Fall, 2001
                    Readings in U.S. HISTORY

Textbooks: 



Divine, Robert A., T.H. Breen, George M. Fredrickson, R.Hal Williams.  
	America:  Past and Present.  6th ed.  New York:  Longman Publishers.


Before 1877:

James Axtell. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America.  
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 
Baker,  T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker.  Till Freedom Cried Out : Memories 
	Of Texas Slave Life. College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. 
	Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Black Elk.  Black Elk Speaks (Univ. of Nebraska, 1932).
Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the 
	American West.  (NY:   Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1971).
Countryman, Edward.  The American Revolution.  New York:  Hill & Wang, 1985.
Cronon, William.  Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of 
	New England.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr.  The Columbian Exchange:  Biological and Cultural 
	Consequences of 1492.  Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972. 
Deloria, Vine.  Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact.  New York: Scribner, 1995.
Dublin, Thomas.  Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and 
	Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826- 186.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Classic Slave Narratives.  New York : New American Library, 1987.
Garcia, Cristina.  Dreaming in Cuban.  Ballentine Books.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd.  Revolt against Chivalry:  Jessie Daniel Ames and the 
	Women's Campaign against Lynching.  Rev. ed.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1993.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven:  Yale, 1989).
Hietala, Thomas R.  Manifest Design:  Anxious Aggrandizement in Latin America 
	(1815- 1861). 
Jordan, Winthrop D.  The White Man's Burden.  N.Y.:  Oxford University Press, 1974.
McDonald, forrest.  Alexander Hamilton.  N.Y.:  W.W. Norton & company, 1982.
Maier, Pauline.  From Resistance To Revolution:   Colonial Radicals And The 
	Development Of American  Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776.   New York: Knopf, 1972.
Masur, Louis P.  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Menchu, Rigoberta.  I Rogoberta Menchú:  An Indian Woman in Guatamala 
	(New York:  Verso, 1984).  Translated by Ann Wright. Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
Merrell, James Hart.  The Indians' New world : Catawbas and their Neighbors from 
	European contact through the Era of Removal.  Chapel Hill:  Univ. of No. Carolina Press, 1989.
Morgan, Edmund S.  The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89.  Chicago:  Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.
Rountree, Helen C.  Pocahontas's people: the Powhatan Indians of Virginia through 
	Four Centuries.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
Sobel, Mechal.  The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in 
	Eighteenth-century Virginia.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 
Stannard, David E..  American Holocaust:  Columbus and the Conquest of the New World.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ulrich, Laurel.  Good wives:  Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern 
	New England, 1650-1750.  New York: Knopf, 1982. 
VanDeusen, Glyndon G.  The Jacksonian Era:  1828-1848.  N.Y.:  Harper & Row Publishers, 1959.
West, Elliott. Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier. Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
Wood, Gordon S.  Radicalism of the American Revolution.  New York:  Vintage, 1991.



After 1877:
Allen, Frederick Lewis.  Only Yesterday:  An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties.  NY:  Harper, 1957.
Anders, Evan.  Boss Rule in South Texas:  The Progressive Era.  Austin: 
	University of Texas Press, 1982. 
Anderson, Terry H.  The Movement and the Sixties.  Oxford University Press 1996.
Angelou, Maya.   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.  Random, 1970.
Baker,  T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker.  Till Freedom Cried Out : Memories Of 
	Texas Slave Life. College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Banfield, Edward.  The Unheavenly City Revisited.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1974.
Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward.  All the President's Men.  NY:  Simon and 
	Shuster, 1974.
Black Elk.  Black Elk Speaks.  Univ. of Nebraska, 1932.
Blum, John M.  Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality.  Boston:  Little, 
	Brown & Co.
Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American 
	West.  NY:   Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1971.

Caro, Robert A.  Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  London: Collins, 1983.
Cisneros, Sandra.  Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.  Random, 1991.
Crow Dog, Mary.  Lakota Woman.  HarperCollins, 1990.
Dulles, Foster Rhea.  America's Rise to World Power.  NY:  Harper & Row.

Frantz, Joe B. and Julian Ernest Choate.  The American Cowboy:  The Myth and the Reality.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
Fried, Richard M.  Nightmare in Red:  The McCarthy Era.  Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, 1991. 
Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban.  Ballentine Books.
Garner, James Finn.  Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (N.Y.:  Macmillan, 1994).
Halberstam, David.  The Best and the Brightest.  NY:  Random House, 1972.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd.  Revolt against Chivalry:  Jessie Daniel Ames and the 
	Women's Campaign against Lynching.  Rev. ed.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1993.
Handlin, Oscar.  Al Smith and His America.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Company.
Handlin, Oscar.  The Uprooted.  2nd ed.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1973.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity.  New Haven:  Yale, 1989.
Hicks, John D.  Republican Ascendancy.  NY:  Harper & Row.
Hietala, Thomas R.  Manifest Design:  Anxious Aggrandizement in Latin America, 
	1815- 1861.
Higham, John.  Strangers in the Land:  Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. 
	New Brunswick:  Rutgers University Press, 1955.
Lerner, Max.  American Culture in the Twentieth Century.  NY:  Harper & Row.
Leuchtenburg, William E.  Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.  NY:  Harper & Row.
Marable, Manning.  Race, Reform and Rebellion:  The Second Reconstruction in 
	Black America, 1945-1982.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
McCarthy, Mary.  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Harcourt-Brace Javonovich, 1957).
McWilliams, Carey.  North from Mexico:  The Spanish-Speaking Prople of the United 
	States.  New York:  Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1968.
Menchu, Rigoberta.  I Rogoberta Menchú:  An Indian Woman in Guatamala (New York:  Verso, 1984).  Translated by Ann Wright. Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray.
Moore, Joan and Harry Pachon.  Hispanics in the United States.  New Jersey:  Prentice-Hall, 1985. 
Morris, Willie.  North toward Home.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Riis, Jacob.  How the Other Half Lives:  Studies Among the Tenements of New York.  Cambridge:  Belknap Press, 1970.
Riordon, William L.  Plunkitt of Tammany Hall:  A Series of Very Plain Talks on 
	Very Practical Politics.  NY:  Dutton, 1963.
Rodriguez, Richard.  Hunger of Memory:  The Education of Richard Rodriguez.  Bantam, 1982.
Sanchez, George J.  Becoming Mexican American.  Univ. of California, LA, 1995.
Scharf, Lois.  Eleanor Roosevelt.  Boston:  Twayne Publishers, 1987.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.  Disorderly Conduct:  Visions of Gender in Victorian 
	America.  NY:  A.A. Knopf, 1985.
Tan, Amy.  The Joy Luck Club.  Putnam, 1989.
Terkel, Studs.  The Good War:  An Oral History of World War Two.  NY:  Ballentine, 1984.
Vandemark, Brian.  Into the Quagmire:  Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the 
	Vietnam War.
Villaseñor, Victor.  Rain of Gold.  Laurel, 1991.
Vine,Deloria.  Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact.  New York: Scribner, 1995.
Wright, Richard.  Native Son.  Harper Collins, 1945.
X, Malcolm.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  Amereon, 1965.