Five best books about the american revolution

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier

“Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation.

It is truly ‘American Scripture,’ and Maier tells us how it came to be—from the Declaration’s birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified.”

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution: Forgotten Black Heroes by William Cooper Nell

“William Cooper Nell, a nineteenth century abolitionist, wished to reexamine our understanding of this famous war and highlight to the world the black soldiers who fought and died for the cause of American Independence.”

Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer

“Paul Revere’s midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American