CHAPTER 14:
Brief Reading List in American History

An Outline of American History

(*Denotes hardcover edition.)

Ahlstrom, Sydney E.
A Religious History of the American People,
Yale University Press,1972

Albanese, Catherine
*America: Religions and Religion,
Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1992

Allen, Frederick L.
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950,
Harper & Row,1986

Ambrose, Stephen E.
Eisenhower (2 vols.)
Vol. 1: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
Vol. 2: The President,
Simon & Schuster,1985

Ambrose, Stephen E.
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, 6th rev.ed.,
Viking Penguin, 1991

Ashworth, John
Agrarians & Aristocrats: Party Political Ideology
in the United States, 1837-1846,
Cambridge University Press, 1987

Badger, Anthony
The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940,
Hill & Wang, 1989

Bailyn, Bernard
Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle
for American Independence,
Random House, Inc., 1992

Bailyn, Bernard
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,
Harvard University Press, 1967

Bailyn, Bernard, Robert Dallek, David B. Davis, David H. Donald,
John L. Thomas and Gordon S. Wood
The Great Republic: A History of the American People (2 vols.),
3d ed.,
D.C. Heath, Co., 1985

Banner, Lois W.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights,
Scott Foresman, 1987

Beisner, Robert L.
From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900, 2d ed.,
Harlan Davidson, 1986

Berlin, Ira
Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South,
New Press NY, 1992

Billington, Ray A.
The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860,
HarperCollins, 1962

Blum, John Morton
The Progressive Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

Blum, John Morton
V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During
World War II,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1977

Blumenthal, Sidney and Thomas Edsall
The Reagan Legacy: A Nation Adrift,
Pantheon Books, 1988

Bodnar, John
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America,
Indiana University Press, 1985

Boorstin, Daniel J.
*The Americans (3 vols.):
Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience
Vol. 2: The Democratic Experience
Vol. 3: The National Experience,
Random House, Inc., 1975

Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention,
Little, Brown & Co., 1986

Boyer, Paul and Steven Nissenbaum
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft,
Harvard University Press, 1974

Branch, Taylor
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963,
Simon & Schuster, 1989

Bridenbaugh, Carl
Jamestown, 1544-1699,
Oxford University Press, 1980

Brodie, Fawn M.
Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character,
Harvard University Press, 1983

Brown, Dee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,
Henry Holt & Co., 1991

Burner, David
John F. Kennedy and A New Generation,
Scott Foresman & Co., 1988

Cannon, Lou
President Reagan: The Role of A Lifetime,
Simon & Schuster, 1992

Chafe, William H.
The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 2d ed.,
Oxford University Press, 1991

Chase, Gilbert
*America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, 3d rev. ed.,
University of Illinois Press, 1987

Cochran, Thomas C.
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America,
Oxford University Press, 1981

Cott, Nancy F.
*The Grounding of Modern Feminism,
Yale University Press, 1987

Craven, Wayne and Richard Martin
Two Hundred Years of American Art: The
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute,
University of Washington Press, 1987

Craven, Wesley F.
The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689.
Louisiana State University Press, 1949

Dallek, Robert
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945,
Oxford University Press, 1979

Dangerfield, George
The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828,
HarperCollins, 1965

Degler, Carl N.
Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 3d ed.,
Harper & Row, 1984

Deloria, Vine Jr.
American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992

De Tocqueville, Alexis (Thomas Bender et al., eds.)
Democracy in America,
McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1981

De Voto, Bernard, ed.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark,
Houghton Mifflin, 1973

Diggins, John P.
Proud Decades: America in War & Peace, 1941-1960,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1989

Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger Nichols and David M. Reimers
Natives and Strangers: Blacks, Indians and Immigrants in
America, 2d. ed.,
Oxford University Press, 1990

Divine, Robert
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2d rev. ed.,
Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1988

Divine, Robert
*Eisenhower and Sputnik,
Oxford University Press, 1993

Douglass, Frederick
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass:
The Complete Autobiography,
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962

Draper, Theodore
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs, rev. ed.,
Simon & Schuster, 1992

DuBois, Ellen C.
Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's
Movement in America, 1848-1869,
Cornell University Press, 1978

DuBois, W.E.B.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880,
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992

Durham, Philip and Everett L. Jones
The Negro Cowboys,
University of Nebraska Press, 1983

Fearon, Peter
War, Prosperity and Depression: The U.S. Economy, 1917-1945,
University Press of Kansas, 1988

Ferrell, Robert H.
Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency,
Scott Foresman, 1987

Ferrell, Robert H.
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921,
HarperCollins, 1986

Fitzgerald, Frances
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam,
Random House, Inc., 1989

Flexner, Eleanor
Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in
the United States, rev. ed.,
Belknap Press, 1975

