The Revolution

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution by Walter R. Borneman

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris (editors)

Henry Knox’s Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller’s Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution by William Hazelgrove

1776 by David McCullough

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin

The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army by Paul Lockhart

Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution by David A. Clary

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

John Laurens and the American Revolution by Gregory D. Massey

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General by Marc Leepson

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance by Frank W. Brecher

Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution by John A. Nagy

Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey