Podcast Bibliography

As part of this podcast, I try to highlight books that listeners may enjoy. There are titles mentioned in the podcast. To make the process easy, here are the books and articles mentioned in the podcast, listed in alphabetical order.

Fred Anderson. Crucible of War: The Seven Year’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).

Luis R Arana. The Building of Castillo de San Marcos. (Fort Washington: Eastern National, 1977).

Richard W. Barsness. “John C. Calhoun and the Military Establishment, 1817-1825”. The Wisconsin Magazine of History (Autumn, 1966). Pp. 43-53.

K. Jack Bauer. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974).

Matthew Brenckle, Lauren McCormack, and Sarah Watkins. Men of Iron: USS Constitution’s War of 1812 Crew. (Boston: USS Constitution Museum, 2012).

Charles E. Brodine Jr., Michael J. Crawford, and Christine F. Hughes. Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to the USS Constitution. (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 2007).

E. Wayne Carp. To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).

Rene Chartrand. Campaign No. 78. Ticonderoga, 1758: Montcalm’s Victory Against all Odds. (London: Osprey Publishing, 2000)

Rene Chartrand. Campaign No. 79. Louisbourg, 1758: Wolfe’s First Siege. (London: Osprey Publishing, 2000).

Ron Chernow. George Washington: A Life. (New York: Penguin Press, 2010).

Edward M. Coffman. The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Harry L. Coles. The War of 1812. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).

Theodore J. Crackel. Mr. Jefferson’s Army: Political and Social Reform of the Military Establishment, 1801-1809. (New York: New York University Press, 1987).

___________. West Point: A Bicentennial History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,2002.

Marcus Cunliffe. George Washington: Man and Monument. (New York: Mentor, 1958).

Michael D. Doubler. Civilian in War and Peace: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).

J. Frederick Fausz, “An ‘Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides’: England’s First Indian War, 1609-1614”. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol 98, No. 1, January, 1990. 3-56.

John Ferling. Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America. (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davison, 1993).

David Hackett Fischer. Washington’s Crossing. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

_____________. Paul Revere’s Ride. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

William M. Fowler. Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy during the Revolution.  (New York: Scribner, 1976).

Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the old Northwest. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004).

John Grenier. The First Way of War, American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Ira D. Gruber, “America’s First Battle: Long Island, 27 August 1776” in Charles E. Heller and William A. Stofft. America’s First Battles, 1776-1965. (Manhattan: University Press of Kansas, 1986).

Peter Guardino. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017).

Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley, Ed. Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

Kenneth J. Hagan. The People’s Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. (New York: The Free Press, 1991).

Stephen L. Hardin. The Alamo, 1836. Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign. (new York, Osprey Publishing, 2001).

Donald R. Hickey. “Federalist Defense Policy in the Age of Jefferson, 1801-1812”. Military Affairs (April, 1981). Pp. 63-70.

__________. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).

__________. The War of 1812: A Short History. Bicentennial Edition. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012).

Don Higginbotham. The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789. Paperback Edition (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983).

Cory S. Hollon. “”A Leap in the Dark”, The Campaign to Conquer New Mexico and California, 1846-1847″. Army History. (Winter, 2015). Pp. 6-25.

Alan C. Huffines. The Texas War of Independence, 1835-1836. From Outbreak to the Alamo to San Jacinto. (New York: Osprey Publishing, 2005).

James A. Huston. The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775-1953. (Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1966).

Richard H. Kohn. Eagle and the Sword: The Beginnings of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802. (New York: The Free Press, 1975).

David La Vere. The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies. (Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

Douglas Edward Leach. Arms For Empire: A Military History of the British Colonies in North America, 1607-1763. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973).

_____________. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War. Reprint (Woodstock: The Countrymen Press, 2008).

Wayne E. Lee, “Early American Ways of War: A New Reconnaissance, 1600-1815,” The Historical Journal 44 (No. 1, 2001) 269-289.

Jill Lepore. The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. (New York: Vintage, 1990).

James M. McPherson. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).

_____________. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, Second Edition. (New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1992).

_____________. Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014).

John K. Mahon. History of the Militia and The National Guard. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983).

James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender. “A Respectable Army”: The Military Origins of the New Republic, 1763-1789. Third Edition (Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2015).

Robert Middlekauf. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)

Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis. For The Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012. Third Edition. (New York: Free Press, 2012).

Matthew S. Muehlbauer and David J. Ulbrich. Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to Twenty-First Century. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013).

National Park Service. Castillo de San Marcos: A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Florida. Handbook 149. Division of Publications, National Park Service, 1994.

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Stephen B. Oates. To Purge This Land With Blood. (Second Edition. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).

__________. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. (New York, NY: New American Library, 1977).

__________. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths. (New York, NY: New American Library, 1984).

Howard H. Peckham. The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).

David Preston. Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle for the Monongahela and the Road to the Revolution. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Francis Paul Prucha. Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989).

____________. The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1986).

William L. Ramsey. The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Erna Risch. Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775-1939. (Washington, DC: Quartermaster Historian’s Office, 1962).

Otis A. Singletary. The Mexican War. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).

William B. Skelton. “The Commanding General and the Problem of Command in the United States Army, 1821-1841”. Military Affairs (December 1970). Pp 117-122).

__________. An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officers Corps, 1784-1861. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992).

J.C.A. Stagg. The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Craig L. Symonds. Lincoln and His Admirals. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

__________. The US Navy: A Concise History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Armstrong Starkey. European and Native American Warfare, 1675-1815. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).

Ian K. Steele. Warpaths: Invasions of North America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Ian W. Toll. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2006).

Willard M. Wallace. Appeal to Arms: A Military History of the American Revolution. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1951).

Russell F. Weigley. The Macmillan Wars of the United States: History of the United States Army. (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1967).

______________. Towards an American Army: Military Thought From Washington to Marshall. (Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1974).

Robin K. Wright. The Continental Army. (Washington, DC: US Army Center For Military History, 1983).