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Unfinished Nation: a Concise History of the American People Volume 1 by Alan Brinkley
Call Number: 2-hour loan

Identity and Colonization

European Encounters with the New World by Anthony Pagden
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: CB203 .P3 1993
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael A. Gomez
Call Number: eBook
Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: Kapi'olani CC: E208 .B2 1990
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown
Call Number: eBook
Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America ( by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: E59.F53 K86 2000
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway
Call Number: Kauai CC: E312.17 .C17 2018
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Call Number: eBook
Marvelous Possessions : The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt
Call Number: UH Manoa: E121 .G74 1992
The Middle Ground by Richard White
Call Number: UH Manoa: E99.A35 W48 1991
Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
Call Number: UH Manoa: E87.876.L46 1998
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Colin G. Calloway
Call Number: UH Manoa: E45 .C34 1997
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America by Ronald Hoffman (Editor); Fredrika J. Teute (Editor); Mechal Sobel (Editor);
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: E189 .T43 1997
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: Kapi'olani CC: JV7618.N7 B35 1986

A Family Affair: Gender and Power in the 17th Century

The Character of a Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas in New England by T. H. Breen
Call Number: UH Manoa: JK54 .B74 1974
Errand into the Wilderness by Perry G. Miller
Call Number: UH Manoa & Leeward CC: E169.1 .M628
Founding Fathers: The Puritans in England and America ( by John Eric Adair
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: F7 .A18 1982
From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the beginnings of the American Republic by Melvin Yazawa
Call Number: UH Manoa: E188 .Y39 1985
A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in the Plymouth Colony by John Putnam Demos
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: HQ557.P5 D4
The New England Mind by Perry Miller
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: F7 .M56 1954
The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller
Call Number: eBook
The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England by Harry S. Stout
Call Number: eBook
Patriarchalism in Political Thought: The Authoritarian Family and Political Speculation and Attitudes Especially in Seventeenth-Century England by Gordon J. Schochet
Call Number: UH Manoa: JA84.G7 S36 1975b
The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic relations in Seventeenth Century New England by Edmund S. Morgan
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: F7 .M8 1980
The Puritan Origins of the American Self by Sacvan Bercovitch
Call Number: UH Manoa, Hilo, UHWO: F7 .B47
Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea by Perry Miller, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (1953) Edmund Morgan
Call Number: Honolulu CC: BX9322 .M6 1965
Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England by David D. Hall
Call Number: UH Manoa: BR530 .H35 1989

Patriarchal Order and Disorderly Women

Damned Women, Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth Reis
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: HQ1438 .N35 R45 1997
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen; Carol Karlsen
Call Number: Kapiolani, Kauai, Leeward, Windward CC, Hilo: BF1576 .K37 1987
Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos
Call Number: eBook
Governing the Tongue by Jane Kamensky
Call Number: eBook
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer; Stephen Nissenbaum
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: BF1576 .B6
Salem Story by Bernard Rosenthal
Call Number: UH Manoa, Hilo, Kauai, Leeward CC: BF1576 .R67 1993
Spellbound by Elizabeth Reis (Editor); Kriste Lindenmeyer (Contribution by); Diane L. Murphy (Contribution by)
Call Number: UH Manoa & Kauai CC: BF1576 .S64 1998
“The Taming of the Scold” in Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson (eds), Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher; John Stevenson (Editor)
Call Number: Uh Manoa: DA300 .O73 1985

