U.S.
History 1301 Book List
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U.S.
History 1301 Book List
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CONTENTS
17th Century Colonial
America
18th Century Colonial
America
19th Century America
African Americans
in US History
Pre-Columbian America
Biographies
Civil War
Constitutional History
Ecology, Nature
Economics,
Technology, Industry, Business
Europe in the Late
Middle Ages
European Contact &
Conquest
Westward
Expansion
& Manifest Destiny
Independence &
The New Nation
Latinos in US History
Military History
Native Americans
in US HIstory
Politics
Reconstruction
Reform Movements
Religion &
Philosophy in America
Slavery
Texas
War of 1812
Women in US History
Others
Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America.
1992.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures
in Colonial North America. 1985.
Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth
Century. 1955.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Origin of American Politics.
1968
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
1964.
Bourne, Russell. The Red Kingís Rebellion: Racial
Politics
in New England, 1675-1678. 1990.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed:
The Social Origins of Witchcraft. 1974.
Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses,
Cities. 1992.
Butler, Jon. Becoming America: the Revolution before 1776.
2000.
Craven, Wesley. The Colonies in Transition. 1968.
Demos, John P. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and Culture
in Early New England. 1982.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albionís Seed: Four British
Folkways
in North America. 1989.
Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and
the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. 1991.
Greven, Philip. Four Generations: Population, Land and Family
in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts. 1970.
Miller, John C. The First Frontier: Life in Colonial
America. 1966.
Pomfret, John E. Founding the American Colonies.
1970.
Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans,
& the Making of New England, 1500-1643. 1982.
Schlesinger, Roger. In the wake of Columbus: the Impact of
the New World on Europe, 1492-1650. 1996.
Steele, Ian Kenneth. Warpaths: Invasions of North America.
1994.
Waller, George. Puritans in Early America. 1950,
1973.
Weisman, Richard. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th
Century Massachusetts.1984.
Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First
Generation
of Americans. 2000.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures
in Colonial North America. 1985.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Origin of American Politics.
1968
Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the
Peopling
of America on the Eve of the Revolution. 1986.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations
of American Foreign Policy. 1969
Blake, Daniel Smith. Inside the Great House. 1980.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
1964.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The National
Experience.
1967
Bowen, Catherine D. The Most Dangerous Man in America:
Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin. 1974.
Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses,
Cities. 1992.
Butler, Jon. Becoming America: the Revolution before 1776.
2000.
Clark, Ronald. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography.
1983.
Cochran, Thomas. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization
in America. 1981.
Cooke, Jacob E. Alexander Hamilton. 1982.
Craven, Wesley. The Colonies in Transition. 1968.
Cunningham, Noble E. Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life
of Thomas Jefferson. 1987.
Ekrich, Roger A. Bound for America: The Transportation of
British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. 1987.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albionís Seed: Four British
Folkways
in North America. 1989.
Greven, Philip. Four Generations: Population, Land and Family
in colonial Andover, Massachusetts. 1970.
Jennings, Francis. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and
Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. 1988.
McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison
and the Republican Legacy.1989.
Miller, John C. The First Frontier: Life in Colonial
America. 1966.
Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and
the Origins of the American Revolution. 1979, 1986.
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. An Empire divided: the
American
Revolution and the British Caribbean. 2000.
Pomfret, John E. Founding the American Colonies.
1970.
Risjord, Norman K. Jefferson's America, 1760-1815.
Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White
Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. 1987.
Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First
Generation
of Americans. 2000.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations
of American Foreign Policy. 1969.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The National Experience.
1967
Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses,
Cities. 1992.
Cochran, Thomas. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization
in America. 1981.
Dangerfield, George. The Awakening of American
Nationalism.
1965.
Dangerfield, George. The Era of Good Feelings.
1952.
Ellis, Richard B. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy,
States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis.
1987.
Feldberg, Michael. The Turbulent Era: Riot & Disorder
in Jacksonian America. 1980.
Ginzberg, Lori. Women & the Work of Benevolence:
Morality,
Politics & Class in the 19th Century United States. 1990.
Harrold, Stanley. The Abolitionists: The South, 1831-61.
1995.
Johannsen, Robert. To the Halls of the Montezuma: the Mexican
War in American Imagination. 1985.
