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Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography.Power Hour Fall Semester: Covers chapters 1-25973.3 MCC McCullough, David G. 1776. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.Based upon both American and British historical documents, the author presents acomprehensive history of the American Revolution during 1776, George Washington, andthose who followed him.973.5 MAS Masur, Louis P. 1831, year of eclipse. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.Recounts the events that had an impact on American life in 1831, focusing on the eclipsemost Americans feared would be the end of the world, and discusses why so many peoplewere afraid.973.8 TRA Traxel, David. 1898 : the birth of the American century. 1st American edition. New York, :Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.Examines the lives of politicians and homemakers, outlaws and reformers, in telling thestory of America's metamorphosis from a rural, isolationist society into a commandingpresence on the world stage.978 UTL Utley, Robert M. A life wild and perilous : mountain men and the paths to the Pacific. 1sted. New York : Henry Holt and Company, Inc., [c1997].The author captures the exciting adventures of the first white men to explore the RockyMountain West. Characters such as Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, and Jim Bridger, areexplored in a full-blown social history of a movement that still captures the imagination ofreaders today.921 LIN Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln : redeemer President. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B.Eerdmans Pub., c1999.Offers an intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln, exploring the role of ideas inLincoln's life.973 WRI Wright, Donald R. African Americans in the Colonial era : from African origins throughthe American Revolution. 3rd ed. Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, c2010.A history of African-Americans and their distinct culture in colonial North America, fromtheir seventeenth-century introduction to the continent via the slave trade to their role in theRevolutionary War.979.4 BRA Brands, H. W. The age of gold : the California Gold Rush and the new American dream.1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2003, c2002.Chronicles the experiences of the men and women who traveled West to take part in theCalifornia Gold Rush and discusses how their experiences helped shape the history of theUnited States.Revised 5/2012 Page 1

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.4 CHE Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York : Penguin Press, 2004.Presents a biography of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most important figures in thehistory of American politics never elected to the presidency, discussing his childhood as anorphan in the Caribbean, his marriage and family, and his death in a duel, and examininghis multifaceted role in the formation of U.S. government.973.2 TAY Taylor, Alan, 1955-. American colonies. New York : Viking, 2001.Covering a period that ranges from 13,000 B.C. to 1820, looking at how the interminglingcultures, people, plants, and animals of England, Spain, Russia, France, and theNetherlands, as well as African slaves and Native Americans, influenced the developmentof the American colonies.921 JAC Meacham, Jon. American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House. Random House tradepbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.Details the life of the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, and focuseson his political actions and choices that shaped the White House and inspired the laterpresidents--including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others.979.2 DEN Denton, Sally. American massacre : the tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September, 1857.1st ed. New York : Knopf :, 2003.Argues that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for a massacre on a wagon trainpassing through Utah which occurred on September 11, 1857 and discusses how themassacre impacted the Mormon church.355 BUC Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-. American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military fromthe Revolution to Desert Storm. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House TradePaperbacks, c2001.A dramatic and moving tribute to the military’s unsung heroes, American Patriots tells thestory of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield,even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front. Throughhundreds of original interviews with veterans of every war since World War I, historicaccounts, and photographs, Gail Buckley brings these heroes and their struggles to life.973.3 COU Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. 1st rev. ed. New York : Hill and Wang,2003.Explores the complex social dimensions of the American Revolution, looking at howvarious social groups impacted the conflict, and examining how they in turn weretransformed by the war.973 BOO Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-. The Americans: the colonial experience. NewYork : Random House, [c1958].An essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuriesago shaped the lives of modern Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continentshattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everydaylife far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization: "Old categories were shakenup, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge," writes Boorstin.Revised 5/2012 Page 2

