
Winslow Homer, “The Country School,” 1871
Looks like #VastEarlyAmerica just got even vaster—and that’s a good thing. Here’s our fall preview of new titles. Please share your books/finds in the comments!
Zara Anishanslin, Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
Gergely Baics, Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860
Valérie Bajou, ed., Versailles and the American Revolution
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, eds., Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
J.L. Bell, Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War
Black, Brian. Gettysburg Contested: 150 Years of Preserving America’s Cherished Landscapes
C.L. Bragg, Martyr of the American Revolution: The Execution of Isaac Hayne, South Carolinian
Rebecca Brannon, From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists
Steven C. Bullock, Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Dominique Cardon, The Dyer’s Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist
Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin: Anglo-American Blockade Runner
Christy Clark-Pujara, Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
J.P. Clark, Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917
Al Coppola, The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
George C. Daughan, Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence
Daniel L. Dreisbach, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
James Alexander Dun, Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
Benjamin Fagan, The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
Molly Farrell, Counting Bodies: Population in Colonial American Writing
Alexandra Filipowski and Hugh T. Harrington, The Boy Soldier: Edwin Jemison and the Story Behind the Most Remarkable Portrait of the Civil War
Brian Gabrial, The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement
Philippe Girard, Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Jack P. Greene, Settler Jamaica in the 1790s: A Social Portrait
Lauric Henneton and L.H. Roper, eds., Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies
Sarah L. Hyde, Schooling in the Antebellum South: The Rise of Public and Private Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
Jane Kamensky, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Matthew Karp, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Catherine E. Kelly, Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Michael J. Klarman, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Larson, Edward J. George Washington, Nationalist
Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán, eds., The Latino Nineteenth Century
Ann M. Little, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Leonardo Marques, The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
Matthew Mason, Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett
Robert M.S. McDonald, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time
Amanda B. Moniz, From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism
David A. Moss, Democracy: A Case Study
Emily C. Nacol, An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
Jennifer L. Palmer, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Steven Park, The Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution
Robert G. Parkinson, The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Steve Pincus, The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government
Sager, Robin C. Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
Rafael Torres Sanchez, Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century
Laurel Clark Shire, The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida
David J. Silverman, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
Robert F. Smith, Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution
Dean Snow, 1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga
Patrick Spero, Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania
Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, eds., The American Revolution Reborn
Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Christopher J. Tozzi, Nationalizing France’s Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831
Linda Walsh, A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art
Wendy Warren, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
How early does the topic have to be in order to qualify as “Early America”?
Thanks for this list — very helpful!
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Fantastic list! Thanks so much for sharing it with us.