Meyers, Marvin. The Jacksonian Persuasion. 1960,
1968.
Pessen, Edward. Jacksonian America: Society, Personality,
and Politics. 1969, 1978.
Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815.
1968.
West, Elliott. Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far
Western Frontier. 1997.
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN US HISTORY
Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. 1998
Berlin, Ira. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the
Antebellum South. 1974.
Berlin, Ira and Ronald Hoffman. Slavery and Freedom in the
Age of the American Revolution. 1983.
Boles, John. Black Southerners, 1619-1869. 1984.
Breen, T. H. Myne Own Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's
Eastern Shore. 1980.
Bruce, Dickson, Jr. Violence and Culture in the Antebellum
South. 1979.
Campbell, Randolph P. An Empire for Slavery: The
Peculiar
Institution in Texas 1821-1865. 1989.
Conrad, Earl. Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist.
1942.
Cox, LaWanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in
Presidential
Leadership. 1981.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass:
An American Slave. 1846, 1999.
Egerton, Douglas R. He shall go out Free: the lives of
Denmark
Vesey. 1999.
Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman. Time on the Cross: The
Economics of American Negro Slavery. 1974.
Folsom, Franklin. Black Cowboy: The Life and Legend of George
McJunkin. 1992.
Frey, Sylvia. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance
in a Revolutionary Age. 1991.
Jordan, Winthrop D. The White Man's Burden. 1974.
Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes
toward
the Negro, 1550-1812. 1968, 1977.
Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American
Revolution. 1973, 1989.
Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery: The Free Negro in the Free
States, 1790-1860. 1961.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. 1991.
Montgomery, William. Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The
African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900.
Morgan, Philip. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the
Eighteenth-Century
Chesapeake and Lowcountry. 1998.
McMillen, Sally G. Southern Women: Black and White in the
Old South. 1992.
Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. 1990.
Painter, Nell I. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.
1996.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution.
1961, 1973.
Rabinowitz, Howard. Race Relations in the Urban South,
1865-1890.
1978, 1990.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The ìInvisible
Institutionî
in the Antebellum South. 1978.
Taylor, Susie King. A Black Womanís Civil War
Memoirs.
1902, 1988.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior
in the Old South. 1986.
Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists. 1992.
Carrasco, David. Quetzalcoatl & the irony of Empire:
Myths
& Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition. 1982.
Clendinnen, Inga. Aztecs: An Interpretation. 1991.
Fagan, Brian M. The Aztecs. 1984.
Fagan, Brian M. The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient
America. 1987
Gutierrez, Ramon A. When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went
Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in
New
Mexico, 1500-1846. 1991.
Kennedy, Roger G. Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of
Ancient North American Civilization. 1994.
Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study
of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind. 1963, 1990.
Bentley, Judith. Harriet Tubman
Blue, Frederick J. Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the
North.
Bradford, H. Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her
People
Clark, Ronald. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography.
1983.
Cooke, Jacob E. Alexander Hamilton. 1982.
Davis, Burke. Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson. 1977.
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour.
1991.
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
1850, 1984.
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson (6 volumes). 1948-1981.
McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison
and the Republican Legacy. 1989.
McCullough, David. John Adams. 2001.
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton; a Biography.
1979, 1982.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. 1991.
Morgan, Edmund. The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John
Winthrop. 1988.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life
of Christopher Columbus.1942.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Christopher Columbus: Mariner.
1955.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones: A Sailorís
Biography.
1959.
Oates, Stephen B. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the
Myths. 1984.
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None: The Life
of Abraham Lincoln. 1977.
Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President.
1997.
Remini, Robert. Andrew Jackson (3 volumes). 1977.
Remini, Robert. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union.
1991.
Roland, Charles P. Albert Sidney Johnston, Soldier of Three
Republics. 1964, 2001.
Rutland, Robert Allen. James Madison: The
Founding
Father. 1987.
Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln (multi-volume). 1926-1939.
Seavey, Ormond. Becoming Benjamin Franklin. 1988.
Tanner, John. The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and
Adventures of John Tanner. 1994.
Beringer, Richard E. Why the South Lost the Civil
War.
1988.
Bowers, John. Stonewall Jackson: Portrait of a Soldier.
