Books for HIST 117

Books for History 117

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Stephen Ambrose

David McCullough

Charles Cerami

Tyler Anbinder

Elizabeth Fenn

J. M. Adovasio

H. W. Brands

Patricia Cohen

Haller, Mark H., edited by Allen F. Davis. The Peoples of Philadelphia: a History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 303 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. : Originally published 1973 by Temple University Press. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hicks, Brian, and Schuyler Kropf. Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine. New York : Ballantine Books, 2002. 301 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-287) and index.

Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York : Pantheon Books, 1998. 406 p. : 1 map ; 25 cm Note Includes index

Masur, Louis P. 1831: Year of Eclipse. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001. 247 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

McCullough, David G. John Adams. (2001)

Remini, Robert V. The Battle of New Orleans. (1999)

Roarke, James and Michael Johnson. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. 1990 422 p. about the black Ellison family of Sumter, South Carolina.

Alphabetical by Author

Adovasio, J. M. with Jake Page. The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery. New York: Random House, 2002. 352 p. written by the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, argues for a diversity of origins, based on five pre-Clovis sites, including Meadowcroft Rockshelter near Pittsburgh, Cactus Hill VA, the Topper site on the Savannah River near Allendale SC.

Allgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics: in which the Ladies of Washington help Build a City and a Government. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000. 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series Jeffersonian America Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index. Contents Introduction -- President Thomas Jefferson in Washington City -- Dolley Madison takes command -- Washington women in public -- Louisa Catherine Adams campaigns for the presidency -- The fall of Andrew Jackson's cabinet -- Conclusion

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. 511 p.

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points. New York: Free Press, 2001. 544 p.

Anderson, Fred. The Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Knopf, 2000. 862 p.

Appleby, Joyce O. Inheriting the Revolution: the First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cM. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index. examines the lives of 2000 common Americans to argue for a true social revolution that reshaped all aspects of society and produced the ''autonomous individual,'' an ideal figure who ''came to personify the nation and the free society it embodied.'' This individual was a person ''who developed inner resources, acted independently, lived virtuously, and bent his behavior to his personal goals, not the American Adam, but the American homo faber, the builder.''

Babits, Lawrence Edward. A Devil of a Whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 231 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index

Bagley, Will. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 544 p. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. argues that the Mormons were responsible for the 1857 slaughter of an emigrant party from Arkansas headed for California, and that Brigham Young knew about it and participated in the coverup of silence.

Banner, Stuart. The Death Penalty: An American History. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. 385 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. "Washington University law professor Banner charts how and why this country went from having one of the world's mildest punitive systems to one of its harshest. In colonial America, criminals were hanged before large crowds in elaborate rituals that included sermons and prayers. All serious crimes robbery, arson, counterfeiting were capital offenses. But gradually, opposition to execution took root and, by the 1780s, it was considered by many to be a feudal relic incompatible with human progress; resulting penal reforms significantly reduced the use of capital punishment. By the Civil War, a prolonged debate led three northern states to abolish it, while the rest limited its application to murderers."

Bellesiles, Michael. Revolutionary Outlaws. New York, 1993.

Bergreen, Laurence. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York: HarperCollins, Oct. 2003. 416 p. is a revisionist account of Magellan, claiming he died in the Philippines because of a mutinous crew that failed to save him "or their officers ordered them to stay put." Although only one ship completed the voyage, it had great significance and dispelled myths of "mermaids, boiling water at the equator, and a magnetic island capable of pulling the nails from passing ships."

Bonomi, Patricia U. The Lord Cornbury Scandal: the Politics of Reputation in British America. University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 290 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index

Brands, H. W. The First American: the Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York : Doubleday, 2000. 759 p. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p.[717]-742) and index.

Brands, H. W. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream. Doubleday, 2002. 560 p. "The gold rush of 1848, says Brands, was a watershed in American history, helping mold the country into its modern shape, transforming the wilderness and pushing the country into civil war. Noted biographer Brands (his life of Benjamin Franklin, The First American, was a Pulitzer finalist) makes good use of a sparkling cast of characters: George Hearst, Leland Stanford, Levi Strauss, even William "War Is Hell" Sherman, all raced to California to make their fortunes."

Brookhiser, Richard. America's First Dynasty: the Adamses, 1735-1918. New York: Free Press, 2002. 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.

Brookhiser, Richard. Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the rake who wrote the Constitution. New York: Free Press, 2003. 251 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.

Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 452 p.

Buckley, Gail L. American Patriots: the Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York : Random House, 2001. 534 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: a History of New York City to 1898. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. 1383 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [1263]-1305) and indexes is a large and comprehensive yet readable narrative history

Bynum, Victoria E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 316 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-304) and index

Carlson, Laurie Winn. A Fever in Salem: a New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials. Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1999. 197 p. ; 22 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index argues that the Salem witchcraft outbreak was caused by encephalitis

Cerami, Charles A. Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase. Sourcebooks. March 2003. 336 p.

Connor, Sheila. New England Natives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 274 p.: ill. (some col.); bibliographical references (p. 252-263) and index.

Courtwright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index. Contents: Introduction: The psychoactive revolution -- The big three: alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine -- The little three: opium, cannabis, and coca -- The puzzle of distribution -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- A trap baited with pleasure -- Escape from commodity hell -- Opiates of the people -- Taxes and smuggling -- About-face: restriction and prohibition -- Licit and illicit drugs

Crackel, Theodore J. West Point: a Bicentennial History. Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Series Modern war studies. Note Rev. ed. of: Illustrated history of West Point. 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-354) and index. Contents: West Point in the revolution -- The founding of the academy, 1784-1801 -- The early years, 1802-1817 -- Sylvanus Thayer: father of the academy, 1817-1833 -- Years of growth and fulfillment, 1833-1865 -- Basking in the glory, 1866-1902 -- A new age, 1903-1931 -- The long gray line, 1930-1960 -- The years of turmoil, 1960-2001.

Crackel, Theodore J. Mr. Jefferson's Army: Political and Social Reform of the Military Establishment, 1801-1809. New York : New York University Press, 1987. 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series The American social experience series ; 6. Note Includes index Bibliography: p. [225]-243.

Crisman, Kevin J. and Arthur B. Cohn. When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 292 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index.

Currey, Cecil B. Code Number 72/Ben Franklin; Patriot or Spy? Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall. 1972. 331 p. ports. 22 cm. Note: Bibliography: p. [323]-331.

Dahl, Robert A. How Democratic is the American Constitution? New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001. 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Series The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Introduction: fundamental questions -- What the framers couldn't know -- The constitution as a model: an american illusion -- Electing the president -- How well does the constitutional system perform? -- Why not a more democratic constitution?

Dalzell, Robert F. George Washington's Mount Vernon: at Home in Revolutionary America. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 300 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-288) and index

Davis, William C. Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America. New York : Free Press, 2002. 484 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-478) and index.

Dennett, Andrea Stulman. Weird and Wonderful: the Dime Museum in America. New York University Press, 1997 paper. 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index. Contents: The origins of the dime museum, 1782-1840 -- Barnum and the museum revolution, 1841-1870 -- The peak years : from the Civil War to 1900 -- Freaks and platform performers -- Lecture room entertainments -- Waxworks and film -- The dime museum reconfigured for a new century.

Denton, Sally. American Massacre: the Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 306 p. : map ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.

Dillehay, Tom D. The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. New York: Basic Books, May 2000. 352 p.

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Roseville, Calif. : Prima, 2002. 333 p. ; 22 cm. Note Includes index.

Downs, Jacques M. The Golden Ghetto: the American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1997. 495 p. [3] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-487) and index

Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 288 p. ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-278) and index.

Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. NY: Holt, 1992. 429 p. [16 p. of plates]: maps; bibliographical references (365-418 p.) and index. 1st full biography of Boone in 50 years; winner of a LA Times Book Prize for Biography.

Ferling, John E. A Leap in the Dark: the Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 558 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-537) and index.

Ferling, John E. Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 392 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-371) and index.

Fitzhugh, William W. and Elisabeth I. Ward, eds. Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History, 2000. 432 p. : col. ill. + col. maps; 29 cm. Note An exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2000-September 5, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-413) and index.

Fleming, Thomas J. Duel : Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America. New York : Basic Books, 1999. 446 p.

Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001. 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index

Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little Brown. May, 2002. This book is based on a notebook written in 1827 by 17-year-old sailor Augustus Strong aboard the Navy schooner Dolphin sent to rescue survivors of a mutiny in the South Pacific on the whaler Globe.

Gordon, Sarah B. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 337 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series Studies in legal history Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-321) and index

Gutjahr, Paul C. An American Bible: a History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. 256 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-252) and index.

Haas, Lisbeth. Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 279 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index.

