Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America’s forgotten founding father (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Carl Bridenbaugh, Jamestown 1544-1699 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Jon Butler, Becoming America: the revolution before 1776 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001)
Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb tide in New England: women, seaports, and social change, 1630-1800 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998)
William Cronon, Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983)
John Putnam Demos, A little commonwealth: family life in Plymouth Colony (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)
John Putnam Demos, The unredeemed captive: a family story from early America (New York: Random House, 1994)
J.H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-i830 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006)
David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s seed: four British folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Stephen Foster, The long argument: English Puritanism and the shaping of New England culture 1570-1700 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, i99i)
Kimberly S. Hanger, Bounded lives, bounded places: free black society in colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press,
i997)
Francis Jennings, The ambiguous Iroquois empire (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., i984)
Francis Jennings, Empire of fortune: crowns, colonies, and tribes in the seven years war in America (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1988)
Edward Douglas Leach, Roots of conflict: British armed forces and colonial Americans, 1677-1763 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press,
i986)
Jill Lepore, The name of war: King Philip’s War and the origins of American identity (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998)
John Frederick Martin, Profits in the wilderness: entrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 200i)
Richard Middleton, Colonial America: a history, 1565-1776 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Edmund S. Morgan, American slavery, American freedom: the ordeal of colonial Virginia (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1975)
Gary B. Nash, Red, white, and black: the peoples of early America (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974)
Mary Beth Norton, Founding mothers and fathers: gendered power and the forming of American society (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1996)
Anthony S. Parent, Jr., Foul means: the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
William D. Piersen, Black Yankees: the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988)
James Pritchard, In search of empire: the French in the Americas, 1670-1730 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the making of New England, 1500-1643 (New York: Oxford University Press,
i982)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good wives: image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England 1650-1750 (New York: Oxford University Press,
i982)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A midwife’s tale: the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Random House, 1990)
Alden T. Vaughan, Roots of American racism: essays on the colonial experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Revolution and Independence
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A global history (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)
Bernard Bailyn, The ideological origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, i967)
Bernard Bailyn, Faces of revolution: personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990)
Bernard, Bailyn, To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
Colin Bonwick, English radicals and the American Revolution (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, i977)
Colin Bonwick, The American Revolution (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, i99i)
Pauline Maier, From resistance to revolution: colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, i972)
Pauline Maier, American scripture: making the Declaration of Independence (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)
Robert Middlekauff, The glorious cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789.
Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Edmund S. Morgan, The birth of the republic, 1763-89. 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, i992)
Gary B. Nash, The urban crucible: social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979)
Charles Royster, A revolutionary people at war: the continental army and American character (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 1979) John Shy, A people numerous and armed: reflections on the military struggle for American independence (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1976) Gordon S. Wood, The creation of the American republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 1969)
Gordon S. Wood, The radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, i992)
Gordon S. Wood, The American Revolution: a history (New York: Modern Library, 2002)
The Early Republic and Antebellum America
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the revolution: the first generation of Americans (Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000) John Ashworth, Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic, Vol. 1, commerce and compromise, 1820-1850 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, i996)
John Ashworth, Slavery, capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic, Vol. 2, the coming of the civil war, 1850-1861 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
J. Matthew Gallman, Northerners at war: reflections on the civil war home front (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, The mind of the master class: history and faith in the southern slaveholders’ worldview (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Thavolia Glymph, Out of the house of bondage: the transformation of the plantation household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Michael A. Gomez, Exchanging our country marks: the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
John McCardell, The idea of a southern nation: southern nationalists and southern nationalism, 1830-1860 (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1979)
William Lee Miller, Arguing about slavery: the great battle in the United States congress (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)
Franny Nudelman, John Brown’s body: slavery, violence, and the culture of war (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Manisha Sinha, The counterrevolution of slavery: politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Larry E. Tise, Proslavery: a history of the defense of slavery in America, 17011840 (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1987)
The Civil War Era
Melinda Lawson, Patriot fires: forging a new American nationalism in the civil war North (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002)
Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees came: conflict and chaos in the occupied South, 1861-1865 (i995. Reprint. Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Richard Franklin Bensel, Yankee leviathan: the origins of central state authority in America, 1859-1877 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)