Slavery, Race and Gender: The Evolution of White Identity in a Slave Society

Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake by James J. Horn
Call Number: eBook
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan; Edmund Morgan
Call Number: Kapiolani, Leeward, Windward CC, UH Manoa, Hilo UHWO: E445.V8 M67 1975
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown
Call Number: eBook
On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage: The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century by Kenneth A. Lockridge
Call Number: UH Manoa: E332.2 .L63 1992
The Pursuit of Happiness, Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia by Jan Ellen Lewis
Call Number: UH Manoa: HQ535 .L44 1983
Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience by Alden T. Vaughan
Call Number: eBook
Tobacco and Slaves: The Developement of Southern Culture in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff
Call Number: eBook
Tobacco Culture by T. H. Breen
Call Number: UH Manoa: F229 .B8 1985
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac
Call Number: eBook
White Over Black: American Attitudes Towards the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
Call Number: eBook
White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis by David W. Galenson
Call Number: UH Manao & Hilo: HD4875.U5 G34 1981
“A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia” in Breen, Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (1980) by T. H. Breen
Call Number: eBook
“‘Myne Owne Ground’: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T. H. Breen; Stephen Innes
Call Number: UH Manoa & Windward CC: F232.E2 B73

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A World Apart: Slavery, Black Labor, and Cultural Exchange

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by David Northrup
Call Number: eBook
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina by Peter H. Wood
Call Number: Kapiolani, Leeward, Windward CC, UH Manoa & Hilo: E445.S7 W66 1975
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern by Robin Blackburn
Call Number: UH Manoa: HT1048 .B56 1997
The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein
Call Number: UH Manoa & Windward CC: HT975 .K55
Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies by Betty Wood
Call Number: UH Manoa, Leeward & Windward CC: E446 .W87 1997
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis
Call Number: eBook
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System by Barbara L. Solow (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa: HT855 .S58 1991
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1625-1713 by Richard S. Dunn
Call Number: eBook
Tobacco and Slaves: The Developement of Southern Culture in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff
Call Number: eBook
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin
Call Number: eBook
The World They Made Together by Mechal Sobel
Call Number: UH Manoa: E185.93.V8 S64 1987

African-American Culture: The Evolution of Black Identity in a Slave Society

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 by Herbert G. Gutman
Call Number: All libraries: E185.86 .G77 1977
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas by Ira Berlin (Editor); Philip D. Morgan (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa: HT901 .C85 1993
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael A. Gomez
Call Number: eBook
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Call Number: eBook

Anxious Puritans: Elite Culture in 18th Century New England

Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America by David S. Shields
Call Number: UH Manoa: E162 .S555 1997
A Cultural History of the American Revolution by Kenneth Silverman
Call Number: Kapiolani, Kauai, Honolulu CC, UH Manoa & Hilo: NX503.5 .S54 1987
Emergence of a Free Press by Leonard W. Levy
Call Number: UH Manoa, Hilo, Windward CC: KF4774 .L48 1985
The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May
Call Number: Kapiolani, Honolulu, Kauai, Leeward, CC, UH Manoa, UHWO & Hlo: E163 .M39 1978
Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright
Call Number: Kapiolani, Kauai, Windward CC, UH Manoa & Hilo: E302.6.F8 W89 1986
Habermas and the Public Sphere by Craig Calhoun (Editor); Thomas Mccarthy
Call Number: UH Manoa: HM24 .H322 1992
Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 by Richard D. Brown
Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750 by David S. Shields
Call Number: UH Manoa: PS312 .S5 1990
Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut by William C. Dowling
Call Number: UH Manoa: PS314 .D69 1990
The Politics of American English, 1776-1850 by David Simpson
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: PE2809 .S56 1986
Prelude to Independence the Newspaper War on Britain 1764 1776 by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: PN4861 .S3
The Press and the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Editor); John B. Hench (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa, UHWO, Leeward CC: PN4861 .P7
Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism by Jeffery A. Smith
Call Number: ebook
Printing and Society in Early America by William L. Joyce (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa: Z208 .P74 1983
Public Print: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, by Charles Clark
Call Number: eBook
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America by Cathy N. Davidson
Call Number: eBook
Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, by Emory Elliott
Call Number: eBook
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas
Call Number: UH Manoa & Leeward CC: HM24 .H2713 1989
Writing in the New Nation by Larzer Ziff
Call Number: UH Manoa: PS367 .Z5 1991