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973 BOO Boorstin, Daniel Joseph 1914-. The Americans : the national experience. New York :Random House, [1965].American ingenuity and emergent nationalism is featured in this book dealing with a periodextending roughly from the Revolution to the Civil War. A sometimes quirky look at howcertain patterns of living helped shape the character of the United States. The book simplyoverflows with ideas, introduced in entertaining chapters on subjects such as the NewEngland ice industry and the boomtowns of the Midwest.973.2 WIL Williams, Tony, 1970-. America's beginnings : the dramatic events that shaped a nation'scharacter. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ;, c2010.Describes fifty key events in early American history that helped shape the nation, includingthe Mayflower Compact, King Philip's War, and the Annapolis Convention.973.3 DAV Davis, Kenneth C. America's hidden history : untold tales of the first Pilgrims, fightingwomen, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation. 1st ed. New York : SmithsonianBooks/Collins, c2008.Contains stories from early American history, including the French Huguenots arrival inAmerica, the story behind the pigs carried by Columbus that might have been responsiblefor the disease that spread throughout the Native American population, and the lesserknown background of George Washington.973.3 UNG Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. America's second revolution : how George Washington defeatedPatrick Henry and saved the nation. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.Examines George Washington's efforts to create the U.S. Constitution, discussing the threatof civil war that followed the American Revolution, and looking at the objections of PatrickHenry, George Clinton, and ordinary citizens to a centralized government.921 JAC Brands, H. W. Andrew Jackson : his life and times. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2005.Presents a biography of Andrew Jackson, and provides a narrative examination of the lifeof one of America's most well-known presidents and historical figures.979.4 GUE Guerrero, Vladimir. The Anza Trail and the settling of California. Santa Clara : Santa ClaraUniversity ;, c2006.Traces the history of the Anza Trail, highlighting expeditions along the trail and theircontributions to the settlement and development of California.973.7 W Winik, Jay, 1957-. April 1865 : the month that saved America. 1st ed. New York :HarperCollins, c2001.Traces the events which occurred in the final days of the Civil War and discusses how theseevents changed the history of the United States.683.4 BEL Bellesiles, Michael A. Arming America : the origins of a national gun culture. 1st VintageBooks ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2001.Discusses the prevalence of guns in American homes up to the mid-nineteenth century andproposes that they became commonplace only after production increased during the CivilWar; places this in the context of the gun control debate.Revised 5/2012 Page 3

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.3 BER Berkin, Carol. A brilliant solution : inventing the American Constitution. 1st Harvest ed.Orlando : Harcourt, 2003, c2002.Examines the Founding Fathers' feelings and thoughts as they entered the ConstitutionalConvention, emphasizing their limited expectations in the wake of the national crises theyfaced.979.4 RIC Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the coming of the Civil War. 1stVintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2008, c2007.Examines the role the California Gold Rush played in the events leading up to the CivilWar including the debate between the Northern and Southern states over California.975 PER Perdue, Theda, 1949-. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York : Viking,c2007.Describes the events and U.S. policies surrounding the Trail of Tears, during whichthousands of Cherokee were forced to move west of the Mississippi, and examines thisperiod's legacy for the Cherokee and for American society.921 LOC Shapard, Bud, 1937-. Chief Loco : Apache peacemaker. Norman : University of OklahomaPress, c2010.Chronicles the life of Jlin-tay-i-tith, Chief Loco, an Apache Indian, who was known as thepeacemaker.979.4 HAC Hackel, Steven W. Children of coyote, missionaries of Saint Francis : Indian-Spanishrelations in colonial California, 1769-1850. Chapel Hill : Published for the OmohundroInstitute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the Universityof North Carolina Press, c2005.Examines the incorporation of Native American communities into Spanish missions inCalifornia from 1769 through 1850 and its implications, discussing the Franciscan religiousprogram, marriage, sexuality, social control, political accommodations, rebellion, and otherrelated topics.973.7 CAT Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978. The Civil War. New York : American Heritage ;, c1985.Includes index, chronology of the Civil War, index to the chronology and a leadingparticipants section. Recounts the events of the Civil War.973.7 F Foote, Shelby, 1916-. The Civil War, a narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York :Vintage Books, 1986, c1958.Volume one of a three volume narrative history of the battles, characters, and situationsduring the first years of the war.973.7 F Foote, Shelby, 1916-. The Civil War, a narrative : Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York :Vintage Books, 1986, c1963.Volume two of a three volume narrative history of the battles, characters and situationsduring the middle portion of the war.Revised 5/2012 Page 6