1989.
Catton, Bruce. A Stillness at Appomattox. 1953.
Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. 1965.
Catton, Bruce. Reflections on the Civil War. 1981.
Catton, Bruce. Terrible Swift Sword. 1965.
Catton, Bruce. The Coming Fury. 1961.
Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union
Side of the Civil War.1956.
Current, Richard Nelson. Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers
from the Confederacy. 1992.
Davis, Burke. Jeb Stuart, the Last Cavalier. 1957.
Davis, Burke. Shermanís March. 1980.
Davis, William C. An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the
Confederate Government. 2001.
Davis, William C. Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John
S. Jackman of Orphan Ridge.1990.
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour.
1991.
Davis, William C. Look Away! A History of the Confederate
States of America. 2002.
Escott, Paul D. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the
Failure
of Confederate Nationalism. 1987.
Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict
in Missouri During the American Civil War. 1989.
Foote, Shelby. The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign.
1995.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War (3 volumes). 1958-1974.
Freehling, William. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at
Bay, 1776-1854. 1990.
Hall, Richard. Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors
of the Civil War. 1993.
Handlin, Oscar and Lilian. Abraham Lincoln and the Union.
1980.
Jackman, John S. Diary of a Confederate Soldier.
1990.
Josephy, Alvin M. The Civil War in the American West.
1991.
Kennett, Lee B. Marching Through Georgia: The Story of the
Soldiers and Civilians During Shermanís Campaign.
1995.
Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows how to Ride: The True Story
of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate Raiders.
1996.
Mahin, Dean B. One War at a Time: the International
Dimensions
of the American Civil War. 1999.
McGowen, Stanley S. Horse sweat and powder smoke: the First
Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. 1999.
McPherson, James. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American
Revolution. 1991.
McPherson, James. The Struggle for Equality; Abolitionists
& the Negro in the Civil War & Reconstruction. 1964,
1995.
McPherson, James M. What They Fought For, 1861-1865. 1994.
Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers. 1988.
Nichols, David A. Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War policy
& politics. 1978.
Paludan, Phillip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
1994.
Potter, David. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861.
1976
Reid, Mitchell. Civil War Soldiers. 1985.
Rosen, Robert N. The Jewish Confederates. 2000.
Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh
Sherman,
Stonewall Jackson and the Americans. 1991.
Taylor, Susie King. A Black Womanís Civil War Memoirs.
1902, 1988.
Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865.
1979.
Vandiver, Frank. Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the
Confederacy.
1970.
Williams, Ben Ames. A Diary From DixieóMary Boykin
Chesnut.
1980.
Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals. 1952,
1981.
Wills, Gary. Lincoln at Gettysburg. 1992.
Winik, Jay. April 1865: The Month that saved America.
2001.
Woodworth, Steven E. Cultures in Conflict: the American Civil
War. 2000.
Adler, Mortimer. We Hold These Truths: Understanding the
Ideas
and Ideals of the Constitution. 1987.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution.
1992.
Bowen, Catherine D. Miracle at Philadelphia. 1966.
Collier, Christopher. Decision in Philadelphia: The
Constitutional Convention. 1986.
Kaminski, John. Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate
over Ratification of the Constitution. 1989.
Ketcham, Ralph, ed. The Anti-Federalist Papers and the
Constitutional
Convention Debates. 1986.
Leibiger, Stuart. Founding friendship: George Washington,
James Madison, and the Creation of the American republic. 1989.
Madison, James. Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention
of 1787. 1983.
Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The
Federalist
Papers. 1787.
Mee, Charles L. The Genius of the People. 1987.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89.
1956, 1992.
Cronon, William. Natureís Metropolis: Chicago and
the Great
West. 1991.
Crosby, Alfred W. Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in
Ecological
History. 1994.
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. The Columbian Exchange:
Biological
and Cultural Consequences of 1492. 1972.
Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender,
& Science in New England. 1989.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. 1886.
ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS
Cleland, Robert Glass. This Reckless Breed of Men: The
Trappers
and Fur Traders of the American Southwest. 1950.
Cochran, Thomas. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization
in America. 1981.
Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of Work
and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826- 1861. 1993
McKusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard.. The Economy of
British
America, 1607-1789. 1985.
Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender,
& Science in New England. 1989.
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in
Modern History. 1985.
Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and
the Origins of the American Revolution. 1979, 1986.
Shaw, Ronald E. Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in
the United States, 1790-1860. 1990.
Stamp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the
Ante-bellum South. 1956, 1989.
EUROPE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Canny, Nicholas P. Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the
Atlantic
World, 1560-1800. 1988.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albionís Seed: Four British
Folkways
in North America. 1989.
Rubin, Nancy. Isabella of Castile. 1991.
Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North
America.
1992.
Columbus, Christopher. The Log of Christopher Columbus.
1987.
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. The Columbian Exchange:
Biological
and Cultural Consequences of 1492. 1972.
Diaz, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain. 1963.
Eccles, W.J. The Canadian Frontier: 1534-1766. 1983.
Fagan, Brian M. The Aztecs. 1984.
Granzotto, Gianni. Christopher Columbus. 1985.
Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder
of the New World. 1991.
Gutierrez, Ramon A. When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went
Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico,
1500-1846.
1991.
Jones, Grant D. The Conquest of the last Maya Kingdom.
1998.
Koning, Hans. Columbus: His Enterprise. 1976.
Merrell, James Hart. The Indians' New world: Catawbas and
their Neighbors from European contact through the Era of Removal.
1989.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life
of Christopher Columbus. 1942.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher
Columbus
and the Columbus Legacy. 1990.
Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans,
& the Making of New England, 1500-1643. 1982.
Schlesinger, Roger. In the Wake of Columbus: the Impact of
the New World on Europe, 1492-1650. 1996.
Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: Columbus and the
Conquest
of the New World. 1992.
Steele, Ian Kenneth. Warpaths: Invasions of North
America.
1994.
Taviani, Paolo Emilio. Columbus-The Great Adventure: His Life,
His Times, and His Voyages. 1991.
WESTWARD EXPANSION & MANIFEST DESTINY
Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether, Thomas
Jefferson
and the Opening of the American West. 1996.
Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First
Generation
of Americans. 2000.
Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson. The Womenís
West.
1987.
Cleland, Robert Glass. This Reckless Breed of Men: The
Trappers
and Fur Traders of the American Southwest. 1950.
Cronon, William. Natureís Metropolis: Chicago and the
Great
West. 1991.
Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, Eds. Under
an Open Sky: Rethinking Americaís Western Past. 1992.
Dangerfield, George. The Era of Good Feelings. 1952.
Friedenberg, D. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land:
The Plunder of Early America. 1992.
Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder
of the New World. 1991.
Hawke, David Freeman. Those Tremendous Mountains: The
Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 1980.
Hietala, Thomas R. Manifest Design: Anxious
Aggrandizement
in Latin America, 1815- 1861. 1985.
Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and
Clark Across America. 1988.
Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark. The History of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition. 1814, 1970.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The
Unbroken
Past of the American West. 1987.
Van Alstyne, Richard. The Rising American Empire. 1971.
Alden, J.R. A History of the American Revolution.
1980.
Ammerman, David. In the Common Cause. 1974.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution.
1992.
Berlin, Ira and Ronald Hoffman. Slavery and Freedom in the
Age of the American Revolution. 1983.
Bowen, Catherine D. Miracle at Philadelphia. 1966.
Bowen, Catherine D. The Most Dangerous Man in America:
Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin. 1974.
Clark, Ronald. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography. 1983.
Cooke, Jacob E. Alexander Hamilton. 1982.
Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. 1985.
Cunningham, Noble E. Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life
of Thomas Jefferson. 1987.
Cunningham, Noble E. Jr. Jefferson vs. Hamilton:
Confrontations
that Shaped a Nation. 2000.
Davis, Burke. George Washington and the American
Revolution.
1975.
Engle, Paul. Women in the American Revolution. 1976.
Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. 1994.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: And the
American
Nation 1783-1793. 1970.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: Anguish and
Farewell 1793-1799. 1972.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: In the
American
Revolution 1775-1783. 1968.
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable
Man. 1974, 1984.
Flexner, James Thomas. The Young Hamilton: A Biography.
1978, 1997.
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine & Revolutionary America.
1976.
Fowler, William. Rebels Under Sail. 1976.
