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    Brief Reading List in American History
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        Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People, Yale University Press,1972

         

        Albanese, Catherine *America: Religions and Religion, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1992

         

        Allen, Frederick L. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950, Harper & Row,1986

         

        Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower (2 vols.) Vol. 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 Vol. 2: The President, Simon & Schuster,1985

         

        Ambrose, Stephen E. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, 6th rev. ed., Viking Penguin, 1991

         

        Ashworth, John Agrarians & Aristocrats: Party Political Ideology in the UnitedStates, 1837-1846, Cambridge University Press, 1987

         

        Badger, Anthony The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940, Hill & Wang, 1989

         

        Bailyn, Bernard Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence, Random House, Inc., 1992

         

        Bailyn, Bernard Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Harvard University Press, 1967

         

        Bailyn, Bernard, Robert Dallek, David B. Davis, David H. Donald, John L. Thomas and Gordon S. Wood

         

        The Great Republic: A History of the American People (2 vols.), 3d ed., D.C. Heath, Co., 1985

         

        Banner, Lois W. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights, Scott Foresman, 1987

         

        Beisner, Robert L. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, 2d ed., Harlan Davidson, 1986

         

        Berlin, Ira Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, New Press NY, 1992
         

        Billington, Ray A. The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860, HarperCollins, 1962

         

        Blum, John Morton The Progressive Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

         

        Blum, John Morton V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1977

         

        Blumenthal, Sidney and Thomas Edsall The Reagan Legacy: A Nation Adrift, Pantheon Books, 1988

         

        Bodnar, John The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America, Indiana University Press, 1985

         

        Boorstin, Daniel J. *The Americans (3 vols.): Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience Vol. 2: The Democratic Experience Vol. 3: The National Experience, Random House, Inc., 1975

         

        Bowen, Catherine Drinker Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, Little, Brown & Co., 1986

         

        Boyer, Paul and Steven Nissenbaum Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Harvard University Press, 1974

         

        Branch, Taylor Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963, Simon & Schuster, 1989

         

        Bridenbaugh, Carl Jamestown, 1544-1699, Oxford University Press, 1980

         

        Brodie, Fawn M. Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character, Harvard University Press, 1983

         

        Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Henry Holt & Co., 1991

         

        Burner, David John F. Kennedy and A New Generation, Scott Foresman & Co., 1988

         

        Cannon, Lou President Reagan: The Role of A Lifetime, Simon & Schuster, 1992

         

        Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 2d ed., Oxford University Press, 1991

         

        Chase, Gilbert *America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, 3d rev. ed., University of Illinois Press, 1987

         

        Cochran, Thomas C. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America, Oxford University Press, 1981
         

        Cott, Nancy F. *The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Yale University Press, 1987

         

        Craven, Wayne and Richard Martin Two Hundred Years of American Art: The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, University of Washington Press, 1987

         

        Craven, Wesley F. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689. Louisiana State University Press, 1949

         

        Dallek, Robert Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945, Oxford University Press, 1979

         

        Dangerfield, George The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828, HarperCollins, 1965

         

        Degler, Carl N. Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 3d ed., Harper & Row, 1984

         

        Deloria, Vine Jr. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992

         

        De Tocqueville, Alexis (Thomas Bender et al., eds.) Democracy in America, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1981

         

        De Voto, Bernard, ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Houghton Mifflin, 1973

         

        Diggins, John P. Proud Decades: America in War & Peace, 1941-1960, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1989

         

        Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger Nichols and David M. Reimers Natives and Strangers: Blacks, Indians and Immigrants in America, 2d. ed., Oxford University Press, 1990

         

        Divine, Robert The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2d rev. ed., Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1988

         

        Divine, Robert *Eisenhower and Sputnik, Oxford University Press, 1993

         

        Douglass, Frederick The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: The Complete Autobiography, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962

         

        Draper, Theodore A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs, rev. ed., Simon & Schuster, 1992

         

        DuBois, Ellen C. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869, Cornell University Press, 1978

         

        DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992

         

        Durham, Philip and Everett L. Jones The Negro Cowboys, University of Nebraska Press, 1983
         

        Fearon, Peter War, Prosperity and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917-1945, University Press of Kansas, 1988

         

        Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency, Scott Foresman, 1987

         

        Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921, HarperCollins, 1986

         

        Fitzgerald, Frances Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Random House, Inc., 1989

         

        Flexner, Eleanor Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States, rev. ed., Belknap Press, 1975

