Recommended Readings for History 1301
Good Books to Read for History 1301
Over the course of the semester I mention many books which have given me new insight or information on the subject matter that we are discussing. Recently students have asked that I make these titles available on line. The following lists contain personal favorites which I have found especially helpful in forming my general overview of the history of the United States.
Recent Publications:
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals, The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
H.W.Brands, Andrew Jackson.
David McCullough, 1776
-----------------------, John Adams
David Hacker Fischer, Washington’s Crossing.
--------------------------, Paul Revere’s Ride.
Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage.
Lewis and Clark explorationsHistorical Classics
older but still excellent historical workRichard Hofstadter, American Political Tradition.
Alexis deTocqueville, Democracy in America.
a French observer in Jacksonian AmericaBernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
John C. Miller, The Federalist Era.
George Dangerfield, The Era of Good Feeling.
Arthur Schlesinger, The Age of Jackson.
William Freeling, Prelude to Civil War The Nullification Controversy in S.C. 1816-1836.
Leon Litwack, North of Slavery.
Blasingame, The Slave Community.
Stephen Oates, Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion.
Kenneth Stamp, The Peculiar Institution.
William J. Cash, The Mind of the South.
William Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and the American National Character.
Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom’s Ferment: Phases of American Social History.
Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission.
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, The Ideology of the Republican party before the Civil War.
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom.
Stephen Oates, With Malice toward None: A Life of Lincoln.
U.S. Grant, Memoirs.
Kenneth Stamp, Era of Reconstruction.
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.