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References Concerning the Entire American Revolutionary War Era or Specific Events or Sources During This Era That Warrant Special Attention.

The American Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints. 1992. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press.
Andrews, Charles M. 1931. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Bailyn, Bernard. 1965. Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press.
--. 1967. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
--. 1990. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: A. A. Knopf.
Becker, Carl. 1942. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Random House.
Beloff, Max, ed. 1960. The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761-1783: A sourcebook. New York: Harper and Row.
Bennett, Peter S. 1970. What Happened on Lexington Green?: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Methods of History. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Billington, Ray Allen. 1966. The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding: Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Textbooks. New York: Hobbs, Dorman.
Boatner, Mark Mayo. 1994. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. 3d ed. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books.
Boorstin, Daniel. 1958. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Random House.
Breen, T. H., ed. 1996. The Power of Words: Documents in American History. Vol. 1, To 1877. New York: Harper Collins.
Brinton, Crane. 1965. The Anatomy of a Revolution. New York: Vintage Books.
Brown, Richard C., ed. 1992. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath.
Buchanan, John. 1997. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: Wiley.
Faragher, John Mack, ed. 1990. The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. New York: Facts on File.
Fischer, David Hackett. 1994. Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford University Press.
Flexner, James Thomas. 1974. George Washington: The Indispensable Man. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
Flexner, Stuart Berg. 1976. I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated Treasury of American Words and Phrases. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Foot, Michael, and Isaac Kramnick. 1987. Thomas Paine Reader. New York: Penguin Books
Fowler, Lillian M. 1997. Sam Adams: Radical Puritan. New York: Longman.
Garraty, John A. 1991. Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage. Vol. 1, To 1977. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins.
Greene, Jack P. 1995. Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia.
Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole, eds. 1991. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
Gross, Robert A. 1977. The Minutemen and Their World. 6th ed. New York: Hill and Wang.
Henretta, James A., and Gregory H. Nobles, eds. 1987. Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600--1820. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. 1986. Liberty or Order: Two Views of American History from the Revolutionary Crisis to the Early Works of George Bancroft and Wendell Phillips. New York: Garland.
--. ed. 1988. A Rage for Liberty: Selected Articles on the Immediate Causes of the American Revolution. New York: Garland.
Hooker, Richard J., ed. 1970. The American Revolution: The Search for Meaning. New York: John Wiley.
Jensen, Merrill, ed. 1967. Tracts of the American Revolution 1763-1776. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.--. 1968. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763-1776. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kidder, Frederic. 1870. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770; Consisting of the Narrative of the Town, the Trial of the Soldiers: And a Historical Introduction. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell.
Kurtz, Stephen G., and James H. Hutson. 1973. Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press.
Larabee, Benjamin W. 1964. The Boston Tea Party. New York: Oxford University Press.
Leach, Douglas. 1973. Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America. New York: Macmillan.
Lukes, Bonnie L. 1996. The American Revolution. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books.
Maier, Pauline. 1972. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: A. A. Knopf.
McDowell, Bart. 1967. The Revolutionary War: America's Fight for Freedom. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
Meltzer, Milton. 1987. The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words, 1750-1800. New York: Crowell.
Morgan, Edmund Sears, ed. 1965. The American Revolution: Two Centuries of Interpretation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
--. 1992. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89. 3d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Morrison, Samuel Eliot. 1965. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution (1764-1788) and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
--. ed. 1972. The Oxford History of the American people. 2 vols. Reprint. New York: Penguin Books.
Penner, Lucille Recht. 1997. The Liberty Tree: The Beginning of the American Revolution. New York: Random House.
Power, M. Susan. 1984. Before the Convention: Religion and the Founders. New York: University Press of America.
Purvis, Thomas L. 1995. Revolutionary America, 1763-1800. New York: Facts on File.
Rankin, Hugh F. 1965. The American Revolution. New York: Capricorn Books.
Ravitch, Diane, ed. 1990. The American reader: Words that Moved a Nation. New York: Harper Collins.
The Revolutionary War: Gallery of Images on CD-ROM for Macintosh.1993. Silver Springs, Md.: Fife and Drum Software.
Rights and Controversies in the Changing World of 1776: High School Materials. n.d. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Rogers, Alan. 1974. Empire and Liberty: American Resistance to British Authority, 1755-1763. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press.
Shalhope, Robert E. 1990. The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800. Boston: Twayne.
Smith, Carter, ed. 1991. The Revolutionary War: A Sourcebook on Colonial America. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press.
Smith, Page. 1976. A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution. 2 vols. New York: McGraw Hill.
Vaughan, Alden T., ed. 1965. Chronicles of the American Revolution, originally compiled by Hezekiah Niles. New York: Grosset and Dunlap.
White, Lee M. 1975. The American Revolution in Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes. A Sedgewick Archives Book. Fairfax, Va.: J. B. Prince.
Wills, Garry. 1984. Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday.
Wilstach, Paul, ed. 1925. Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1812-1826). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Wood, Gordon S. 1969. The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787. New York: W. W. Norton.
--. 1992. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: A. A. Knopf.
Wright, Esmond. [1964] 1978. Fabric of Freedom, 1763-1800. Reprint. New York: Hill and Wang.
--. ed. 1966. Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution. Chicago: Quadrangle Books.
--. ed. 1983. The Fire of Liberty. New York: St. Martin's Press.
--. 1995. The Search for Liberty: From Origins to Independence. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.
Young, Alfred F., and Terry J. Fife. 1992. We the People: Voices and Images of the New Nation. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press.

