The list below contains several worthwhile sources for students to consult while engaging in general study of America before the Revolutionary War. Links on this page are affiliate links.
- American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1(The Penguin History of the United States)
, by Alan Taylor (2002)
- Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
, by Lawrence Peskin (2007)
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
, multiple authors and essays (2001)
- The Stamp Act Crisis
, by Edmund S. Morgan (1986)
- The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England
, by Nathan O. Hatch (1977)
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
, by Bernard Bailyn (1992)
- Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution (Institute of Early American History & Culture)
, by Charles Woodmason (1969)
- The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
, by Gordon S. Wood (1998)
- Colonial South Carolina: A History
, by Robert M. Weir (1997)
- Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
, by Patricia Bonomi (2003)