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Best U.S. History Books (1754-1828)

Beschrijving: This list seeks to compile the best books on U.S. history for the Revolutionary era through the end of the period of the early republic, which is defined as encompassing the time period from the French and Indian War through the end of the John Quincy Adams administration. Such books can be biographies, general histories, or subject specific histories.

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Plaats Titel Auteur Toegevoegd

1

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

door Robert Middlekauff

1,699 leden

20 besprekingen

4

3 Members: eromsted, joelanca, Bretzky1

2

Alexander Hamilton

door Ron Chernow

8,046 leden

161 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: eromsted, sipthereader, joelanca

3

Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

door Mary Beth Norton

306 leden

1 bespreking

4

3 Members: eromsted, AnnaClaire, joelanca

4

De grondleggers

door Joseph J. Ellis

6,781 leden

77 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

5

John Adams : founding father van de Verenigde Staten

door David McCullough

13,694 leden

199 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire, Bretzky1,eromsted

6

door David McCullough

13,166 leden

245 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: AnnaClaire, JimRaynor76,eromsted

7

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

door John Ferling

704 leden

7 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: joelanca, Bretzky1

8

Washington: A Life

door Ron Chernow

3,081 leden

83 besprekingen

½ 4.4

2 Members: sipthereader, Bretzky1

9

Undaunted Courage

door Stephen E. Ambrose

7,497 leden

78 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire

10

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

door Jon Meacham

2,467 leden

75 besprekingen

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

11

His Excellency: George Washington

door Joseph J. Ellis

3,815 leden

59 besprekingen

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

12

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

door Ian W. Toll

1,034 leden

25 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: joelanca, Bretzky1

13

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

door John Ferling

738 leden

14 besprekingen

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, joelanca

14

The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

door Edmund S. Morgan

199 leden

2 besprekingen

4

2 Members: eromsted, joelanca

15

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

door Joseph J. Ellis

477 leden

6 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: AnnaClaire, joelanca

16

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

door Carol Berkin

382 leden

8 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: eromsted, AnnaClaire

17

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

door Fred Anderson

1,146 leden

9 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: eromsted, joelanca

18

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

door Bernard Bailyn

1,298 leden

18 besprekingen

4.2

Member: eromsted

19

The American Pagent: Volume 1: To 1877

door Thomas A. Bailey

69 leden

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

20

George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)

door Douglas Southall Freeman

68 leden

½ 4.7

Member: Bretzky1

21

Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835

door Terri L. Premo

9 leden

Member: Blythewood

22

Washington's Crossing

door David Hackett Fischer

1,825 leden

22 besprekingen

½ 4.4

Member: AnnaClaire

23

The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution 1781-1788

door Jackson Turner Main

136 leden

½ 3.6

Member: JimRaynor76

24

Middlefield and the Settling of the New York Frontier: A Case Study of Development in Central New York, 1790-1865

