Reading List
Reading List-History 122
The West-Unit I
-Ambrose, Stephen. Crazy Horse and Custer.
-----------------------. Nothing Like it in the World: The Men who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869.
-Beal, Merrill D. “I Will Fight No More Forever” Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War.
-Berkhofer, Jr., Robert F. The White Man’s Indian: Images of the American Indian form Columbus to the Present.
-Hoig, Stan. The Battle of the Washita: The Sheridan-Custer Indian Campaign of 1867-1869.
-Larson, Robert W. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux.
-Leckie, William H. The Military Conquest of the Southern Plains.
-Night, Oliver. Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners
-Nabokov, Peter. Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior.
-Roberts, David. Once they Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars.
-Utley, Robert. Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891.
----------------. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull.
----------------. The Last Days of the Sioux Nation.
----------------. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.
-Vaughn, J.W. The Reynolds Campaign on the Powder River.
The Gilded Age-Progressive Era-Unit II-III
-Anderson, James. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1865-1935.
-Blum, John Morton. Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality.
-Cherny, Robert. William Jennings Bryan.
-DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage- The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869.
------------------.Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Rights
Gilman, Charlotte. The Yellow Wallpaper.
-Hays, Samuel. Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914.
-Livesay, Harold C. Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business.
________________. Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America.
-Mancini, Matthew. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928.
-Miller, Worth. R. Oklahoma Populism: a history of the People’s Party in Oklahomarritory.
-Spencer, Samuel. Booker T. Washington.
-Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South.
-------------------------. The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
World War I-Unit IV
-Boyd, Thomas. Through the Wheat: A Novel of World War I Marines
-Graves, Robert. Good-bye to all That.
-Ferrell, Robert. America’s Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne 1918.
- Foglesong, David. America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in Russian Civil War, 1917-1920.
-Mackin, Elton. Suddenly We Didn’t Want to Die: Memoirs of A World War I Marine
-Persico, Joseph E. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day 1918:World War I and its Violent Climax.
-Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914-1917.
-Remarque, Eric. All Quiet on the Western Front.
-Rhodes, Benjamin D. The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918-1919.
-Simmons, Edwin and Alexander, Joseph. Through the Wheat: The US Marines in World War I.
-Weintraub, Stanley. Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.
Inter-War Period-Unit IV
-Allen, Thomas and Dickson, Paul. The Bonus Army: An American Epic.
-Jeansonne, Glen. Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression.
-Nash, Gerald. The Crucial Era: The Great Depression and World War II. 1929-1945.
-Smith, Jean Edward. FDR (long)
-Tuttle, William. M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.
-Winkler, Alan M. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
-Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers: A Struggle Between a Father of the Old War and a Daughter of the New.
World War II-Unit VI.
-Ambrose, Stephen. D-Day. June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II.
-----------------------. Citizen Soldiers. The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches, to the Bulge, to the Surrender of Germany.
-Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.
-------------------. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.
-Boyington, Gregory. Baa Baa Black Sheep.
-Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers.
-Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Long)
-Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe 1944-1945
-Early, Charity Adams. One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC
-Fraser, George. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma.
-Latimer, Jon Alamein
-Klein, Gerda All But My Life: A Memoir
-Parker, Matthew. Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of WWII.
-Slege, Eugene B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.
-Sword, Keith. The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-41. (Soviet)
-Tarrant, V.E. Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony.
-Thomas, Evan. Sea of Thunder
-Tuttle, Jr., William. “Daddy’s Gone to War” The Second World War in the Lives ofAmerica’s Children.
-Viscount, Slim and William. Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945.
-Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in WWII.
-Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941-1945.
Korea-Unit VII
-Batson, Denzil. We Called it War.
-Brady, James. The Coldest War
-Davis, Burke. Marine: The Life of Chesty Puller.
-Drury, Bob and Clavin, Tom. The Last Stand of Fox Company.
-Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter (long)
-Hammel, Eric. Chosin
Cold War and Civil Rights-Unit VII
-Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock
-Capeci, Dominic, J. The Lynching of Cleo Wright
-Dalleck, Robert. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
-Ferrell, Robert. Harry S. Truman: A Life
-Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: MLK and the SCLC.
-Giglio, James. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
-Hershey, John. Hiroshima
-Hixson, Walter. George F. Kenan: Cold War Iconoclast
-Hogan, David. Sellin ‘em by the Sack: White Castle and Creation of American Food.
-Kurtz, Michael. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination From a Historical Perspective.
-Lawson, Steven F and Payne, Charles. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968.
-Mintz, Steven and Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life.
-Medvedev, Roy. Khruschev.
-Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi.
-Parmet, Herbert S. Richard M. Nixon.
-Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980.
-Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
-Wolf, Tom. The Right Stuff.
Vietnam-Unit VIII
-Capoto, Phillip. A Rumor of War.
-Clark, Johnny M. Guns Up!
-Corbett, John. West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sahn
-Culbertson, John. & Evans, Christopher Editor. 13-Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam.
-Hardwick, William H. Down South: One Tour in Vietnam.
-Henderson, Charles. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills.
------------------------. Marshaling the Faithful: the Marines First year in Vietnam.
-Leppelman, John. Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldiers 35 Months in Vietnam.
-Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk.
-Moore, Harold G. and Galloway, Joseph. We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang the Battle that Change the war in Vietnam.
-Murphy, Edward F. The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sahn.
-Nolan, Keith William. Battle For Hue, Tet 1968.
-O’Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box me up and Ship me Home.
-----------------. The Things They Carried.
-Sasser, Charles W. The Walking Dead: A Marine’s Story of Vietnam.
-Van Devanter, Lynda. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam.
-Van Zanten, William. Don’t Bunch Up: One Marine’s Story.
1980s-Present-Unit IX
-Eighner, Lars. Travels with Lizbeth.
-Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities.
-Tygiel, Jules. Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of Conservatism.
-Reagan, Nancy and Ronald. I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan.