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| Ackerman | Bruce | We the People: Foundations | 1991 | Harvard Univ. Press |
| Ackroyd | Peter | Revolution: The History of England from 1688 to 1815 | 2015 | Thomas Dunn Books |
| Anderson | Fred | Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire | 2000 | Vintage |
| Atkinson | Rick | The British are Coming: The War for America Lexington to Princeton | 2019 | Henry Holt |
| Bailyn | Bernard | The Origins of American Politics | 1970 | Vintage |
| Bailyn | Bernard | The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction | 1988 | Vintage |
| Bailyn | Bernard | The Barbarous Years | 2013 | Vintage |
| Bailyn | Bernard | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution | 2017 | Harvard Univ. Press |
| Blanning | Tim | Pursuit of Glory: the Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe 1648-1815 | 2017 | Viking |
| Brands | Henry | The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | 2002 | Anchor |
| Brodie | Fawn | Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History | 1974 | W. W. Norton |
| Breen | Timothy | “How Did the Colonies Unite?,” The New York Review of Books, Mar 11, 2021 | | |
| Chernow | Ron | Alexander Hamilton | 2004 | Penguin Books |
| Colley | Linda | Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 | 2009 | Yale University Press |
| Colley | Linda | The Gun, the Ship, ands the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World | 2021 | Liveright |
| Di Spigna | Christian | Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren | 2018 | Crown |
| Ellis | Joseph | American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic | 2008 | Vintage |
| Ellis | Joseph | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson | 1998 | Vintage |
| Ellis | Joseph | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | 2002 | Vintage |
| Ferling | John | A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic | 2003 | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Ferling | John | John Adams: A Life | 1992 | Henry Holt |
| Fischer | David Hackett | Paul Revere’s Ride | 1995 | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Fischer | David Hackett | Washington’s Crossing | 2006 | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Fleming | Thomas | A Disease of the Public Mind | 2013 | Da Capo Press |
| Fleming | Thomas | Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge | 2005 | Smithsonian |
| Flexner | James | Washington: The Indispensible Man | 1974 | Little, Brown & Co. |
| Foner | Eric | “A Traitor to the Traitors,” The Atlantic, December 2023 | | |
| Franklin | Benjamin | Autobiography | | |
| Griffin | Patrick | American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier | 2007 | Hill and Wang |
| Hart | Liddell | Strategy (Second Revised Edition) | 1967 | Frederick A. Praeger |
| Hickey | Donald R. | The War of 1812: a Forgotten Conflict | 1989 | Univ. Illinois Press |
| Hitchens | Christopher | Arguably: Essays | 2012 | Twelve Books |
| Hitchens | Christopher | Thomas Jefferson: Author of America | 2015 | Eminent Lives |
| Hitchens | Christopher | Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man | 2008 | Grove Press |
| Hochschild | Adam | “Mildred Rutherford’s War,” The New York Review of Books, Dec. 7, 2023 | | |
| Immerwahr | Daniel | “The Pitchfork of History,” The New Yorker, October 23, 2023 | | |
| Ketchum | Richard | The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton | 1973 | Henry Holt |
| Ketchum | Richard | Saratoga: The Turning Point in America’s Revolutionary War | 1999 | Henry Holt |
| Ketchum | Richard | Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York | 2003 | Henry Holt |
| Lepore | Jill | Book of Ages: the Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin | 2013 | Knopf |
| Lepore | Jill | This America: The Case for the Nation | 2019 | W. W. Norton |
| Lepore | Jill | These Truths: A History of the United States | 2018 | W. W. Norton |
| Lepore | Jill | The Whites of Their Eyes | 2020 | Princeton Univ. |
| Loewen | James | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | 2007 | Atria Books |
| Mackesy | Piers | The War for America 1775-1783 | 1964 | Harvard Univ. Press |
| Marshall | Tim | Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World | 2016 | Scribner |
| May | Elaine Tyler | Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy | 2017 | Basic Books |
| McCullough | David | John Adams | 2001 | Simon & Schuster |
| McDonald | Forrest | Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution | 1985 | Kansas Univ. Press |
| Meier | Pauline | From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1775-1776 | 1972 | W. W. Norton |
| Nagy | John | George Washington’s Secret Spy War: The Making of America’s First Spymaster | 2016 | St. Martin’s Press |
| Nash | Gary | The Unknown American Revolution | 2005 | Viking |
| Norton | Mary Beth | 1774: The Long Year of Revolution | 2020 | Vintage |
| Pangle | Thomas L. | The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: the Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke | 1988 | Univ. Chicago Press |
| Philbrick | Nathaniel | Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution | 2014 | Penguin Books |
| Philips | Kevin | 1775: A Good Year for Revolution | 2012 | Viking |
| Phillips | Kevin | The Cousins’ Wars | 1999 | Basic Books |
| Puls | Mark | Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution | 2006 | Palgrave MacMillan |
| Ricks | Thomas | First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greek and Romans | 2020 | Harper |
| Scott | James | Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States | 2017 | Yale University Press |
| Seidel | Andrew | The Founding Myth | 2019 | Union Square & Co |
| Stoll | Ira | Samuel Adams: A Life | 2008 | Simon & Schuster |
| Taylor | Alan | American Colonies: The Settling of North America | 2001 | Penguin Books |
| Tocqueville | Alexis | Democracy in America (Harvey Mansfield, Delba Winthrop, trans.) | 2000 | Univ. Chicago Press |
| Van Engen | Abram | City On a Hill: a History of American Exceptionalism | 2020 | Yale University Press |
| Vowell | Sarah | Lafayette in the Somewhat United States | 2016 | Riverhead Books |
| Wilentz | Sean | The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics | 2016 | W. W. Norton |
| Wilentz | Sean | The Rise of American Democracy | 2005 | W. W. Norton |
| Wood | Gordon | The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 | 1998 | Univ. North Carolina |
| Woodard | Colin | American Nations | 2012 | Penguin Books |
