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Curated Bibliography for Study of Colonial History and Virginia

  • Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony edited by Edward Wright Haile
  • The General Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles by Captain John Smith
  • Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635 by Martha W. McCartney
  • American Colonies by Alan Taylor
  • Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 by William Bradford
  • The Name of War: King Philip’s war and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
  • The Journal of John Winthrop
  • Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society and Politics edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman
  • Roanoke Island: The beginnings of English America by David Stick
  • The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Dawson
  • Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era by Glenn F. Williams
  • The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts (selected for the 2022 Distinguished Book Award by the General Society of Colonial Wars)
  • Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland by Dr. Julia King
  • Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region by Dr. Julia King
  • 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James P. P. Horn (selected for the 2019 Distinguished Book Award by the General Society of Colonial Wars)
  • A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America by James P. P. Horn
  • A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James P. P. Horn
  • A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America by James P. P. Horn
  • Jane: Starvation, Cannibalism, and Endurance at Jamestown by James P. P. Horn
  • New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century by Virginia DeJohn Anderson (selected for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award by the General Society of Colonial Wars)