Recent and Forthcoming Publications on Early American Topics, 2025
The following are recent and forthcoming 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.
Columbia University Press
Marian Füssel, The World in Flames: A Global History of the Seven Years’ War
Cornell University Press
Elizabeth Paling Funk, The Dutch World of Washington Irving: Knickerbocker’s History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales
Kelly Y. Hopkins, Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783
Nicole Saffold Maskiell, Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry
Harvard University Press
Zara Anishanslin, The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
John Samuel Harpham, The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
David Narrett, The Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670-1840
Johns Hopkins University Press
Matthew P. Brown, The Novel and the Blank: A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America
Andy Doolen, Traitor: The Life & Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical
Valeria López Fadul, The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire
Kim M. Gruenwald, Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce and Empire on the Riverine West, 1750-1803
David C. Hoffman, American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794-1948
Eran A. Zelnik, American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750-1850
Louisiana State University Press
Bridget Bennett, Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865
Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, eds., Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851
McGill University Press
Micah True, The Jesuit “Relations”: A Biography
Richard H. Tomczak, Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783
Michigan State University Press
Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant, eds. A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit
Larry L. Nelson, To Your Posts! Fort Meigs in the War of 1812 through the Voices of Those Who Fought There
New York University Press
Anthony C. Infanti, The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America
Michael E. Jirik, Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning
Ohio University Press
Mansel G. Blackford, Land Hunger: Ohio and the Western Frontiers
Oxford University Press
Kevin J. Hayes, Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin
Louis P. Masur, A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship
James H. Sweet, Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Matthew J. Tuininga, The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People
Karin Wulf, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
Penn State University Press
Kathleen Miller, ed., Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World
Princeton University Press
Kenneth L. Feder, Native America: The Story of the First Peoples
Mary Beth Norton, “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer”: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column
Stanford University Press
David Faflik, The Literary Gift in Early America
Yale University Press
Derek W. Black, Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820
Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
Liv Ingeborg and Brent Nongbri, Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Studies
John G. Turner, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
Thomas A. Tweed, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History
Amy Watson, Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763
University of Alabama Press
Norah L. A. Gharala, Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Meghan C. L. Howey, The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier
Julie M. Schablitsky, Belvoir: An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery
Benjamin C. Schaffer, The First Fleets: Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775
University of Arizona Press
Rick A. López, Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914
Joseph P. Sánchez, The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690: Embattled Settlers and Missionaries in Northern New Spain
Ezekiel G. Stear, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico
James Andrew Whitaker and Mark Harris, Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America
University of British Columbia Press
Angela C. Tozer, The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-1873
University of Chicago Press
Stephanie O’Rourke, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780-1850
University Press of Florida
Dean L. Anderson, Michael S. Nassaney, and Krysta Ryzewski, The Historical Archaeology of Michigan
Joseph Bagley and Holly Herbster, The Historical Archaeology of Massachusetts
Robert Cassanello, ed., Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810-1968
Jelmer W. Eerkens, Lee M. Panich, Christopher Canzonieri, and Christopher Zimmer, eds., Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost
Craig Lukezic and John P. McCarthy, eds., The Archaeology of New Netherland: A World Built on Trade
Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson, New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River
Richard F. Veit and Matthew A. Kalos, eds., The Archaeology of the American Revolution
University of Georgia Press
David Chanoff, Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist
Steven C. Hahn, A Pirate’s Life No More: The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas
Daniel Mendiola, The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America
