TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--The great storehouse of facts regarding the social and domestic life of the American people is McMaster's _History of the People of the United States_ (5 vols. now ready). For topics see detailed index of each volume. Consult especially Vol. II, pp. 538-582, on "Town and Country Life in 1800." This work is somewhat voluminous for elementary work. REFERENCES FOR READING.--Earle's _Home Life in Colonial Days_; Earle's _Child Life in Colonial Days_, _Tavern and Stage Coach in Colonial Days_; Earle's _Sabbath in Puritan New England_; Earle's _Customs and Fashions of Old New England_; Earle's _Colonial Dames and Goodwives_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Coffin's _Building the Nation_; Scudder's _Men and Manners in America 100 years Ago_; Wharton's _Through Colonial Doorways_; Wharton's _Colonial Days and Dames_; Fisher's _Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times_; Markham's _Colonial Days_; Hawthorne's _Grandfathers Chair_. CHAPTERS X-XVIII. PAGES 139-295. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--For a series of topics on the American Revolution, to be read in connection with these nine chapters, consult the index to Fiske's _American Revolution_ (2 vols.). REFERENCES FOR READING.--For the Revolution as a whole the two best works for supplementary reading in schools are perhaps Lodge's _Story of the Revolution_ and Fiske's _War of Independence_ (Riverside Literature Series). Lossing's _Field Book of the Revolution_ is voluminous but interesting, and fully illustrated. Among the scores of excellent works which may be consulted, the following may be safely recommended: Coffin's _Story of Liberty_; Fiske-Irving's _Washington and his Country_; Abbot's _Blue Jackets of '76_; Bacon's _Historic Pilgrimages in New England_; C. H. Woodman's _Boys and Girls of the Revolution_; Brooks's _Century Book of the American Revolution_; Drake's _Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777_; Seawell's _Paul Jones_; Abbott's _Paul Jones_ (Ajax Series); Brooks's _Story of the American Sailor_; Frost's _Swamp Fox_ (Marion).