Fall brings new early American titles to explore. Enjoy our Spring Reads 2015 list, too, and share your finds below!
Abby Chandler, Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750
Carol Berkin, The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties
R.B. Bernstein, The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
Patrick H. Breen, The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt
Sarah Crabtree, Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History
Gregory Evans Dowd, Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Matthew P. Dziennik, That Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Jonathan Eacott, Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830
Nicole Eustace, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives
Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf, Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, and Brian Schoen, eds., Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
Mark G. Hanna, Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740
Emma Hart, Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Sam Haselby, The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
Alexander B. Haskell, For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Gavin Hollis, The Absence of America: The London Stage, 1576-1642
Alan S. Kahan, Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents
Jen Manion, Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America
Carla J. Mulford, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire
Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic
Dana D. Nelson, Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Margaret Ellen Newell, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Lindsey O’Neill, The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World
Daniel Peart and Adam Smith, eds., Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
David L. Preston, Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Patrick Rael, Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Ray Raphael and Marie Raphael, The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
Padraig Riley, Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America
Terri L. Snyder, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America
Catherine L. Thompson, Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America
David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640