Bibliography of the American Revolutionary War

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The following bibliography includes notable books concerning the American Revolutionary War. These books are listed in the bibliographies of books by prominent historians as shown in the footnotes.

Contents

General references and surveys

Background to the war

Maps and atlases

Battles and campaigns

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Battle of Monmouth

Battles of Trenton and Princeton

Canadian campaign

New York campaign

New York City area after 1777

Philadelphia campaign

Saratoga Campaign

Siege of Boston

Southern theater 1780–1782

Yorktown Campaign

Spies, intelligence and espionage

Primary sources

States, regions, and cities

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Unit histories

British units

American units

French units

Uniforms and equipment

Strategy, command, and supply

Medical

Biographies

British and allies biographies

American biographies

Benedict Arnold

  • Arnold, Isaac N. Life of Benedict Arnold, His Patriotism and Treason. Chicago, Illinois: Jansen, McClug & Company, 1880. OCLC   1343644. [16]
  • Boylan, Brian R. Benedict Arnold. 1973.
  • Brandt, Clare. The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold. New York: Random House, 1994.
  • Martin, James Kirby. Benedict Arnold Revolutionary. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN   978-0-8147-5560-0. [2] [13]
  • Randall, Willard Sterne. Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. New York: Morrow, 1990. ISBN   978-1-55710-034-4. [2]
  • Sellers, Charles Coleman. Benedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930.
  • Thompson, Ray. Benedict Arnold in Philadelphia. Bicentennial Press, 1975.
  • Wallace, Willard. Traitorous Hero: The Life and Fortunes of Benedict Arnold. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
  • Wilson, Barry K. Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst. McGill–Queen's University, 2001.

Aaron Burr

  • Hecht, Marie B. Aaron Burr, Portrait of an Ambitious Man. 1967.
  • Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 17561805. New York: FarrarStrausGiroux, 1979.
  • Merwin, Henry Childs. Aaron Buur. Boston, Massachusetts: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.
  • Parton, James. The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, two volumes. 1858.
  • Stewart, David O. American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. ISBN   978-1-4391-5718-3.
  • Wandell, Samuel H. and Meade Minnigerode. Aaron Burr, two volumes. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.

Benjamin Franklin

  • Allison, Andrew M. The Real Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of America's Greatest Diplomat. United States: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2008. ISBN   978-0-88080-001-3. First published 1982. Part II Timeless Treasures from Benjamin Franklin (selections from his writings) selected by W. Cleon Skousen and Richard M. Maxfield.
  • Anderson, Douglas. The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. ISBN   978-1-4214-0523-0. [4]
  • Brands, H. W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Anchor Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2002. ISBN   978-0-385-49540-0. Originally published by New York: Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., 2000. [1] [10] [13]
  • Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life . New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. First published Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2003. ISBN   978-0-7432-5807-4. [6]
  • Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Viking, 1938.
  • Wright, Esmond. Franklin of Philadelphia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Nathanael Greene

  • Carbone, Gerald M. Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC, 2008. ISBN   978-0-230-60271-7.
  • Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Green and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006. ISBN   978-0-8050-8005-6. [2] [10]
  • Simms, W. Gilmore, ed. The Life of Nathanael Greene. New York: George F. Cooledge and Bros., 1849.
  • Thayer, Theodore. Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960.

John Hancock

  • Fowler, Jr., William. The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin: 1980.
  • Unger, Harlow Giles. John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot. Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2005. ISBN   978-0-7858-2026-0. Originally published Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. [6]

Thomas Jefferson

John Paul Jones

Henry Knox

  • Brooks, Noah. Henry Knox: A Soldier of the Revolution. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900.
  • Callahan, North. Henry Knox: General Washington's General. South Brunswick, Maine: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1958.
  • Drake, Francis S. Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major-General in the American Revolutionary Army. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1873.
  • Griffiths, Thomas Morgan. Major General Henry Knox and the Last heirs to Montpelier. Monmouth, Maine: Monmouth Press, 1965.
  • Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN   978-0-230-62388-0.

Henry Lee

  • Hartmann, John W. The American Partisan: Henry Lee and the Struggle for Independence. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 2000
  • Pechuch, Jim and John Beakes. Light Horse Harry Lee in the American Revolution. Charleston, South Carolina: Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 2012.
  • Royster, Charles. Light Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1981. ISBN   978-0-394-51337-9. [2]

Francis Marion

  • Bass, Robert D. Swamp Fox: The life and campaigns of General Francis Marion. Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Co., 1974. ISBN   978-0-87844-051-1. Originally published New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1959. [2] [18]
  • Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. ISBN   978-0-306-82457-9.
  • Rankin, Hugh. Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox. New York: Crowell, 1973. ISBN   978-0-690-00097-9. [2] [11]
  • Simms, W. Gilmore. The Life of Francis Marion. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. G.G. Evans, Publisher, 1860. OCLC   3057684. [10] [16]

Israel Putnam

  • Cutter, William. The Life of Israel Putnam, Major General in the Army of the American Revolution. Boston, Massachusetts: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1846.
  • Drake, Samuel Adams. General Israel Putnam: The Commander at Bunker Hill. Boston, Massachusetts: Nichols & Hall, 1875.
  • Hill, George Canning. Gen. Israel Putnam: "Old Put", a Biography. Boston, Massachusetts: E.O. Libby & Co., 1858.
  • Humphreys, David. An Essay on the Life of the Honourable Major-General Isaac Putnam. Indianapolis, Indiana: Library Fund, 2000.
  • Humphreys, David. The Life, Anecdotes, and Heroic Exploits of Israel Putnam. Cleveland, Ohio: M.C. Younglove & Co., 1849.
  • Putnam, Alfred P. A Sketch of Israel Putnam. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1893.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  • Lockhart, Paul. The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN   978-0-06-145163-8. [12]