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.7 F Foote, Shelby. The Civil War, a narrative. New York : Random House, c1974.A narrative history of the battles, characters, and situations during the last years of the CivilWar.973.7 P Perry, Mark, 1950-. Conceived in liberty : Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and theAmerican Civil War. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1997.A social history of the Civil War and its aftermath, examined through the parallel lives oftwo opposing war heroes, William Oates, an Alabama frontiersman, and JoshuaChamberlain, the son of a Maine farmer; with descriptions of major battles, accounts ofdaily life during the conflict, and discussion of Reconstruction policy and race relations.973.2 AND Anderson, Fred, 1949-. Crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire inBritish North America, 1754-1766. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, distributed byRandom House, 2000.A narrative history of the Seven Years' War during which Great Britain eliminated Frenchpower north of the Caribbean, focusing on the impact of the war on the political andcultural landscape of North America.973.2 CUL Cultures in conflict : the Seven Years' War in North America. Lanham, Md. : Rowman &Littlefield Publishers, c2007.IA collection of essays that offers a historical and cultural overview of the Seven Years'War and its impact on American society, culture, and history.307.3 HIL Hill, Patricia Evridge, 1958-. Dallas : the making of a modern city. 1st ed. Austin :University of Texas Press, 1996.Describes the development of Dallas before it became identified by its businessconnections, focusing on the roles that organized labor, women's groups, racial minorities,Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers played in building the city from1880 to 1940.342.7302 GOL Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-. Dark bargain : slavery, profits, and the struggle for theConstitution. New York : Walker ;, 2005.Reveals the compromises made by men both driven and repelled by slavery and the needsof the slave economy that were made by the men creating the American Constitution.332 REN Renehan, Edward, 1956-. Dark genius of Wall Street : the misunderstood life of Jay Gould,king of the robber barons. New York : Basic Books, c2005.Chronicles the life of Jay Gould, focusing on his involvement with some of the mostinfluential figures on Wall Street, role in the Black Friday panic, unethical practices, andinfluence on American economy.921 CRO Groneman, Bill. David Crockett : hero of the common man. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York :Forge, 2007, c2005.Chronicles the life of David "Davy" Crockett, discussing his adventures as a hunter,explorer, soldier, and politician.Revised 5/2012 Page 7

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography921 CRO Boylston, James R., 1954-. David Crockett in Congress : the rise and fall of the poor man'sfriend. Houston, Tex. : Bright Sky Press, c2009.Chronicles the life and political career of Davy Crockett, following his rise from justice ofthe peace and magistrate to Tennessee congressman. Includes portraits, letters, and politicalwritings.921 CRO Wallis, Michael, 1945-. David Crockett : the Lion of the West. 1st ed. New York : W.W.Norton, c2011.A biography of David "Davy" Crockett, looking at his life against the history of thefrontier, and attempting to separate fact from fiction as regards his childhood, talent forhunting, storytelling gifts, military adventures, political career, and death in Texas in 1836.921 SLA Rottenberg, Dan. Death of a gunfighter : the quest for Jack Slade, the West's most elusivelegend. Yardley, Pa. : Westholme, c2008.Details the life of Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, who in his prime was hired to defend thestagecoach line which ran from Missouri to California in the nineteenth century; and alsodiscusses his personal life, alcoholism, and more.975.7 ROB Robertson, David, 1947 Aug. 11-. Denmark Vesey. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York :Vintage Books, 2000, c1999.Describes ex-slave Denmark Vesey's 1822 attempt to organize the largest slave rebellion inthe history of the United States.973.8 MIL Millard, Candice. Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of apresident. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2011.Discusses how the attempted assassination of James A. Garfield just four months after hewas elected president impacted the nation and affected the remainder of his presidency.364.15 LAR Larson, Erik. Devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changedAmerica. New York : Crown Publishers, c2003.An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 as it relates to the stories of two men :architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer HermanMudgett.974.7 KET Ketchum, Richard M., 1922-. Divided loyalties : how the American Revolution came toNew York. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2002.Explains how the events leading up to the American Revolution tore apart a community inNew York that was already divided by deep-seated familial, political, religious, andeconomic rivalries.921 LEW Mortimer, Gavin. Double death : the true story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's most daringspy. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Walker, 2010.Recounts the dangerous exploits of Pinkerton detective and Union spy Pryce Lewis duringthe Civil War.Revised 5/2012 Page 8

