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