Recent and Forthcoming Publications on Early American Topics, 2026
The following are recent and forthcoming monograph publications which may be of interest to SEA members. These lists are provided for informational purposes only. For earlier lists going back to 1996, see the Recent Publications on Early American Topics Archive page.
Bloomsbury
Lisa Binkley, ed., Dwelling on the Margins of Empire: Colonized and Indigenous Peoples’ Imaginaries of Home
Andrew Burstein, Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Timothy E. Miller, Thomas Bog Slade and Female Education in Early Georgia, 1800–1882
Michael H. Taylor, Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania: The Keystone State Decides
Robert P. Watson, Declaration: The Story of American Independence
Brandeis University Press
Harlow Giles Unger, Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
Cambridge University Press
Tatiana Seijas, American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City
Cornell University Press
Cameron Seglias, Settling Debt: Antislavery and Colonial Crisis
Thomas S. Wermuth, Devin Lander, Jennifer Lemark, and Robert Chiles, eds., Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York
Doubleday
H. W. Brands, American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington
Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
Edinburgh University Press
Barbara McCaskill, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Mona Narain, eds., The Lives, Writings and Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters
Sally Tuckett, Transatlantic Threads: Scottish Linen and Society, c.1707–1780
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Elizabeth Adelman, Chasing Lewis’s Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Wild Plants
George Mason University Press
John C. Rand, George Mason and the Tenth Amendment
Harvard University Press
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters, The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World
Mélanie Lamotte, By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
Indiana University Press
Aamaawia John Bickers, The Miami Nation: A Middle Path for Indigenous Nationhood
Johns Hopkins University Press
Michael Harrigan, Culture and Environment in the Early French Caribbean
Kevin Kokomoor, The Cherokee War of 1776: Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence
Daniel Peart, The Soul of the House: Speakers of the US House of Representatives, 1789–1861
Nancy Siegel, Political Appetites: The Power of Food in Revolutionary America
Andrew Wells, Generating Difference: Race and Reproduction in the British Empire, 1660–1840
Knopf
Andrea Wulf, The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
Liveright/W.W. Norton
Danielle Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen, Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—and the American Revolution—Transformed Britain
Christa Dierksheide and Nicholas Guyatt, Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
Linford D. Fisher, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
Alan Mikhail, Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano, Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours
Robert G. Parkinson, Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Daniel Rood, In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
Paul C. Rosier, Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776–2025
Alan Taylor, Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
Louisiana State University Press
James E. Caron, Comic Belles Lettres: Genealogies of Humor and Satire in Anglo-American Literature, 1711–1856
Brian Hamm, Strangers & Kinsmen: Portuguese Immigrants and the Spanish Caribbean, 1492–1650
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861
Manchester University Press
Helen Cowie, Conquering Nature in Spain and its Empire, 1750–1850
Douglas J. Hamilton, Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820
Joseph Hardwick, An Anglican British World: The Church of England and the Expansion of the Settler Empire, c.1790–1860
Linda Levy Peck and Adrianna E. Bakos, eds., Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas
Bernadette Whelan, American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913: A History of the U.S. Consular Service
Rachel Winchcombe, Encountering Early America
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Lyn Bennett and Edith Snook, Early Modern Maritime Recipes: Circulating Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Allan Greer, Canada in the Age of Rum
David Perley and Ian Peach, eds., The Past, Present, and Promise of the Peace and Friendship Treaties
New York University Press
Ralph Young, American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent
Oxford University Press
Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions
Peter C. Mancall, Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c.1000–1680
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America
Emily Sneff, When the Declaration of Independence Was News
Gordon S. Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
Penn State University Press
Sarah Crabtree and Melissa Philley, Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy! The Trials of William Rotch
Thomas Hallock, The Epic of Florida
John F. López, The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan–Mexico City
W. George Lovell, The Conquest That Never Was: Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru
Princeton University Press
Mark Peterson, The Making & Breaking of the American Constitution
Annette Gordon Reed, ed., Jefferson on Race: A Reader
David Stuart, The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
Routledge
Laura Jarnagin, Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca.1685–1825: Roots of an American Commercial Presence in Brazil
Isabelle Laskaris, Resistance in New England Slavery: Venture’s America
Simon & Schuster
Michael Auslin, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
Craig Fehrman, The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Stanford University Press
Molly Farrell, New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America
Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright, eds., The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open History of the United States (Second edition)
Yale University Press
Richard Brookhiser, The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution
David Eltis, David Richardson and Philip Misevich, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Second edition)
George Goodwin, Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution
Michael Leroy Oberg, The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred-Year History of the Onondaga Nation
