Chains – Links & Bibliography

Links

Bibliography, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Books

  • Abbot, Wilbur C., New York in the American Revolution, Scribner’s, 1929.
  • Bakeless, John, Turncoats, Traitors and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Branch: African Americans in New York and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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”,) 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.

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) 1776-1777