I want to increase my knowledge of the American Revolution. What are some great books to read for the subject?

It was a colonial revolution you retards. Same thing that happened in the Latin American nations. Yes there were loyalists but it was a revolution in the colony against it's overlords

American revolution is pretty intellectually dry in and of itself. The leadup to the revolution was much more interesting. If you have some freetime, I would suggest doing some primary source analysis on Common Sense pamphlets for a glimpse into a prevailing sense of the american colonist as the other to the british loyalist crown. Very fun, and does make poigant points that would be the foundation for revolution.

bumping because this is one of my favorite points in history.

I just purchased:

>Howard Zinn's "A People History of the United States."
Which can basically be summarized as "white men fucked over everyone". Technically not wrong.
>David McCullough's "1776"
and the 700 page biography that inspired the musical:
>Ron Chernov's "Alexander Hamilton"

Somewhat related -- I'm in the middle of reading "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates" by Brian Kilmeade. If for whatever reason you don't like Muslims, boy is this the book for you.

1776 is good reading, but it's fawning patriot tier as objective history I'd say. Not that it makes it bad, because it's great

I would like to know what was the colonists understanding or historiography of the English civil war, seems to me a much underdeveloped topic.

Plus you had the Quakers who fled England during that period, and who later would have tremendous influence on American national identity and philosophy as a nation.

Checked holy shit

>I would suggest doing some primary source analysis on Common Sense pamphlets for a glimpse into a prevailing sense of the american colonist
>a pamphlet written by a british political writer
intellectually barren, you might say

meant for

I wish there were more books about the Southern Campaign. I had family that were 'supposedly' part of the Overmountain Men and you never hear much about King's Mountain or Cowpens when people bring up Revolutionary War history.

so you'd say the syrian civil war is a revolution because sunnis are rebelling against their alawite overlords? imo both terms apply. while the english did see the americans as their inferiors, for all their differences, americans were of british ethnic and cultural descent, although a peculiar version of that tradition given high percentage of protestant nonconformists settling in the colonies (vs. the anglican majority faith in england), and their adherence to verious interpretations of english history distinct from the majority view of the british at the time, though not so different from the whig ideology adhered to be a large minority of the british political elite, burke, for example, being one of them (and pro-american revolution)

Almost a Miracle

>Technically not wrong.
>assigning guilt to an entire class of people
yeah it's wrong

Zinn himself wasn't wrong in his book. Thats just kind of what happened in regaurds to the Natives and the blacks. It's not my fault thats what he chose to focus his book on.

Thanks mate; exactly what I was hoping for to be honest.

>regaurds to the Natives and the blacks
Amerindians died out via disease and genocide from European colonists, fair
but to blame all of Africa on whites, and to blame both problems on "white people" not the people who actually did the deeds is disingenuous

Zinns actually a little more interesting than that. His books are getting to be a little aged, it was wrote in the 80s as an attempt to discuss the people overlooked by writers on the American experience.