References Emphasizing the Viewpoints of the Crown, the British and Loyalists During the Revolutionary Era

Balderston, Marion, and Syrett Balderston, eds. 1975. The Lost War: Letters from British Officers During the American Revolution. New York: Horizon Press.
Brown, Wallace. 1969. The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution. New York: William Morrow.
Christie, Ian R., and Benjamin W. Labaree. 1976. Empire or Independence: 1760-1776: A British-American Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton.
Crary, Catherine. 1973. The Price of Loyalty: Tory Writings from the Revolutionary Era. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fischer, David Hackett. 1989. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hibbert, Christopher. 1990. Redcoats and Rebels:
The American Revolution Through British Eyes. New York: Avon Books.
Kallich, Martin, and Andrew MacLeish. 1962. The American Revolution Through British Eyes. New York: Harper and Row.
Lunt, W. E. 1957. History of England. 4th ed. New York: Harper and Row.
Oliver, Peter. 1961. Peter Oliver's Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory view. Edited by Douglas Adair and John A. Schutz. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library.
Onuf, Peter S., ed. 1991. Patriots, Redcoats, and Loyalists. New York: Garland.
Pearson, Kenneth, and Patricia Connor. 1976. 1776: The British Story of the American Revolution. London: London Times Newspapers.
Reich, Jerome R. 1997. British Friends of the American Revolution. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Scott, Hamish M. 1990. British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. 1992. Revolution in America: Britain and the Colonies 1763-1776. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Women and the Revolution

Aiken, L. 1975. Patriots in Petticoats. National Geographic 148 (4): 475-93.
Berkin, C., comp. Women in the American Revolution. Jackdaw, no. A31. Amawalk, N.Y.: Golden Owl Publishing.
Blumenthal, Walter Hart. [1952] 1974. Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution. Reprint. New York: Arno Press.
Clapp, Patricia. 1977. I'm Deborah Sampson, a Soldier in the War of the American Revolution. New York.: Lothrup, Lee and Sheperd.
Depauw, Linda Grant. 1975. Founding Mothers: Women in America in the Revolutionary Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Eisenberg, B. n.d. Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1607-1790. Chevy Chase, Md.: Mid-Atlantic Equity Center.
Engle, Paul. 1976. Women in the American Revolution. Chicago, Ill.: Follett.
Mann, Herman. 1972. The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of the Revolution. New York: Arno Press.
Norton, Mary Beth. 1980. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co.