         

        Flexner, James T. Washington: The Indispensable Man, New American Library, 1984

         

        Foner, Eric Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 1970

         

        Foner, Eric Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, HarperCollins, 1989

         

        Foote, Shelby The Civil War: A Narrative (3 vols.), Random House, Inc., 1986 Franklin, John H. and Alfred A. Moss Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, 6th ed., Alfred A. Knopf, 1987

         

        Frederickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character & Destiny, 1817-1914, University Press of New England, 1987

         

        Freehling, William W. *The Road to Disunion: Secessionists At Bay, 1776-1854, Oxford University Press, 1990

         

        Freeland, Richard M. *The Truman Doctrine & the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy & Internal Security, 1946-1948, New York University Press, 1985

         

        Freidel, Frank Franklin D. Roosevelt: Rendezvous with Destiny, Little, Brown & Co., 1991

         

        Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective, Oxford University Press, 1991

         

        Friedman, Lawrence M. American Law: An Introduction, W.W. Norton & Co., 1985

         

        Galbraith, John Kenneth The Great Crash of 1929, Houghton Mifflin, 1988

         

        Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. & the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Random House, Inc., 1987

         

        Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Random House, Inc., 1976

         

        Goodwin, Doris K. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, St. Martin Press., 1991

         

        Graebner, Norman A. America As A World Power: A Realist Appraisal from Wilson to Reagan, Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1984

         

        Graham, Otis L. Jr. The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928, abridged ed., Krieger Publishing Co., 1987

         

        Greenstein, Fred I. and Frank B. Feigert The American Party System and the American People, rev. 3d ed., Prentice-Hall, 1985

         

        Halberstam, David The Best and the Brightest, Fawcett Books, 1993

         

        Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison and John Jay The Federalist Papers, Bantam Books, 1982

         

        Handlin, Oscar The Uprooted, 2d ed., Little, Brown & Co., 1973

         

        Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, 2d ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1986

         

        Hofstadter, Richard The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR, Random House, Inc., 1960

         

        Hofstadter, Richard The Idea of A Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840, University of California Press, 1969

         

        Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, & the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952, Cambridge University Press, 1989

         

        Howe, Daniel W. The Political Culture of the American Whigs, University of Chicago Press, 1984

         

        Huggins, Nathan I. Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press, 1971

         

        Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, Jerry Goldman, eds. The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America, 3d ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1992

         

        Jennings, Francis Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years' War in America, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1990

         

        Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination, Oxford University Press, 1984

         

        Johnson, Haynes *Sleepwalking Through History: America Through the Reagan Years, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1991

         

        Jones, Landon Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, Ballantine Books, 1986

         

        Jordan, Winthrop D. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1977

         

        Karnow, Stanley Vietnam: A History, Viking Penguin, 1991

         

        Keegan, John The Second World War, Viking Penguin, 1990

         

        Kennan, George F. American Diplomacy, 1900-1950, University of Chicago Press, 1985

         

        Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect & Ideology in Revolutionary America, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1986

         

        Kindleberger, Charles P. The World in Depression: 1929-1939, rev. ed., University of California Press, 1986

         

        Kraut, Alan M. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, Harlan Davidson, 1982

         

        Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1992

         

        LaFeber, Walter America, Russia, and the Cold War, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1987

         

        Lavender, David The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent, Doubleday, 1990

         

        Lincoln, Abraham (Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed.) Speeches and Writings (2 vols.): Vol. 1: 1832-1858 Vol. 2: 1859-1864 Library of America, 1989

         

        Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917, HarperCollins, 1963

         

        Livesay, Harold Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business, Scott Foresman, 1987

         

        Livesay, Harold Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America, Scott Foresman, 1987

         

        Long, Richard A. and Eugenia W. Collier, eds. *Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, 2d ed., Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985

         

        Malone, Dumas Thomas Jefferson and His Time (6 vols.), Little, Brown & Co., Inc., 1948-1981
         

        Manchester, William American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, Dell Books, 1983

         

        Manchester, William Death of a President: November 1963, HarperCollins, 1988

         

        Marable, Manning W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987

         

        Marsden, George M. Religion and American Culture, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publications, 1990

         

        McCullough, David *Truman, Simon & Schuster, 1992

         

        McDonald, Forrest Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

         

        McFarland, Gerald W., ed. *Mugwumps, Morals and Politics, 1884-1920, University of Massachusetts Press, 1975

