AP United States History
Book List
The following is a list of required books for book reviews and recommended books for
preparation for the AP United States History exam. Some of these books may be found
at the library media center and the rest can be found in the Erie County Library system or
through Mr. Stonebraker.
Colonial History
Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness
Baltzell, E. Digby. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth
Erickson, Kai. Wayward Puritans
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans—The Colonial Experience
Morgan, Edmund. The Puritan Dilemma
Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom
Hofstadter, Richard. America at 1750
Nash, Gary. Red, White, and Black
Revolution
Langguth, A.J. Patriots
Norton, Marybeth. Liberty’s Daughters
Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Locke, John. The Second Treatise on Government
Bailyn, Bernard. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bailyn, Bernard. To Begin the World Anew
Draper, Theodore. A Struggle for Power
Amherst Series. The Causes of the American Revolution
J. Franklin Jameson. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement
Moris, Richard. The American Revolution Reconsidered
Flexner, J.T. Washington: The Indispensable Man
Becker, Carl. The Declaration of Independence
Wills, Gary. Inventing America
Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers
The Constitution and Early Republic
Jensen, Merill. The New Nation
Hamilton, Madison, Jay. The Federalist Papers (10, 14, 23, 37, 39, 46, 47, 48, 51, 62, 63, 67, 68)
Wills, Gary. Explaining America
Wills, Gary. Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment
Ellis, Joseph. His Excellency: George Washington
Bowen, Catherine. Miracle at Philadelphia
Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
Wood, Gordon. The Creation of the American Republic
Storing, Herbert. What the Anti-Federalists Were For
Padover, Paul. The Living U.S. Constitution
Nineteenth Century to Mid-Century
Commanger, Henry. Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment
Padover, Saul (ed.). Jefferson on Democracy
Padover, Saul. Jefferson
Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Portrait
Smelser, Marshall. The Democratic Republic
Rossiter, Clinton. Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution
Bowers, C.G. Jefferson and Hamilton
Truner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History
Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden
Lewis, R.W.B. The American Adam
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America
Ward, John William. Andrew Jackson: Symbol of an Age
Schlesinger, Arthur. The Age of Jackson (abridged edition)
Rogin, M.P. Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian
Benson, Lee. The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy
Pessen, Edward. Jacksonian America
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysis of Indian Hating…
Berkhofer, Robert. The White Man’s Indian
Perkins, Dexter. A History of the Monroe Doctrine
VanAlstyne, Richard. The Rising American Empire
Weinberg, Michael. Manifest Destiny
Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Oates, Stephen. The Approaching Fury
Osofsky, Gilbert (ed.) Putting on Ole Massa
Genovese, E. The World the Slaveholders Made
Genovese, E. Roll, Jordan, Roll
Davis, David. The Problem of Slavery in Western Civilization
Davis, David. The Problem of Slavery in and Age of Revolution
McPherson, James. The Battle Cry of Freedom
McPherson, James. Drawn with the Sword
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: The Unfinished Revolution
Stampp, Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution
Stampp, Kenneth. The Era of Reconstruction: 1865-1877
Elkins, Stanley. Slavery
Jordan, Winhtrop. White over Black
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Potter, David. The Impending Crisis (1848-1861)
Thomas, Benjamin. Abraham Lincoln
Donald, David. Lincoln
Oates, Stephen. With Malice Towards None
Oates, Stephen. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths
Current, Richard. The Lincoln Nobody Knows
Catton, Bruce. The American Heritage Short History of the Civil War
Wills, Gary. Lincoln at Gettysburg
Dubois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk
Woodward, C. Vann. Rise of the New South
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Sinkler, George. The Racial Attitudes of American Presidents
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom
Morris, Thomas. Southern Slavery and the Law
The Industrial Age (1865-1914)
Schlereth, Thomas. Victorian America
Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons
Twain, Mark and Warner, Charles Dudley. The Gilded Age
Plunkitt, George Washington. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
Garraty, John. Labor and Capital of the Gilded Age
Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism
Schlessinger, Arthur. The Rise of the City: 1878-1898
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives
Handin, Oscar. The Uprooted
Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order (1877-1920)
Painter, Nell. Standing at Armageddon
Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sanger, Margaret. Autobiography
Ginger, Ray. Altgeld’s America
Hicks, J.D. The Populist Revolt
Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of Cities
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward
Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Radical
Serrin, William. Homestead
Thomas, John. Alternative America
Thernstorm, Stephan. Poverty and Progress
Green, James. The World of the Worker
Brooks, Thomas. Toil and Trouble
McGraw, Thomas. Prophets of Regulation
Hays, Samuel. A Response to Industrialism
Foreign Policy 1898 to 1945
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas
LeFeber, Walter. The New Empire
Pratt, J.W. Expansionists of 1898
Bailey, Thomas. Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace
Feis, Herbert. The Road to Pearl Harbor
Feis, Herbert. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy
Kennan, George. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin
Progressivism
Cooper, J.M. The Warrior and the Priest
Cooper, J.M. Pivotal Decades
Aaron, Daniel. Men of Good Hope
Goldman, Eric. Rendezvous with Destiny
Swados, Harvey, ed. Years of Conscience: The Muckrakers
Pringle, Henry. Theodore Roosevelt
Blum, John. The Republican Roosevelt
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex
Chace, James. 1912
Kellie, Luna. A Prairie Populist
White, Richard. It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own
Limerick, Patricia. The Legacy of Conquest
The 1920s and 1930s
Handlin, Oscar. Al Smith and His America
Murray, Robert. The Red Scare
Roth, Henry. Call it Sleep
Farrell, James. Studs Lonigan
Turkel, Studs. Hard Times
Steinbeck, John. In Dubious Battle
Galbraith, J.K. The Great Crash
Bernstein, Irving. The Lean Years
Bernstein, Irving. The Turbulent Years
Lekachman, Robert. The Age of Keynes
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
McElvaine, Robert. Down and Out in the Great Depression
McElvaine, Robert. The Great Depression 1929-1941
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
Leuchtenberg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Leuchtenberg, William. In the Shadow of FDR
Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear
Hingham, John. Strangers in the Land
World War II
Blum, J.M. V was for Victory
Blum, J.M. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
Fussell, Paul. Wartime
Lingeman, Richard. Don’t You Know there’s a War On?
Turkel, Studs. The Good War
Dower, John. War Without Mercy
Cold War (1945-1970’s)
Ambrose, Stephen. Rise to Globalism
Mee, Charles. Meeting at Potsdam
Alpervitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy
Williams, William. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
LeFeber, Walter. America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-1966
Lukacs, John. A New History of the Cold War
Oshinski, David. A Conspiracy so Immense
Rovere, Richard. Senator Joe McCarthy
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest
Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake
Herring, George. America’s Longest War
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History
LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: The U.S. in Central America
Modern Issues (1960s-1990s)
Johnson, Paul. Modern Times
Caro, Robert. Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker
Dallek, Robert. Lyndon Johnson: Flawed Giant
Lewis, Anthony. Portrait of a Decade
Sowell, Thomas. Ethnic America
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice
Harrington, Michael. The Other America
Morris, Charles. A Time of Passion
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique
Wills, Gary. Reagan’s America
Morris, Edmund. Dutch
Thurow, Lester. The Zero-Sum Society
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters
Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire
Reeves, Richard. President Nixon
Scott, Peter. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
The Autobiography of Malcolm X