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
