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Books like Washington’s Crossing

Across Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Renaissance, Presidents & Heads of State, and Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer.

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Top related books to Washington’s Crossing

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Revolutionaries A New History of the Invention of America

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Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Blood of Tyrants George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency

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Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Abigail and John Portrait of a Marriage

Edith Gelles

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Franklin and Washington The Founding Partnership

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Campaign of 1776 The Road to Trenton

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America’s Heroes and History A Brian Kilmeade Collection

Brian Kilmeade

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Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution

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Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Profiles in Freedom Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin

Carl Higbie

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Mary Ball Washington The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother

Craig Shirley

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#10

The American Revolution Reader

Denver Alexander Brunsman

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#11

Franklin & Washington The Founding Partnership

Edward J. Larson

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#12

The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#13

The Age of Reagan A History, 1974-2008

Sean Wilentz

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#14

Washington’s War The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency

Michael Rose

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#15

The Papers of George Washington V. 12; Revolutionary War Series;October-December 1777

George Washington

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#16

A “topping People” The Rise and Decline of Virginia’s Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

Emory G. Evans

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#17

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

David L. Holmes

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#18

McGillivray of the Creeks

John Walton Caughey

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#19

Taming Democracy “the People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

Terry Bouton

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Renaissance • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#20

Hero of Two Worlds The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Military

#21

The Life of George Washington Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, From

John Marshall

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#22

A Revolutionary Friendship Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic

Francis D. Cogliano

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#23

The Writings of George Washington; Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published From

George Washington

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#24

Jefferson and Religion

Eugene R. Sheridan

Themes: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) • Presidents & Heads of State • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer. Connected by Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Renaissance, Presidents & Heads of State. Authors featured include Jack N. Rakove, Logan Beirne, Edith Gelles, Edward J. Larson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.