Bibliography

These are all the books I've read since June of 2019 for research purposes. All links are to Amazon but they are certainly available elsewhere. I have not included all the countless articles I have also read. All of these works have been read for a deeper contextual understanding of the period and not all are directly related to a specific book. Some, you might notice, definitely are.

1776 - David McCullough
A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution - Theodore P. Savas and J. David Dameron
A Queer History of the United States - Michael Bronski
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - Eric Jay Dolin
Boston and the Dawn of American Independence - Brian Deming
British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution by Don N. Hagist
Common Sense and Other Writings - Thomas Paine
Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution - John A. Nagy
Fanning's Narrative: The Memoirs of Nathaniel Fanning, 1778-1783 - Nathaniel Fanning
Farmers Against the Crown: A Comprehensive Account of the Revolutionary War Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut - Keith Marshall Jones III
George Washington's Indispensable Men: Alexander Hamilton, Tench Tilghman, and the Aides-de-Camp Who Helped Win American Independence - Arthur S. Lefkowitz
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution - Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger
Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America - Brady J. Crytzer
His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692 - Richard Hite
Invisible Ink: Spycraft in the American Revolution - John A. Nagy
John Barry: An American Naval Hero in the Age of Sail - Tim McGrath
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy - Evan Thomas
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America - Eric Jay Dolin
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships - William Benemann
Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience - Martyn Whittock
Monmouth Court House: The Battle That Made the American Army - Joseph G. Bilby, Katherine Bilby Jenkins
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail - Bernard Ireland
Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution - Don N. Hagist
Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution - Robert H. Patton
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars - Jamie L.H. Goodall
Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast 1775-1783 - Donald Grady Shomette
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American revolution - Eric Jay Dolin
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence - Carol Berkin
Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution - John A. Nagy
Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests that History Forgot - Joseph Cummins
The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook -Frances H. Kennedy (editor)
The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution - Steven Park
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army - Paul Lockhart
The Female Review - Herman Mann
The French in North America: 1500-1783 - W.J. Eccles
The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World - Carol Gardner
The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth Century Pirates' Wives, Families, and Communities - Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America - Kate Haulman
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life - Joyce Lee Malcolm
Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War - Thomas B. Allen
Washington's Headquarters in Newburgh: Home to a Revolution - A.J. Schenkman
Washington's Immortals - Patrick K. O'Donnell
Washington's Spymaster - Benjamin Tallmadge

A cannon at Fort Montgomery in New York.

If you're interested in other fiction books about the time period, here are some I have enjoyed and recommend:

Revolutionary Temptation and Of Hope and Anguish - Silvia Violet (m/m romance)
Rebel and King's Man - Sally Malcolm (m/m romance)

Here is a list of primary sources I have used for research, all available online:

Journals of the Continental Congress, full text transcripts via Hathi Trust
Papers of the Continental Congress, original digital scans via Fold3 (subscription required)
Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents, via Yale Law School
Founders Online, includes transcripts of the papers of select "founding fathers" via the US National Archive