door Dominick J. Reisen

3 leden

5

Member: Blythewood

25

Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

door Eric Foner

238 leden

1 bespreking

4

Member: eromsted

26

The Loyalist Conscience: Principled Opposition to the American Revolution

door Chaim M. Rosenberg

3 leden

Member: Blythewood

27

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

door John Ferling

333 leden

27 besprekingen

½ 3.6

Member: AnnaClaire

28

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

door T. H. Breen

293 leden

2 besprekingen

3.9

Member: eromsted

29

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

door Edward J. Larson

49 leden

1 bespreking

½ 4.3

Member: Blythewood

30

Paul Revere's Ride

door David Hackett Fischer

1,119 leden

19 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: AnnaClaire

31

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828

door Saul Cornell

146 leden

1 bespreking

4.1

Member: eromsted

32

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

door Joseph J. Ellis

2,805 leden

35 besprekingen

4

Member: AnnaClaire

33

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

door Thomas K. McCraw

108 leden

3 besprekingen

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

34

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

door Gordon S. Wood

1,302 leden

12 besprekingen

4.2

Member: joelanca

35

A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence

115 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: eromsted

36

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court

door R. Kent Newmyer

70 leden

4

Member: Bretzky1

37

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820

door David Waldstreicher

105 leden

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

38

The Lion and the Union: The Anglo-American War 1812-15

door Kate Caffrey

18 leden

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

39

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

door Gordon S. Wood

1,671 leden

23 besprekingen

4

Member: eromsted

40

Benjamin Franklin

door Carl Van Doren

613 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: joelanca

41

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

door Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

341 leden

6 besprekingen

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

42

The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

door Gordon S. Wood

928 leden

2 besprekingen

4.2

Member: eromsted

43

Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington

door Peter R. Henriques

67 leden

1 bespreking

4

Member: Bretzky1

44

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

door Pauline Maier

776 leden

10 besprekingen

4

Member: eromsted

45

Alexander Hamilton: American

door Richard Brookhiser

608 leden

10 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

46

John Adams and the American Revolution

door Catherine Drinker Bowen

424 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: joelanca

47

The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

door Stanley Elkins

426 leden

5 besprekingen

4.2

Member: eromsted

48

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams

door Lynne Withey

734 leden

10 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

49

In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

door Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

403 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

50

Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York

door Judith L. Van Buskirk

44 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

51

A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

door Carol Berkin

424 leden

6 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

52

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

door Nancy Isenberg

636 leden

13 besprekingen

3.8

Member: AnnaClaire

53

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America

door Linda K. Kerber

298 leden

2 besprekingen

4

Member: eromsted

54

Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays

door Richard D. Brown

148 leden

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

55

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776

door Pauline Maier

300 leden

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

56

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

door Joseph J. Ellis

1,716 leden

29 besprekingen

3.9

Member: AnnaClaire

57

The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

door Thomas P. Slaughter

244 leden

2 besprekingen

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

58

A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783

door Charles Royster

206 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

59

The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

door George Dangerfield

170 leden

1 bespreking

3

Member: eromsted

60

The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America

door Drew R. McCoy

214 leden

4

Member: eromsted

61

The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781

door Merrill Jensen

94 leden

2 besprekingen

3.8

Member: eromsted

62

The founding of a nation; a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

door Merrill Jensen

79 leden

1 bespreking

4.1

Member: eromsted

63

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic

door Jeffrey L. Pasley

73 leden

4

Member: eromsted

64

Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts

door John Chester Miller

51 leden

4

Member: eromsted

65

Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution

door Paul Douglas Newman

37 leden

1 bespreking

3.8

Member: eromsted

66

Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution-making in Revolutionary America

door Marc W. Kruman

24 leden

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

67

The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790

door E. James Ferguson

30 leden

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

68

Jay's treaty; a study in commerce and diplomacy

door Samuel Flagg Bemis

16 leden

2

Member: eromsted

69

The Bonds of Wickedness: American Evangelicals against Slavery, 1770-1808

door James D. Essig

3 leden

3

Member: eromsted

70

A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837

door Paul E. Johnson

431 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

71

A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

door Gregory Evans Dowd

179 leden

2 besprekingen

3.8

Member: eromsted

72

The American Revolution in Indian Country : Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities

door Colin G. Calloway

259 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

73

A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

door Claudio Saunt

61 leden

½ 3.3

Member: eromsted

74

Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776

door Carl Bridenbaugh

75 leden

Member: eromsted

75

Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

door Jay Fliegelman

26 leden

4

Member: eromsted

76

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution

door Sidney Kaplan

60 leden

Member: eromsted

77

The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution

door Gary B. Nash

206 leden

6 besprekingen

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

78

The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776

door Brendan McConville

137 leden

1 bespreking

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

79

Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776

door Bernard Bailyn

19 leden

3

Member: eromsted

80

The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism

door Alfred F. Young

77 leden

3

Member: eromsted

81

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

door Walter Isaacson

5,453 leden

83 besprekingen

4

82

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States

door Founding Fathers

1,907 leden

14 besprekingen

½ 4.5

83

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787

door Catherine Drinker Bowen

1,663 leden

14 besprekingen

4.1

84

Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History

door Fawn McKay Brodie

1,145 leden

10 besprekingen

3.8

85

Washington: The Indispensable Man

door James Thomas Flexner

1,062 leden

9 besprekingen

4.1

86

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

door Gordon S. Wood

1,048 leden

23 besprekingen

3.9

87

The American Revolution: A History

door Gordon S. Wood

955 leden

11 besprekingen

½ 3.7

88

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

door Stacy Schiff

806 leden

8 besprekingen

½ 3.7

89

First Family: Abigail and John Adams

door Joseph J. Ellis

763 leden

13 besprekingen

4.1

90

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

door Richard Brookhiser

705 leden

8 besprekingen

3.8

91

1812: The War That Forged a Nation

door Walter R. Borneman

691 leden

8 besprekingen

½ 3.7

92

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

door Gore Vidal

657 leden

15 besprekingen

½ 3.4

93

The American Heritage Book of The Revolution

door Bruce Lancaster

638 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 3.7

94

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

door Pauline Maier

569 leden

5 besprekingen

4.1

95

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography

door Samuel Eliot Morison

565 leden

9 besprekingen

½ 3.6

96

History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

door Henry Adams

553 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.6

97

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

door Fred Anderson

540 leden

13 besprekingen

3.8

98

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

door Bernard Bailyn

502 leden

3 besprekingen

½ 3.5

99

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

door Alan Taylor

501 leden

8 besprekingen

3.9

100

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

door Benson Bobrick

487 leden

3 besprekingen

4.1

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Begonnen: Bretzky1
januari 2013
Soort: Genummerd en ongenummerd

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