Bibliography of the American Revolutionary War

The following bibliography includes notable books concerning the American Revolutionary War. These books are listed in the bibliographies of books by prominent historians as shown in the footnotes.

General references and surveys Alden, John R. A History of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1969. Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. .Palmer, Dave R. George Washington's Military Genius. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. . Allison, David, and Larrie D. Ferreiro, eds. The American Revolution: A World War (Smithsonian, 2018) Allison, Robert. The American Revolution: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Aptheker, Herbert. The American Revolution 1763–1783: An Interpretation. New York: International Publishers, 1960. . (Marxist viewpoint.) Asimov, Isaac. The birth of the United States, 1763–1816. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. . (For juvenile audience.) Bailyn, Bernard. The Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for Independence. 1980. Black, Jeremy. War for America. The Fight for Independence 1775–1783. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. .O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. .Beeman, Richard. Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. New York: Basic Books, 2013. . pp. 437–477. Blanco. R.I. The American Revolution, 1775–1783: An Encyclopedia, two volumes. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. . Boatner, Mark M. III The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: David McKay Co., 1994, 1966. .Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Green and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006. . Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. .Borkow, Richard, George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson & the Trapping of Cornwallis. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. . pp. 179–183.Tonsetic, Robert L. 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Casemate, 2011. . pp. 241–246. Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six': The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. . Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958. online Conway, Stephen. The War of American Independence. London: Edward Arnold, 1995. New York E. Arnold: . Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. Coupland, R. The American Revolution and the British Empire. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Cumming, W.P. and Hugh Rankin. The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes. London, U.K.: Phaidon Press, 1975. Draper, Theodore. A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1996. . Dupuy, R. Ernest, Gay Hammerman, and Grace P. Hayes. The American Revolution: A Global WQar. 1977. Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. . Ferling, John. Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. . Gaines, James R. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. . Galvin, John R. The Minutemen: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution. 1989. Griffin, Patrick. America's Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. . Griffith II, Samuel B. The War for American Independence: From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. . Originally published as In Defense of the Public Liberty. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. Hannings, Bud. Chronology of the American Revolution: Military and Political Actions Day by Day. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. . Harvey, Robert. "A Few Bloody Noses": The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution. 2001. Heale, M. J. The American Revolution. London: Methuen, 1986. . Herrera, Ricardo A. "American War of Independence" Oxford Bibliographies (2017) annotated guide to major scholarly books and articles online Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes. New York: Norton, 1990. . Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence, Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763–87. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Borick, Carl P. A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2012. . pp. 307–316. Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, editors. Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution. 1984. Ketchum, Richard M., ed. The American Heritage Book of the Revolution. New York: American Heritage, 1958. Lancaster, Bruce. The American Heritage History of the American Revolution. New York: American Heritage, 1975. . Lancaster, Bruce. The American Revolution. New York: American Heritage, 1985. . Lancaster, Bruce. From Lexington to Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. Langguth, A. J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster (Touchstone), 1988. . Originally published New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Leckie, Robert. George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution. New York: Harper Perennial, a division of HarperCollins, 1993. . First published 1992. Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial Field-Book of the American Revolution. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852.

Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775–1783. Bison Book Edition. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. . Originally published: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.Nelson, James L. George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. . pp. 365–369. McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2005. . (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.)Tonsetic, Robert L. Special Operations During the American Revolution. Philadelphia, Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2013. . pp. 259–262. McNab, Chris, editor. The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles, and Soldiers of the American Revolution 1775–1783. Oxford, U.K.: Osprey Publishing, 2017. . Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763–1789. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. . Murray, Rev. James. An Impartial History of the War in America, two volumes. Newcastle, Eng.: Printed for T. Robson, 1780. Namier, Lewis. England in the Age of the American Independence. 2004. Nester, William R. The Frontier War for American Independence. 2004. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. . Palmer, Dave R. George Washington's Military Genius. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. . Parkinson, Roger. The American Revolution. The Putnam Pictorial Sources Series. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. . Paul, Joel Richard. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. . Peckham, Howard H. The Toll of Independence: Engagements and Battle Casualties of the American Revolution. 1974. Peckham, Howard H. The War for Independence: A Military History. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Pearson, Michael. Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000. . Originally published New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Philbrick, Nathaniel. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution. New York: Penguin, 2016. . Preston, John Hyde. "A Short History of the American Revolution". Wildside Press, 2023. . Purcell, L. Edward and David F. Burg, eds. World Almanac of the American Revolution. New York: Pharos, 1992. Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York: New Press, 2001. Robson, Eric. The American Revolution in its Political and Military Aspects, 1763–83. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966. . Savas, Theodore P. and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Savas, Beattie LLC, 2010. . Scheer, George F. and Hugh F. Rankin. Rebels and Redcoats. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Co., 1967. Seymour, William. The Price of Folly: British Blunders in the War of American Independence. London, U.K.: Brassey's, 1995. Shy, John A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution. New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. . Stember, Sol. The Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution, two volumes. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. . Stephenson, Michael. Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. . Tonsetic, Robert L. 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Casemate, 2011. . Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. . Upton, Leslie F. S. Revolutionary Versus Loyalist: The First American Civil War, 1774–84. Waltham, Mass., Blaisdell Pub. Co., 1968. . Ward, Christopher. John Richard Alden, ed. The War of the Revolution. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. . Originally published Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1952. Warren, Mercy Otis. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, three volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: Manning and Loring, 1805. Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York: The Modern Library, 2002.

Background to the war Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution. New Haven, Connecticut: 1931. . Archer, Richard. As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of the American Revolution. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. .Ferling, John. Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. . pp. 365–371.Bibliography of works published primarily by university/academic presses since 2006 on early American topics in The Junto. "The Junto is a group blog made up of junior early Americanists—graduate students and junior faculty—dedicated to providing content of general interest to other early Americanists and those interested in early American history, as well as a forum for discussion of relevant historical and academic topics." Beeman, Richard. Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. New York: Basic Books, 2013. . Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Enlarged Edition. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. . Originally published: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Beeman, Richard. Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. New York: Basic Books, 2013. . Black, Jeremy. "Could the British Have Won the American War of Independence?." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. (Fall 1996), Vol. 74 Issue 299, pp 145–154. online video lecture, uses Real Player Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. .