U.S. History II Suggested Reading List
Anne Moody. Coming of Age in Mississippi
W. E. B. DuBois. The Souls of Black Folk
Kenneth Barmes. Who Killed John Clayton
Weldon Johnson. The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man
Thomas E. Mails. Plain Indians
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Mark Twain. Roughing it
Jeffry D. Wert. Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer
H. Wayne Morgan. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics 1877-1896
Mark Wahlgren Summers. Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion: The Making of the President, 1884
David Nasaw. Children of the City
______ Going Out
Samuel Hays. Response to Industrialism
Alfred Chandler. The Invisible Hand
Glen Porter. The Rise of Big Business
Alan Trachtenburg. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
John Higham. Writing American History
Horace Samuel Merrill. Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party
David Tucker. Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age
Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams
Horatio Alger. Ragged Dick and Struggling Upwards
Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
Olivier Zunz. Making America Corporate
Jean Strouse. Morgan: American Financier
Harold C. Livesay. Andrew Carnegie
William H. A. William. ‘Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream
Oscar Handlin. Uprooted
Frederick Jackson Turner. The Significance of the Frontier in American History & Other Essays
Richard Hofstadter. The Age of Reform
_____ Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Michael Kazin. The Populists Persuasion
Lawrence Goodwyn. The Populists Movement.
Edward Bellamy. Looking Backwards:2000-1887
L. Sprague de Camp. Heroes of American Invention
Edward Larson. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial...
Robert Crunden. Ministers of Reform: The Progressive’s Achievements 1889-1920
Robert Wiebe. The Search for Order 1877-1920
H. Wayne Morgan. William McKinley
G.J.A. O’Toole. The Spanish War
Upton Sinclair. The Jungle
Edmund Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Lewis L. Gould. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
H. W. Brands. TR: The Last Romantic
Morton Keller. Regulating the New Economy, 1900-1933
Arthur Link. Woodrow Wilson & the Progressive Movement
David M. Kennedy. Over Here
Robert Sobel. Coolidge: An American Enigma
William E. Leuchtenburg. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
James MacGregor Burns. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Foxes
Jim Powell. FDR’s Folly
Alan Brinkley. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Richard Wright. Native Son
Robert McElvaine. The Great Depression
Russell Baker. Growing Up
Robert Herzstein. Roosevelt and Hitler
Stephen Ambrose. The Supreme Commander
________ D-Day
William Manchester. American Caesar
Thomas K. McCraw. American Business, 1920-2000: How it Worked
David McCullough. Truman
Robert H. Ferrell. Harry S. Truman
Mark Hastings. The Korean War
Pach & Richardson. The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Divine. Eisenhower and the Cold War
David Halberstan. The Best and the Brightest
____ The Fifties
John F. Kennedy. Profiles in Courage
Richard Reeves. President Kennedy
Michael Beschloss. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63
W. H. Brands. Cold Warriors
Stephen Ambrose. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Barry Goldwater. Goldwater
Robert A. Caro. Means of Ascent (First three volumes of LBJ biography)
____The path to Power
____ Master of the Senate
Michael Hunt. Lyndon Johnson’s War
Stanley Karnow. Vietnam: A History
Allen Matusow. The Unraveling of America
Gareth Davis. From Opportinity to Entitlement: Great Society Liberalism
Steven M. Gillon. That’s Not What We Meant to Do: Reform in the 20th Century
Martin Luther King, Jr. Why We Can’t Wait
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Fawn Brodie. Richard Nixon
Stephen Ambrose. Nixon
Richard Nixon. In the Arena
William E. Pemberton. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Lou Cannon. Reagan
Edmund Morris. Dutch
George H. W. Bush and Brent Scrowcroft. A World Transformed
Bill Clinton. My Life