s _The Wars Between
England, and America_ (1914), chaps, I-VI; a fuller and better account
in Channing's _History of the United States_, III, chaps. I-XII; all
things considered the ablest summary is Lecky's _The American
Revolution_. An able and suggestive work is Fisher's _The Struggle for
American Independence_, 2 vols. 1908. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, with
wide information, strong Whig sympathies, and great charm of style, has
written the most fascinating work on the subject. _The American
Revolution_, 4 vols. 1905. The best study of British measures which
precipitated the struggle is Beer's _British Colonial Policy,
1754-1765_. 1907. For bibliography and summary of contemporary
literature, Tyler's _Literary History of the American Revolution._
Selections from newspapers and contemporary documents are in Moore's
_Diary of the American Revolution_, 2 vols. 1860. For the Loyalists, see
Tyler, in _American Historical Review_, I; Van Tyne, _The Loyalists in
the American Revolution_. 1902. For the attitude of the clergy, and the
influence of religious and sectarian forces, see Van Tyne, in _American
Historical Review_, XIX; Cross, _The Anglican Episcopate_. 1902.
Thornton (_The Pulpit of the American Revolution._ Boston, 1860)
reprints a number of contemporary sermons by New England clergy. For the
Western settlements see Roosevelt, _Winning of the West_, 4 vols.;
Alden, _New Governments West of the Alleghanies_, in _Wisconsin
Historical Bulletin_, II; Turner, in _American Historical Review_, I;
Thwaites, _How George Rogers Clark Won the North West_. 1903. The
opposition between the interior and the coast regions, and the bearing
of this on the formation of radical and conservative parties in the
Revolution, are well brought out in Lincoln's _The Revolutionary
Movement in Pennsylvania_ (University of Pennsylvania Studies. 1901);
and Henry's _Patrick Henry_, 3 vols. 1891. The letters, journals, and
papers of leading Americans in the Revolution have been very fully
printed. The ablest of the radicals was John Adams (_Works of John
Adams_, 10 vols. 1856); Franklin became increasingly radical with the
progress of events (_Writings of Benjamin Franklin_, 10 vols. 1903-07);
Dickinson was the ablest of the conservatives who joined the Revolution,
but with great reluctance (_Writings of John Dickinson_, 3 vols. 1895);
the extreme conservative and Loyalist view is best represented by
Hutchinson (_Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchi