This section contains a list of recent books relevant to the field of Early American studies, organized by publisher. For information about a title listed below, click on the name of the press and you will find a detailed description of the book, information about how to order it, and a link to the publisher's home page.
- Eric Wertheimer, Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876
- Cannibalism and the Colonial World, Edited by Francis Duncan Barker, Peter Duncan Hulme, and Margaret Iversen
- Mary C. Fuller, Voyages in Print: English Travel to America, 1576-16
- The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Parts 1&2. Edited by, Bruce G.Trigger and Wilcomb E.Washburn
- Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. Edited by Helen Jaskoski. Foreword by LaVonne Brown Ruof
- Philip Gould, Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism.
- Teresa A. Goddu, Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation
- Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
- The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry, Edited by Jay Parini
- Richard C. Trexler, SEX AND CONQUEST: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
- Marilyn C. Baseler, "Asylum for Mankind" America, 1607-1800
- Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860
- Robert Olwell, Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790
- David A. Wilson, United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic
- Carolyn L. Karcher, The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
- Cheryl Walker, Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
- Kimberly S. Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803
- Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
- Abbott Lowell Cummings, The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
- Richard R. John, Spreading The News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
- Robert A. Ferguson, The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820
- Daniel Walker Howe, Making American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
- Gerhard Casper, Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period
- The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649. Edited by Richard S. Dunn, James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle
- The Journals of John Winthrop, 1630-1649. Abridged Edited by Richard S. Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle
- Benjamin Franklin: His Life as He Wrote It. Edited by Esmond Wright.
- Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklin's Science
- Frederic Cople Jaher, A Scapegoat in the New Wilderness: The Origins and Rise of Anti-Semitism in America
- The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Self-Fashioning, Edited by Isidore Okpewho,
Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Muzrui- R. Douglas Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830
- Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience, Edited by, Robert M. Taylor, Jr., and Connie A McBirney.
- Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation, Edited by Stephen J. Stein
The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Peter Charles Hoffer, The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Traveling Tocqueville's America: A Tour Book. C-SPAN
- Anya Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirtand the Companionate Ideal
- Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
- George Green Shackelford, Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
- Jared Gardner, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845
- Peter Charles Hoffer, Law and People in Colonial America, revised edition
- Clarke Garrett, Origins of the Shakers: From the Old World to the New World
- A.G. Roeber, Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America
- Douglas Anderson, The Radical Enlightenment of Benjamin Franklin
- From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands: An Audubon Naturalist Reader, Edited by J. Kent Minichiello, and Anthony W. White
- George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America
- Robert E. Shalhop, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850
- Michael P. Winship, Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment.
Louisiana State University Press
- Joel Williamson, New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Michigan State University Press
- W. Sears Nickerson, A Seaman's Story of the Mayflower: Her Construction, Her Navigation, and Her Landfall. Edited by Delores Bird Carpenter.
- The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Edited by Raymond Darwin Burroughs
- The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991. Edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown, W. J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman
- Early Encounters: Native Americans and Europeans in New England. From the Papers of W. Sears Nickerson. Edited by Delores Bird Carpenter
- Harry Reed, Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community, 1775-1865
- Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students, Edited by Richard Kopley
- James Kirby Martin, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered
- Helen Carr, Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and Representation of Native American Literary Traditions 1789-1936
- Jennifer Fleischner, Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
- Women and Freedom in Early America, Edited by Larry Eldridge
- Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800
- Women's Voices, Women's Lives Documents in Early American History, Edited by Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz
- Christopher D. Felker, Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance: Magnalia Christi Americana in Hawthorne, Stowe, and Stoddard
- Recollections of the Early Republic Selected Autobiographies, Edited by Joyce Appleby
- Salem-Village Witchcraft A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, Edited by Stephen Nissenbaum and Paul Boyer
Northern Illinois University Press
- Lewis Hanke, All Mankind is One: A Study of the Disputation between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda On the Religious and Intellectual Capacity of the American Indians.
- Bartolome de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians
- Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, Edited by Alfred F. Young
- Stephen Carl Arch, Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England
- The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Edited by William L. Andrews, Francis Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris
- Bruce King, New National and Post-Colonial Literatures
- Linda Munk. The Devil's Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature
- The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton, et al., eds.
- Howard Ensign Evans, The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
- The Oxford Book of the American South, Edited by Edward L. Ayers
- American Women Writers to 1800, Edited by Sharon M. Harris
- Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, Edited by Sharon M. Harris
- The American Intellectual Tradition, Volume I: 1630-1865. Third Ed., Edited by David Holinger and Charles Capper
- Shirley Samuels, Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
- Leonard Dinnerstein, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers, Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans. Third Edition
- Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice, Edited by David D. Hall
- Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community on Early African American Women's Writing
- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 27, 1 September to 31 December 1793, Edited by John Catanzariti
- Jefferson's Memorandum Books, Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826 Two Volumes, Edited by James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton
- Barry Alan Shain, The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought (New in Paperback)
- Nina Baym, American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860
- Firth Haring Fabend, A Dutch Family In the Middle Colonies, 1660-1880
- Phillip Wearne, Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas
- Robert S. Weddle, Changing Tides: Twilight and Dawn in the Spanish Sea, 1763-1803
- Robert S. Weddle, The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762
- La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents, Edited by Robert S. Weddle, Mary Christine Morkovsky, and Patricia Galloway. Translated by Ann Linda Bell and Robert S. Weddle
- F. Todd Smith, The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854
- F. Todd Smith, The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901
- The Mapping of the American Southwest. Edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Charles C. Colley. Special Collections Publication of the University of Texas at Arlington, Number 1
- Jack Jackson, Robert S. Weddle, Winston De Ville, Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast: The Contributions of saintliness, Olive n, and El Marie, Foreword by Jay Higginbotham
- Andrâs Tijerina, Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836
- Lester D. Langley, The Americas in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850
- Tamara Plakins Thornton, Handwriting in America: A Cultural History
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 32: March 1 through June 30, 1780, Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
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- T.J. Ferguson, Historic Zuni Architecture and Society: An Archaeological Application of Space Syntax
- Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, The Frontiers of Women's Writing Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion
- Whittington B. Johnson, Black Savannah, 1788-1864
- Connor Cruise O'Brien, The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution
- Anne Kelly Knowles, Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio
- Christopher Looby, Voicing America: Language, Literary Form . . .
- Grantland Rice, The Transformation of Authorship in America
- Wilson Somerville, The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Performance
- Schweninger, Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
- Weiner, Mistresses and Slaves
- History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992, Edited by Jonathan D. Hill
- The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, Edited by Dale Salwak
University of Massachusetts Press
- In Search of New England's Native Past, Edited by Michael K. Foster and William Cowan
- Jayne E. Triber, A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere
- The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776, Edited by Laura J. Murray
- "A Son of the Forest" and Other Writings by William Apess, a Pequot, Edited with an introduction by Barry O'Connell
- Alfred A. Cave, The Pequot War
- Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816, Edited with an introduction by Robert S. Grumet. Foreword by Anthony F. C. Wallace
The University Press of Mississippi
- Patricia Bradley, Slavery, Propaganda and the American Revolution
- Nicole Tonkovich, Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller
- Martin Barker and Roger Sabin, The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth
- Fritz Hirschfeld, George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal
- Margaret B. Moore, The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Rowland Berthoff, Republic of the Dispossessed: The Exceptional Old-European Consensus in America
- Walter Ehrlich, Zion in the Valley: The Jewish Community of St. Louis, Volume I, 1807-1907
- Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing about Their Lives, 1820-1920, Edited by Carla Waal and Barbara Oliver Korner
- Tanis C. Thorne, The Many Hands of My Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri
- Arnold Krupat, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture
- The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Volume 10 and The Journal of Patrick Gass, May 14, 1804 to September 23, 1806, Edited by Gary E. Moulton
The University Press of New England
- Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen, Edited by James Gilreath
- The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730, Edited by Alden T. Vaughan. (back in print)
- Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, and Carol J. Singley, The Calvins Roots of the Modern Era
- Re-Encounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas, Mary C. Kelley, et al., eds.
- Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad, Frances R. Aparicio and Susan Chavez-Silverman, eds.
- After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Re-Encounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas, Edited by Colin G. Calloway
- Michelle Burnham, Captivity and Sentiment Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861.