Hagan, Kenneth. This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. NY: Free Press, 1991, paper. 434 p., [8] p. of plates: ill..; bibliographical references and index. is a standard history of the Navy.

Haley, James L. Sam Houston. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 513 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-493) and index

Handler, Richard and Eric Gable. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Duke University Press, 1997. 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index criticizes the museum as a "Republican Disneyland" that teaches "escapism, not history"

Harvey, Robert. A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution. Overlook Press, 2002. 478 p. "Journalist and former Minister of Parliament Harvey (Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence) projects a British bias but strives for balance while arguing that the Revolutionary War was more complicated than is typically understood. "

Hibbert, Christopher. Redcoats and Rebels: the American Revolution through British Eyes. New York: Norton, 1990. 375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references

Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: a Forgotten Conflict. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1989. 457 p. : maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Higginbotham, Don. War and Society in Revolutionary America: the wider dimensions of conflict. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 323 p. : 1 port. ; 24 cm Series: American military history. : Includes bibliographies and index.

Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. 239 p. illus. 24 cm.: Includes bibliography. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va.

Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 231 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references and index

Horigan, Michael. Elmira: Death Camp of the North. Stackpole Books. 2002.

Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York : Pantheon Books, 1998. 406 p. : 1 map ; 25 cm Note Includes index

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: an Environmental History, 1750-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 206 p. : ill., maps ; Studies in environment and history. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory. University Press of Kansas, 1998. 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Series Modern war studies Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.

Keneally, Thomas. American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. 397 p. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and index.

Kennedy, Roger G. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 350 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-335) and index.

Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness So Immense: the Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003. 430 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lane, Kris E. Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500-1750. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 237 pp. Tables, maps, figures, chronology, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.

Lane, Roger. Murder in America: a History. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1997. 399 p.: ill.; The history of crime and criminal justice series. Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-365) and index

Leiner, Frederick C. Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798. United States Naval Institute, Nov. 1999. 264 p.

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Knopf, 1998. 337 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-326) and index

Lepore, Jill. A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. Knopf, 2002. 241 p. "historian Lepore (winner of the Bancroft Prize for The Name of War) explores the significant and occasionally unsettling ways language was used to define national character and boundaries in the early American republic. Focusing on seven men Noah Webster, Samuel F.B. Morse, William Thornton, Sequoyah, Thomas Gallaudet, Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima and Alexander Graham Bell."

Marszalek, John F. The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. New York : Free Press, 1997. 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-284) and index

Masur, Louis P. 1831: Year of Eclipse. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001. 247 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 736 p.

McGinty, Brian. Strong Wine: the Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy. Stanford University Press, 1998. 579 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-559) and index is a well-written biography by a family descendant about the Hungarian who became known as the father of the California wine industry

McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1992.

Miller, Lee. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Time Warner Trade Pub., 2001. 362 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Paperback / Penguin USA / May 2002. Note Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2000 Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-352) and index. Contents A case of missing persons -- A case of murder -- A case of conspiracy -- Who are the Mandoag?

Millett, Allan R. Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps. NY: Macmillan, 1980, 1991, paper. 845 p.; bibliography notes and index. a standard history of the Marine Corps

Milton, Giles. Big Chief Elizabeth: the Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 358 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-350) and index. "Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth is a sprawling, ambitious tale of how the aristocrats and privateers of Elizabethan England reached and colonized the "wild and barbarous shores" of the New World. Milton's story ranges from John Cabot's voyage to America in 1497 to the painful but ultimately successful foundation of the English colony at Jamestown by 1611. However, the main focus of the book is Sir Walter Raleigh's elaborate and tortuous attempts to establish an English settlement on Roanoke Island, in present-day North Carolina, following the first English voyage there in 1584. Scouring contemporary travel accounts of the period, Milton creates a colorful and entertaining account of the greed, confusion, and misunderstanding that characterized English relations with the Native Americans, and the violent and tragic conflict that often ensued. Milton has a good eye for a surreal or comical story, such as the colony's first encounter with Big Chief--or Weroanza Wingina, whose exotic title 'quickly captured the imagination of the English colonists, and they began referring to their own queen as Weroanza Elizabeth.'"

Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. 339 p.

Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 432 pp. Bibliography and index.

Newmyer, R. Kent. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. Baton Rouge : Lousiana State University Press, 2001. 11 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series Southern biography series Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ohrt, Wallace. Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. Texas A&M University Press, 1997. 190 p. : port. ; 23 cm Series The Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 17. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index

Pegram, Thomas R. Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. 207 pp. Bibliographical references and index.

