Bernard Bailyn:
“Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”
Forrest McDonald:
“E Pluribus Unum”
“Novus Ordo Seclorum”
“Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes”
M.E. Bradford:
“A Better Guide than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution”
“Original Intentions: On the making and ratification of the Constitution”
“Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the Constitution”
Thanks. Bailyn is one of only a few conservative historians that I can count on one hand. Didn’t know of McDonald, but not surprised given the attention he got from George Nash.
Have you ever read George Bancroft’s “History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent”?
Given how most historians have thrown in with progressives they’re generally problematic, I highly value original sources as a way around them.