Blacks and the Revolution

African-Americans in Eighteenth-century Virginia: High School Materials. n.d. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Bakari, Harvey. 1997. The African-American Legacy Before, During, and After the American Revolution. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Bolster, Jeffrey W. 1997. African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Christian, Charles M. 1995. Black Saga: The African-American Experience. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Davis, Burke. 1976. Black Heroes of the American Revolution. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Kaplan, Sidney, and Emma Norgrady Kaplin. 1989. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Kolchin, Peter. 1993. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang.
Meltzer, Milton. 1984. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1619-1983. Topeka, Kans.: Econo Clad Books.
Quarles, Benjamin. 1996. The Negro in the American Revolution. Reprint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Sharrow, V. 1991. Phyllis Wheatley. Jacksonville, Ill.: Perma-Bound Books.
Walling, Richard S. 1994. Men of Color at the Battle of Monmouth. Hightstown, N.J.: Longstreet House

Native-Americans and the Revolution

Graymount, Barbara. 1972. The Iroquois in the American Revolution. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.
McClard, Megan. 1989. Hiawatha and the Iroquois League. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Silver Burdett Press.

References Primarily About the Military or Military-related Matters

Atwood, Rodney. 1980. The Hessians, Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Blumenthal, Walter Hart. 1994. Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution. Salem, N.H.: Ayer.
Bowman, Allen. 1964. The Morale of the American Revolutionary Army. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press.
Clapp, Patricia. 1977. I'm Deborah Sampson, a Soldier in the War of the American Revolution. New York: Lothrup, Lee and Sheperd.
Dohla, Johann C. 1990. A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution. Translated and edited by B. E. Burgoyne. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press.
Edgar, Gregory T. 1994. Liberty or Death! The Northern Campaigns in the American Revolutionary War. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books.
--. 1995. Campaign of 1776: The Road to Trenton. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books.
Galvin, John R. 1989. The Minutemen: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey.
Gipson, Lawrence H. 1936-70. The British Empire Before the American Revolution. 15 vols. New York: A. A. Knopf.
Gross, Robert A. 1977. The Minutemen and Their World. 6th ed. New York: Hill and Wang.
Higginbotham, Donald. 1971, updated 1983. The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice 1763-1789. New York: Macmillan.
Ketchum, Richard. 1973. The Winter Soldiers. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday.
--. 1974. Decisive Day: The Battle of Bunker Hill. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday.
Leach, Douglas. 1973. Arms for Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America. New York: Macmillan.
Leckie, Robert. 1992. George Washington's War. New York: Harper Collins.
Lumpkin, Henry. 1981. From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
Mackesy, Piers. 1964. The War for America: 1775-1783. London: Longman.
Mahon, John K. 1958. Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare. Mississippi Valley Historical Review 45 (2): 254-75.
Martin, Joseph Plumb. 1968. Private Yankee Doodle, Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier. Edited by George F. Scheer. New York: The New York Times and Arno Press.
McCarty, Thomas. 1964. The Revolutionary War Journal of Sergeant Thomas McCarty. Edited by Jared C. Lobdell. Proceedings, 82. Newark, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Society.
Middlekauff, Robert. 1982. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution (1763-1789). New York: Oxford University Press.
Peckham, Howard H., ed. 1974. The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Prechtel, Johann Ernst. 1994. A Hessian Officer's Diary of the American Revolution. Translated and edited by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books.
Ryan, Dennis P., ed. 1979. A Salute to Courage: The American Revolution as Seen Through the Wartime Writings of Officers of the Continental Army and Navy. New York: Columbia University Press.
Shy, John W. 1990. A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.
Simmons, Clara Ann. 1996. John Paul Jones, American Sailor. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press.
Thacher, James. 1994. Eyewitness to the American Revolution: The Battles and Generals as Seen by an Army Surgeon. Stamford, Conn.: Longmeadow Press.
Tuchman: Barbara T. 1988. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. New York: Ballantine Books.
Walling, Richard S. 1994. Men of Color at the Battle of Monmouth. Hightstown, N.J.: Longstreet House.
Wright, John W. 1924. The Rifle in the American Revolution. American Historical Review 29 (2): 293-99.

