It’s a glorious fall in New England, and that means it’s time to scout out a few good reads for the snowy days ahead. Here’s a sampling of new releases and forthcoming titles in early American history that I plan to check out. What’s on your fall reading list? And what can you recommend for us to review here?
Emma Anderson, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs
Catherine W. Bishir, Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs, eds., Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion
C.L. Bragg, Crescent Moon over Carolina: William Moultrie and American Liberty
Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel
Colin G. Calloway, Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Catherine Cangany, Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot
Katy L. Chiles, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
Brady J. Crytzer, Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America
Kevin J. Dellape, America’s First Chaplain: The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché
Catherine J. Denial, Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country
Sylviane A. Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Eric Jay Dolin, When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
Kathleen Donegan, Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
John Donoghue, Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
Rae Katherine Eighmey, Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen: A Culinary View of Lincoln’s Life and Times
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
David T. Gleeson, The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America
Erica Hannickel, Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
Carol Sue Humphrey, The American Revolution and the Press: The Promise of Independence
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown’s Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
David La Vere, The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet, eds., Biography and the Black Atlantic
Myron Magnet, The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817
Robert M.S. McDonald, ed., Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés
Martha J. McNamara and Georgia B. Barnhill, eds., New Views of New England: Studies in Material and Visual Culture, 1680-1830
James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
Matthew Warner Osborn, Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
Peter Pagnamenta, Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
Joshua Piker, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
James D. Rice, Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
Paul Schneider, Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History
Tamara Venit Shelton, A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850-1900
Caleb Smith, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War
Robert Sullivan, My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds
Kathleen A. Staples and Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era
David Samuel Torres-Rouff, Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Geoffrey Treasure, The Huguenots
Elizabeth R. Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
Stephen Warren, The World the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
Simon Winchester, The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
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Thank you for the list. Let me add a title or two:
* Mark David Hall, ROGER SHERMAN AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
* R. Kent Newmyer, THE TREASON TRIAL OF AARON BURR: LAW, POLITICS, AND THE CHARACTER WARS OF THE NEW NATION (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Thanks for this remarkable list, Sara! There are several books on there I was unaware were in post-production that I am now excited to sit down and read. What a great service from The Junto
Thank you for this great list. I would add the 25th anniversary edition of Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture (Oxford UP), due to come out next month.
I’m curious as to whether anyone has read The Men Who Lost America. I found it incredibly scholarly, insightful and artfully written – it’s been a while since I’ve read a work of that overall caliber.