Recent Publications on
Early American Topics

New and Recent Publication Releases

New Releases and forthcoming books on Early American Topics organized by publisher.

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Cambridge University Press

  • Laird Bergad, The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
  • John P. Bowes, Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West
  • Christian G. Fritz, American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
  • Nicholas Guyatt, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
  • James H. Hutson, Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries
  • Gary Warrick, A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650

Columbia University Press

  • Carolyn Merchant, American Environmental History: An Introduction

Cornell University Press

  • Paul B. Moyer, Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier
  • Rachel Wheeler, To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast

Duke University Press

  • Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930
  • Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

Harvard University Press

  • Abigail and John Adams, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, With a Foreword by Joseph J. Ellis, Edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor
  • John Adams, Papers of John Adams, Volume 14, 27 October 1782 - 31 May 1783, Edited by Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Margaret A. Hogan, and Hobson Woodward
  • Emma Anderson, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert
  • Vincent Brown, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
  • James Calvin Davis, On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams
  • Jon Latimer, 1812: War with America
  • Johann N. Neem, Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts
  • Philip J. Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America
  • Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
  • Glyn Williams, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade

Indiana University Press

  • Richard W. Pointer, Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion
  • The Atlantic World: 1450-2000, Edited by Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts

Johns Hopkins University Press

  • Philip P. Boucher, France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent?
  • Bruce Stanley Burdick, Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554-1700
  • Evelyn Edson, The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation
  • Ann Smart Martin, Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
  • Daniel R. Mandell, Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
  • Lorraine Smith Pangle, The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
  • James D. Rice, Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson
  • Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
  • Donald G. Shomette, Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004
  • Claiborne A. Skinner, The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes

Louisiana State University Press

  • Elaine G. Breslaw, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture
  • Alexander X. Byrd, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
  • Michael Dunne, Calvinist Humor in American Literature
  • David N. Gellman, Emancipating New York :The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827
  • Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina, Edited by John Lowe
  • Melanie J. Newton, The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
  • Charles de Rémusat , The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection: A Drama in Five Acts , Translated by Norman R. Shapiro
  • Jason R. Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery

Michigan State University Press

  • Edge of Empire Documents of Michilimackinac, 1671-1716, Translated by Joseph L. Peyser, Edited by Joseph L. Peyser and Jose Antonio Brandao

New York University Press

  • Aviva Ben-Ur, Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
  • Friederike Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphiafs German Community, 1790 to 1830
  • Children and Youth in a New Nation, Edited by James Marten
  • Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
  • Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, Edited by Thomas A. Foster
  • Richard S. Newman, Freedoms Prophet: "Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers"

Northern Illinois University Press

  • Trudy Eden, The Early American Table: Food and Society in the New World

Ohio State University Press

  • Dorothy Zayatz Baker, America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana
  • April C. E. Langley, The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature
  • Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman, Traveling Economies: American Women’s Travel Writing

Ohio University Press

  • Women and Slavery, Volume 2: The Modern Atlantic, Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph C. Miller

Oxford University Press

  • The African American National Biography, 8-Volume Set, Edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  • Atlantic History, A Critical Appraisal, Edited by Jack D. Greene and Philip D. Morgan
  • Jon Butler, Grant Wacker and Randall Balmer, Religion in American Life: A Short History, Updated edition
  • Marcus Daniel, Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Origins of American Politics
  • Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
  • Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
  • P. J. Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783
  • The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, Edited by Kevin J. Hayes
  • Cynthia J. Van Zandt, Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660

Penn State University Press

  • Sarah H. Beckjord, Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
  • Jerome David Bowers, Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America
  • Cynthia G. Falk, Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America
  • Stephen Shapiro, The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System
  • Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, Edited By A. G. Roeber

Princeton University Press

  • Kate Flint, The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930
  • Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801, Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
  • Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Volume 34: 1 May to 31 July 1801, Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
  • Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813, Edited by J. Jefferson Looney
  • Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series: Volume 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812, Edited by J. Jefferson Looney
  • Thomas Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Global Terrorism
  • Paul C. Pasles, Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey
  • John V. C. Nye, War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900
  • Alvin Rabushka, Taxation in Colonial America
  • Leonard Tennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

Stanford University Press

  • The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, Edited by Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni
  • Leon Jackson, The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America

Texas A&M University Press

  • H. Sophie Burton and F. Todd Smith, Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

Yale University Press

  • David Abulafia, The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
  • Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
  • Erica Armstrong Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
  • Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years
  • Lawrence D. Griffith; Photography by Barbara Temple Lombardi, Flowers and Herbs of Early America
  • Tom Lewis, The Hudson: A History
  • George McKenna, The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
  • Susan Hardman Moore, Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home
  • Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry
  • James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850
  • James A. Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions
  • The Yale Book of Quotations, Edited by Fred R. Shapiro

University of Alabama Press

  • Rosemary C. Whitlock, The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life
  • Peter Linebaugh, The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
  • Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker

University of California Press

  • Peter Linebaugh, The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
  • Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker
  • Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, Edited by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr.
  • Mark M. Smith, Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History

University of Chicago Press

  • Shannon Lee Dawdy, Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
  • The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against, Edited by Bodleian Library

University of Delaware Press

  • American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900, Edited by Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu
  • Jeffrey M. Dorwart, Invasion and Insurrection: Security, Defense, and War in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815
  • Barbara E. Lacey, From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications

