Suggested Reading for Voices of 1776

Books about Founding Mothers in General

First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role By Jeanne E. Abrams

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers by Barbara Hambly

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin

Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 by Mary Beth Norton

Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue by Susan Casey

I’m Deborah Sampson: A Solider in the War of the Revolution By Patricia Clapp

The Memoir of a Female Solider By Jan Lewis Nelson

Women Waging War Edited by Holly Mayer

Mothers, Sisters, Soldiers, Spies: Women at War in American Military History by Maureen Safford

Courageous Women In History: True Accounts of Women Warriors Who Changed the World and Defied the Odds by JR Rhodes

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams by Abigail & John Adams, Edited by Margaret Hogan

Abigail Adams: A Life by Woody Holton

First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J Ellis

Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs

Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis Jr & Mercy Otis Warren By Jeffery H. Hacker

Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters Edited by Jeffrey H. Richards & Sharon M Harris

A Woman’s Dilemma:” Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution By Rosemarie Zagarri

The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren by Nancy Rubin Stuart

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell

Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence by Shirley L. Green

Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert

The American Revolution in Indian Country by Colin G. Calloway

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal

Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara (Historical novel)

The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Remarkable Women in History: Stories of Courage, Struggle and Success by Emelyn Morris-Sayre

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf

American Revolution Stories: Forgotten Tales of Bravery, Betrayal, and Triumph during the Revolutionary War by Ahoy Puiblications