1301 BOOK LIST

RECENTLY ADDED BOOKS
Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Brenmer, Francis. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848.
Jasanoff, Maya.  Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary world.
Kauffman, Michael. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom.
Rakove, Jack. Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Roark, James L. Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Winik, Jay. The Great Upheaval, America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800.

POLITICS AND REVOLUTION
Clark, Ronald. Benjamin Franklin.
Davis, Burke. George Washington and the American Revolution. 1975.
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing, 2003.
Fleming, Thomas. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America.
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man.
Langguth, A.J. Patriots: The Men who started the American Revolution. 1988.
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and years of Exile, 1805-1836.
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice-President, 1756-1805.
Maier, Pauline. Ratification, The People Debate the Constitution, 17-87-88.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughter: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. 1996.

COLONIAL FAMILY LIFE
Blake, Daniel Smith. Inside the Great House.
Greven, Philip. Four Generations.
Greven, Philip. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America.
Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

AFRICAN-AMERICANS
Dunn, Richard. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713.
Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass.
Morgan, Philip. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Long, see me to cut some of it.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South.
Stamp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South.
Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

INDIANS
Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America.
Bourne, Russell. The Red King’s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678.
Jennings, Francis. Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America.
Leach, Douglas Edward. Flintlock & Tomahawk: New England in King Phillip’s War.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbus Legacy.
Parkman, Francis. Montcalm & Wolfe: The French & Indian War.
Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.

THE WEST
Acuna, Rudolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 1988.
Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West.
Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson. The Women’s West.
Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Davis, Burke. Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

SECTIONALISM & CIVIL WAR
Beringer, Richard E. Why the South Lost the Civil War.
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negroes in the Antebellum South.
Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War.
Davis, Burke. Jeb Stuart, the Last Cavalier.
Davis, Burke. Sherman’s March.
Davis, William. An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government.
Davis, William. Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln.
Escott, Paul D. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism.
Kennett, Lee B. Marching Through Georgia: The Story of the Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman’s Campaign.
Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows how to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate Raiders.
Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President.
Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay and Calhoun.
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. Long, see me to cut some.
Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson and the Americans.
Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan and the Southern Reconstruction.
Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals.
Winik, Jay. April 1865: The Month that Saved America.

MISCELLANEOUS
Cross, Whitney. The Burned Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850. 1950.
Diaz, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain.