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New Books for 2010: Colonial and Revolutionary America

John Fea   |  January 1, 2010

There are some great new books coming out in 2010. Here are some titles in the field of colonial and revolutionary American history I hope to read this year.

NOTE TO PUBLISHERS: I will be happy to review any of these titles here at “The Way of Improvement Leads Home” so send them along!

John Smolenski, Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania

Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

Judith Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior

Michael Kammen, Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials

Walter W. Woodward, Prospero’s America: John Winthrop Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture

James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Thomas Kidd, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution

Kariann Yokota, Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Post-Colonial Nation

T.H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

John Ragosta, Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

Marla Miller, Betsy Ross and the Making of America

Matthew Dennis, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic

Bill Offutt, Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776

William Pencak, Pennsylvania’s Revolution

Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: American Revolution, colonial America

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