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
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities...
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,...
The age of revolutions in global context, c. 1760-1840
Armitage, David
Paper Book
A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia,...
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 Oxford history of the United States
Woodward, C. Vann
Paper Book
This outstanding narrative history, the first volume to appear in the Oxford History of the United States, offers an intimate view of the development of the Revolutionary War, the battle between the colonies and the motherland, and the establishment of the American republic. Beginning with the...
The Iroquois in the American Revolution
Graymont, Barbara.
Paper Book
The 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 constitutional origins of the American Revolution
Greene, Jack P.
Paper Book
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776....

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