• Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
• Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
• Randall, Willard Sterne. Alexander Hamilton: A Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Other online resources for more information on Alexander Hamilton include:

• Alexander Hamilton: A Resource Guide – Library of Congress
• The Papers of Alexander Hamilton – Founders Online, National Archives
• Alexander Hamilton – American Experience, PBS

• 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, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000.
• Brady, Patricia. Martha Washington: An American Life. New York: Penguin Books, 2006 [2005].
• Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
• Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
• Ferling, John. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
• Ferling, John. John Adams: A Life. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 [1992].
• Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York, Boston, and London: Little, Brown and Co, 1974 [1969].
• Hawke, David. The Colonial Experience. Indianapolis, New York, and Kansas City: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1966.
• Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. New York and London: W W Norton & Co, 1988 [1982].
• Keyes, Nelson Beecher. Ben Franklin: An Affectionate Portrait. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1956.
• Lancaster, Bruce. From Lexington to Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution. Lewis Gannett, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1955.
• Larson, Edward J. The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
• Markle, Donald E. The Fox and the Hound: The Birth of American Spying. New York: Fall River Press, 2014.
• McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.
• Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965 [1943].
• Randall, Willard Sterne. Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2003 [1990].
• Washington, George. “General Orders, 2 July 1776.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-05-02-0117. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 5, 16 June 1776 – 12 August 1776, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 179–182.]
• Washington, George. “5 April 1776, to George Mason.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0132. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 177–181.]
• Washington, George. “31 May 1775, to George William Fairfax.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0281. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 367–368.]
• Washington, George. “18 June 1775, to Martha Washington.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0003. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 3–6.]

For more information on the Revolutionary War, a few sources not used in the making of this episode are as follows:

• Mike Duncan’s Revolutions Podcast – The second series of episodes is all about the American Revolution, and his podcast is also available on iTunes.
• Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
• DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. New York: Random House, 2016 [2015].
• Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 [1985].
• O’Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
• Savas, Theodore, and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Savis Beatie, 2010 [2006].
• Symonds, Craig L, and William J Clipson. A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co. Of America, 1986.
• Taylor, Alan. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804. New York: W W Norton & Co, 2016.

• 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, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000.
• Booraem, Hendrik V. A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World, 1773-1798. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2012.
• Brady, Patricia. Martha Washington: An American Life. New York: Penguin Books, 2006 [2005].
• Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
• Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971.
• DuVal, Katherine. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. New York: Random House, 2015. [ebook edition]
• Ferling, John. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
• Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York: Signet, 1984 [1969].
• Fusonie, Alan, and Donna Jean Fusonie. George Washington: Pioneer Farmer. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2011 [1998].
• Lancaster, Bruce. From Lexington to Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution. Lewis Gannett, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1955.
• Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

The intro and outro music for this episode as well as the remainder of the Washington episodes unless otherwise stated is from “Hail, Columbia” as performed by the US Navy Band. The full recording can be found at Wikipedia. The song was originally called “The President’s March” and was composed for Washington’s first inaugural. More information about the history of “Hail, Columbia” can be found at Wikipedia.