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Biblography & Further Reading

This presentation just scratches the surface! Below are books that I used as references or provide more context for these topics.

Core Events & Foundational Context

  • History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 (J. Munsell, 1870)
  • King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict — Eric B. Schultz & Michael J. Tougias (2017)
  • Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War — Lisa Brooks (2019)

Black Voices & Experiences

  • Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot — Charles Cerami (2002)
  • Memoir of Benjamin Banneker — John H. B. Latrobe (1845)
  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley — David Waldstreicher (2024)
  • Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage — Vincent Carretta (2023)
  • Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley — Phillis Wheatley
  • Black Patriots and Loyalists — Alan Gilbert (2013)
  • Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era — Woody Holton (2009)
  • Out of the Shadows — A.J. Williams-Myers (2007)

Black Soldiers & Military History

  • They Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate — D. Popek (2015)
  • Don Troiani’s Black Soldiers in America’s Wars: 1754–1865 — Don Troiani et al. (2025)

Women in the Revolutionary Era

  • A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North — D. Tesiero (2024)
  • Mum Bett: A Slave Who Won Her Own Freedom — Charles Cerami (2022)
  • Never Caught — Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2018)
  • Women in George Washington’s World — Cynthia A. Kierner Lewis & George Boudreau (2022)
  • A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel — D. Maxey (2006)
  • The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney — Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1997)
  • Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution — L. Glover (2020)

Native American Leaders & Perspectives

  • Joseph Brant: Man of Two Worlds — Isabel Kelsay (1984)
  • Joseph Brant and His World — James Paxton (2008)
  • Six Nations Diplomat: Molly Brant and the American Revolution — D. Tesiero (2025)
  • Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant — Maurice Kenny (1995)
  • Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast — R. Carr (2023)
  • The Collected Writings of Samson Occom — Samson Occom & Joanna Brooks (2006)

Founders, Slavery & Contradictions

  • “The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret” — M. Thompson (2019)
  • Washington at the Plow — Bruce Ragsdale (2021)