Bibliography

Below is a list of books I've used to research the setting, events, and characters in my books.

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Revolution Books

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• 1776 - David McCullough
• A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution - Theodore P. Savas and J. David Dameron
• A Queer History of the United States - Michael Bronski
• Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - Eric Jay Dolin
• Boston and the Dawn of American Independence - Brian Deming
• British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution - Don N. Hagist
• Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution - Nathanial Philbrick
• Common Sense and Other Writings - Thomas Paine
• Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution - John A. Nagy 
• Fanning's Narrative: The Memoirs of Nathaniel Fanning, 1778-1783 - Nathaniel Fanning
• Farmers Against the Crown: A Comprehensive Account of the Revolutionary War Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut - Keith Marshall Jones III
• Female Husbands: A Trans History - Jen Manion
• George Washington's Indispensable Men: Alexander Hamilton, Tench Tilghman, and the Aides-de-Camp Who Helped Win American Independence - Arthur S. Lefkowitz
• George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution - Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger
• Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America - Brady J. Crytzer
• His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
• In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692 - Richard Hite
• Invisible Ink: Spycraft in the American Revolution - John A. Nagy
• John Barry: An American Naval Hero in the Age of Sail - Tim McGrath
• John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy - Evan Thomas
• Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America - Eric Jay Dolin
• Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World - by Maya Jasanoff
• Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships - William Benemann
• Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier - Alfred F. Young
• Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience - Martyn Whittock
• Monmouth Court House: The Battle That Made the American Army - Joseph G. Bilby, Katherine Bilby Jenkins
• Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail - Bernard Ireland
• Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution - Don N. Hagist
• Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution - Robert H. Patton
• Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars - Jamie L.H. Goodall
• Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast 1775-1783 - Donald Grady Shomette
• Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American revolution - Eric Jay Dolin
• Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence - Carol Berkin
• Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution - John A. Nagy
• Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests that History Forgot - Joseph Cummins
• The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook - Frances H. Kennedy (editor)
• The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution - Steven Park
• The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the  American Army - Paul Lockhart
• The Female Review - Herman Mann
• The French in North America: 1500-1783 - W.J. Eccles
• The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World - Carol Gardner
• The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth Century Pirates' Wives, Families, and Communities - Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
• The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America - Kate Haulman
• The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life - Joyce Lee Malcolm
• Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War - Thomas B. Allen
• Washington's Headquarters in Newburgh: Home to a Revolution - A.J. Schenkman
• Washington's Immortals - Patrick K. O'Donnell
• Washington's Spymaster - Benjamin Tallmadge

Other Sources

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Primary Sources Available Online

• Journals of the Continental Congress, full text transcripts via Hathi Trust
• Papers of the Continental Congress, original digital scans via Fold3 (subscription required)
• Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents, via Yale Law School 
• Founders Online, includes transcripts of the papers of select "founding fathers" via the US National Archive

Other Resources

• ​Valley Forge Muster Roll Project,  a searchable database of the Valley Forge muster rolls and details on various regiments
• A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary
• Journal of the American Revolution, articles about sometimes little-known events of the war and new perspectives on others - their Dispatches podcast is also a helpful resource
• Townsends YouTube channel, covers many topics of the 18th century, including cooking and general life
• "Siege - Fort Stanwix" - a video made by the National Park Service in 1976 to dramatize the Siege of Fort Schuyler (date of recording is important for context)

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Related to Other Upcoming Historical Fiction

• A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains - Jolie Anderson Gallagher
• The Bad Old Days of Colorado: Untold Stories of the Wild West​ - by Randi Samuelson-Brown