Disrupting Patriarchy: Women and Religion in the 18th Century

American Jeremiad by Sacvan Bercovitch
Call Number: eBook
Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England by Susan Juster
Call Number: UH Manoa: BX6239 .J87 1994
The Great Awakening: documents illustrating the crisis and its consequences by Alan Heimert (Ed); Perry Miller (Ed)
Call Number: UH Manoa: BR520 .H39
Religion and the American Mind from the Great Awakening to the Revolution by Alan Heimert
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: BR520 .H4
The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England by Nathan O. Hatch
Call Number: UH Manoa: BR520 .H34
Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America by Patricia U. Bonomi
Call Number: eBook
Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800 by Ruth H. Bloch
Call Number: UH Manoa: E209 .B58 1985

The Democratization of Patriarchy: The American Revolution

Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism by Alfred F. Young (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa: E179 .B58 1993
Britons by Linda Colley
Call Number: UH Manoa, Hilo, & Kauai CC: DA485 .C65 1992
Declaring Independence, Jefferson, Natural Language; & the Culture of Performance by Jay Fliegelman
Call Number: UH Manoa & Law: E332.2 .F55 1993
Forced Founders by Woody Holton
Call Number: eBook
From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic by Melvin Yazawa
Call Number: UH Manoa: E188 .Y39 1985
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 by Pauline Maier
Call Number: Kapiolani & Kauai CC, UN Manaon, UHWO, Hilo: E210 .M27
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: UH Manoa, UHWO, Hilo & Kauai CC: JA84.U5 B3
The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: F74.C8 G76 1976
The Origins of American Politics by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: JK 54 .B3
A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 ( by Edward Countryman
Call Number: UH Manoa: H31 .J6 ser.99 no.2
Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 by Jay Fliegelman
Call Number: UH Manoa: E163 .F58 1982
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
Publication Date: Kapiolani, Kauai CC, UH Manoa, UHWO, Hilo, Maui: E209 .W65 1993
Sons of the Fathers: The Civil religion of the American Revolution by Catherine L. Albanese
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: E209 .A4
Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American epublics by Ann Fairfax Withington
Call Number: eBook
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Call Number: UH Manoa, UHWO, Hilo, Leeward, Windward CC: E188 .N38

The Indians War for Independence

Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes by Francis Jennings
Call Number: Kapiolani CC & UH Manoa: E93 .J44 1984
The American Revolution in Indian Country by Colin G. Calloway
Call Number: UH Manoa: & Hilo: E83.775 .C35 1995
Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers by James A. Clifton
Call Number: UH Manoa: E89 .B45 1989
Death and Rebirth of Seneca by Anthony F. Wallace
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo, Windward CC: E99.S3 W3 1970
Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America by Francis Jennings
Call Number: UH Manoa &UHWO, Windward CC: E199 .J54 1988
The Founders of America by Francis Jennings
Call Number: UH Manoa & Kauai CC: E77 .J53 1993
The Indians New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbours from European Contact through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell
Call Number: eBook
The Invasion of AmericaAmerica: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: F7 .J46
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: E98.C89 A93 1986
The Iroquois in the American Revolution by Barbara Graymont
Call Number: UH Manoa & UHWO: E99.I7 G67
Manitou and ProvidenceIndians, European and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 by Neal Salisbury
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo, Kauai & Windward CC: E78.N5 S24 1982
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 by Richard White; Frederick E. Hoxie (Contribution by); Neal Salisbury (Contribution by)
Call Number: UH Manoa: E99.A35 W48 1991
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Colin G. Calloway
Call Number: UH Manoa & Kauai CC: E45 .C34 1997
The Ordeal of the LonghouseThe Peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter
Call Number: eBook
Seeds of ExtinctionExtinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian by Bernard W. Sheehan
Call Number: eBook
A Spirited Resistance by Gregory Evans Dowd
Call Number: UH Manoa: H31 .J6 ser.109 no.4
Warpaths: Invasions of North America by Ian K. Steele
Call Number: UH Manoa & Kauai CC: E82 .S74 1994

