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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. 511 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.''
Bain, David H. Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984. 464 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Note Includes index Bibliography: p. [441]-454.
Belohlavek, John M. Let the Eagle Soar! : The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1985. 328 p. : maps ; 23 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. [309]-318. is a standard work on Jacksonian foreign policy, arguing continuity rather than militancy.
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.
Brandt, Nat. Massacre in Shansi. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. 336 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index. about the massacre of missionaries in China's Boxer Rebellion 1899-1901.
Brecher, Frank W. Securing American Independence: John Jay and the French Alliance. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 327 p. ; 25 cm.Series Contributions to the study of world history, no. 105. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-319) and index.
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.
Brown, Julie K. Contesting Images: photography and the World's Columbian Exposition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. 185 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index. focuses on why images were selected for the expo that "reflected the developing polarization between industry and art" (p. 17) and visitors did not see the full range of photography being produced in 1893. Disturbing images were kept out, such as fozen bodies of explorers on expeditions to the Arctic in the Signal Corps exhibit
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.
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.
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.
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.
David B. Abernethy. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. 524 pp. Maps, notes, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. focuses on Europe's eight major "saltwater" empires: Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy, and identifies two periods of imperial expansion: 1415-1773 and 1824-1912, and two periods of contraction: v1775-1824 and 1940-1980.
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.
Emparan, Madie Brown. Vallejos of California, The. Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco, 1968. 464 p. ports. bibliography: p. [449]-[451]
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.
Fleming, Thomas J. Duel : Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America. New York : Basic Books, 1999. 446 p.
Gates, John M. Schoolbooks and Krags; the United States Army in the Philippines, 1898-1902. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1973. 315 p.
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.
Gray, Edwyn. The Devil's Device: Robert Whitehead and the History of the Torpedo. Rev. and updated edition. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 310 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.
Hagan, Kenneth. This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. New York: Free Press, 1991.
Hagan, Kenneth. American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877-1889. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1973.
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
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.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. 404 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series History of civilization History of civilization (Pantheon Books) Note Bibliography: p. 361-377
Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood; How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. Yale University Press, 1998. 320 p.
Holbo, Paul S. Tarnished Expansion : the Alaska Scandal, the Press, and Congress, 1867-1871. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1983. 145 p. : ports. ; 22 cM. Note Includes index Bibliography: p. [133]-140.
Hudson, Linda S. Mistress of Manifest Destiny: a Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2001. 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-284) and index.
Israel, Jerry. Progressivsm and the Open Door: America and China, 1905-1921. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 222 p.; bibliography: p. 205-211. good on link between progressive reform ideology and foreign policy.
Jensen, Ronald J. The Alaska Purchase and Russian-American Relations. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975. 185 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Note Includes index Bibliography: p. 167-180.
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.
Jones, Howard. To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: a Study in Anglo-American relations, 1783-1843. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977. 251 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 221-237 and index. This book is the most complete and reliable history of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
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.
Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, paper. 426 p.; bibliographical references and index. see also Reilly book on sterilization.
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.
Langley, Lester. The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean 1898-1934. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1983, 2002. 265 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Series Latin American silhouettes. Note Originally published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langley, Lester D. and Thomas Schoonover. The Banana Men: American mercenaries and entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 219 p.: ill. (Maps of Central America on endpapers); bibliographical references (p. [204]-208) and index.
Leiner, Frederick C. Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798. United States Naval Institute, Nov. 1999. 264 p.
Linderman, Gerald. Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish-American War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1974 227 p., [8] leaves of plates: ill.; bibliographical references and index.
Long, David F. Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers, 1798-1883. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. 502 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [439]-483.
McCullough, David. John Adams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 736 p.
Miller, Stuart C. "Benevolent Assimilation" : the American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1982. 340 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Note Includes index Bibliography: p. 308-330.
Miller, Stuart C. "Benevolent Assimilation": the American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. 340 p.
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
Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002. 339 p.
Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2001. 772 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm Note "Sequel to: The rise of Theodore Roosevelt" Includes bibliographical references (p. [563]-739) and index.
Mugridge, Ian. The View from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States foreign policy. Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-215) and index is organized topically rather than chronologically.
Mugridge, Ian. View from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States Foreign Policy. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Musicant, Ivan. The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama. New York : Macmillan, 1990. 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offner, John L. An Unwanted War: the Diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 306 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295) and index.
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
Peyrefitte, Alain, translated by Jon Rothschild. Immobile Empire, The. NY: Knopf, 1992. 630 p.: col. ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. [597]-609) and index. Story of the 1793 British expedition that tried to open China to western trade; author used Imperial Archives of Peking's Forbidden City to write a colorful and detailed narrative; winner of a LA Times Book Prize for History.
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.
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.
Ringrose, David R. Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World: essays in honour of John H. Elliott. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. -
Rolle, Andrew F. American in California, An; the biography of William Heath Davis, 1822-1909. San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 1956. 155 p.; illus. Series: Huntington Library publications.
Rolle, Andrew F, ed. Road to Virginia City, The: the diary of James Knox Polk Miller. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Series title: The American exploration and travel series v. 30.
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.
Samuels, Peggy. Remembering the Maine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-352) and index.
Saul, Norman E. Concord and Conflict: the United States and Russia, 1867-1914. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1996. 654 p.: ill., maps; bibliography and index. "Continues the history of the Russian-American experience begun in Distant friends"--Pref.
Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. 363 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Series The Everyday life in America series. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-343) and index.
Shulman, Mark R. Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power, 1882-1893. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995. 239 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 211-231) and index.
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.
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.
Thomas, Hugh. Cuba, or, The Pursuit of Freedom. New York : Da Capo Press, 1971, 1998. 710 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [1,587]-1,613) and index
Trask, David F. The War with Spain in 1898. New York: Macmillan, 1981. 654 p. : maps ; bibliographical references and index. Series: The Macmillan wars of the United States.
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
Warren, Christian. Brush With Death. A Social History of Lead Poisoning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2000. 455 p.
Weintraub, Stanley. Uncrowned king : the life of Prince Albert New York : Free Press, 1997. 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-456) and index. shows the great influence of Albert on Victorian England, representing the transition from landed elite to urban industrial bourgeoise classes.
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.
Welch, Richard E. Response to Imperialism: the United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1979. 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes index Bibliography: p. 187-204
Wilkins, Mira. Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914. Harvard University Press, 1970. 310 p.; bibliography: p. [221]-252.
Wilkins, Mira. The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. 310 p.
Wilkins, Mira. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1989. 1055 p. Harvard studies in business history, 41.
Wilkins, Mira. The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974. 590 p. Harvard studies in business history, 27.
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.
Wyman, Mark. Round-Trip to America: the immigrants return to Europe, 1880-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. 267 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 213-259) and index.
Young, Kenneth R. The General's General : the Life and Times of Arthur MacArthur. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994. 400 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm Series History and warfare Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-388) and index
Ziegler, Philip. The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762-1929. London: Collins, 1988. 430 p., [16] p. of plates: ill., ports, geneal. tables; bibliography: p. 382-384 and index.