READINGS ON THE PERIOD FROM 1763 TO 1815 This is a list compiled by Ross W. Beales, Jr., College of the Holy Cross. He thanks the following individuals for their suggestions: Wayne Bodle, Gretchen Adams Bond, E. Wayne Carp, Joanne Chaison, J. Douglas Deal, Michael James Foret, Ruth Friedman, Mary A. Gallagher, Donald Gerardi, Richard Gildrie, Joan Gundersen, Gary L. Hewitt, Eric Hinderaker, Pauline Maier, Cathy D. Matson, Mary Beth Norton, David T. Rayson, Bill Reed, Scott Shuler, David Sloan, Beverly Smaby, Mitchell Snay, and Alan S. Willis.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams, an American Woman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. E322.1 A38 A35 Anderson, Fred. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. E199 A58 1984 Berlin, Ira, and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. E446 S62 1981. Brown, Richard D., ed. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1992. Buel, Joy Day, and Richard Buel, Jr. The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984. CT25 F528 B83 1984
See: Mary Silliman's War (produced by Steven Schecter and Heritage Films,
1993); reviewed by Sarah F. McMahon, Perspectives 33 (April 1995), 1,
3-4. Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975. HT867 D38 1975 Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resitance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. E77 D694 1992 Earle, Alice Morse, ed. Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. F73.4 W7 Condict, Jemima. Jemima Condict, Her Book: Being a Transcript of the Diary of an Essex County Maid During the Revolutonary War. Newark: Carteret Book Club, 1930. Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. E99 S35 T136 1984 Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. F230 E37 1993 Ellis, Joseph J. After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture. New York: Norton, 1979. E164 E4 1979 Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton University Press, 1991. E269 N3 F74 1991 Greene, Jack P., ed. Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution. New York: Norton, 1975. E203 G7 1975 Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. BR525 H37 1989 Henretta, James A., and Gregory H. Nobles. Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820. Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1987. HN57 H531 1987 Hoffer, Peter C. Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. E164 H7 1983 Hyneman, Charles S., and Donald S. Lutz, eds. American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760-1805. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Press/Liberty Classics, 1983. JK113 A716 1983 Hodges, Graham Russell, ed. Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White. Madison, Wis.: Madison House. Jea (b. 1773); White (1764-c. 1830). BR563 N3 W49 1993 Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. E269 N3 K36 1989 Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. HQ1418 K47 Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. E441 K64 1993 Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: Norton, 1994. F187 C4 L44 1994 Lemisch, Jesse. "Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 25 (1968): 371-407. Lewis, Jan. The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. HQ535 L67 1983 McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. E342 M33 1989 MacLeod, Duncan J. Slavery, Race, and the American Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. E446 M19 1974 Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. Manhattan: University Press of Kansas, 1984. E332.2 M37 1984 Merrill, James H. "Declarations of Independence: Indian-White Relations in New Nation." In The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits, edited by Jack P. Greene, 197-223. New York: New York University Press, 1987. E209 A497 1987 Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford, 1982. E208 N5 Morgan, Philip D. "Black Life in Eighteenth-Century Charleston." Perspectives in American History, n.s. 1 (1984): 187-232. E173 P46 Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Constitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923, 1929. E203 M8 1929 Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. F158.9 N4 N37 1988 Nash, Gary B., and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991. E445 P3 N37 1991 Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1990. E446 N37 1990 Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. E269 N3 Q3 1961 Reiner, Jacqueline S. "Rearing the Republican Child: Attitudes and Practices in Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 39 (1982): 150-63. Shalhope, Robert E. The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800. Boston: Twayne, 1990. JA84 U5 S49 1990 Smith, Barbara Clark. After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Pantheon, 1985. E163 S63 1985 Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. F24 T39 1990 Walker, James W. St. G. The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992 [1976]. DT516.7 W33 1982 Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New York: Knopf, 1970. E99 S4 W18 White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. F128.44 W54 1991 Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. HD8085 N53 W54 1984 Wood, Peter H. "'Liberty in Sweet': African-American Freedom Struggles in the Years before White Independence." In Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, edited by Alfred F. Young, 149-84. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993. E179 B58 1993 Grant, L. Donald. The Way It Was In The South: The Black Experience in Georgia, ed. Jonathan Grant. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, 1993. E185.93 G4 G75 1993 Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. E209 W65 1992 See also October 1994 William and Mary Quarterly forum. Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1990. E185 W94 1990 Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1993. E185 W944 1993 Young, Alfred. "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 38 (1981): 561-623 Zagarri, Rosemarie. A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1995. PS858 W8 Z97 1995
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