Books

• Abbot, Wilbur C., New York in the American Revolution, Scribner’s, 1929.
• Bakeless, John, Turncoats, Traitors & Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution, Da Capo Press, NY, 1998.
• Bangs, Edward, ed., Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs, April 1 to July 29, 1776, Cambridge, 1890.
• Barck, Oscar, New York City During the War for Independence, with special reference to the period of British Occupation, Columbia University Press, 1931.
• Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Belknap Press of the Harvard University Library, 1998.
• Berlin, Ira and Harris, Leslie M., eds., Slavery in New York, The New Press, New York, 2005.
• Berlin, Ira, and Hoffman, Ronald, ed., Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revoultion, University Press of Virginia, 1985.
• Bliven, Bruce, Jr., Battle for Manhattan, Penguin, 1964.
• Blumrosen, Alfred W. and Blumrosen, Ruth G., Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution, Sourcebooks, Inc, 2005.
• Brown, Rebecca Warren[supposed author], Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815…Aged 65 Years. By a Lady of Boston, Published by James Loring, 1832.
• Boudinot, Elias, Journal of the Events in the Revolution (1740-1821).
• Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Calhoon, Robert M., Barnes, Timothy M., and Rawlyk, George A., Loyalists and Community in North America, Greenwood Press, 1994.
• Cantwell, Anne-Marie and Wall, Diana diZerega, Unearthing Gotham: The Archeaology of New York City, Yale University Press, 2001.
• Chomel, Noel and Bradley, Richard (trans.), Dictionaire Oeconomique, or, the Family Dictionary. Containing the most experienced Methods of improving Estates and of preserving Health…, First English edition, London, 1725.
• Commager, Henry Steele and Morris, Richard B., eds., The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants, Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.
• Coughtry, Jay Alan, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807, doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978.
• Countryman, Edward, A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790, W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
• Cumming, William P., and Rankin, Hugh F., The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution through Contemporary eyes, Phaidon, 1975.
• Dandridge, Danske, American Prisoners of the Revolution, 1910.
• Davis, David Brion, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, Oford University Press, 2006.
• Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, Cornell University Press, NY, 1975.
• Decker, Malcolm, Brink of Revolution: New York in Crisis, 1765-1776, Argosy Antiquarian, 1964.
• DePauw, Linda Grant, Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to Present, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1998.
• DePauw, Linda Grant, Founding Mothers: Women in America in the Revolutionary Era, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1975.
• Dring, Thomas, Capt., Recollections of the Prison Ship Jersey, 1829.
• Ellis, Joseph J., Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Knopf, 2001.
• Ellis, Joseph, His Excellency, New York, 2004.
• East, Robert A., and Judd, Jacob Eds., The Loyalist Americans; A Focus on Greater new York, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1975.
• Farrow, Anne, Lang, Joel, and Frank, Jenifer, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, Ballantine Books, 2005.
• Fenn, Elizabeth A., Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
• Finkelman, Paul, ed., Slavery, Revolutionary America, and the New Nation, Garland Publishing, 1989.
• Foote, Thelma Wills. Black and White Manhattan; The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Frey, Sylvia R., Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age, Princeton University Press, 1999.
• Gaspar, David Barry and Hine, Darlene Clark, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Gilje, Paul A., Liberty on the Waterfront; American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
• Gilje, Paul A. The Road to Mobocracy; Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834, University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
• Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City 1664-1730, Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Harris, Leslie M., In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863, University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Hawkins, Christopher, The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins, (1764-1837).
• Hemftreet, Charles, Nooks and Corner of Old New York, Scribner’s 1899.
• Henriques, Peter R., Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington, University of Virginia Press, 2006.
• Hodges, Graham Russell, Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey 1613-1863, The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
• Hodges, Graham Russell and Brown, Alan Edward, eds., "Pretends to Be Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. New York, 1994.
• Horton, James Oliver, and Horton, Lois E., Slavery and the Making of America, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Johnson, Samuel, Taxation No Tyranny; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Colonies, pamphlet pubished 1775, reprinted in The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 14, Pafraets & Company, Troy, NY, 1913.
• Kemble, Lieut.-Colonel Stephen, private journals, 1773-1789, published by the New York Historical Society 1883.
• Ketchum, Richard M., The Winter Soldiers, Doubleday, 1971.
• Ketchum, Richard M., Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2002.
• Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, New York and London: W. W. Norton Company, 1986. (Reprint. Originally published; Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
• Koeppel, Gerard T., Water for Gotham, A History, Princeton University Press, 2000.
• McCullough, David, 1776, Simon & Schuster, 2005.
• McManus, Edgar J., A History of Negro Slavery in New York, Syracuse University Press, 1966.
• Monaghan, Frank and Lowenthal, Marvin, This Was New York: The Nation’s Capital in 1789, Doubleday, 1943.
• Morris, Margaret Hill, Private Journal Kept During the Revolutionary War.
• Moss, Richard Shannon, Slavery on Long Island: A study in local institutional and early African-American communal life, Garland, 1993.
• M’Robert, Patrick, Tour Through Part of the North Provinces of America, originally published 1774, republished Ayer Press, 1979.
• Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution, Madison House, 1990.
• Nash, Gary B., The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, Viking, 2005.
• Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women 1750-1800, HarperCollins, 1980.
• Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, first published, 1776, Edited with Introduction by Isaac Kramnick, reprinted by Penguin Classics, 1986.
• Picard, Liza, Dr. Johnston’s London; Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.
• Piersen, William, D., Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Sub-Culture in Eighteenth-Century New England The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
• Polf, William A., Garrison Town: The British Occupation of New York City, 1776-1783, New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Albany, 1976.
• Quarles, Benjamin, The Negro in the American Revolution, Norton, 1961.
• Raphael, Ray, A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, The New Press, 2001.
• Raphael, Ray, Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past, The New Press, NY 2004.
• Rose, Alexander, Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, Bantam, 2006.
• Schama, Simon, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, HarperCollins, 2005.
• Schaukirk, Ewald Gustav, Occupation of New York City by the British, (diary) reprint by New York Public Library, 1969
• Schecter, Barnet, The Battle For New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution, Walker & Co., NY, 2002.
• Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, Six Women’s Slave Narratives, Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Smith, Venture, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa:
• But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself, 1798.
• Sobel, Mechal, Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era, Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Stoke, I.N. Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909, Dodd, MDCCCCXXII
• Tiedemann, Joseph S., Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763-1776, Cornell University Press, 1997.
• Van Buskirk, Judith L, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in the Revolutionary New York, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
• Wakeman, Abram, History and reminiscences of lower Wall street and vicinity. New York, The Spice Mill Publishing Co., 1914.
• Waldstreicher, David, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, Hill & Wang, 2004.
• Wechsler, Louis K., The Common People of Colonial America, Vantage Press, 1978.
• Weeden, William B., Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People, The Grafton Press, 1910.
• Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, Father Knickerbocker Rebels: New York City during the Revolution, Scribner’s 1948.
• White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810, University of Georgia Press, Athens and London. 1995.
• Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God; George Washington, his Slaves, and the Creation of America, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.
• Wilkins, Roger. Jefferson’s Pillow; The Founding Father and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, Beacon Press, Boston, 2001.
• Withey, Lynne.
• Wolf, Stephanie Grauman. As Various as Their Land; The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans, HarperCollins, 1993.

Articles

• Conway, Stephen, “British Army Officers and the American War for Independence,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol 41, No. 2, p. 265
• Fleming, Thomas J. “The Enigma of General Howe,” American Heritage Magazine, February 1964, Vol. 15, Issue 2.
• Haulman, Kate, “A Short History of the High Roll,” www.common-place.og, Vol. 2, No. 1, Oct., 2001
• Lyman, Susan Elizabeth, “The Search for the Missing King,” American Heritage Magazine, August, 1958, Vol. 9, Issue 5.
• Schine, Cathleen, “The “Holy Ground”, The New Yorker, 9/16/02.
• Websites
• Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive, The Massachusetts Historical Society
• A Guide to Former Street Names in Manhattan
• American Revolution Digital Learning Project, New York Historical Society
• American Memory Collections, The Library of Congress
• Documenting the American South, North American Slave Narratives University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, The Library of Congress
• Journals of the Continental Congress, The Library of Congress
• Letters of the Delegates to Congress 1774-1789, The Library of Congress
• Slavery in the North, Douglas Harper
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Online
• Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress, The Library of Congress,
• Newspapers
• The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury: 1776-1777
• The Constitutional Gazette (New York) 1776
• The New York Journal and General Advertiser 1776
• Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser (Boston) 1776-177