References that Provide In-depth Information on the Concept of Liberty and Related Political and Philosophical Concepts

Bailyn, Bernard. 1967. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press.
Berlin, Isaiah. 1958. Two Concepts of Liberty. London: Oxford University Press.
Boorstin, Daniel J. 1981. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Casteel, James D. 1965. Professors and Applied Ethics: Higher Education in a Revolutionary Era, 1750-1800. Ph.D. diss., George Peabody College.
Devine, Francis Edward. 1975. Absolute Democracy or Indefeasible Rights: Hobbes versus Locke, Journal of Politics 37 (3): 736-68.
Diggins, John Patrick. 1986. The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Foot, Michael, and Kramnick, Isaac. 1987. The Thomas Paine Reader. New York: Penguin Books.
Gerhart, Eugene C. 1986. American Liberty and Natural Llaw. Littleton, Colo.: Fred B. Rothman.
Gough, John W. 1957. The Social Contract. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Handlin, Oscar, and Mary Handlin. 1961. The Dimensions of Liberty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press.
Hofstadter, Richard. 1974. The American Political Tradition--and the Men Who Made It. New York: Random House, Vintage Books.
Jensen, Merrill, ed. 1967. Tracts of the American Revolution (1763-1776). New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
Jones, Robert V. 1956. The Challenge of Liberty. Chicago: Heritage Foundation.
Kammen, Michael. 1986. Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
-- . 1988. Sovereignty and Liberty: Constitutional Discourse in American Culture. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
Maier, Pauline. 1997. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: A. A. Knopf.
Martin, Everett Dean. 1930. Liberty. New York: W. W. Norton.
Padover, Saul K. 1963. The Meaning of Democracy: An Appraisal of the American Experience. New York: Frederick A. Praeger.
Power, M. Susan. 1984. Before the Convention: Religion and the Founders. New York: University Press of America.
Reid, John Phillip. 1988. The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Spitz, David, ed. 1975. John Stuart Mill on Liberty: Annotated Text Sources and Background Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton.
Vetterli, Richard, and Gary Bryner. 1987. In Search of the Republic: Public Virtue and the Roots of American Government. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield.
Webking, Robert H. 1988. The American Revolution and the Politics of Liberty. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press.
Williams, Geraint. 1991. Political Theory in Retrospect: From the Ancient Greeks to the Twentieth century.
Wills, Garry. 1978. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. New York: Doubleday.
Wright, Benjamin Fletcher, Jr. 1962. American Interpretations of Natural Law: A Study in the History of Political Thought. New York: Russell and Russell.
Zuckert, Michael P. 1994. Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

References Emphasizing the Post-war Period, the Founding of the Republic and the Construction and Ratification of the Constitution

Banning, Lance. 1995. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Bernstein, Richard B. with Kim S. Rice. 1987. Are We to be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
The Bill of Rights and Beyond: 1791-1991. 1991. Washington, D.C.: The Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Brock, William R. 1970. The Evolution of American Democracy. New York: Dial Press.
Brown, Richard C., ed. 1992. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution (1760-1791). Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath.
Clarke, J. C. D. 1994. The Language of Liberty (1660-1832). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lerner, Ralph. 1987. The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Patrick, John J., ed. 1995. Founding the Republic: A Documentary History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Wood, Gordon S. 1969. The Creation of the American Republic (1776-1787). New York: W. W. Norton.

Collections of Reproductions of Primary Source Materials on the American Colonial Experience and the American Revolutionary Era are Available by Writing to These Sources.