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography917.91 DOL Dolnick, Edward, 1952-. Down the great unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 journey ofdiscovery and tragedy through the Grand Canyon. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,c2001.Draws from diaries and journals to tell the story of the 1869 expedition led by Civil Warveteran John Wesley Powell to explore the Grand Canyon.973.5 LAN Langguth, A. J., 1933-. Driven West : Andrew Jackson's trail of tears to the Civil War. 1stSimon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.Examines the events the preceded the Civil War, discussing how they influenced the path towar and shaped the conflict that divided the country.973.4 FLE Fleming, Thomas J. Duel : Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the future of America.New York : Basic Books, c1999.Examines the lives and ambitions of American statesmen Alexander Hamilton and AaronBurr, focusing on events that led up to the duel between the two men in 1804 that endedHamilton's life.921 BOU Edward Bouchet : the first African-American doctorate. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific,2002.Profiles the life and career of Edward Bouchet, the first African-American to receive adoctorate degree.973.8 MUS Musicant, Ivan, 1943-. Empire by default : the Spanish-American War and the dawn of theAmerican century. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1998.A military and diplomatic history of the Spanish-American War of 1898, examining eventsthat led up to the conflict, and discussing America's resulting emergence as an internationalpower.385 BAI Bain, David Haward. Empire express : building the first transcontinental railroad. NewYork : Viking, 1999.Chronicles the events that took place in the thirty years it took to complete the firsttranscontinental railroad, profiling the key players in its development, the major setbacksthe workers faced, and the public objections to the railroad's completion.973 IMM Immerman, Richard H. Empire for liberty : a history of American imperialism fromBenjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.ITraces the history of imperialism in the United States from the nation's founding to theearly twenty-first century, focusing on six public figures--Benjamin Franklin, John QuincyAdams, William Henry Seward, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, and PaulWolfowitz--and describing how they leveraged liberty to suit their personal ambitions.304.2 FLA Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-. The eternal frontier : an ecological history of NorthAmerica and its peoples. New York : Grove Press, 2001.973.1 M Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. The European discovery of America. New York :Oxford University Press, 1971-1974.Revised 5/2012 Page 9

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography970 RIC Richter, Daniel K. Facing east from Indian country : a native history of early America. 1stHarvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003,c2001.Chronicles the history of the origins of the United States, focusing on the role of NativeAmericans in its discovery and development.973.09 CRA Craughwell, Thomas J., 1956-. Failures of the presidents : from the Whiskey Rebellion andthe War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and war in Iraq. Beverly, MA : Fair Winds Press, 2008.Provides accounts of twenty cases in which U.S. presidents made bad decisions that alteredthe course of history, including Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Acts, Franklin Roosevelt'sinternment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and George W. Bush's war in Iraq.920 D Denton, Sally. Faith and betrayal : a pioneer woman's passage in the American West. 1sted. New York : Knopf, 2005.970.01 M Mowat, Farley. The farfarers : before the Norse. 1st pbk. ed. South Royalton, Vt. :Steerforth Press ;, c2000.Suggests that another Indo-European group of people called the Alban preceded the arrivalof the Norse in North America by several centuries.973.2 LEC Leckie, Robert. "A few acres of snow" : the saga of the French and Indian Wars. New York: Wiley, c1999.Chronicles seven decades of pre-Revolutionary American history, describing the combat,conviction, and determination behind the four colonial wars that took place betweenEngland and France.973.7 FON Foner, Eric. The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery. 1st ed. New York :W.W. Norton, c2010.Follows the life and career of Abraham Lincoln and the development of his anti-slaverysentiments, discusses his position that the institution was protected by the Constitution inthe original slave states, and looks at the measured steps he took after the Kansas-NebraskaAct made the expansion of slavery a national issue.324.6 DUD Dudden, Faye E. Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage inReconstruction America. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, c2011.Discusses the falling-out between women's and African-American suffrage advocatesduring the Reconstruction era, examining the political culture in the United States duringthe nineteenth century, and describing how local Republicans sought to defeat both causesby setting the groups against each other.920 WRI Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-. Financial founding fathers : the men who madeAmerica rich. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Profiles nine Americans who helped shape the wealth and institutions needed to transformthe American colonies into a cohesive economic super-power in colonial times.Revised 5/2012 Page 10

