US Military History: Revolutionary War

Broad Subject Headings in UW Library Catalog

Great Britain Army Colonial forces America
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783
United States Continental Army
 

For specific battles, try searching by keyword or subject (e.g., Bunker Hill Battle Of Boston Mass 1775)

The following titles are more focused on the roles of individuals and minorities, as well as the politics, cultural, and economics of the American Revolution. This information may be of use for the researcher.

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Women of the Republic - Linda K Kerber

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution : Forgotten Black Heroes - William Cooper Nell

Forced Founders : Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia - Woody Holton

Revolutionary Summer : The Birth of American Independence - Joseph J. Ellis

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn

Washington - A Life - Ron Chernow

John Adams - David McCullough

American Scripture - Making the Declaration of Independence - Pauline Maier

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

Washington's General : Nathanael Green and the Triumph of the American Revolution - Terry Golway

To Begin the World Anew : The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders - Bernard Bailyn

The Wives of the Signers - Mary W. Green

Women of the Republic : Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America

Founding Martyr : The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero - Christian Di Spigna

Samuel Adams : Father of the American Revolution - Mark Puls

The Culper Ring : The Revolutionary Spies Who Helped Win the War - Brad Meltzer

The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood

Liberty's Exiles : American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War - Maya Jasanoff

This link is to a listing in the library catalog of all items cataloged under the subject heading of "United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783"

The following links are to websites or blogs with specific recommendations for novels, narrative nonfiction, and scholarly books about this war.

"50 Must-Read Revolutionary War Books" (BookRiot.com)

"The Best Books on the American Revolution (recommended by Historian T.H. Breen) (FiveBooks.com)

"11 Revealing Revolutionary War Books" (ExploreTheArchive.com) 

"Over 100 of the Best Books on the American Revolution" (RevolutionaryWarJournal.com) 

• The Journal of American History

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This link is to a listing in the library catalog of all items cataloged under the subject heading of "United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783"

• Army Medical Department, 1775-1818 by Mary C. Gillett

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D114.19:M46/775-818
• Black presence in the era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800 by Lisa W. Strick

  Call Number: GOV DOCS SI11.2:B56/1770-1800
• Continental Army by Robert K. Wright, Jr

  Call Number: Online & GOV DOCS D114.11:C76
• John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution Presented to King Louis XVI of France by John Paul Jones

  Call Number: GOV DOCS LC 1.2:J 71

  ISBN: 0844402648

  Publication Date: 1979-01-01
• March to victory : Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 114.2:W 27

  ISBN: 016077117X
• Marines in the Revolution : a history of the Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by Charles R. Smith

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 214.13:R 32 1775-83
• Maritime dimensions of the American Revolution

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 207.10/2:M 33

  Publication Date: 1977
• Naval documents of the American Revolution

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D207.12:
• Revolutionary America, 1763-1789 : a bibliography

  Call Number: GOV DOCS LC1.12/2:R32/4/1763-89/ v. 1-2
• Sea Raiders of the American Revolution by E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell; Dennis Michael Conrad; Mark L. Hayes

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 221.2:R 13

  ISBN: 0945274491

  Publication Date: 2003-05-01
• War of the American Revolution : narrative, chronology, and bibliography by Robert W. Coakley and Stetson Conn

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 114.2:Am 3/2004