The American Battlefield Trust believes heavily in the educational value of the land we save, but we also greatly encourage students, educators, and enthusiasts to further explore topics like the Revolutionary War through some of the thousands of books, articles, and novels written about the conflict and the world in which it took place. The following is a short beginning list of some of the more notable works about the military, biographical, political, and cultural histories of the American Revolution and the people who lived through it. Start reading about the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
General Revolutionary War:
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
American Revolutions: A Continental History by Alan Taylor
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution by Mark M. Boatner, III
With Zeal and Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 by Matthew H. Spring
Biographies and Memoirs:
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
The Memoirs of Joseph Plumb Martin
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman Edited by Robert Bray and Paul Bushnell
John Adams by David McCullough
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered by James Kirby Martin
Battles and Campaigns:
1776 by David McCullough
Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill by Richard M. Ketchum
A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence E. Babits
Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 by Jerome Green
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchup
Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Nathan Miller
The Road to Guilford Court House: The American Revolution in the Carolinas by John Buchanan
Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge by Thomas Fleming
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Politics:
An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown by Thomas Fleming
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
African American and American Indian History:
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert
The Negro and the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles
The Iroquois in the American Revolution by Barbara Graymont
Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois by Glenn F. Williams
‘They Were Good Soldiers’: African–Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 by John U. Rees
Women's Studies:
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence by Carol Berkin
Woman’s Life in Colonial Days by Carl Holliday
Novels:
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
