America at 250: Revolutionary Reads

Celebrate and explore the rich history of the American Revolution with essential works selected by RCL subject editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

Updated July 1, 2026
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The radicalism of the American Revolution
Wood, Gordon S.
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from...
American revolutions a continental history 1750-1804
Taylor, Alan, 1955-
Paper Book
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the...
The unknown American Revolution : the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America
Nash, Gary B.
Paper Book
In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution, we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, argues distinguished American historian Gary B. Nash. In this brilliant reexamination of the swirl of ideology,...
Revolutionary mothers : women in the struggle for America's independence
Berkin, Carol.
Paper Book
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle. Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. We see women boycotting...
The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789
Middlekauff, Robert.
Paper Book
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War...
Iroquois in the American Revolution
Graymont, Barbara.
Paper Book
Negro in the American Revolution
Quarles, Benjamin.
Paper Book
Originally published by UNC Press in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and...
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson
Paper Book
A unique account of the American Revolution, told from the perspective of the leaders who conducted the British war effort "Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy has written a remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the...

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