Bernard Bailyn, The ideological origins of the American Revolution(Cambridge, MA:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967)
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 Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1977)
Colin Bonwick, The American Revolution(Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1991)
Pauline Maier, From resistance to revolution:colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1972)
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, 1992)
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 revolutionarypeople at war:the continentalarmy and American character(Chapel Hill: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 Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1969)
Gordon S.Wood, The radicalism of the American Revolution(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1992)
Gordon S.Wood, The American Revolution:a history(New York:Modern Library, 2002)
The Early Republic and Antebellum America
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the revolution:thefirstgeneration of Americans(Cambridge, MA and London:The Belknap Press of HarvardUniversityPress, 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, 1996)
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)
JosephP.Ferrie, Yankeys now:immigrantsin theantebellum United States, 1840-1860(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1999)
Marshall Foletta, Coming to terms with democracy:federalist intellectuals and the shaping of an American culture(Charlottesville and London:University Press of Virginia, 2001)
Eric Foner, Free soil, free labor, free men:the ideology of the Republican Party before the civilwar(New York:Oxford University Press, 1970)
Susan-Mary Grant, North over south:northern nationalism and American identity in the antebellum era(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 2000)
John Higham, Strangers in the land :patterns of American nativism(New York:Athaneum Press, 1971)
Reginald Horsman, Race and manifest destiny:the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1981)
Winthrop D.Jordan, White over black:American attitudes toward the Negro 1550-1812(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1968)
John Lauritz Larson, The market revolution in America:liberty, ambition, and the eclipse of the common good(New York:Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Simon P.Newman, Parades and the politics of the street:festive culture in the early American republic(Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
Leonard L.Richards, The slave power:the free north and southern domination, 1780-1860(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
Charles G.Sellers, The marketrevolution:Jacksonian America, 1815-1846(New York:Oxford University Press, 1991)
Jay Sexton, The Monroedoctrine:empire and nation in nineteenth centuryAmerica(New York:Hill and Wang, 2011)
David Waldstreicher, In the midst of perpetual fetes:the making of American nationalism, 1776-1820(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
Gordon S.Wood, Empire of liberty:a history of the early republic, 1789-1815(New York:Oxford University Press, 2010)
Slavery and the South
Robert E.Bonner, Mastering America:southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood(New Yorkand Cambridge:Cambridge UniversityPress, 2009)
Catherine Clinton, Theplantation mistress:woman's worldin the oldSouth(New York:Pantheon Books, 1982)
Carl N.Degler, The other South:southern dissenters in the nineteenth century(1974.Paperback Reprint.New York:Harper and Row, 1975)
William Dusinberre, Them dark days:slavery in the American rice swamps(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1996)
William W.Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol.I, secessionists at bay, 1776-1854(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1990)
William W.Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol.II, secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2007)
J.Matthew Gallman, Northerners at war:reflections on the civilwarhomefront(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)
MichaelA.Gomez, Exchanging our country marks:the transformation of African identities in the colonialand antebellum South(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
John McCardell, The idea of a southern nation:southern nationalists and southern nationalism, 1830-1860(New Yorkand 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 Hill: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, 1701-1840(Athens and London:The University of Georgia Press, 1987)
The Civil War Era