Suggested+Reading


 * America's Foundations **
 * //Washington: A Life// by Ron Chernow
 * //The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers// by Thomas Fleming
 * //The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels and Indian Allies// by Alan Taylor
 * //God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution// by Thomas Kidd
 * //Madison and Jefferson// by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
 * //Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution// by Pauline Maier
 * //First Family: Abigail and John Adams// by Joseph Ellis
 * //A Nation Rising// by Kenneth Davis
 * //Revolutionaries// by Jack Rakove
 * //Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America// by Benjamin L. Carp
 * //Monmouth Court House// by Joseoph G. Bilby
 * //Inventing George Washington// by Edward G. Lengel
 * //Make Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims// by Nick Bunker
 * //Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification// by David Waldstreicher
 * //Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World// by Maya Jasanoff
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution// by James L. Nelson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World// by Sam W. Haynes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Rogue Republic: How Would-be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History// by William C. Davis
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States// by Gordon S. Wood
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution// by John A. Nagy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington// by Paul Lockhart
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary// by John K. Alexander
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts After the American Revolution// by Emma Christopher
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution// by Denise Kiernan
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789// by William Nester
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons// by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Civil War and Reconstruction**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency// by Harry Turtledove
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The State of Jones // by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer (The story of a Mississippi farmer who led his neighbors, white and black, in an insurection against the Confederacy.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War// by Marc Egnal
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail// by Charles W. Calhoun
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse// by James Swanson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery// by Eric Foner
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Border War: Fighting Over Slavery before the Civil War// by Stanley Harrold
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Lincoln and McClellan// by John C. Waugh
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Sultana// by Alan Huffman
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Looking for Lincoln// by Philip B. Kunhardt III
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped// by David Hardin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt// by Daniel Rasmussen
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War// by William Marvel
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Civil War Wives// by Carol Berkin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//1861: The Civil War Awakening// by Adam Goodheart
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation// by David Goldfield
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Seige of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union// by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//This Great Struggle// by Steven Woodworth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural// by Ronald C. White
 * //Men of Color to Arms// by Elizabeth Leonard
 * //Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers// by Joseph Glatthaar
 * //A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War// by Amanda Foreman
 * //Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America// by David Reynolds
 * //Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free// by John Ferling
 * //Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War// by Tony Horwitz
 * //1861: The Civil War Awakening// by Adam Goodheart
 * //Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers// by Joseph Glatthaar
 * //Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War// by Mark E. Neely Jr.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Westward Expansion and Industrialization**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Colonel Roosevelt// by Edmund Morris
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Eagles and Empire // by David A. Clary
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">by Steven Woodworth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900// by H.W. Brands
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War// by A.J. Langguth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Last Stand// by Nathaniel Philbrick
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//As Big as the West// by Clyde Milner
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Empire of the Summer Moon// by S.C. Gwynne
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Lakota and the Black Hills// by Jeffrey Ostler
 * //Men of Color to Arms! Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality// by Elizabeth Leonard
 * //The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral- And How It Changed the American West// by Jeff Guinn
 * //Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West// by Dorothy Wickenden
 * //Destiny of the Repblic// by Candice Millard
 * //Kearney's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847// by Winston Groom
 * //An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears// by Daniel Blake Smith
 * //Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion// by Robert Morgan

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Progressive Era** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Imperialism and World War I** > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**1920s and 1930s**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition// by Daniel Okrent
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations// by Ira Berlin
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The President is a Sick Man// by Matthew Algeo
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Three Armies of the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century// by William Philpott
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Traitor to His Class: Franklin Roosevelt// by H.W. Brands
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Franklin and Eleanor// by Hazel Rowley
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices// by Noah Feldman
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America// by Burton Folsom

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**World War II**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of World War II// by Thomas Sanders
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Berlin at War// by Roger Moorhouse
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Monuments Men// by Robert M. Edsel
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Unbroken// by Laura Hillenbrand
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Twilight Warriors// by Robert Gandt
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin// by Timothy Snyder
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Conscience// by Louisa Thomas
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//In the Dark Streets Shineth// by David McCullough
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942// by Ian Toll
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Five Days That Shook the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II// by Nicholas Best

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**The Cold War**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Dead Hand// by David Hoffman
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Korean War// by Bruce Cumings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The War of Korea, 1950-1951// by Allan R. Millett
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Eisenhower: The White House Years// by Jim Newton

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Civil Rights Movement**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Hellhound on His Trail// by Hampton Sides
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation// by Rawn James Jr.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation// by Clarence B. Jones
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall// by Michael G. Long
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Malcolm X// by Manning Marable

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Vietnam Conflict and Modern History**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America Into the Vietnam War// by Ted Morgan

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**General History**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness// by Walter Isaacson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//How the States Got Their Shapes// by Mark Stein
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Lost States// by Michael J. Trainklein
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A Few Good Women// by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A Nation of Laws// by Peter Charles Hoffer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//America, Empire of Liberty// by David Reynolds
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The People Behind the Border Lines// by Mark Stein
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America// by Colin Woodard
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A History of the World in 100 Objects// by Neil MacGregor
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History// by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.