• Continental Congress
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• The War
• The War at Sea
• Articles of Confederation
• Constitutional Convention and Ratification
• Individuals (alphabetical by last name)
• Founders and Antiquity
• Society
• General

• The Continental Congress by Edmund Cody Burnett
• The reluctant rebels: The story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by Lynn Montross
• Evolution of executive departments of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, by Jennings B. Sanders
• Party Politics in the Continental Congress by H. James Henderson
• The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States 1780-1840 by Richard Hofstadter
• The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress by Jack N. Rakove

• Presidency of the Continental Congress 1774-89: A Study in American Institutional History by Jennings B. Sanders
• Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809 by William Nisbet Chambers
• Continental Congress Courageous: The Delegates at York Town, Pa. 1777-1778 by John F. Rauhauser, Jr., Helen Miller Gotwalt, Elizabeth L. Rauhauser Stein and Thomas L. Schaefer
• Four Days in Philadelphia - 1776 by Mary Kay Phelan
• Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution by Eli Merritt
• The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich

• The Origins of American Politics by Bernard Bailyn
• The First Continental Congress by Marylou Morano Kjelle
• The Second Continental Congress by Bonnie Hinman
• The Second Continental Congress by Jessica S. Gunderson

• The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790 by E. James Ferguson
• Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich by Robert E. Wright & David J. Cowen

• The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836 by Donald R. Stabile

• Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation by William Hogeland

• Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul

• Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 by Ronald Hoffman & Peter J. Albert (editors)

• Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America by Tyson Reeder +
• The Secret War of Independence by Helen Augur

• Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle by Mark E. Lender & Garry W. Stone
• George Washington's Opponents: British Generals and Admirals in the American Revolution by George Athan Billias (Editor)
• American Revolution in the West by George MacGregor Waller
• Thrust For Canada: the American Attempt on Quebec in 1775-1776 by Robert M. Hatch
• Cabal! The Plot Against General Washington by Mark Edward Lender

• Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It by John Ferling
• George Washington's Generals by George Athan Billias (Editor)
• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
• The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
• Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn

• The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Alfred Thayer Mahan

• Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Nathan Miller

• The Navy of the American Revolution: Its Administration, Its Policy, and Its Achievements by Charles Oscar Paullin
• Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution by Robert H. Patton

• The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown by Thomas Fleming
• The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 by Richard B. Morris

• We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution by George William Van Cleve

• Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
• The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison by James Madison, Edward Larson & Michael Winship

• The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart
• The great debate: advocates and opponents of the American Constitution by Thomas L. Pangle
• James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
• Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution by Professor Thomas L. Pangle
• Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove
• The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution by Dennis Brindell Fradin
• Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation by Chris DeRose

• The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp
• Triumvirate: The Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation by Bruce Chadwick

• John Adams by David McCullough ★★★★★
• Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★★
• First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph Ellis ★★★
• John Adams by John Patrick Diggins and Arthur M. Schlesinger ★★★★
• Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood ★★★★★
• Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain ★★★
• The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America by Winston Groom ★★★
• The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein ★★★★★

• The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff ★★★★
• Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll ★★

• Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805 by Milton Lomask ★★★★★
• Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg ★★★★

• Revolutionary Conservative: James Duane of New York by Edward P. Alexander ★★★★

• Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson ★★★★★
• Somersett: Or Why and How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution by Phillip Goodrich ★★★★
• Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward J. Larson ★★★

• Elbridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican Statesman by George Athan Billias ★★★★

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ★★★
• Alexander Hamilton: the Outsider by Jean Fritz ★★★

• John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr ★★★

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham ★★★★
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson ★★★
• In Pursuit of Jefferson by Derek Baxter ★★★
• The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by William Howard Adams ★★★★★
• Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello by Andrew Burstein ★★★

• Arthur Lee, a Virtuous Revolutionary by Louis W. Potts ★★★★

• Chancellor Robert R Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield ★★★★★

• James Madison by Garry Wills ★★★★★
• James Madison by Richard Brookhiser ★★★
• Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg ★★★★★
• George Mason, Forgotten Founder by Jeff Broadwater ★★★★

• Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser ★★★★

• Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye ★★★★

• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father by Marvin R. Zahniser ★★★★★

• Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney by Marty D. Matthews ★★★★

• Revolutionary enigma: a re-appraisal of General Philip Schuyler of New York by Martin H. Bush ★★★★

• Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution by Christopher Collier ★★★★★

• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★★

• John Witherspoon: Parson, politician, patriot by Martha L. Stohlman ★★★★★

• Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood ★★★★
• Brotherhood of the Revolution by Joseph Ellis
• America's Forgotten Founders by Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall ★★★

• The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen
• First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks

• What America's Founders Learned from Antiquity by Caroline Winterer

• Salons Colonial and Republican by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
• Social life in the early republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

• "Society in the Days of the Early Republic" by James G. Wilson, The Magazine of American History, 1893, Volume XXIX, pp. 81-107

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack N. Rakove
• To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
• Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
• Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment by Tom Shachtman
• A History of Colonial America by Oliver Perry Chitwood
• Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal
• 1776 by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards

• Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
• The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph Ellis
• The revolution for freedom - volume 2 - years 1734 to 1783 (Pictorial Encyclopedia of American History) by Bernard S. Miller

• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan
• Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies by Robert J. Allison, part 1
• A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis

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