American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Room 122, Worcester, Mass. 01609-1634
The Brigade of the American Revolution, 27 Compton Avenue, Plainfield, N.J. 07063-1105.
Department of School and Group Services, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, Va. 23187. Voice (757) 220-7582. Fax (757) 220-7708.
Fife and Drum Software, 316 Soapstone Lane, Silver Springs, Md. 20905
Grafton, John. 1975. The American Revolution A Picture Sourcebook. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover.
Jackdaw Publications, Division of Golden Owl Publishing, P. O. Box 503, Amawalk, N.Y. 10501. Voice (914) 962-6911 or (800) 789-0022. Fax (800) 962-9101. (See especially the Jackdaw Kits: The American Revolution, Women in the American Revolution, The Emerging Nation 1783-1790, The Making of the Constitution and The Story of the Constitution. See also Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans (THP): Battle of Bunker Hill and Guilford Courthouse--Pivotal Battle.)
Primary Source Media, 12 Lunar Drive, Woodbridge, Conn. 06525-9934. Voice (800) 444-0799. Fax (203) 397-3893. (Ask for information on the American Journey: The American Revolution CD. This is a hybrid CD, usable for both Macintosh and Windows.)
National Archives Still Picture Branch, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Md. 20740-6001. Voice (301) 713-6625, ext. 234. Fax (301) 713-7436. (Ask for information on the George Washington Bicentennial Commission 1500-image collection, control no. NWDNS-148-GW from record group 148-GW.)
National Audiovisual Center, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, Va. 22161. Voice (800) 788-6282. Fax (703) 321-8457. (Ask for information on the National Archives's 140-slide series and booklet entitled "Pictures of the Revolutionary War" Order No. AVA18632SS00.)

Reference in Regards to Re-enactments

The Brigade of the American Revolution, 27 Compton Avenue, Plainfield, N.J. 07063-1105.
Smoke and Fire, a monthly newspaper about living history events such as re-enactments, pow-wows, rendezvous and exhibits. P. O. Box 166, Grand Rapids, Ohio 43522. Voice (800) 766-5334. $18 a year, $2 for sample issue.

Music of the Revolutionary Era

Brand, O. 1972. Songs of '76: A Folksinger's History of the Revolution. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
Marching Into Time. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. CD or cassette.
Military Musick of the American Revolution. Cassette. Order directly from the Brigade of the American Revolution.
Rabson, C. 1974. Songbook of the American Revolution. Peaks Island, Maine: Neo Press.
Scott, J. A. 1966. The ballads of America: The history of the United States in song and story. New York: Bantam Books.
Songs of Liberty. n.d. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Winstock, Lewis. 1970. Songs and Music of the Redcoats: A History of the War Music of the British Army (1642-1902). Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books.

Juvenile and Advanced Level Historical Fiction

Beatty, John, and Patricia Beatty. 1975. Who Comes to Kings Mountain. New York: William Morrow.
Berleth, Richard. 1990. Samuel's Choice. Niles, Ill.: Albert Whitman.
Berry, E. 1952. Sybil Ludington's Ride. New York: Viking Press.
Boyd, James. 1925. Drums. New York: Scribner.
Cavanna, Betty. 1975. Ruffles and Drums. New York: William Morrow.
Collier, Christopher, and James L. Collier. 1974. My Brother Sam is Dead. New York: Scholastic.
--. 1983. War Comes to Willy Freeman. New York: Delacorte Press.
Edgar, Gregory T. 1995. Are the Yankees Cowards Now? A Story of Bunker Hill. Ellington, Conn.: Gregory Edgar. --. 1995. Gone to Meet the British. Ellington, Conn.: Gregory Edgar.
Fast, Howard. 1961. April Morning. New York: Bantam.
--. 1972. The Hessian. New York: Morrow.
Finlayson, Ann. 1972. Rebecca's War. New York: Frederick Warne. --. 1978. The Silver Bullet. New York: Thomas Nelson.
Fiore, Peter. 1998. The Boston Tea Party. New York: Holiday House.
Forbes, Esther. 1969. Johnny Tremain. New York: Dell.
Fritz, Jean. 1967. Early Thunder. New York: Putnam and Grosset Group
Graves, Robert. 1986. Sergeant Lamb's America. Chicago: Academy of Chicago Publishers.
Kirby, Philippa. 1993. Glorious Days, Dreadful Days: The Battle of Bunker Hill. New York: Steck Vaughn.
O'Dell, Scott. 1980. Sarah Bishop. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin.
Page, Elizabeth. 1939. The Tree of Liberty. New York: Literary Guild.
Rinaldi, Ann. 1993. The Fifth of March, a Story of the Boston Massacre. San Diego: Harcourt Brace.
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. 1952. Oliver Wiswell. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
--. 1989. Rabble in arms. Camden, Maine: Down East Books.
--. 1991. Arundel. Camden, Maine: Yankee Books.

