BRIEF GENERAL HISTORIES
For class use or for reading, the most convenient short accounts of colonial conditions and of the Revolution are as follows : —
Edward Charming, The United States of America [1765-1865]. New York, 1896. — A hundred pages on the causes and conditions of the Revolution.
George Park Fisher, The Colonial Era (American History Series, I). New York, 1892. — Comes down to 1756, with an intelligent account of the condition of the colonies.
George Washington Greene, Historical View of the American Revolution, Boston, 1865. — One of the best brief expositions of the Revolution.
Albert Bushnell Hart, Formation of the Union [1750-1829] (Epochs of American History, II). New York, revised, 1897. — Four chapters on the revolutionary period.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A Larger History of the United States. New York, 1886. — A charming study of American life, and especially of the conditions of frontier warfare.
Henry Cabot Lodge, A Short History of the English Colonies in America. New York, 1881. — Deals particularly with social conditions in the eighteenth century.
Henry Cabot Lodge, George Washington (American Statesmen Series). 2 vols. Boston, 1889. — Vol. I is an excellent account of the political and military progress of the Revolution.
John T. Morse, Jr., Benjamin Franklin (American Statesmen Series). Boston, 1889. — A good life of the American most representative of his time.
William Milligan Sloane, The French War and the Revolution (American History Series, II). New York, 1893. — A good survey of the revolutionary period.
Reuben Gold Thwaites, The Colonies (Epochs of American History, I). New York, revised, 1897. — Four chapters on the colonies after 1700.
