Suggested Additional Reading

General HistoriesEric Foner and John A. Garraty, eds., The Reader's Companion to American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
John A. Garraty, 1,001 Things Everyone Should Know about American History. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Richard B. Morris, ed., Encyclopedia of American History. sixth ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.
Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, and Jeffrey B. Morris, A Pocket History of the United States. New York: Washington Square Press, 1986.
Diane Ravitch, ed., The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
Richard Shenkman, Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History. New York: Morrow, 1988.

The American Indian

Merrill D. Beal, "I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War. New York: Ballantine, 1975.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt, 1991.
Grant Foreman, Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., The Indian Heritage of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., ed., America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples before the Arrival of Columbus. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Exploration, Colonization, and Revolution

John Edwin Bakeless, The Eyes of Discovery: The Pageant of North America as Seen by Its First Explorers. New York: Dover, 1989.
Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris, The Spirit of Seventy-six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference, 1991.
David Freeman Hawke, Everyday Life in Early America. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. New York: Norton, 1986.
Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.
George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin, Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It. New York: Da Capo, 1987.
R. C. Simmons, The American Colonies from Settlement to Independence. New York: Norton, 1980.

The Constitution

Richard B. Bernstein and Kym S. Rice, Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Alfred H. Kelly, The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development. Winfred A. Harbison, and Herman Belz. seventh ed. New York: Norton, 1991.
Clinton Rossiter, 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
John Sexton and Nat Brandt, How Free Are We? What the Constitution Says We can and Cannot Do. New York: Evans, 1986.
Carl Van Doren, The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Penguin, 1986.

Antebellum Period, 1800-1860

Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
David M. Potter and Don Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Vintage, 1964.

The Civil War

David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era. New York: Vintage, 1964.
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Vintage, 1986.
Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1980.
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Reconstruction

Michael L. Benedict, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. New York: Norton, 1973.
Fawn M. Brodie, Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South. New York: Norton, 1959.
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. New York: Holt, 1987.
Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1982.
George E. Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912. New York: Harper and Row, 1958.

Immigration

Josef J. Barton, Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Romanians, and Slovaks in an American City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
Caroline Golab, Immigrant Destinations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.
Maldwyn Allen Jones, American Immigration. second ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale, La Storia: Five Hundred Years of the Italian-American Experience, 1492-1992. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

World War I

Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I.. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegram. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Between the Wars

Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday: A Popular History of the '20s and '30s. New York: Bonanza, 1986.
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Vintage, 1983.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
John A. Garraty, The Great Depression. New York: Doubleday, 1987.
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

World War II

David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War. 6 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Peter Irons, Justice at War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: Viking, 1991.

From the Cold War to the Collapse of Communism

E. J. Dionne, Jr., Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Eric F. Goldman, The Crucial Decade—and After: America, 1945-1960. New York: Knopf, 1966.
Robert Griffith, The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Anthony Lewis, Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Vintage, 1989.
Anthony Lewis, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Norton, 1971.
J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years. New York: Viking, 1976.
William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America. 1932-1972. New York: Bantam, 1990.
William A. Williams, et al., eds., America in Vietnam: A Documentary History. New York: Norton, 1989.
Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War. New York: Penguin, 1990.

Black History

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New York: Knopf, 1988.
John Hope Franklin, Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage, 1986.
Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage, 1977.
W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift, eds., Encyclopedia of Black America. New York: Da Capo, 1984.
Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.. New York: New American Library, 1983.

Women's History

Catherine Clinton, The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1984.
Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Joan Hoff-Wilson, Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York: New York University Press, 1991.
Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

The Presidency

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
Paul F. Boller, Jr., Presidential Campaigns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President, 1968. New York: Trident Press, 1969.
Clinton Rossiter, The American Presidency. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960. New York: Atheneum, 1988.
Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man. Atlanta: Cherokee, 1990.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.

Biographies

James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989.
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989.
Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York: Clarion, 1987.
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper and Row, 1991.
X. Malcolm, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.. New York: Grove Press, 1965.
David McCullough, Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1981.
William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton, 1991.
Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography. New York: Putnam, 1980.
Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Greenwich House, 1985.
Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. New York: Greenwich House, 1983.
Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin, 1991.
T. Harry Williams, Huey Long. New York: Vintage, 1981.

Historical Novels

Alex Haley, Roots. New York: Doubleday, 1976.
Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels. New York: McKay, 1974.
Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1984.
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1946, 1982.