18th Century and Revolutionary War
Recommended Reading List

 

Books about Loyalists

Orderly Book of the Maryland Loyalist Regiment, compiled by Caleb Jones, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, 1996 reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc. Baltimore, MD, ISBN # 0-8063-4645-0

The American Tory by William H. Nelson, 1992 Northeastern University Press, Boston
ISBN# 1-55553-148-2, The Good Americans by Wallace Brown, 1969 William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York, Library of Congress Card# 169-11500

Loyalist in the American Revolution by Claude Halstead Van Tyne, 1970 Lenox Hill Pub. And Dist. Co.(Burt Franklin) New York, New York SBN# 8337-36183, Library of Congress card # 74-125636

Flight From The Republic by North Callahan, 1967 Greenwood Press Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, ISBN# 0-8371-7428-7

Maryland During The American Revolution

Breadbasket of the Revolution, (out of print), by Charles J. Truitt, 1975 Historical Books Inc. Salisbury, MD 21801

Chesapeake Bay In the American Revolution, (out of print) Ernest Mcneill Eller, Editor, 1981 Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD ISBN# 0-306-80307-0

Revolutionary War Histories

Redcoats and Rebels, by Christopher Hibbert 1991 Avon Books, New York, New York
ISBN# 0-380-71544-9

The Long Fuse; How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785, by Don Cook 1995 Grove/Atlantic, ISBN# 0871135884

Rebels and Redcoats, by George F. Sheer and Hugh F. Rankin, 1987 Da Capo Press New York, ISBN# 0-306-80307-0

Battles of The Revolutionary War 1775-1781, by W.J. Wood, 1995 Da Capo Press, New York, ISBN# 0-306-80617-7

Who Was Who in the American Revolution, by L. Edward Purcell, 1993 Facts on File, Inc. , ISBN# 0-8160-2107-4

The Spirit of Seventy Six, edited by Henrey Steele Commanger and Richard B. Morris, 1967 Harper and Row, Publishers. Library of Congress Card # 67-11325

Uniforms of the American Revolution, by John Mollow 1991 Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. New York, ISBN# 0-9069-8240-3

Collectors Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, by George C. Newman and Frank J. Kravik, 1989 Rebel Publishing Co. Texarkana, Texas ISBN# -9605666-8-6

Great Stories of the American Revolution, by Webb Garrison 1990 Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, Tenn., ISBN# 1-55853-270-6

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole 1994 Blackwell Pub. Cambridge Massachusetts ISBN# 1-55786-547-7

Private Yankee Doodle, by J.P. Martin 1995 East Acorn Press, ISBN# 0-915992-10-B

Patriots; the Men who Started the American Revolution, by A.J. Langguth 1988 Simon and Schuster Pub. New York, ISBN# 0-671-52375-9

Paul Revere's Ride, by David Hackett Fischer 1994 Oxford University Press New York
ISBN# 0-19-508847-6

Songs and Ballads Of The American Revolution, by Frank Moore, (out of print), 1964 Kennikat Press, Inc. Port Washington, New York Library of Congress Card # 64-25541

Songs of 76, By Oscar Brand 1972 M. Evans and Company, Inc. New York
ISBN# 0-87131-170-4

Archives of Maryland, Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Safety, July 7 to Dec. 31 1776, 1893, Press of the Friedenwald Company, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

Women and 18th Century Life

Campfollowers of the American Revolution, by Walter Hart Blumenthal 1994 Ayer Company Publishers, Inc. Salem, New Hampshire ISBN# 0-405-06077-7

Belonging to the Army, by Holly A. Mayer 1996 University of South Carolina Press
ISBN# 1-57003-108-8

Liberty's Daughters, by Mary Beth Norton 1996 Cornell University Press, New York
ISBN# 0-8014-8347-6

The Way of Duty , by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr. 1984 W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. New York, ISBN# 0-393-31210-0

Albion's Seed, by David Hackett Fischer, 1989 Oxford University Press , New York
ISBN# 0-19-503794-4

As Various as Their Land, by Stephanie Grauman Wolf, 1993 Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN# 0-06-092537-x

English Society in the Eighteenth Century, by Roy Porter 1990 Penguin Books, New York, ISBN# 0-14-01.3819-6

Child Life in Colonial Days, by Alice Morse Earle, 1993 Berkshire House Publishers, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, ISBN# 0-936399-52

Tidings from the 18th Century, by Beth Gilgun 1993 Rebel Publishing Co. inc. Texarkana, Texas, ISBN# 1-880655-04-7

The Virginia Housewife, by Mrs. Mary Randolph, Antique American Cookbooks, 1984, Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham, AL

Good Wives Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, by Kathleen M. Brown, 1996, The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN #0-8078-4623-6

Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies, by Julia Cherry Spruill, 1972, W.W. Norton & Co., New York & London, ISBN #0-393-31758-7

Colonial Virginia: Its People and Customs, by Mary Newton Stanard, 1917, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London.

Clothing and Fabric

The Library of Design Classic Textile Designs, by M. Dupont-Auberville, 1989 Portland House, New York, NY, ISBN #0-517-69329-1

Textiles in America 1650-1870, by Florence M. Montgomery, 1984, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, ISBN #0-393-01703-6

Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Edited with an Introduction by Clare Browne, 1996, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, ISBN #0-500-27880-6

Had on and Took With Her: Clothingn in Female Runaway Servant Advertisements from The Pennsylvania Evening Post later The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser as Published by Benjamin Towne of Philadephia between 1775 and 1784, Compiled & Edited by Sue Huesken & Karen Mullian, 1995, SK Shortgown Research, Palmyra, NJ, ISBN #0-96488378-0-3

Fitting & Proper, 18th Century Clothing from the Collection of the Chester County Historical Society, by Sharon Ann Burnston, 19998, Scurlock Publishing Co., Inc., Texarcana, TX, ISBN #1-880655-10-1

Biography and Autobiography

The Diary and Life of William Byrd, II of Virginia, 1674-1744, by Kenneth A. Lockridge, 1987, W. W. Norton & Company, New York-London, ISBN #0-393-95882-2

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 1990, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, New York, ISBN #0-679-73376-0

The Prodigal Rake: The Memoirs of William Hickey, 1962., Edited by Peter Quennell, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-8217