Thread by @Irkutyanin1

Talking about Taylor & Foner versus the Oxford history was fun here,

For anyone who might think I went to fast with recommendations at the end, I want to give you a more expanded list.

Starting with my own introduction to US Colonial History, the standard textbook 100 years ago

Oliver Perry Chitwood was one of the greatest early 20th century colonial historian scholars, though he looks more at the evolution of political institutions and religious communities more than ethnology, which David Hackett Fisher is a good but incomplete study.

Another thing I imply is that British history, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish history in specific regards to Ulster is key to the colonial American ethnos, some of that has to involve reading British history to modern times and colonial immigration waves.

Charles Andrews, Herbert Osgood, and Henry Lawrence Gibson dig further into early American history within a continental and European political context and most are on archive right now, these are the men the Fonerites and the Gordon Woods replaced.

Lastly, you should look into the history specifically of the peopling of the state or region within the state your ancestors moved to. Every area is different, every area has a story you can tie back to the wider colonial and ultimately European context for why it was settled.

Our history is not limited to within the states that have survived to this day, nor the political movements that have emerged from UK devolution, we don’t need them, but we can and should use regional history to create a national American history beyond the continent.

On our Continent, we have our own traditions of regional history as well, New England, the Old Northwest, The South, and the West. Each of these is worth remembering against “global” or “social” new schools of historiography.