         

        McPherson, James Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War, Ballantine Books, 1989

         

        Miller, John C. The Federalist Era, 1789-1800, HarperCollins, 1963

         

        Miller, Perry G. The Transcendentalists: An Anthology, Harvard University Press, 1950 Montgomery, David The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925, Cambridge University Press, 1989

         

        Morris, Richard B. *The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, Northeastern University Press, 1983

         

        Murphy, Francis, ed. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, McGraw-Hill, 1981

         

        Murray, Charles Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, Basic Books, 1986

         

        Nash, Gary B. Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, 3d ed., Prentice-Hall, 1991

         

        Nash, Gary B. et al. The American People: Creating A Nation and A Society, (2 vols.), 2d ed., HarperCollins, 1990

         

        Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership from FDR to Carter, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980

         

        Nevins, Allan Ordeal of the Union (4 vols.), Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992

         

        Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, NAL-Dutton, 1978

         

        Oates, Stephen B. Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr., NAL-Dutton, 1983

         

        Patrick, Rembert *Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, AMS Press, 1944

         

        Parrish, Thomas *Roosevelt and Marshall, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1989

         

        Perkins, George; E. Sculley Bradley; Richmond Beatty and E. Hudson Long The American Tradition in Literature, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 1989

         

        Perman, Michael Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879, Harlan Davidson, 1987

         

        Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson & the New Nation: A Biography, Oxford University Press, 1986

         

        Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Viking Penguin, 1982

         

        Quarles, Benjamin The Negro in the Civil War, Da Capo, 1989

         

        Reeves, Thomas C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, Madison Books UPA, 1983

         

        Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson, HarperCollins, 1969

         

        Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920, University of Chicago Press, 1979

         

        Royster, Charles A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & American Character, 1775-1783, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

         

        Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1959

         

        Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988

         

        Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Politics of Upheaval, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988

         

        Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times, Ballantine Books, Inc., 1985

         

        Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Jackson, Little, Brown & Co., 1988

         

        Scully, Vincent American Architecture and Urbanism, rev. ed., Henry Holt & Co., 1988

         

        Sellers, Charles, Henry May and Neil R. McMillen A Synopsis of American History, 7th rev. & comb. ed., Ivan R. Dee, 1992

         

        Sheehan, Neil A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Random House, Inc., 1989

         

        Sitkoff, Harvard The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980, Hill & Wang, 1981 Smith, Adam *The Roaring '80s, Summit Books, 1988

         

        Stegner, Wallace E. The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail, University of Nebraska Press, 1992

         

        Stewart, James B. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery, Hill & Wang, 1976

         

        Sundquist, James L. Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years, Brookings Institution, 1968

         

        Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate Nation 1861-1865, HarperCollins, 1981

         

        Tindall, George B. and David E. Shi America: A Narrative History, 3d ed., W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1992

         

        Tindall, George B. The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, Louisiana State University Press, 1967

         

        Toffler, Alvin Future Shock, Bantam Books, 1971

         

        Toland, John Infamy, Doubleday, 1992

         

        Trachtenberg, Alan The Incorporation of America: Culture & Society in the Gilded Age, Hill & Wang, Inc., 1982

         

        Trask, David F. The War with Spain in 1898, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1981

         

        Utley, Jonathan G. Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941, University of Tennessee Press, 1985

         

        Utley, Robert M. The Last Days of the Sioux Nation, Yale University Press, 1963

         

        Van Deusen, Glyndon G. The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848, Waveland Press, 1992

         

        Van Deusen, Glyndon G. The Life of Henry Clay, Greenwood Press, 1979

         

        Van Doren, Carl Benjamin Franklin, Viking Penguin, 1991

         

        Viorist, Milton Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s, Simon & Schuster, 1981 Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers, 1815-1860, Hill & Wang, 1978

         

        Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Indian in America, HarperCollins, 1981
         

        White, Theodore H. America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956-1980, Warner Books, 1988

         

        Wilkinson, J. Harvie From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration, 1954-1978, Oxford University Press, 1979

         

        Wittner, Lawrence S. Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publications, 1978

         

        Wolfe, Tom The Right Stuff, Bantam Books, 1984

         

        Woodward, C. Vann The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3d rev. ed., Oxford University Press, 1974

         

        Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein All the President's Men, Simon & Schuster, 1987

         

        York, Neil L. Toward a More Perfect Union: Six Essays on the Constitution, State University of New York Press, 1988

         


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