S. Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution
• Maxson, Charles. The Great Awakening in the Middle Colonies
• Stout, Harry S. The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
• Sweet, William W. Religion in Colonial America
• Waldman, Steven. Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
• Westerkamp, Marilyn J. Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1725-1760

N. Fine Arts and Crafts

• Bridenbaugh, Carl. The Colonial Craftsman
• Comstock, Helen. American Furniture: A Complete Guide to Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles
• Davidson, Marshall B., ed. American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques
• Deetz, James B. In Small Things Forgotten
• Down, Joseph. American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods
• Flexner, James T. American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness
• Noel Hume, Ivor. Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America
• Gowans, Alan. Images of American Living
• Langdon, W. C. Everyday Things in America, 1607-1776
• Lowens, Irving. Music and Musicians in Early America
• Ludwig, Alan I. Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815
• Morrison, Hugh S. Early American Architecture
• Rose, Harold W. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America
• St. George, Robert B., ed. Material Life in America, 1600-1850
• Tunis, Edwin. Colonial Craftsmen
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  The Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
• Wright, Louis B., and others. The Arts in America: The Colonial Period

O. Social Life

• Adams, James T. Provincial Society
• Andrews, Charles M. Colonial Folkways
• Benson, Mary S. Women in Eighteenth Century America
• Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience
• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742
• ________. Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
• Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
• Bruce, Philip A. Social Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
• Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
• Calhoun, A. W. Social History of the American Family, vol. 1
• Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony
• Dexter, Elisabeth A. Colonial Women of Affairs
• Earle, Alice M. Child Life in Colonial Days
• ________. Home Life in Colonial Days
• Fox, Dixon R. Yankee and Yorker
• Greene, Evarts B., and Virginia Harrington. American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790
• Greene, Jack P. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
• Greven, Philip. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America
• Henretta, James A. The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815
• Holliday, Carl. Women’s Life in Colonial Days
• Jernegan, Marcus. Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America
• Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
• Kammen, Michael. People of Paradox: An Inquiry into the Origins of American Civilization
• Main, Gloria L. Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720
• Main, Jackson Turner. The Social Structure of Revolutionary America
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family
• ________. Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century
• Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution
• Noel Hume, Ivor. Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeological View of Colonial Life and History
• Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America
• Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
• Spruill, Julia C. Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
• Stanard, Mary P. Colonial Virginia, Its People and Customs
• Tunis, Edwin. Colonial Living
• Ulrich, Laurel T. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1700
• Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion

P. Biography and Autobiography

• Beatty, Richmond C. William Byrd of Westover
• Bowen, Katherine Drinker. John Adams and the American Revolution
• Brockunier, Samuel. The Irrepressible Democrat: Roger Williams
• Brown, Louise F. The First Earl of Shaftesbury
• Butterfield, Herbert. George III and the Historians
• Byrd, William. The Secret Diaries
• Cook, George A. John Wise: Early American Democrat
• Crane, Verner W. Benjamin Franklin and a Rising People
• Davis, Richard Beale. William Fitzhugh and his Chesapeake World
• Dunn, Richard S. Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630-1717
• Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage, The Character and Legacy of John Adams
• Ettinger, Amos. James Edward Oglethorpe, Imperial Idealist
• Fithian, Philip V. Journal and Letters
• Flexner, James T. George Washington (4 vols.)
• ________. Washington, the Indispensable Man
• Forbes, Esther. Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
• Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography
• Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington (7 vols.)
• Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Land, Aubrey. The Dulanys of Maryland
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