Recommended Readings, Becoming Americans

Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Carson, Cary, ed. Becoming Americans: Our Struggle To Be Both Free and Equal. Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.

Countryman, Edward. Americans: A Collision of Histories. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Greene, Jack P. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.

Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001.

Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.