Start Reading about the Revolutionary War

A Selected List of Books Covering the Revolutionary War Era

The 91ÇÑ×Ó 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:

 by Gordon S. Wood

by Rick Atkinson

 by Alan Taylor

by Mark M. Boatner, III

by Matthew H. Spring

Biographies and Memoirs:

 by Ron Chernow

 by Ron Chernow

Edited by Robert Bray and Paul Bushnell

 by David McCullough

 by Walter Isaacson

 by James Kirby Martin

Battles and Campaigns:

 by David McCullough

 by Richard M. Ketchum

by Lawrence E. Babits

 by Jerome Green

 by Richard M. Ketchum

 by Nathan Miller

by John Buchanan

 by Thomas Fleming

 by David Hackett Fischer

Politics:

 by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

 by Gordon S. Wood

by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

 by Thomas Fleming

 by Gordon S. Wood

African American and American Indian History:

 by Alan Gilbert

 by Benjamin Quarles

 by Barbara Graymont

 by Glenn F. Williams

by John U. Rees

Women's Studies:

 by Linda K. Kerber

 by Carol Berkin

by Carl Holliday

Novels:

 by Jeff Shaara

by Jeff Shaara

by Esther Forbes