Joshua D. Rothman, ed., A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom: The Life of Elisha Tyson
University of Illinois Press
Louis P. Cain, Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History
University Press of Kansas
Andrew H. Browning, Rescuing the Republic: James Madison, the Annapolis Convention, and the Path to the Constitution
Steven Frankel and John Ray, eds., Commerce and Character: The Political Economy of the Enlightenment and the American Founding
Thomas N. Ingersoll, A Tempestuous Sea of Liberty: The Rage for Equality in the Election of 1800-1801
Adam R. Nelson, Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good
Mary E. Stuckey, Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are
University Press of Kentucky
Melissa D. Birkhoffer and Paul M. Worley, eds., Teresa Martín and Luisa Menéndez: Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Nancy O’Malley, Kentucky Frontier to Commonwealth: Historical Archaeology at Daniel Boone’s and Hugh McGary’s Stations
University of Massachusetts Press
Carol Gardner, The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery
Nicholas W. Gentile, Enemies to Their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution
Lori Rogers-Stokes, Gathered into a Church: Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England
University of Nebraska Press
Linda A. Cumberland, A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
Marc Eagle, The Audencia of Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century: Justice and Royal Authority in the Spanish Caribbean
Geoffrey Kimball, Natchez Analytical Dictionary
Theresa M. Schenck, Ojibwe Ethnogensis, 1640-1740
University of New Mexico Press
Louis Alberto García-García, Armed Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands, 1686-1845
Matthew Schmader, Uncovering America’s First War: Contact, Conflict, and Coronado’s Expedition to the Rio Grande
University of North Carolina Press
Wendy Bellion, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Lauren Duval, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
Nicole Eustace and Fredrika J. Teute, eds., Warring for America: Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Mary Eyring, Saltwater: Grief in Early America
Andrew C. Isenberg, The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850
Susan Juster, A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America
Brent Morris, Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
University of Oklahoma Press
William P. A. Hunt, Origins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry
Lucas P. Kelley, Marking Native Borders: Indigenous Geography and American Empire in the Early Tennessee Country
Aaron Kusher, Cherokee Nation Citizenship: A Political History
University of Pennsylvania Press
Peter Conn, Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America
Michelle Craig McDonald, Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Lindsay O’Neill, The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City (American Philosophical Society)
University of South Carolina Press
Anthony S. Parent, Jr., Flocks of Birds: Virginia Colonialism into Native Country, 1670-1776
Otis Westbrook Pickett, Sr., Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802-1874
University of Tennessee Press
Matthew Pinson, The Free Will Baptists: A New History
University of Virginia Press
David Alff and Danielle Spratt, eds., Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Reginald Butler (edited by Peter S. Onuf), The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832
John M. Chamberlain, Barbary Entanglements: Realizing American Independence on the World Stage
Thomas E. Chávez, Revolutionary Diplomacy: Spanish Connections and the Birth of the United States
Nicholas G. Dipucchio, Before Manifest Destiny: The Contested Expansion of the Early United States
Mark F. Ehlers, Napoleon in America: Bonaparte and the Rhetoric of US Empire
Marshall Foletta, Purge and Bleed: Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine
Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, eds., The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation
Claire E. Gherini, Slavery’s Medicine: Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Andrew F. Hammann, Words Colliding: The Debate over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America
Peter R. Henriques, George Washington: His Quest for Honor and Fame
John Kaminski, Timothy D. Moore, Sarah K. Danforth, and Thomas H. Linley, eds., Mapping the Constitution: The Cartographic History of the Ratification of the Constitution
Mark Leepson, Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General
Matthew Mason, Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World
George D. Oberle III, Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic
Derek Kane O’Leary, Archival Communities: Constructing the Past in the Early United States
Erin Pearson, Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Steven Sarson, The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Eran Shalev, The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation
Brent Tarter, Vignettes of Colonial Virginia: Remarkable Stories from the Founding of America
The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, Volume 35 (21 November 1781 – 9 March 1782) and Volume 36 (10 March – 23 May 1782)
Early American Reprints
Mary Endress Ralston, Monima, or The Beggar Girl (introduction by Betsy Klima and Len Von Morzé; editing and notes by Richard S. Pressman)
Susanna Rowson, Sarah, or The Exemplary Wife (introduction by Steven Epley; editing and footnotes by Richard S. Pressman)