HISTORY 2010 - OUTSIDE READING

Dr. Schmitt

A book review of 3-5 typed pages on one of the following books will be due before the end of the thirteenth week of the semester. Since only one student will be allowed to each book, you should make your choice as early as possible. Papers turned in before the end of the ninth week of the semester will be returned for possible revision. Spelling and grammar should be perfect. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Substitutions for books on the list can be made if prior approval is secured from the instructor.

Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage

James Axtell, The European and the Indian

Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family

Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body

Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America

Arna Bontemps, Great Slave Narratives

Catherine Bowen, John Adams and the American Revolution

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

Joy Buel, The Way of Duty

Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox

J. de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

William Cronon, Changes in the Land

Richard Current, Daniel Webster

John Demos, A Little Commonwealth

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive

John Demos, Entertaining Satan

Clement Eaton, Henry Clay

Walter Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk

Kai Erikson, Wayward Puritans

Thomas Fleming, Duel

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

Nathan Huggins, Slave and Citizen

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

Winthrop Jordon, White over Black

Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

Sarah Knight, Journal

Douglas Leach, Flintlock and Tomahawk

James Loewen, Lies Across America

Joseph Martin, Private Yankee Doodle

Nabil Matar, Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

Garrett Mattingly, The Armada

Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom

Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Family

Samuel E. Morison, John Paul Jones

Samuel E. Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black

R. B. Nye, William Lloyd Garrison

Stephen Oates, With Malice toward None

Stephen Oates, The Fires of Jubilee

Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The Crisis

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail

Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18^th Century

Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey

Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms

Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land

Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Dirk Struik, Yankee Science in the Making

William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Henry Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Carl Van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution

Gore Vidal, Burr

John W. Ward, Andrew Jackson

Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers

Theodore Dwight Weld, Slavery As It Is

John Winthrop, Journal

Donald Wright, African Americans in the Colonial Era

Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party