For a Brief Summary of Many of the Historical Fiction Books Listed Above and Other Books Not Mentioned Above, See:

Coffey, Rosemary K., and Elizabeth F. Howard. 1997. America as Story: Historical Fiction for Middle and Secondary Schools. 2d edition. Chicago: American Library Association; Books from the colonial period:
An Annotated Bibliography of Children's Literature. 1991. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The National Historical Park Service (NHPS) is www.nps.gov. Information on each park is available through this one site. Some NHPS sites have additional email addresses or are in process of getting additional email addresses. Current information on these are located below.
Adams National Historic Site, P.O. Box 531, Quincy, Mass. 02269-0531. Voice (617) 773-1177 or Visitors' Center Voice (617) 770-1175. Fax (617) 471-9683. Email: ADAM_INTERPRETATION@nps.gov Website: http://www.nps.gov/ADAM Contact: Caroline Keinath, Chief of Interpretation.
Boston African-American National Historic Site, National Park Service, 14 Beacon Street, Suite 506, Boston, Mass. 02108. Voice (617) 742-5415. Email: Kenneth_Heidelberg@nps.gov Website: http://www.nps.gov/BOAS Contact: Kenneth Heidelberg, Site Manager.
Boston National Historical Park, Interpretation Division, 1500 State Street, Boston, Mass. 02109-4543. Voice (617) 242-5688 or Visitors' Center Voice (617) 242-5642. Fax (617) 367-3539. Contact: Sheila Cooke-Kayser, Supervisory Park Manager; Sandy Norris, Administrative Officer.
Bostonian Society, 206 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 02109-1773. Voice (617) 720-3285. Email: education@bostonhistory.org Website: http://www.bostonhistory.org Contact: Susan Gogavian, Education Director.
Bunker Hill Monument, Monument Square, Boston, Mass. 02109. Voice (617) 242-5641. Fax (617) 242-5621. Contact: Ethan Beeler. (This is part of the Boston National Historical Park, listed above.)
Carlyle House Historic Park, 121 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314. Voice (703) 549-2997. Fax (703) 549-5738. Contact: Heidi Miller, Curator of Education.
Charles Towne Landing 1670, 1500th Old Towne Road, Charleston, S.C. 29407-6099. Voice (803) 852-4200. Fax (803) 852-4205. Email: ctl1670@juno.com Contact: Education Curator or Group Tour Coordinator
Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 02129. Voice (617) 242-5601. (This is part of the Boston National Historical Park, listed above.)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, Va. 23187. Voice (757) 565-8736. Fax (757) 220-7708. Website: http://www.history.org Contact: the Education Specialist
Cowpens National Battlefield, P.O. Box 308, Chesnee, S.C. 29323. Voice (864) 461-2828. Fax (864) 461-7077. Contact: J. Farrell Saunders, Superintendent.
David Library of the American Revolution, P.O. Box 748, Washington Crossing, Pa. 18977. Voice (215) 493-6776. Fax (215) 493-9276. Email: dlar@libertynet.org Website: http://www.libertynet.org:80/~dlar/dlar.html
Dorchester Heights, 1500 State Street, Thomas Park, Boston, Mass. 02109. Voice (617) 242-5642. Fax (617) 367-3539. (This is part of the Boston National Historical Park, listed above.)
Faneuil Hall, Deck Square, Boston, Mass. Voice (617) 242-5675. (This is part of the Boston National Historical Park, listed above.)
Fort Stanwix National Monument, 112 East Park Street, Rome, N.Y. 13440. Voice (315) 336-2090. Website: http://www.nps.gov/fost/index.html
Fort Ticonderoga, P.O. Box 390, Ticonderoga, N.Y. 12883. Voice (518) 585-2821. Fax (518) 585-2210.
Franklin Institute Science Museum, 222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103-1194 Voice (215) 448-1200 or for group reservations (215) 448-1201. Fax (215) 448-1235. Website: http://www.fi.edu
Freedom Trail Tours. (This is part of the Boston National Historical Park, listed above.)