Phillips, Kevin P. The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. New York : Basic Books, 1999. 707 p. : maps ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-682) and index.

Porterfield, Amanda. Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 179 p. : port. ; 24 cm. Series Religion in America series Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-172) and index

Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2001. 386 p. ; 24 cm Series A New Press people's history Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-371) and index.

Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.: Includes bibliographical references and index

Remini, Robert. Daniel Webster: The Man and His Times. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 796 pp., Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.

Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1998. Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821. Vol. 1 of 3. Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832. Vol. 2 of 3. Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845. Vol 3 of 3.

Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: a Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995. 671 p.; bibliographical references (p. 594-638) and index.

Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 - June 3, 1864. Louisiana State University Press. September 2002.

Richards, Leonard L. Shay's Rebellion: the American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 204 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-193) and index

Roarke, James and Michael Johnson. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South. 1990 422 p. about the black Ellison family of Sumter, South Carolina.

Rosenus, Alan. General M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: a Biography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 292 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 271-281) and index.

Schecter, Barnet. The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. Walker & Company. September, 2002.

Schultz, Nancy L. Fire & Roses: the Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. New York: Free Press, 2000. 317 p.

Seelye, John D. Memory's Nation: the Place of Plymouth Rock. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 699 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 647-670) and index.

Seymour, Bruce. Lola Montez: a Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-409) and index.

Shomette, Donald. Raid on America: the Dutch naval campaign of 1672-1674. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index.Bibliography: p. [354]-360.

Simon, James F. What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002. 348 p. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-325) and index.

Small, Helen. Love's Madness: Medicine, The Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865. NY: Oxford, 1996. 260 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [221]-248) and index. Explores the depiction of love-crazed women in works by Jane Austen,Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, andother British writers.

Stagg, J. C. A. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1983. 538 p. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Steele, Ian K. Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the Massacre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 250 p.: ill.; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-240) and index.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001. 526 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series The Penguin history of the United States Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-514) and index.

Thomas, Evan. John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003. 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-368) and index.

Toll, Robert. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, paper. 310 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 285-302 and index. one of the best studies of mistrelsy, America's only original contribution to theater.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. New York : HarperCollins, 2002. 694 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-678) and index.

Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute. New York: Knopf, 1988. 347 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Note Subtitle on jacket: A view of the American Revolution Maps on lining papers. Includes index and Bibliography: p. 301-307

Tucker, Spencer. Injured Honor: the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, June 22, 1807. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1996. 268 p. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index

Ulrich, Laurel. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 501 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-478) and index. "artifacts common to the decades between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries--from an ordinary cross reel to wind yarn to a much-coveted Hadley cupboard--come alive in the skillful prose of the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Midwife's Tale (1990)."

Utley, Robert M. Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. 370 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-360) and index.

Warren, Christian. Brush With Death. A Social History of Lead Poisoning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2000. 455 p.

Weisberger, Bernard A. America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2000. 345 p. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-326) and index.

Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: a Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. 352 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.

Wilkinson, Warren. A Scythe of Fire: A Civil War Story of the Eighth Georgia Infantry Regiment. Morrow, William & Co. March 2002.

Williams, Eric E., with a new introduction by Colin A. Palmer. Capitalism & Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 285 p. ; 22 cm. : Originally published: 1944. Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-270) and index. "the most influential and the most contentious book written on slavery in the last half century" that argues that the slave trade made possible capital that caused the industrial revolution

Wills, Garry. James Madison. New York: Times Books, 2002. 184 p. ; 22 cm. Series The American presidents series (Times Books) Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-174) and index.

Wilson, David A. United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. Cornell University Press, 1998. 223 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-212) and index.

Wood, Gordon S. The American Revolution: A History. New York : Modern Library, 2002. 190 p. : maps ; 20 cm Series Modern Library chronicles ; 9 Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.

Young, Alfred Fabian. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 262 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-248) and index. tells the story of George Robert Twelves Hewes, who was involved in several events in Boston during the Revolution. In 1835, when Hewes was in his 90s, he was celebrated as one of the last survivors of the Tea Party.

Zacks , Richard. The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd Richard. Hyperion. June 2002. "Though William Kidd, better known as Captain Kidd, was inextricably bound with piracy and has popularly gone down as a marauding buccaneer himself, Zacks argues that he was actually a mercenary backed by the English government and several New World investors to track down pirates and reclaim their stolen wares."

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