- Re-Encounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas. A new series of publications from UPNE
University of North Carolina Press
- David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
- John Seelye, Memory's Nation The Place of Plymouth Rock
- Steven C. Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
- Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
- Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
- Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
- William Merrill Decker, Epistolary Practices Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
- Robert Blair St. George, Conversing by Signs Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture
- Jon F. Sensbach, A Separate Canaan The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
- Gordon M. Sayre, Les Sauvages Americains Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
- Frieda Knobloch, The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West
- Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
- Susan E. Gray, The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier
- Jack P. Greene, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 (new in paperback)
- Daniel H. Usner, Jr., and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783Indians, Settlers,
- Bernard W. Sheehan, Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
- Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- Richard D. Brown, The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870 (new in paperback)
- Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women before the Bar Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
- Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
- Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary, Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
- Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture
- Richard D. Brown, The Strength of a People The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
- Lloyd S. Kramer, Lafayette in Two Worlds Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions
- Michael Meranze, Laboratories of Virtue Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
- Steven C. Bullock, Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order
- Marc W. Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America
- Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
- Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution. New Introduction by Gary Nash. New Foreword by Thad W. Tate
- Drew R. McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
- James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. (new in paperback)
University of Pennsylvania Press
- Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
- Rosalind Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic
- Rodger M. Payne, The Self and the Sacred
- Susan Clair Imbarrato, Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography
- The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, Edited by David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks
- American Women in Print Culture, Edited by Susan Albertine
- Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901, Edited by Sharon M. Harris
- Native American Interactions: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands, Edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Kenneth E. Sassaman
- Kevin J. Hayes, A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf
- J. Michael Dash, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
- Edward Watts, Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic
- Cecile M.Jagodzinski, Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
- Federalists Reconsidered, Edited by Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara Oberg
- Barbara J. Heath, Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
- Midori Takagi, "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
- George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years, Edited by Ellen Miles and Preface by Edmund Morgan
- William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, George Washington: The Man behind the Myths
- Paul K. Longmore, The Invention of George Washington
- George Washington's Diaries: An Abridgment, Edited by Dorothy Twohig
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
- James Madison's Advice to my Country, Edited by David B. Mattern
- Tommy L. Bogger, Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Darker Side of Freedom
- The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880, Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway.
- Jack P. Greene, Interpreting Early America: Historiographical Essays
- The Papers of George Washington. Dorothy Twohig, Editor. The Presidential Series.
- Papers of James Madison. The Presidential Series. Volume 3: 3 November 1810-4 November 1811, Edited by J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue
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- Gaylord P. Albaugh, History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals Established from 1730 Through 1830
- Gerald D. McDonald, Stuart A. Sherman, and Mary T. Russo, A Checklist of American Newspaper Carriers' Addresses, 1720-1820
- Mourt's Relation, Edited by Dwight B. Heath
- John Josselyn, New-England's Rarities Discovered
- Sarah Kemble Knight, Journal of Madam Knight
- John Williams, The Redeemed Captive
- These titles are just a few of the reproductions published by Applewood Books. Click on the publisher's name to see a complete list of titles and related links.
- George E. Clarkson, George Whitefield and Welsh Calvinistic Methodism
- THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY: THE MILLENNIAL IMPULSE IN EARLY AMERICAN CULTURE, Edited by Reiner Smolinski
- Joseph J. Ellis, The Character of Thomas Jefferson
- Hiller B. Zobel, The Boston Massacre
- Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
- Francis Jennings, Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask and the Man
- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Edited by Henry Louis Gates, William L. Andrews et al.
- William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy, and Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette, Edited with intro and notes by Carla Mulford
- Ignatius Sancho, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, Edited with Introduction and Notes by Vincent Carretta
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream, Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Intro by Ilan Stavans
- Early American Drama, Edited by Jeffrey H. Richards
- William Bartram, Travels, Introduction by James Dickey
- Fanny Fern [Sara Payson Willis], Ruth Hall, Edited with intro and notes by Susan Belasco Smith
- George Washington, Writings, Edited by John H. Rhodehamel
- Roger G. Kennedy, Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
- Madison Smartt Bell, All Soul's Rising
- Kay Mills, From Pocahontas To Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know About Women's History in America
- The Portable Enlightenment Reader, Edited by Isaac Kramnick
- The Colonial and Early National Period, 1654-1840: American Jewish History Vol. 1, Edited by Jeffrey S. Gurock
- The English Literatures of America; An Anthology: 1500-1800, Edited by Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner
- Michael Colacurcio, Doctrine and Difference: The Mind of New England from Edwards to Hawthorne
- Neil Campbell and Alasdair Kean, Approaching America--American Cultural Studies: An introduction to American Culture
- Michael Colacurcio, Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England
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