Best Books about American Revolution

News, Reviews March 9, 2017 April 19, 2017

The 100 Best American Revolution Books of All Time

by Editors

Our readers are avid consumers of history, continually hunting for the next great book about the Revolutionary War. And there’s no shortage of options….

Beyond the Classroom February 13, 2013 August 28, 2016

The Essential American Revolution Library

by Hugh T. Harrington

The American Revolution is quite obviously a very broad topic. It would require a huge quantity of books, even watered down to the “essentials,”…

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1. Joe Cerreto The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ticonderoga Vendetta

Well done, Phil! As usual, great research and superb writing! Looking forward to your next article! Joe Cerreto
2. Janet Wedge The French Bread Connection

I enjoyed this article very much especially since I live near Ossining, just south of Peekskill. A clever ruse by Washington involving French bread. Love it.
3. Dennis McClellan Patient Hero: John Henry and the Earliest American Account of Posttraumatic Stress

Excellent read. Enjoyed the research. There's a whole new historical field of study opening in-and-around the soldiers of the Revolution.
4. J. L. Bell Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World

As to the scope of Zachary Brown's article (I won't refer to him as a "young lad" since that feels as condescending), it's called “Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and…
5. J. L. Bell Thomas Jefferson, the American Revolution, and the Creation of a Republican World

Identifying himself as an alumnus of the university Jefferson founded, Jay Anderson objects to the argument that it should "'recontextualize' the statue as an 'emblem of white supremacy',” saying "That’s…