Flexner, James T.
Washington: The Indispensable Man,
New American Library, 1984

Foner, Eric
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican
Party Before the Civil War,
Oxford University Press, 1970

Foner, Eric
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,
HarperCollins, 1989

Foote, Shelby
The Civil War: A Narrative (3 vols.),
Random House, Inc., 1986

Franklin, John H. and Alfred A. Moss Jr.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, 6th ed.,
Alfred A. Knopf, 1987

Frederickson, George M.
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on
Afro-American Character & Destiny, 1817-1914,
University Press of New England, 1987

Freehling, William W.
*The Road to Disunion: Secessionists At Bay, 1776-1854,
Oxford University Press, 1990

Freeland, Richard M.
*The Truman Doctrine & the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign
Policy, Domestic Policy & Internal Security, 1946-1948,
New York University Press, 1985

Freidel, Frank
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Rendezvous with Destiny,
Little, Brown & Co., 1991

Fried, Richard M.
Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective,
Oxford University Press, 1991

Friedman, Lawrence M.
American Law: An Introduction,
W.W. Norton & Co., 1985

Galbraith, John Kenneth
The Great Crash of 1929, Houghton Mifflin, 1988

Garrow, David J.
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. & the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference,
Random House, Inc., 1987

Genovese, Eugene D.
Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made,
Random House, Inc., 1976

Goodwin, Doris K.
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,
St. Martin Press., 1991

Graebner, Norman A.
America As A World Power: A Realist Appraisal
from Wilson to Reagan,
Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1984

Graham, Otis L. Jr.
The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928,
abridged ed.,
Krieger Publishing Co., 1987

Greenstein, Fred I. and Frank B. Feigert
The American Party System and the American People, rev. 3d ed.,
Prentice-Hall, 1985

Halberstam, David
The Best and the Brightest,
Fawcett Books, 1993

Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison and John Jay
The Federalist Papers,
Bantam Books, 1982

Handlin, Oscar
The Uprooted, 2d ed.,
Little, Brown & Co., 1973

Herring, George C.
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975,
2d ed.,
McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1986

Hofstadter, Richard
The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR,
Random House, Inc., 1960

Hofstadter, Richard
The Idea of A Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in
the United States, 1780-1840,
University of California Press, 1969

Hogan, Michael J.
The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, & the Reconstruction of
Western Europe, 1947-1952,
Cambridge University Press, 1989

Howe, Daniel W.
The Political Culture of the American Whigs,
University of Chicago Press, 1984

Huggins, Nathan I.
Harlem Renaissance,
Oxford University Press, 1971

Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, Jerry Goldman, eds.
The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America, 3d ed.,
Houghton Mifflin, 1992

Jennings, Francis
Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven
Years' War in America,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1990

Johannsen, Robert W.
To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the
American Imagination,
Oxford University Press, 1984

Johnson, Haynes
*Sleepwalking Through History: America Through the Reagan Years,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1991

Jones, Landon
Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation,
Ballantine Books, 1986

Jordan, Winthrop D.
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1977

Karnow, Stanley
Vietnam: A History,
Viking Penguin, 1991

Keegan, John
The Second World War,
Viking Penguin, 1990

Kennan, George F.
American Diplomacy, 1900-1950,
University of Chicago Press, 1985

Kerber, Linda K.
Women of the Republic: Intellect & Ideology in
Revolutionary America,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1986

Kindleberger, Charles P.
The World in Depression: 1929-1939, rev. ed.,
University of California Press, 1986

Kraut, Alan M.
The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society,
1880-1921,
Harlan Davidson, 1982

Kutler, Stanley I.
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1992

LaFeber, Walter
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 4th ed.,
McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1987

Lavender, David
The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark
Across the Continent,
Doubleday, 1990

Lincoln, Abraham (Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed.)
Speeches and Writings (2 vols.):
Vol. 1: 1832-1858 Vol. 2: 1859-1864
Library of America, 1989

Link, Arthur S.
Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917,
HarperCollins, 1963

Livesay, Harold
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business,
Scott Foresman, 1987

Livesay, Harold
Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America,
Scott Foresman, 1987

Long, Richard A. and Eugenia W. Collier, eds.
*Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, 2d ed.,
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985

Malone, Dumas
Thomas Jefferson and His Time (6 vols.),
Little, Brown & Co., Inc., 1948-1981

Manchester, William
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964,
Dell Books, 1983

Manchester, William
Death of a President: November 1963,
HarperCollins, 1988

Marable, Manning W.E.B.
Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat,
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987

Marsden, George M.
Religion and American Culture,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publications, 1990

McCullough, David
*Truman,
Simon & Schuster, 1992

McDonald, Forrest
Alexander Hamilton: A Biography,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

