Week 1: “A great natural pier, ready to receive the commerce of the world” (Mariana van Rensselaer, History of the City of NY in the Seventeenth Century)

*Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2004. pp. 6-66; 265-318.

*Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

*Tiedemann, Joseph S. Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763-1776. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. pp. 221-259.

^Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. New York: Basic Books, 2012. pp. 51-109.

^Gilje, Paul A. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1987. pp. 3-68.