Interested in learning more about the Anglo-Cherokee War, or interactions between Cherokees and British colonists in general? These resources are a great place to start!
Monographs
(these are books written by historians that go through an extensive peer-review process)
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. Vintage, 2001.
Tyler Boulware, Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees. University Press of Florida, 2011.
David Corkran, The Cherokee Frontier: Conflict and Survival, 1740-62. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. **originally published in 1962**
Tom Hatley, The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Michelle LeMaster, Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast. University Press of Virginia, 2012.
John Oliphant, Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-1763. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Daniel Tortora, Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763. University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Primary Sources (published)
William L. McDowell, Jr., editor. Documents Related to Indian Affairs , 1754-1765. University of South Carolina Press and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1970.
Multivolume series, Journal of the Commons House of Assembly. The Colonial Records of South Carolina Series. South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1974-ongoing.
Henry Timberlake, The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765. Edited by Duane H. King. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Primary Sources (archival)
Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives, Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina University. (microfilm collection)
William Henry Lyttelton Papers, 1730-1806, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
South Carolina Council Records, South Carolina Department of History and Archives.
South Carolina Gazette weekly newspaper. (available on microfilm)
Historic Sites and Museums
Colonial Charleston (Charleston, SC)
Fort Dobbs (Statesville, NC)
Fort Loudoun (Vonore, TN)
Museum of the Cherokee People (Cherokee, NC)
Ninety-Six National Historical Site (Ninety Six, SC)