Frey, Sylvia. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance
in a Revolutionary Age. 1991.
Gelb, Norman. Less Than Glory. 1984.
Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World. 1976.
Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence.
1971.
Hoffman, Ronald and Peter J. Albert, Eds. Women in the Age
of the American Revolution. 1989.
Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as
a Social Movement. 1926, 1956.
Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History
of the American Revolution, 1763-1776. 1968.
Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American
Revolution. 1973, 1989.
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology
in Revolutionary America. 1980, 1986.
Langguth, A.J. Patriots: The Men who started the American
Revolution. 1988.
Leach, Douglas Edward. Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces
and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763. 1986.
Leibiger, Stuart. Founding friendship: George Washington,
James Madison, and the Creation of the American republic. 1989.
Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783. 1964,
1993.
Maier, Pauline. From Resistance To Revolution: Colonial
Radicals
And The Development Of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776.
1972.
Martin, James Kirby and Mark Edward Lender. A Respectable
Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763
1789.
1982.
Mitchell, Joseph B. Discipline and Bayonets-The Armies and
Leaders of the War of the American Revolution. 1967.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89.
1956, 1992.
Nash, Gary B. Race and Revolution. 1990.
Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and
the Origins of the American Revolution. 1979, 1986.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary
Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. 1980, 1996.
O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. An Empire divided: the American
Revolution and the British Caribbean. 2000.
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. 1776.
Paine, Thomas. Paine and Jefferson on Liberty. 1988.
Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution.
1961, 1973.
Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: the
Continental
Army and the American Character. 1979.
Sheer, George F. and Hugh F. Rankin. Rebels and
Redcoats:
The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived
It. 1957.
Slaughter, Thomas. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue
to the American Revolution. 1986.
Smith, Richard Norton. Patriarch: George Washington and the
New American Nation. 1993.
Tuchman, Barbara. First Salute: A View of the American
Revolution.
1988
Wiebe, Robert. The Opening of American Society. 1984.
Wills, Gary. Inventing America: Jeffersonís Declaration
of
Independence. 1978.
Wood, Gordon S. Radicalism of the American Revolution.
1992.
Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. 1970.
Acuna, Rudolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 1988.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations
of American Foreign Policy. 1969.
Bourne, Russell. The Red Kingís Rebellion: Racial
Politics
in New England, 1675-1678. 1990.
Davis, Burke. Shermanís March. 1980.
Jennings, Francis. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and
Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. 1988.
Johannsen, Robert. To the Halls of the Montezuma: the Mexican
War in American Imagination. 1985.
Leach, Douglas Edward. Flintlock & Tomahawk: New England
in King Phillipís War. 1985.
Leach, Douglas Edward. Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces
and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763. 1986.
Martin, James Kirby and Mark Edward Lender. A Respectable
Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763
1789.
1982.
Mintz, Max M. Seeds of Empire: the American revolutionary
conquest of the Iroquois. 1999.
Mitchell, Joseph B. Discipline and Bayonets-The Armies and
Leaders of the War of the American Revolution. 1967.
Parkman, Francis. Montcalm & Wolfe: The French &
Indian
War. 1887, 1993.
Roland, Charles P. Albert Sidney Johnston, Soldier of Three
Republics. 1964, 2001.
Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh
Sherman,
Stonewall Jackson and the Americans. 1991.
Schultz, Duane P. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux
Uprising
of 1862. 1992.
Singletary, Otis A. The Mexican War. 1960.
Tuchman, Barbara. First Salute: A View of the American
Revolution. 1988
Van Alstyne, Richard. The Rising American Empire. 1971.
Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals. 1952,
1981.
NATIVE AMERICANS IN US HISTORY
Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North
America.
1992.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures
in Colonial North America. 1985.
Black Elk. Black Elk Speaks. 1932.
Bourne, Russell. The Red Kingís Rebellion: Racial
Politics
in New England, 1675-1678. 1990.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian
History of the American West. 1971.
Calloway, Colin G. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices
from Early America. 1994.
Clark, Ella Elizabeth. Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
1979.
Deloria, Vine. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and
the Myth of Scientific Fact. 1995.
Dowd, Gregory. Spirited Resistance: The North American
Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. 1992.
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list.
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