Dear Readers and Researchers:
On this “Notes & Bibliography” page, I provide page-connected footnotes — often further comment on actual content — and then a complete bibliography of Washington books and Colonial Virginia Books in alphabetical order beneath that for quick reference.
Though actual copies of Riding with George have an index, I’ve saved the back matter bibliography and footnotes — for space and convenience considerations — for this web page. This allows me to link the reader to modern web guides and primary source materials, which may interest academics and persons who might want to retrace … Read More
Preface: XIII. West Point. The USMA holds George Washington in high esteem for myriad reasons, including for his defense of the Hudson Valley during The Revolution. I’ve visited West Point on several occasions as an “official guest” and had the honor to look into their archives through the generous offering of military and civilian staffers … Read More
BIBLIOGRAPHY: George Washington Books: Achenbach, Joel, The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Anderson, Fred, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, Vintage, New York, 2000. Andrlik, Todd, Reporting the Revolutionary War. New York: Sourcebooks, … Read More