University of Alabama Press
James M. Denham, Scourge of the Caribbean: Charles E. Hawkins, Sailor of Three Republics
University of Arizona Press
Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry, Incense and Performance: The Lives of Mexica Ritual Specialists
Peter M. Whiteley, ed., A Peregrine Ethnography: Reinterpreting Francisco Garcés’s Diary of Native Arizona and the Californias, 1775–1776
University of Chicago Press
Elizabeth Bacon Eager, The Technology of Drawing: Image and Industry in the Early United States
University of Delaware Press
Jane E. Calvert, ed., The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Volume 4
Eric D. Lamore, ed., Abigail Field Mott’s The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano: A Scholarly Edition
Lissa Paul, ed., The Fenwick Letters: A Transnational Feminist Life Reconstructed, Volume I: 1797–1821
University Press of Florida
Amélie Allard, Community Politics of the Fur Trade: Relationships, Mobility, and Landscapes of Possibility
Judith A. Bense, Early Spanish Florida: Unearthing the History of America’s Oldest Colony
Ian J. McNiven, Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals
University of Georgia Press
Mike Bunn, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era
R. Douglas Hurt, The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution
William A. Morgan, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery
Jacqueline Jones Royster, Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up
Beth Fowkes Tobin, Loving Insects: John Abbot’s Drawings and Natural History Collecting in the Atlantic World, 1760s–1840s
Shaun R. C. Wallace, In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early Republic
University of Illinois Press
Ryan K. Shosted and N. E. Davis, The Deseret Alphabet: A Fixed and Unalterable Sound
University Press of Kansas
Jay K. Dow, The First Elections: The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic
Tim Alan Garrison, Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights
University of Massachusetts Press
Stephen D. Crocco, Reviving Jonathan Edwards: Perry Miller’s Mid-Century Mission
Richard Garver, New England Metropolis: Boston and the Industrialization of New England, 1807–1850
University of Nebraska Press
Dan Du, This World in a Teacup: Credit, Taste, and Power in the U.S.-China Tea Trade, 1784–1911
Thomas Grillot, The Pursuit of Family: A History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation, 1794–2022
Charles W. A. Prior, Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic
Thomas Ward, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru
University of North Carolina Press
Denise Bossy, Yamasee: Indigenous Mobility, Placemaking, and Power in the Early South
Céline Carayon, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Anthony E. Carlson, Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
Hannah Farber, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Erin B. Kramer, The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands
John Garrison Marks, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Matthew Mason and David Waldstreicher, Somerset v. Steuart: Law, Politics, and Slavery in North America
Tamika Nunley and Derrick R. Spires, eds., Benjamin Quarles’s The Negro in the American Revolution: A New Critical Edition
Nicholas Popper, ed., The American Revolution: Essays on the Founding Era
Tisa Wenger, Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion
University of Oklahoma Press
Martha J. Macri, The Isthmian Script: Deciphering Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
Jorge Rivas Pérez, ed., Transpacific Crossings: Art, Trade, and the Manila Galleon
University of Pennsylvania Press
Josh Garrett-Davis and Linde B. Lehtinen, eds., This Land Is … Field Notes on American Ground
Fenella Greig Heckscher, Jane Colden’s Botanic Manuscript: The Legacy of America’s First Woman Botanist
Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney, eds., Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Diego Pirillo, The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Timothy Bowers Vasco, Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery
University of South Carolina Press
Carl P. Borick, Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina’s Militia and the Fight for American Independence
John T. Lowe, Benevolence and Bondage: Jonathan Edwards, Slavery, Race, and the Paradox of Spiritual Equality
America’s Founding Documents: A Critical Reader
University of Tennessee Press
Christopher P. Magra, ed., America’s First War: The Military History of the Declaration of Independence
University of Virginia Press
Kenneth J. Banks, A Sea of Possibilities: The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen
T. H. Breen, The American Revolution on Trial: A New Nation Confronts the Burden of Independence
Kate Elizabeth Brown and Lorri Glover, eds., Learning Through George Washington: A Guide for Educators, Students, and Citizens
Katherine Carté, ed., Revolutionary Turns: Religion and America’s Founding Era
Francis D. Cogliano, ed., The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding
Jeffrey Griffith, ed., The Papers of John Hancock: Volume 1: 1754–1769 [Colonial Society of Massachusetts]
Edward W. Hanson, ed., The Papers of Robert Treat Paint: Volume 5: 1787–1814 [Massachusetts Historical Society]
Ruth Hill, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds
Kathryn K. Lasdow, Wharfed Out: Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront
Kieran J. O’Keefe, Suffering for the Crown: The Hudson Valley Loyalists and the Violence of Revolution
Alyssa Penick, A Great Revolution in Church and State: Religion, Government, and Property in the Chesapeake, 1700–1830
Charmaine M. Perry, Perpetual Foreigners: Stigma, Citizenship, and Anti-Haitianism in the Bahamas
Sharon V. Salinger, Perceived in Print: Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, ed., Against All Odds: Spain and the Global Struggle for US Independence
John T. Schlotterbeck, James Madison’s World: Society and Culture in Central Virginia, 1714 to 1900
Brent Tarter, Virginia’s Forgotten Founder: The World of Robert Carter Nicholas
Anna Vincenzi, Echoes of a Distant Republic: Italian Perspectives on the American and French Revolutions
Adrian Chastain Weimer and David D. Hall, eds., The Writings of Daniel Gookin and Allied Documents [Colonial Society of Massachusetts]
Holly N. S. White, Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States
The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series, Volume 5 (1 March 1828 – 28 February 1830)
The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, Volume 37 (24 May – 20 August 1782)