Reading List
Reading List-History 121
Colonial Period-Units I-II
-Bertelson, David. The Lazy South.
-Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs.
-Borneman, Walter R. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
-Galenson, David W. White Servitude in Colonial America.
-Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the America’s Before Columbus.
-Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: A Story of Courage Community and War.
-Woolley, Benjamin. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
-Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negro's in South Carolina from 1670 to the Stono Rebellion
American Revolution and New Republic-Units III-IV
-Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation.
-Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis in Diversity in Native American Communities.
-Chadwick, Bruce. The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America’s First Fight for Freedom.
-Conley, Robert J. Cherokee Dragon: A Novel of the Real People.
-Edmonds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership.
-Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation.
-----------------. His Excellency: George Washington.
-Flexner, James T. Washington: The Indispensable Man
-Galvin, John R. The Minute Men. The First to Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution.
-Kaestle, Carl F. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society 1780-1860.
-Larson, Edward. A Magnificent Catastrophe (Election of 1800)
-MacLeod, Duncan J. Slavery, Race, and the American Revolution.
-Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters.
-Shy, John. A People Numerous and Armed
------------. Toward Lexington: the role of the British Army in the Coming of the Revolutionary War.
-Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon. Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of theAmerican Revolution.
-Wheelan, Joseph. Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror 1801-1805.
Antebellum South to Civil War-Unit V-VI
-Blassingame, John. The Slave Community
-Brands, H.W. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream.
-Christensen, Carol. The U.S. Mexican War.
-Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress.
-Cooper, William J. Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860.
-Cunningham, Noble. The Jeffersonian Republicans.
-Dubois, Ellen C. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Woman’s Movement in America, 1848-1869.
-Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household.
-Franklin, John Hope. The Militant South.
-McCaffrey, James M. Army of Manifest Destiny. The American Soldier in the MexicanWar, 1846-1848.
-Prucha, Francis Paul. The Sword of the Republic; The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846. (Can be Used on Unit IV)
-Remini, Robert V. The Age of Jackson.
-Trennert, Jr., Robert A. Alternative to Extinction: Federal Indian Policy and theBeginnings of the Reservation System, 1846-1851.
-Utley, Robert M. Frontiersman in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian 1848-1865.
_____________. A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Pathe to the Pacific.
--------------------. and Washburn, Wilcomb E. Indian Wars (Units I-VI)
-Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers: 1815-1860.
-Wheelan, Joseph. Invading Mexico: America’s Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
-White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
-Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Honor and Violence in the Old South.
Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction-Unit VII.
-Buresh, Lumir F. October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek
-Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and his Image in AmericanSociety
-Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln
-Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerilla War in Missouri.
-Foner, Eric. Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War.
--------------. A Short History of Reconstruction.
-Linderman, Gerald. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the AmericanCivil War.
-McWhiney, Grady and Jamison, Perry D. Attack and Die.
-Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865.
-Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West.
-Piston, William Garrett. Wilson’s Creek.
----------------------------. Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant…..Longstreet.
-Rable, George. But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in Politics of Reconstruction.
-Rawley, James. Race and Politics: “Bleeding Kansas” and the Coming of the Civil War.
-Shea, William L. and Hess, Earl J. Pea Ridge, Civil War Campaign in the West.
-Simpson, Brooks D. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822-1865.
-Swanson, James L. Manhunt: the 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer.
-Thomas, Emory M. Robert E. Lee: A Biography
-Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: The Klu Klux Klan…. (Long)
-Urwin, Gregory JW. Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General GeorgeArmstrong Custer.
-Winik, Jay. April 1865. The Month that Saved America