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References

Episodes Two and Three

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn  

The Idea of America
Gordon S. Wood 
(In particular, the essay “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style”)

The American Revolution: A History
Gordon S. Wood

The Creation of the American Republic
Gordon S. Wood

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood

Religion and the Decline of Magic
by Keith Thomas

The Barbarous Years
Bernard Bailyn 

American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1
Alan Taylor

American Literature, 1764-1789
Everett Emerson

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Pauline Maier

Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Garry Wills

Science and the Founding Fathers
I. Bernard Cohen

The Scientific Revolution
Steven Shapin

Never at Rest
Richard S. Westfall 

Enlightening Symbols
Joseph Mazur 

Revolution in Science
I. Bernard Cohen

The Newtonian Revolution
I. Bernard Cohen

Isaac Newton
James Gleick

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