George Washington

  • Brookhiser, Richard. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press, 1996. ISBN   978-0-684-82291-4. [2]
  • Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life . New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. ISBN   978-1-59420-266-7. [1] [4] [6]
  • Cunliffe, Marcus. George Washington: Man and Monument. New York: New American Library, 1958.
  • Custis, George Washington Parke. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860.
  • Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency George Washington. New York: Alford A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN   978-1-4000-4031-5. [6] [2] [10] [13]
  • Ferling, John. The First of Men: A Life of George Washington. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988. ISBN   978-0-87049-562-5. [4]
  • Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington in the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968. OCLC   400924. [1] [2] [3] [8]
  • Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732–1775. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1965.
  • Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 1974. ISBN   978-0-316-28616-9. First published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. [1] [9]
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington: A Biography. 7 volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948–1957. OCLC   425613. [6] [2] [3] [8]
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall. An Abridgement by Richard Harwell of the 7-Volume Biography. Washington. New York: Touchstone, 1995. ISBN   978-0-684-82637-0. First published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. [1] [7]
  • Frothingham, Thomas G. Washington: Commander in Chief. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.
  • Henriques, Peter R. Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2006. ISBN   978-0-8139-2547-9. [2]
  • Higginbotham, Don. George Washington and the American Military Tradition. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1985. ISBN   978-0-8203-0786-2. [2]
  • Higginbotham, Don, ed. George Washington Reconsidered. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001. ISBN   978-0-8139-2005-4. [2]
  • Higginbotham, Don. George Washington: United a Nation. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
  • Hirschfield, Fritz. George Washington and Slavery. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
  • Humphreys, David. Life of General Washington. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
  • Johnston, Elizabeth Bryant. George Washington Day by Day. New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1895.
  • Ketchum, Richard M. The World of George Washington. New York: American Heritage, 1974.
  • Legnel, Edward G. General George Washington: A Military Life. New York: Random House, 2005. ISBN   978-1-4000-6081-8. [5] [2] [3]
  • Marshall, John. The Life of George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution, two volumes. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: C.P. Wayne, 1804.
  • Morgan, Edmund S. The Genius of George Washington. New York: Norton, 1977.
  • Ramsay, David. Life of George Washington. Ithaca, New York: Mack, Andrus & Woodruff, 1840.
  • Rasmussen, William M.S. and Robert S. Tilton. George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1999.
  • Unger, Harlow Giles. The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. ISBN   978-0-471-74496-2.
  • Wick, Wendy C. George Washington, an American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Portrait Gallery, 1982.

Anthony Wayne

  • Moore, H.N. Life and Services of Gen. Anthony Wayne. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John B. Perry, 1845. OCLC   3366531. [10]
  • Nelson, Paul David. Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985. ISBN   978-0-253-30751-4. [2] [10]
  • Stille, Charles J. Major General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893. OCLC   504757713. [10] [16]
  • Wildes, Harry Emerson. Anthony Wayne: Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1970. OCLC   469865896.

French biographies

Soldiers and prisoners

Politics

Diplomacy

Women, minorities, and religious groups

Books For Children

Loyalists

Primary sources

Memoirs

Other

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Ferling, John. Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. ISBN   978-1-60819-008-9. pp. 365–371.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN   978-0-19-518121-0.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Palmer, Dave R. George Washington's Military Genius. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. ISBN   978-1-59698-791-3.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Bibliography of works published primarily by university/academic presses since 2006 on early American topics in The Junto. "The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists—graduate students and junior faculty—dedicated to providing content of general interest to other early Americanists and those interested in early American history, as well as a forum for discussion of relevant historical and academic topics."
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN   978-0-300-19107-3.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Beeman, Richard. Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. New York: Basic Books, 2013. ISBN   978-0-465-02629-6. pp. 437–477.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006. First published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2005. ISBN   0-933852-53-3. pp. 351–364.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Green and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006. ISBN   978-0-8050-8005-6.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Borkow, Richard, George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson & the Trapping of Cornwallis. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. ISBN   978-1-60949-039-3. pp. 179–183.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Tonsetic, Robert L. 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Casemate, 2011. ISBN   978-1-61200-063-3. pp. 241–246.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Borick, Carl P. A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2012. ISBN   978-1-57003-487-9. pp. 307–316.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Nelson, James L. George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN   978-0-07-162679-8. pp. 365–369.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Tonsetic, Robert L. Special Operations During the American Revolution. Philadelphia, Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2013. ISBN   978-1-61200-165-4. pp. 259–262.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Spring, Matthew H. With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. ISBN   978-0-8061-4152-7. Originally published in hard cover, 2008. pp. 356–362.
  15. Ferling, 2007, lists this under "Battles, Campaigns and Events of the War."
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Ward, Christopher. John Richard Alden, ed. The War of the Revolution. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. ISBN   978-1-61608-080-8. Originally published Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1952. pp. 943–954.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six': The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN   978-0-306-80620-9. Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958. pp. 1299–1319.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 Piecuch, Jim, ed. Cavalry of the American Revolution. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2012. ISBN   978-1-59416-154-4. pp. 261–265.
  19. Ferling, 2007, p. 578.
  20. Ferling, 2007, p. 579.
  21. 1 2 Ferling, 2007, p. 605.