Early America

Culture, Contact, and Diplomacy: Indians and the Columbian Exchange

• Brooks, James F. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
• Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
• Haefeli Evan & Kevin Sweeney. Captors and Captives.
• Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America.
• Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus.
• Richter, Daniel. Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.
• White, Richard. The Middle Ground.

Migration, Trade, and Empire in the Atlantic World

• Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766.
• Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic History.
• Cressy, David. Coming Over.
• Games, Alison. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic.
• Hancock, David. Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785.
• Pestana, Carla. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution.
• Taylor, Alan. American Colonies.
• Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America.

The Origins and Development of Slavery

• Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
• Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.
• Jordan, Winthrop. White over Black- American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812.
• Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: the Ordeal of Colonial Virginia.
• Morgan, Philip. Slave Counterpoint, Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.
• Wood, Betty. The Origins of American Slavery.

Religion, Population, and Politics: the Varied Settlements of the Seventeenth Century

• Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America.
• Bonomi, Patricia. The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America.
• Boyer, Paul & Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
• Greene, Jack. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture.
• Hall, David. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Beliefs in Early New England.
• Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782.
• Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake.
• Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
• Kulikoff, Allan. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers.
• Morgan, Edmund. Visible Saints.
• Peterson, Mark. The Price of Redemption: the Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.
• Roeber, A.G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America.
• Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America.
• Michael Winship, Making Heretics.

Political, Religious, and Consumer Awakenings: the Eighteenth Century

• Ned Landsman. From Colonials to Provincials.
• Isacc, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.
• Dayton, Cornelia. Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.
• Shields, David. Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America.

Great Awakening

• Bushman, Richard. From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765.
• Butler, John. Awash in a Sea of Faith.
• Bonomi, Patricia. Under the Cope of Heaven.

Economic Developments/Consumer Revolution

• Breen, T.H. Tobacco Culture.
• Carson, Cary, ed. Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century.
• Kulikoff, Alan. "The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America." William and Mary Quarterly, 1989.
• Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen.
• Vickers, Daniel. "Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America." William and Mary Quarterly, 1990.

Revolutionary Ideas

• Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
• Bushman, Richard. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
• Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America.
• Woody Holton, Forced Founders.

Republican Visions and Nationalist Debates in the Early Republic

• Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.
• Beeman, Richard, Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity.
• McCoy, Drew. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America.
• McKittrick, Eric & Stanley Elkins. The Age of Federalism.
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800.
• Rakove, Jack. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.
• Rodgers, Daniel T. "Republicanism: The Career of a Concept, " Journal of American History, 74 (1992).
• Taylor, Alan. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic.
• Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820.
• Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution.