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Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Harvard University Press, 1992. Originally published in 1967, this classic won the Pulitzer Prize.

Barnes, Ian. The Historical Atlas of the American Revolution. Routledge, 2000. Vividly illustrated rendering of the struggle for independence.

Ferling, John E. Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution. Oxford University Press , 2001. A portrait of three men who shared the stage during one of the most dramatic periods in history.

Hallahan, William H. The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775. Morrow, 2000. Capably captures the spirit of the times, drawing on letters, official documents, and memoirs.

Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes. Avon, Penguin, 1991. 2001. Counterbalance to traditional American interpretations.

McCullough, David. 1776. Simon & Schuster, Penguin, 2005. 2001. The master storyteller focuses on the first year in America's war of independence.

Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982, 1986. A well-written, comprehensive narrative.

Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the American Republic, 1763-1789. University of Chicago Press, 1993. A classic assessment of the war and its achievements.

Raphael, Ray, and Howard Zinn, eds. A People's History of the American Revolution. New Press, 2001. A skillful weave of diaries, letters, memoirs, and other long-overlooked primary sources.

Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. Holt, 2005. An account of the campaign to win assistance from France during the American Revolution.

Weintraub, Stanley. Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783. Free Press, 2005. Views the Revolutionary War from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Knopf, 1991. How revolutionary was the American Revolution? This study examines the prevailing perceptions of those who endured in the years before and after independence.

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