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The American Crisis (13 essays originally published 1776-1783), by Thomas Paine
- Gutenberg text
- HTML at ushistory.org
The American Crisis, Number V: Addressed to General Sir William Howe (Lancaster, PA: Printed by J. Dunlap, 1778), by Thomas Paine (HTML at Evans TCP)
A Charge on the Rise of the American Empire (1776), by William Henry Drayton, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)
The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men: A Sermon, Preached at Princeton, on the 17th of May, 1776, Being the General Fast Appointed by the Congress Through the United Colonies; To Which is Added, An Address to the Natives of Scotland, Residing in America (reprinted in Glasgow from the Philadelphia second edition, 1777), by John Witherspoon (page images at HathiTrust)
God Arising and Pleading His People's Cause: or, The American War in Favor of Liberty, Against the Measures and Arms of Great Britain, Shewn to Be the Cause of God (1777), by Abraham Keteltas, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)
The Revolution of America (London: Printed for L. Davis, 1781), by abbé Raynal
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America (London: Printed for J. Ridgeway, 1792), by Thomas Paine (Gutenberg text)
Our Heritage From 1776: A Working Class View of the First American Revolution (Workers School Library v. 1; New York: The Workers School, ca. 1926), by Bertram D. Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, and William F. Dunne
- PDF at flvc.org
- PDF (other formats may be illegible) at archive.org
The Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England, by Carl L. Becker (Gutenberg text)
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (with some modernization), by Mercy Otis Warren (HTML at seltzerbooks.com)
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette (American edition, c1837; American Revolution volume the only one published in this edition), by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette, ed. by William Alexander Duer (Gutenberg text)
The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, by Benson J. Lossing (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
The War of Independence (c1894), by John Fiske (Gutenberg text and page images)
Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
The History of North and South America, From its Discovery, to the Death of General Washington (2 volumes in 1; Philadelphia et al.: Johnson and Warner, 1811), by Richard Snowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Church's Flight into the Wilderness: An Address on the Times, Containing Some Very Interesting and Important Observations on Scripture Prophecies (1776), by Samuel Sherwood, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)
The History of North and South America, From its Discovery to the Death of General Washington. (2 volumes in 1; Philadelphia: B. Warner, 1817), by Richard Snowden
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Benedict Arnold, Military Racketeer (New York: Vanguard Press, 1932), by Edward Dean Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne: Misadventures of an English General in the Revolution (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1927), by Francis Josiah Hudleston (multiple formats at archive.org)
The American Revolution: Yorktown and the Centennial Monument of Liberty (Rochester, NY: H. H. Smith, 1881), by Thomas J. Paterson (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Based on Contemporary Letters, Diaries, and Other Documents (3 volumes; New York: Baker and Taylor, c1910), by Ellen Chase
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution (New York: C. Scribner, 1864), by J. T. Headley (page images at HathiTrust)
Foundations of Modern Europe: Twelve Lectures Delivered in the University of London (second edition; Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Press, 1908), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
Freemasonry in the American Revolution (Washington: Masonic Service Association of the United States, c1924), by Sidney Morse (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of New York During the Revolutionary War, and of the Leading Events in the Other Colonies at That Period (2 volumes; New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1879), by Thomas Jones, ed. by Edward F. De Lancey (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the United States of America, From the Discovery of the American Continent (10 volumes covering up to 1782, from 3 Little, Brown sets published 1854-1878), by George Bancroft (page images at MOA)
Silas Deane, a Connecticut Leader in the American Revolution (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by George L. Clark
- multiple formats at archive.org
- HTML at Quinnipiac
Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence, by George McKinnon Wrong (Gutenberg text)
The Poisoned Loving-Cup: United States School Histories Falsified Through Pro-British Propaganda in Sweet Name of Amity (Chicago: National Historical Society, 1928), by Charles Grant Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures of a Lady in the War of Independence in America, by Susan Griffith Colpoys Johnson (HTML with commentary at threerivershms.com)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans

No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- American forces

The Private Soldier Under Washington (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902), by Charles Knowles Bolton
- HTML at americanrevolution.org
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes

Legends of the War of Independence, and of the Earlier Settlements in the West (Louisville: J. F. Brennan, 1855), by T. Marshall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The Old Bell of Independence: or, Philadelphia in 1776 (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, c1851), by Henry C. Watson (Gutenberg text)
Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends (Atlanta: Byrd Printing Co., 1913), ed. by Sophie Lee Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
Stories of the Revolution: With an Account of the Lost Child of the Delaware: Wheaton and the Panther, &c., by Josiah Priest (HTML at threerivershms.com)
The Yankee Tea-Party: or, Boston in 1773 (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851), by Henry C. Watson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography

American Military and Naval Biography: Containing the Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Revolution; Together With Some of the Most Eminent Statesmen of That Interesting Period; To Which are Added the Life and Character of Benedict Arnold, and the Circumstances of the Capture, Trial and Execution of Major Andre (Cincinnati: A. Salisbury, 1832), ed. by Amos Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution (New York: C. Scribner, 1864), by J. T. Headley (page images at HathiTrust)
Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers, by James Parton (Gutenberg text)
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution; With an Historical Essay (2 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by Lorenzo Sabine (page images at HathiTrust)
Earl Percy's Dinner-Table (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Harold Murdock (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War, From 1775 to 1783 (second edition, 1827), by James Thacher (HTML at threerivershms.com)
The Women of the American Revolution (3 volumes; New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849-1850), by E. F. Ellet

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- British forces

The Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution (Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany, v19; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Edward E. Curtis
- page images at HathiTrust
- HTML at americanrevolution.org
The British in Boston: Being the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King's Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776, With Notes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by John Barker, ed. by Elizabeth Ellery Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns

Southern Indians in the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1973), by James H. O'Donnell (PDF at Tennessee)
The Attack on Youngs' House (or Four Corners), February 3, 1780: An Episode of the Neutral Ground (Tarrytown, NY: W. Abbatt, 1926), by William Abbatt (page images at HathiTrust)
The Continental Army (some supplementary material omitted), by Robert K. Wright (HTML at US Army CMH)
Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, by Paul K. Walker (PDF files at army.mil)
France in the American Revolution, by James Breck Perkins (HTML at americanrevolution.org)
Memoirs of Major-General Heath: Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and Other Military Events, During the American War (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews; et al., 1798), by William Heath
The Battle of Klock's Field, October 19, 1780, With a Description of the Raid of the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys by the Tories and Indians under Sir. John Johnson, by Lou D. MacWethy (illustrated HTML at threerivershms.com)
Colonel John Brown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold, by Archibald M. Howe (HTML at threerivershms.com)
Life of Major General Henry Lee, Commander of Lee's Legion in The Revolutionary War, and Subsequently Governor of Virginia; To Which is Added the Life of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina (Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1859), by Cecil B. Hartley, illust. by G. G. White
The Life of General Francis Marion, by M. L. Weems (Gutenberg text)

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