I'm starting my reading for the three historiography papers I have to do this semester. Two will be on the Continental Army, so I'll be looking at A Proper Sense of Honor by Caroline Cox, Valley Forge in Winter by [too far across the room to read the title], A Revolutionary People at War by Charles Royster, and A Respectable Army by Martin and Lender, for starters.

The third paper will be on loyalists and their role in the British Empire during and after the American Revolution, so I've got Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff, Three People, One King by Pieuch, and Black Patriots and Loyalists by Gilbert.

Add this with my normal class readings, and I'm basically some guy that sits on my couch and waves at my wife on occasion.

Book suggestion...

We all have holes gaps in our education/knowledge and once in awhile we get the urge to fill some of those in. For me right now its the Vietnam War.

My high school education got into the whole domestic scene during the turbulent sixties but the war itself was just treated as a backdrop in front of which the domestic issues played out. My college education just didn't include any classes on the time and period. Considering that its a huge part of my parents generation and that my own father (no longer with us so I can't ask him any personal recollections) enlisted willingly and apparently excitedly (though he never did see combat and according to my mother was bitter about missing his "chance") I'd like to know more about the war itself and the international politics surrounding it.

Question to you: If you were only going to read a single volume on the war what would it be?

Does anybody know of a good book about the history of chewing gum?

Any good books on the history of science? Thanks in advance

Anyone got some good books about the peninsular war or naval combat around that time?

Also any about the airwar and planes and such during world war 2?