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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 5: Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776
Eric Foner. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1977).
A highly readable biography of the author of
Common Sense and the political ideas that he embraced.
Pauline Maier. American Scripture: Making
theDeclaration of Independence (1998).
Maier reconstructs the intellectual and political
world out of which the Declaration of Independence grew.
Woody Hulton. Forced Founders: Indians,
Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution (1999).
In his study of Virginia on the eve of the
American Revolution, Hulton examines the pressures placed upon the colony's
leading planters by Indians, African Americans and small farmers that lead this
political leadership to support independence.
Edward Countryman. The American Revolution
(1985).
An excellent narrative of the causes and consequences
of the Revolutionary War.
Colin G. Calloway. The American Revolution
in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (1995).
A well-written account of the variety of Indian
experiences during the American revolutionary era.
“Liberty!” PBS series on the American Revolution.
Using the actual words of revolutionaries,
loyalists, and British political leaders, this six-hour series follows events
from the Stamp Act to the Constitution.
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