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Continental Army Associates offers a range of services to people interested in aspects of military history.

Master bibliographies are available for a wide variety of topics relating to the military history of the United States and of the rest of the world. These bibliographies are focused on articles that have been published in periodicals, but also include many books. They are not intended to be comprehensive but rather to provide a solid base for our clients that allows them to efficiently focus their research.

In keeping with Continental Army Associates' primary expertise we have assembled a special set of bibliographies covering Early American military history, spanning the period from initial settlement to the adoption of the Constitution. These bibliographies are more detailed than the others, and do include a complete list of books as well as articles, dissertations, and manuscript holdings.

The early American bibliographies are organized into several groups:

• The most important group contains the bibliographies covering the participation of each state in the war and ones arranged by special categories of participants such as artillery or engineers. All of these deal with Americans in the Continental Army, militia, and the regular units controlled by individual states rather than the Continental Congress.
• A second set provide citations to special topics such as prisoners of war or weapons and technology.
• The third group covers the operations of the combatants arranged by campaign and geographic area. For example, persons interested in the siege of Yorktown will find citations in the Virginia Operations bibliography, which also covers the 1775-1776 efforts to expel the British from the Chesapeake Bay. Bibliographies in this category cover theaters other than North America: the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia.
• Introductory materials provide an overview of the War of American Independence, including selected bibliographies covering the causes, politics, and diplomacy of the war as they relate to its military aspects.
• A bibliography exists for each of the allies (France, Spain and the Netherlands) and for each group of opponents (British, Loyalist and German).
• A final group contains bibliographies for the naval side of the war.

A typical search for the activity of a specific unit or person in the war would begin with the state bibliography and then add selections from the bibliographies of the relevant campaigns. Identification of campaign participation by Continental Army units is found in The Continental Army (1983).

Continental Army Associates also provides personalized advice to researchers in the form of laying out a research strategy that obtains maximum results with minimum waste of time and energy. A dialog will determine needs and present an array of options (with price quotations).

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