The Inner Revolution: Black Americans

Black Jacks by W. Jeffrey Bolster
Call Number: eBook
Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History by Benjamin Quarles
Call Number: UH Manoa: E185 .Q19 1988
Flight and Rebellion; Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia by Gerald W. Mullin
Call Number: UH Manoa & Windward CC: E445.V8 M8
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, by Gary B. Nash
Call Number: UH Hilo: F158.9.N4 N37 1988
Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and its Aftermath by Gary B. Nash; Jean R. Soderlund
Call Number: eBook
Gabriel's Rebellion : the Virginia slave conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 by Douglas R. Egerton
Call Number: eBook
History of Black Americans by Philip S. Foner
Call Number: UH Manoa: E185 .F5915
“The Power of Blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution in St. Domingue” in Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain by Michael Zuckerman
Call Number: UH Manoa: E169.1 .Z883 1993
The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles
Call Number: eBook
The Price of FreedomFreedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland by T. Stephen Whitman
Call Number: eBook
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry E. Tise
Call Number: UH Manoa & Law: E337.5 .T57 1987
Race and Revolution by Gary B. Nash
Call Number: eBook
Revolutions by David Brion Davis
Call Number: UH Manoa: E209 .D38 1990
Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution by Ira Berlin; Ronald Hoffman
Call Number: Kapiolani CC: E446 .S62 1986
Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820 by Donald L. Robinson
Call Number: UH Manoa: E446 .R63
Somewhat More IndependentSomewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 by Shane White
Call Number: UH Manoa: F128.44 .W54 1991
Water from the Rock by Sylvia R. Frey
Call Number: UH Manoa & Leeward CC: E269.N3 F74 1991
“The Founding Fathers and Slavery” in American Negro Slavery by Allen Weinstein (Editor); David Sarasohn (Editor); Frank Otto Gatell (Editor)
Call Number: UH Manoa & Weindward CC: E441 .W42 1973

Women and Gender in the American Revolution

The Bonds of Womanhood: “Women’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835 by Nancy F. Cott
Call Number: eBook
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton
Call Number: Kapiolani, Honolulu, Leeward, Windward CC, UH Manoa, UHWO,Hilo: HQ1418 .N67
A Midwife's Taletale: The Life of Martha Ballard, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Call Number: UH Manoa: F29.H15 U47 1990
National ManhoodManhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men by Dana D. Nelson; Donald E. Pease (Contribution by)
Call Number: UH Manoa: HQ1090.3.N42 1998
A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics by Mark E. Kann
Call Number: eBook
Sentimental Bodies by Bruce Burgett
Call Number: eBook
To Be Useful to the World by Joan R. GundersenWorld: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
Call Number: eBook
Toward an Intellectual History of Women by Linda K. Kerber
Call Number: UH Manoa & Hilo: HQ1410 .K47 1997
Women in the Age of the American Revolution by Ronald Hoffman (Editor); Peter J. Albert (Editor)
Call Number: Kapiolani CC, UH Manoa:& Hilo: E276 .W64 1989
Women of the Republic and Ideology In Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber
Call Number: eBook

Creating the Nation

Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790's by Joyce Appleby
Call Number: UH Manoa: JA84.U5 A75 1984
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 ( by Saul Cornell
Call Number: eBook
The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch
Call Number: UH Manoa & Kauai CC: BR525 .H37 1989
Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic by Simon P. Newman
Call Number: eBook
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan
Call Number: UH Manoa, UHWO, Hilo & Kauai CC: JF1059.G7 M67 1988
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
Call Number: UH Manoa, UHWO, Hilo, & Kauai, Windward CC: KF4541 .R35 1996
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood
Call Number: eBook

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