University of Press of Florida

  • Nathalie Dessens, From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences

University of Georgia Press

  • Eileen Ka-May Cheng, The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860
  • Cedrick May, Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835

University of Illinois Press

  • Donald R. Hickey, Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812
  • Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective, Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson
  • Michael McCafferty, Native American Place Names of Indiana

University of Kansas Press

  • Mark Hulliung, The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age
  • Peter Wallenstein, Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History

University of Kentucky Press

  • Arthur H. DeRosier Jr., William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest
  • John R. Dichtl, Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
  • James C. Klotter and Freda C. Klotter, A Concise History of Kentucky
  • Carolyn Murray-Wooley, Early Stone Houses of Kentucky

University of Massachusetts Press

  • Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, Edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss
  • Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts: A Cultural Edition, Edited by Laura Arnold Leibman
  • Richard H. Gassan, The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835
  • Thomas A. Horrocks, Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

University of Minnesota Press

  • Max Cavitch, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman

University Press of Mississippi

  • James F. Barnett Jr., The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735
  • Rebecca J. Fraser, Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina

University of Missouri Press

  • David A. Dalton, The Natural World of Lewis and Clark
  • New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase, Edited with an Introduction by Richard J. Callahan Jr.

University of Nebraska Press

  • A.J.B. Johnston, Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade
  • Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing, Edited by Rebecca Kugel and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
  • Adriaen van der Donck, A Description of New Netherland, Edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, Translated by Diederik Willem Goedhuys

University Press of New England

  • Peter Bohan, Philip Hammerslough, Erin Eisenbarth, intro., Early Connecticut Silver, 1700-1840
  • Duncan Faherty, Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858
  • La Gazette Françoise, 1780-1781: Revolutionary America’s French Newspaper, Eugena Poulin, trs., Claire Quintal, trs.
  • Christine Levecq, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850
  • Dean T. Lahikainen, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style
  • Chandler B. Saint, George A. Krimsky; James O. Horton, fwd., Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith
  • D. Brenton Simons, Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views
  • Lee M. Smith; Jaime Lara, fwd.; Robert A. Lisak, Photo, Temples in the Sacred City: New H(e)aven, Connecticut
  • T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art

University of North Carolina Press

  • Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700
  • Hester Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
  • Cynthia Cumfer, Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
  • Alejandro de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
  • Nicole Eustace, Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution
  • Charles F. Irons, The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
  • Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan, Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
  • Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
  • Marion Rust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women
  • The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624, Edited by Peter C. Mancall
  • The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700, Revised Edition, Edited by Warren M. Billings

University of Pennsylvania Press

  • Joshua David Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932
  • Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World, Edited by Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith
  • John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
  • Michael Leroy Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
  • J. M. Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England
  • Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly
  • Jason Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater
  • Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century

University of South Carolina Press

  • Nicholas Michael Butler, Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820
  • Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Edited by Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius Foreword by Todd D. Smith
  • James Piecuch, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
  • The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic, Edited by Terry W. Lipscomb
  • Barry Aron Vann, In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603-1703

University of Tennessee Press

  • Steven Blakemore, Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading
  • John C. Shields, Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts
  • Michael Montgomery, From Ulster to America

University of Virginia Press

  • Natalie S. Bober, Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
  • W. Barksdale Maynard, Buildings of Delaware
  • Gordon S. Wood, Representation in the American Revolution, revised edition

University of Wisconsin Press

  • Thomas A. King, The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer Articulations

Ashgate Publishing

  • Catherine Armstrong, Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English Representations in Print and Manuscript
  • Tamara Harvey, Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
  • Nora E. Jaffary, Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
  • Philip N. Mulder, Colonial America and the Early Republic
  • The Atlantic Enlightenment, Edited by Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano

Blackwell Publishing

  • Paul Clemens, The Colonial Era
  • A Companion to American Cultural History, Edited by Karen Halttunen
  • The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader, Edited by Sean Patrick Adams

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
  • Darren Staloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

Greenwood Press / Praeger Publishers

  • Walter S. Dunn, Choosing Sides on the Frontier in the American Revolution
  • Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Edited by Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock

Hackett Publishing

  • Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793, with Related Texts, Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Barnard & Stephen Shapiro

Harper Collins

  • Eve LaPlante, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
  • Cokie Roberts, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

The Library of America

  • American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Edited by David S. Shields

Norton

  • Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

Pendragon Press

Penguin Press

  • Colin G. Calloway, The Shawnees and the War for America
  • Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History
  • Garry Wills, Head and Heart: American Christianities
  • Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

Pickering & Chatto Publishers

  • British and American Letter Manuals, 1680-1810, 4 Volume Set, Edited by Eve Tavor Bannet
  • British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785, Edited by Harry T. Dickinson
  • The Enlightenment in America, 1720-1825, Edited by Jose R. Torre
  • Wil Verhoeven, Gilbert  Imlay: Citizen of the World

Random House / Alfred A. Knopf

  • Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
  • Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
  • Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
  • Jon Kukla, Mr. Jefferson's Women

St. Martin's Press / Bedford / Macmillan

    • Susan Belasco and Linck Johnson, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1: Beginnings to 1865
    • Kieran Doherty, Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown
    • Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith, The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
    • Lisa Logan, Resources for Teaching The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1865

     

Electronic Sources

Humanities Magazine, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Love Library