• Adams, James Truslow (1922). The Founding of New England. Atlantic Monthly Press; full text online. 
• Adams, James Truslow. Revolutionary New England, 1691–1776 (1923)
• Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Period of American History (4 vol. 1934–38), the standard political overview to 1700
• Carr, J. Revell (2008). Seeds of Discontent: The Deep Roots of the American Revolution, 1650–1750. Walker Books. 
• Chitwood, Oliver. A history of colonial America (1961), older textbook
• Cooke, Jacob Ernest et al., ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. (3 vol. 1993); 2397 pp.; comprehensive coverage; compares British, French, Spanish & Dutch colonies
• Elliott, John (2006). Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830. Yale University Press. 
• Foster, Stephen, ed. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2014) doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206124.001.0001
• Gipson, Lawrence. The British Empire Before the American Revolution (15 volumes, 1936–1970), Pulitzer Prize; highly detailed discussion of every British colony in the New World
• Greene, Evarts Boutelle et al., American Population before the Federal Census of 1790, 1993, ISBN 0-8063-1377-3
• Greene, Evarts Boutell (1905). Provincial America, 1690–1740. Harper & brothers; full text online. 
• Hawke, David F.; The Colonial Experience; 1966, ISBN 0-02-351830-8. older textbook
• Hawke, David F. Everyday Life in Early America (1989) excerpt and text search
• Middlekauff, Robert (2005). The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution, 1763–1789. Oxford University Press. 
• Middleton, Richard, and Anne Lombard. Colonial America: A History to 1763 (4th ed. 2011), the newest textbook excerpt and text search
• Taylor, Alan. American colonies (2002), 526 pages; recent survey by leading scholar
• Vickers, Daniel, ed. A Companion to Colonial America. (Blackwell, 2003) 576 pp.; topical essays by experts excerpt

Chính phủ

• Andrews, Charles M.Colonial Self-Government, 1652–1689 (1904) full text online
• Dinkin, Robert J. Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689–1776 (1977)
• Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution (1943)
• Osgood, Herbert L. The American colonies in the seventeenth century, (3 vol 1904–07) vol. 1 online; vol 2 online; vol 3 online
• Osgood, Herbert L. The American colonies in the eighteenth century (4 vols, 1924–25)

Nguồn chính

• Kavenagh, W. Keith, ed. Foundations of Colonial America: a Documentary History (6 vol. 1974)
• Sarson, Steven, and Jack P. Greene, eds. The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607–1783 (8 vol, 2010); nguồn chính