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 401 South Second Street, Vincennes, Ind. 47591. Voice (812) 882-1776. Fax (812) 882-7270. Website: http//www.nps.gov/gero. Contact: Frank Doughman, Chief Ranger.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument. R.R. 1, Box 717, Washington's Birthplace, Va. 22443. Voice (804) 224-1732. Fax (804) 224-2142. Email: gewaparkinformation@nps.gov Contact: John Frye, Supervisory Park Ranger.
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. Mailing address: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, P.O. Box 110, Mt. Vernon, Va. 22121. Voice (703) 780-2000. Website: www.mountvernon.org Contact: Education Department
Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Ga. 31499. Voice (912) 651-2125. Fax (912) 651-2831. Email: gahist@ix.netcom.com Website http://www.savannah-online/ghs Contact: Octavia Starbuck, Education Coordinator.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, 2332 New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC 27410-2355. Voice (910) 288-1776. Fax (910) 282-2296. Email: guco.administration@nps.gov Contact: Tom Baker.
Gunston Hall, The Home of George Mason, 10709 Gunston Road, Mason Neck, Va. 22079. (703) 550-9220. Fax (703) 550-9480. Website: http://www.gunstonhall.org
Hamilton Grange National Memorial, 287 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10031. Voice (212) 283-5154.
Independence National Historical Park, 313 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106. Voice (215) 597-8974. Website: http://www.libertynet.org/~inhp
Kings Mountain National Military Park, P.O. Box 40, Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086. (n.b. Although the mailing address is N.C., the park and battlefield are in S.C.) Voice (864) 936-7921. Fax (864) 936-9897. Website: http://www.nps.gov/kimo
Lexington Historical Society, P.O. Box 154, Lexington, Mass. 02173. Voice (781) 862-1703. Fax (781) 862-4920. Contact: Christine Ellis, Office Manager.
Massachusetts Historical Society (This is a private research library housing official government material), 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 02215. Voice (617) 536-1608. Fax (617) 859-0074. Email: library@masshist.org Website: http://www.masshist.org Contact: Jennifer Tolpa, Research Librarian.
Minute Man National Historical Park, 174 Liberty Street, Concord, Mass. 01742. Voice (978) 369-6993. Fax (978) 371-2483.
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, P.O. Box 316, Charlottesville, Va. 22902. Voice (804) 984-9822. Website: http://www.monticello.org Contact: Robin Gabriel, Director of Education.
Moores Creek National Battlefield, P.O. Box 69, Currie, N.C. 28435. Voice (910) 283-5591. Fax (910) 283-5351. Website: http://www.nps.gov/mocr Contact: Linda Brown, Team Leader.
Morristown National Historical Park, Washington Place, Morristown, N.J. 07960. Voice (973) 539-2085. Fax (973) 539-8361. Website: http://www.nps.gov Contact: Ranger Tom Winslow, Education Specialist.
National Infantry Museum, Bldg. 396, Baltzell Avenue, Fort Benning, Ga. 31905. Voice (706) 545-2958. Contact: Frank Hanner.
National Park Service Visitor Center, 1500 State Street, Boston Mass. 02109. Voice (617) 242-5642. (This office, part of the Boston National Park which is listed above, includes details on Boston's Freedom Trail and other lesser known sites in and around Boston such as the site of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Common and the cemeteries where James Otis, John Hancock, William Dawes, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks and others were killed in the Boston Massacre.)
Ninety Six National Historic Site, P.O. Box 496 , Ninety Six, S.C. 29666. Voice (864) 543-4068. Fax (864) 543-2038. Contact: Myrna Williams, Park Ranger; Eric Williams, Site Manager.
Old Dorchester State Park, 300 State Park Road, Summerville, S.C. 29485. Voice (803) 734-1740. Fax (same as voice number). Contact : Superintendent or Archeologist.