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

Beskrivning: 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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Rankning Titel Författare Tillagt

1

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

av Robert Middlekauff

1,702 medlemmar

20 recensioner

4

3 Members: eromsted, joelanca, Bretzky1

2

Alexander Hamilton

8,079 medlemmar

162 recensioner

½ 4.3

3 Members: eromsted, sipthereader, joelanca

3

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

av Mary Beth Norton

306 medlemmar

1 recension

4

3 Members: eromsted, AnnaClaire, joelanca

4

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

av Joseph J. Ellis

6,795 medlemmar

77 recensioner

3.9

3 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

5

av David McCullough

13,732 medlemmar

199 recensioner

½ 4.3

3 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire, Bretzky1,eromsted

6

av David McCullough

13,200 medlemmar

246 recensioner

4.1

2 Members: AnnaClaire, JimRaynor76,eromsted

7

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

av John Ferling

704 medlemmar

7 recensioner

4.2

2 Members: joelanca, Bretzky1

8

Washington: A Life

3,088 medlemmar

83 recensioner

½ 4.4

2 Members: sipthereader, Bretzky1

9

Undaunted Courage

av Stephen E. Ambrose

7,522 medlemmar

78 recensioner

4.1

2 Members: sipthereader, AnnaClaire

10

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

2,475 medlemmar

75 recensioner

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

11

His Excellency: George Washington

av Joseph J. Ellis

3,824 medlemmar

59 recensioner

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, Bretzky1

12

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

1,034 medlemmar

25 recensioner

½ 4.3

2 Members: joelanca, Bretzky1

13

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

av John Ferling

738 medlemmar

14 recensioner

4

2 Members: AnnaClaire, joelanca

14

The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

av Edmund S. Morgan

200 medlemmar

2 recensioner

4

2 Members: eromsted, joelanca

15

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

av Joseph J. Ellis

478 medlemmar

6 recensioner

4.1

2 Members: AnnaClaire, joelanca

16

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

av Carol Berkin

382 medlemmar

8 recensioner

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

av Fred Anderson

1,149 medlemmar

9 recensioner

½ 4.3

2 Members: eromsted, joelanca

18

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

av Bernard Bailyn

1,296 medlemmar

18 recensioner

4.2

Member: eromsted

19

The American Pagent: Volume 1: To 1877

av Thomas A. Bailey

71 medlemmar

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader

20

George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)

av Douglas Southall Freeman

68 medlemmar

½ 4.7

Member: Bretzky1

21

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

av Terri L. Premo

9 medlemmar

Member: Blythewood

22

Washington's Crossing

av David Hackett Fischer

1,828 medlemmar

22 recensioner

½ 4.4

Member: AnnaClaire

23

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

av Jackson Turner Main

138 medlemmar

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

av Dominick J. Reisen

3 medlemmar

5

Member: Blythewood

25

Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

238 medlemmar

1 recension

4

Member: eromsted

26

The Loyalist Conscience: Principled Opposition to the American Revolution

av Chaim M. Rosenberg

3 medlemmar

Member: Blythewood

27

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

av John Ferling

334 medlemmar

27 recensioner

½ 3.6

Member: AnnaClaire

28

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence

294 medlemmar

2 recensioner

3.9

Member: eromsted

29

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

av Edward J. Larson

51 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 4.3

Member: Blythewood

30

Paul Revere's Ride

av David Hackett Fischer

1,125 medlemmar

20 recensioner

½ 4.3

Member: AnnaClaire

31

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

av Saul Cornell

146 medlemmar

1 recension

4.1

Member: eromsted

32

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

av Joseph J. Ellis

2,804 medlemmar

35 recensioner

4

Member: AnnaClaire

33

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

av Thomas K. McCraw

108 medlemmar

3 recensioner

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

34

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

av Gordon S. Wood

1,304 medlemmar

12 recensioner

4.2

Member: joelanca

35

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

116 medlemmar

3 recensioner

½ 4.3

Member: eromsted

36

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court

av R. Kent Newmyer

70 medlemmar

4

Member: Bretzky1

37

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

av David Waldstreicher

105 medlemmar

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

38

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

av Kate Caffrey

18 medlemmar

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

39

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

av Gordon S. Wood

1,670 medlemmar

23 recensioner

4

Member: eromsted

40

Benjamin Franklin

av Carl Van Doren

615 medlemmar

3 recensioner

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)

av Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

342 medlemmar

6 recensioner

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

42

The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

av Gordon S. Wood

930 medlemmar

2 recensioner

4.2

Member: eromsted

43

Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington

av Peter R. Henriques

67 medlemmar

1 recension

4

Member: Bretzky1

44

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

av Pauline Maier

776 medlemmar

10 recensioner

4

Member: eromsted

45

Alexander Hamilton: American

av Richard Brookhiser

608 medlemmar

10 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

46

John Adams and the American Revolution

av Catherine Drinker Bowen

424 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 4.3

Member: joelanca

47

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

av Stanley Elkins

426 medlemmar

5 recensioner

4.2

Member: eromsted

48

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams

av Lynne Withey

732 medlemmar

10 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: AnnaClaire

49

In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

av Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

405 medlemmar

3 recensioner

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

50

Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York

av Judith L. Van Buskirk

44 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

51

A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

av Carol Berkin

428 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

52

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

av Nancy Isenberg

634 medlemmar

13 recensioner

3.8

Member: AnnaClaire

53

Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America

av Linda K. Kerber

299 medlemmar

2 recensioner

4

Member: eromsted

54

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

av Richard D. Brown

148 medlemmar

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

55

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

av Pauline Maier

301 medlemmar

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

56

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

av Joseph J. Ellis

1,720 medlemmar

29 recensioner

4

Member: AnnaClaire

57

The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

av Thomas P. Slaughter

246 medlemmar

2 recensioner

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

58

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

av Charles Royster

206 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

59

The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828

av George Dangerfield

170 medlemmar

1 recension

3

Member: eromsted

60

The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America

av Drew R. McCoy

214 medlemmar

4

Member: eromsted

61

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

av Merrill Jensen

94 medlemmar

2 recensioner

3.8

Member: eromsted

62

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

av Merrill Jensen

80 medlemmar

1 recension

4.1

Member: eromsted

63

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

av Jeffrey L. Pasley

73 medlemmar

4

Member: eromsted

64

Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts

av John Chester Miller

51 medlemmar

4

Member: eromsted

65

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

av Paul Douglas Newman

37 medlemmar

1 recension

3.8

Member: eromsted

66

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

av Marc W. Kruman

24 medlemmar

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

67

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

av E. James Ferguson

30 medlemmar

½ 3.5

Member: eromsted

68

Jay's treaty; a study in commerce and diplomacy

av Samuel Flagg Bemis

16 medlemmar

2

Member: eromsted

69

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

av James D. Essig

3 medlemmar

3

Member: eromsted

70

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

av Paul E. Johnson

431 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

71

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

av Gregory Evans Dowd

179 medlemmar

2 recensioner

3.8

Member: eromsted

72

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

av Colin G. Calloway

261 medlemmar

3 recensioner

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

73

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

av Claudio Saunt

61 medlemmar

½ 3.3

Member: eromsted

74

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

av Carl Bridenbaugh

75 medlemmar

Member: eromsted

75

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

av Jay Fliegelman

26 medlemmar

4

Member: eromsted

76

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution

av Sidney Kaplan

61 medlemmar

Member: eromsted

77

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

av Gary B. Nash

206 medlemmar

6 recensioner

½ 3.7

Member: eromsted

78

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

av Brendan McConville

137 medlemmar

1 recension

½ 3.6

Member: eromsted

79

Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776

av Bernard Bailyn

19 medlemmar

3

Member: eromsted

80

The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism

av Alfred F. Young

78 medlemmar

3

Member: eromsted

81

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

av Walter Isaacson

5,461 medlemmar

83 recensioner

4

82

The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States

av Founding Fathers

1,915 medlemmar

14 recensioner

½ 4.5

83

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

av Catherine Drinker Bowen

1,668 medlemmar

14 recensioner

4.1

84

Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History

av Fawn McKay Brodie

1,145 medlemmar

10 recensioner

3.8

85

Washington: The Indispensable Man

av James Thomas Flexner

1,064 medlemmar

9 recensioner

4.1

86

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

av Gordon S. Wood

1,050 medlemmar

23 recensioner

3.9

87

The American Revolution: A History

av Gordon S. Wood

956 medlemmar

11 recensioner

½ 3.7

88

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

av Stacy Schiff

814 medlemmar

8 recensioner

½ 3.7

89

First Family: Abigail and John Adams

av Joseph J. Ellis

765 medlemmar

13 recensioner

4.1

90

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

av Richard Brookhiser

707 medlemmar

8 recensioner

3.8

91

1812: The War That Forged a Nation

av Walter R. Borneman

692 medlemmar

8 recensioner

½ 3.7

92

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

658 medlemmar

15 recensioner

½ 3.4

93

The American Heritage Book of The Revolution

av Bruce Lancaster

640 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 3.7

94

Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

av Pauline Maier

574 medlemmar

5 recensioner

4.1

95

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography

av Samuel Eliot Morison

566 medlemmar

9 recensioner

½ 3.6

96

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

555 medlemmar

5 recensioner

½ 4.6

97

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

av Fred Anderson

543 medlemmar

13 recensioner

3.8

98

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

502 medlemmar

8 recensioner

3.9

99

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

av Bernard Bailyn

502 medlemmar

3 recensioner

½ 3.5

100

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

av Benson Bobrick

488 medlemmar

3 recensioner

4.1

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Påbörjad: Bretzky1
januari 2013
Typ: Numrerad och onumrerad

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