History 17A Booklist

For Further Reading.  Please check specific syllabus for additional instructions

Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in the Colonial Period.

Carlson, Laurie. A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Trials.

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare OR Founding Mothers and Fathers. OR Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of  
                               American Women.

Linklater, Andro. Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the US and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy.

Hyslop, Stephen. Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848.

Unrau, William. White Man’s Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country.

Bradley, Patricia. Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution.

McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. Rebels Against Slavery.

Paddison, Joshua. A World Transformed.

Gerteis, Louis. From Contraband to Freedmen: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks 1861-65.

Brent, Linda. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom.

Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788.

Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.

Ronda, James. Lewis and Clark among the Indians.

Newman, Simon. Parades and the Politics of the Street.

Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.

Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and  the Coming of the Civil War.

Rohrbough, Malcolm. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation.

Allgor, Catherine. A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation.

Cotham, Edward (ed). The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine.

Swanson, James. Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer.

Skowronek and Ewen. X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy.

Dary, David. The Oregon Trail: An American Saga.

Anderson, Fred. The War that made America: A short History of the French and Indian War.

Fowler, William. The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

 These are just some ideas.  You may want to look at the end of the chapters in your text for other recommended reading.

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