McFarland, Gerald W., ed.
*Mugwumps, Morals and Politics, 1884-1920,
University of Massachusetts Press, 1975

McPherson, James
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War,
Ballantine Books, 1989

Miller, John C.
The Federalist Era, 1789-1800,
HarperCollins, 1963

Miller, Perry G.
The Transcendentalists: An Anthology,
Harvard University Press, 1950

Montgomery, David
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and
American Labor Activism, 1865-1925,
Cambridge University Press, 1989

Morris, Richard B.
*The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence,
Northeastern University Press, 1983

Murphy, Francis, ed.
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647,
McGraw-Hill, 1981

Murray, Charles
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980,
Basic Books, 1986

Nash, Gary B.
Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, 3d ed.,
Prentice-Hall, 1991

Nash, Gary B. et al.
The American People: Creating A Nation and A Society,
(2 vols.), 2d ed.,
HarperCollins, 1990

Neustadt, Richard E.
Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership
from FDR to Carter,
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980

Nevins, Allan
Ordeal of the Union (4 vols.),
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992

Oates, Stephen B.
With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln,
NAL-Dutton, 1978

Oates, Stephen B.
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.,
NAL-Dutton, 1983

Patrick, Rembert
*Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet,
AMS Press, 1944

Parrish, Thomas
*Roosevelt and Marshall,
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1989

Perkins, George; E. Sculley Bradley; Richmond Beatty and
E. Hudson Long
The American Tradition in Literature, 7th ed.,
McGraw-Hill, 1989

Perman, Michael
Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879,
Harlan Davidson, 1987

Peterson, Merrill D.
Thomas Jefferson & the New Nation: A Biography,
Oxford University Press, 1986

Prange, Gordon W.
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor,
Viking Penguin, 1982

Quarles, Benjamin
The Negro in the Civil War,
Da Capo, 1989

Reeves, Thomas C.
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy,
Madison Books UPA, 1983

Remini, Robert V.
Andrew Jackson,
HarperCollins, 1969

Rodgers, Daniel T.
The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920,
University of Chicago Press, 1979

Royster, Charles
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & American
Character, 1775-1783,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1982

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal,
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1959

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
The Crisis of the Old Order,
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
The Politics of Upheaval,
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
Ballantine Books, Inc., 1985

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
The Age of Jackson,
Little, Brown & Co., 1988

Scully, Vincent
American Architecture and Urbanism, rev. ed.,
Henry Holt & Co., 1988

Sellers, Charles, Henry May and Neil R. McMillen
A Synopsis of American History, 7th rev. & comb. ed.,
Ivan R. Dee, 1992

Sheehan, Neil
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam,
Random House, Inc., 1989

Sitkoff, Harvard
The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980,
Hill & Wang, 1981

Smith, Adam
*The Roaring '80s,
Summit Books, 1988

Stegner, Wallace E.
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail,
University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Stewart, James B.
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery,
Hill & Wang, 1976

Sundquist, James L.
Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years,
Brookings Institution, 1968

Thomas, Emory M.
The Confederate Nation 1861-1865,
HarperCollins, 1981

Tindall, George B. and David E. Shi
America: A Narrative History, 3d ed.,
W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1992

Tindall, George B.
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945,
Louisiana State University Press, 1967

Toffler, Alvin
Future Shock,
Bantam Books, 1971

Toland, John
Infamy,
Doubleday, 1992

Trachtenberg, Alan
The Incorporation of America: Culture & Society in the
Gilded Age,
Hill & Wang, Inc., 1982

Trask, David F.
The War with Spain in 1898,
Macmillan Publishing Co., 1981

Utley, Jonathan G.
Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941,
University of Tennessee Press, 1985

Utley, Robert M.
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation,
Yale University Press, 1963

Van Deusen, Glyndon G.
The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848,
Waveland Press, 1992

Van Deusen, Glyndon G.
The Life of Henry Clay,
Greenwood Press, 1979

Van Doren, Carl
Benjamin Franklin,
Viking Penguin, 1991

Viorist, Milton
Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s,
Simon & Schuster, 1981

Walters, Ronald G.
American Reformers, 1815-1860,
Hill & Wang, 1978

Washburn, Wilcomb E.
The Indian in America,
HarperCollins, 1981

White, Theodore H.
America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President
1956-1980,
Warner Books, 1988

Wilkinson, J. Harvie
From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration,
1954-1978,
Oxford University Press, 1979

Wittner, Lawrence S.
Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate,
Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich College Publications, 1978

Wolfe, Tom
The Right Stuff,
Bantam Books, 1984

Woodward, C. Vann
The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3d rev. ed.,
Oxford University Press, 1974

Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men,
Simon & Schuster, 1987

York, Neil L.
Toward a More Perfect Union: Six Essays on the Constitution,
State University of New York Press, 1988