Recent Scholarship
Revolutionary and Early National
Conrad, Dennis M., “Nathanael Greene: An Appreciation,” Rhode Island History, 64 (Winter 2006), 5–15.
Davis, Robert Scott, “A Frontier for Pioneer Revolutionaries: John Dooly and the Beginnings of Popular Democracy in Original Wilkes County,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2006), 315–49.
Estes, Todd, “Searching for Synthesis: The Fragementation of Early American History and the Prospects for Reunification—A Review Essay,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 104 (Winter 2006), 95–126.
Fichtelberg, Joseph, “The Devil Designs a Career: Aaron Burr and the Shaping of Enterprise,” Early American Literature, 41 (Nov. 2006), 495–513.
Hodin, Stephen B., “The Mechanisms of Monticello: Saving Labor in Jefferson’s America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 26 (Fall 2006), 377–418.
Kelly, Joseph P., “Henry Laurens: The Southern Man of Conscience in History,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (April 2006), 82–123.
Moore, Peter N., “The Local Origins of Allegiance in Revolutionary South Carolina: The Waxhaws as a Case Study,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 107 (Jan. 2006), 26–41.
Piecuch, James R., “Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves and the American Revolution in the Deep South, 1775–1782” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3201118.
Shalev, Eran, “Rome on Western Shores: Classical Antiquity and Revolutionary America’s Quarrel with Time, 1756–1788” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3197228.
Carlisle, Rodney P., ed., One Day in History: July 4, 1776; The Days That Changed the World. (New York: Collins, 2006. xvi, 272 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-06-112032-9.)
Cate, Alan C., Founding Fighters: The Battlefield Leaders Who Made American Independence. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xiv, 249 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-275-98707-8.)
Chadwick, Bruce, The General & Mrs. Washington: The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution. (Naperville: Sourcebooks, 2006. viii, 406 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4022-0695-5.)
Fleming, Thomas, Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xiv, 384 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-06-087293-9.)
Langguth, A. J., Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. xiv, 482 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-7432-2618-9.)
Nelson, Craig, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations. (New York: Viking, 2006. xi, 396 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-670-03788-5.)
Puls, Mark, Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xii, 273 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7582-9.)
Unger, Harlow Giles, The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2006. xvi, 301 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-471-74496-2.)
Young, Alfred F., Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. x, 419 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9685-6. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9686-3.)
Cohn, Ellen R., ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 38: August 16, 1782, through January 20, 1783. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. lxviii, 691 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-300-10930-6.)
Ketcham, Ralph, ed., Selected Writings of James Madison. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006. xxxii, 396 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-87220-696-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87220-695-3.)
Piecuch, Jim, ed., The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History. (Charleston: History Press, 2006. 159 pp. Paper, $24.99, isbn 1-59629-144-3.)
Wellenreuther, Hermann, ed., The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary Process in North America, 1774–1776. (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2006. 358 pp. isbn 3-938616-42-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
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