1301 BOOK LIST

NEW 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.
Kauffman, Michael. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspracies
Winik, Jay. Great Upheaval, America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800

WITCHCRAFT
Demos, John P. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and Culture in Early New England.

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.
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.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in North America. 1989. Read Introduction plus two of the four sections.
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.
Miller, Lee. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony.
Diaz, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain.