America 250: Revolution Reading List
As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, Penn State University Press is marking the occasion with a special series highlighting books that deepen our understanding of the nation’s past. This month, we feature scholarship on the American Revolution, offering historical perspective on the people, ideas, and conflicts that shaped the founding era.
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Prisoners of Congress
Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778
Norman E. Donoghue II
Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!
The Trials of William Rotch
Text by Sarah Crabtree, Art by Melissa Philley
The Declaration in Script and Print
A Visual History of America’s Founding Document
John Bidwell
Our Beloved Friend
The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen Mifflin
Gary B. Nash and Emily M. Teipe
Iconoclasm in New York
Revolution to Reenactment
Wendy Bellion
The First Inauguration
George Washington and the Invention of the Republic
Stephen Howard Browne
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Owen S. Ireland
The Folly of Revolution
Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age
S. Scott Rohrer
Jacob Green’s Revolution
Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
S. Scott Rohrer
Lessons from America
Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798
Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Pennsylvania's Revolution
Edited by William A. Pencak
The Soldiers’ Revolution
Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity
Gregory T. Knouff
The Most Learned Woman in America
A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
Anne M. Ousterhout, and Introduction by Susan Stabile
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic
Steven M. Nolt
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Francis S. Fox
The Valley Forge Winter
Civilians and Soldiers in War
Wayne Bodle
Valley Forge
Making and Remaking a National Symbol
Lorett Treese
Benjamin Franklin and Women
Edited by Larry E. Tise
Beyond Philadelphia
The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland
Edited by John B. Frantz and William A. Pencak
Open Access Editions Available
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics
Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania
Owen S. Ireland
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution
William Henry Egle
The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution
Battalions and Line, 1775–1783, Vol. 1
Edited by John Blair Linn, and William Henry Egle
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution
Battalions and Line, 1775–1783, Vol. 2
Edited by John Blair Linn, and William Henry Egle
Washington and His Generals, “1776”
The Legends of the American Revolution
George Lippard
Memoirs of a Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania Within the Last Sixty Years
Alexander Graydon
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