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.099 Z Zimmermann, Warren. First great triumph : how five Americans made their country aworld power. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.Profiles the lives and relationships of five figures who helped the United States become amajor player in world politics at the dawn of the twentieth century.921 VAN Stiles, T. J. The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. 1st ed. New York :Knopf, 2009.A biography of business tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, covering his personal life,development of a large fleet of steamships and a railroad empire, invention of the moderncorporation, and other undertakings that shaped the economic world of the U.S. long afterhis time.974.7 ANB Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points : the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that inventedtap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum. New York : FreePress, c2001.Traces the history of Five Points, New York, discussing how the neighborhood madesignificant contributions to American music, politics, and culture.326.0973 NAS Nash, Gary B. The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution. Cambridge,Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.A narrative of African-Americans during the American Revolutionary period and theirstruggles for freedom as many fled slavery to fight for the British.921 PIN Matthews, Marty D., 1961-. Forgotten founder : the life and times of Charles Pinckney.Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2004.Chronicles the life of Charles Pinckney, discussing his childhood on his family's Charlestonplantation, service in the state militia during the Revolution, involvement in theConstitutional Convention of 1787, and influence on the country's development.920 ELL Ellis, Joseph J. Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation. 1st ed. New York : Knopf:, 2000.Profiles the intertwined lives of seven of America's founding fathers, including JohnAdams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, JamesMadison, and George Washington.921 WAS Brookhiser, Richard, 1955-. Founding father : rediscovering George Washington. NewYork : Free Press, c1996.A moral biography of George Washington as a founder and father of the United States,surveying his role in the Revolutionary War, the Constitution debate, and his presidency,with emphasis on his nature, morals, and ideas.920 ENC Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc. Founding fathers : the essential guide to the men who madeAmerica. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the Founding Fathers,their actions, and their intentions in writing the U.S. Constitution.Revised 5/2012 Page 11

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.2 BOR Borneman, Walter R., 1952-. The French and Indian War : deciding the fate of NorthAmerica. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2006.Offers a comprehensive overview of the French and Indian War, focusing on how it hasinfluenced the history and development of the entire North American continent.635 PAU Pauly, Philip J. Fruits and plains : the horticultural transformation of America. Cambridge,Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Provides an understanding of how horticulture and experiments with grafting andhybridizing has helped to shape the landscapes and neighborhoods around the world.978 STE Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-. The gathering of Zion; : the story of the Mormon Trail. [1sted.]. New York : McGraw-Hill, [1964].When first published in 1964, historian Ray Billington called The Gathering of Zion "thebest single volume to appear on the Mormon migration westward.".323 GIL Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of whitesupremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,c1996.Explores the role of middle-class African-American women in North Carolina politics inthe years between 1896, shortly before the disfranchisement of African-American men, and1920, the year white women gained the right to vote.973.04 BER Berlin, Ira, 1941-. Generations of captivity : a history of African-American slaves.Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.Traces the history of slavery in the United States from the early 1600s to its demise in thewake of the Civil War, focusing on the struggle between slaves and slaveholders thatdefined the nature of the institution for nearly three centuries.973.4 RAN Randall, Willard Sterne. George Washington : a life. 1st edition. New York, : Henry Holtand Company, [c1997].973.3 M Middlekauff, Robert. The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.An account of the American colonies' struggle for independence.973.2 LOV Lovejoy, David S. (David Sherman), 1919-. The glorious revolution in America. Hanover,NH : Wesleyan University Press, 1987, c1972.A study of the American colonies in the second half of the seventeenth century, focusing onthe events and ideas that led up to the colonial rebellions of 1689.974.7 B Burrows, Edwin G., 1943-. Gotham. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.A history of New York City from the Ice Age to 1898, including mini-biographies ofhundreds of individuals who helped to create it.921 Grant Smith, Jean Edward. Grant. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.Chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, providing information on his impact on theoutcome of the Civil War, his presidency, his personal life, and other related topics.Revised 5/2012 Page 12

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.7 FRA Frassanito, William A. Grant and Lee : the Virginia campaigns, 1864-1865. New York :Scribner, 1983.Historical photographs of the Virginia Campaighs of 1864-1865, between Generals Grantand Lee that includes accompanying text.973.7 C Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978. Grant moves south. [1st ed.]. Boston : Little, Brown, [1960].On cover: 1861-1863. Part one of the classic Civil War study of General Ulysses S. Grant.973.8 FLO Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant's final victory : Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year. 1st DaCapo Press ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011.Chronicles the last year of President Ulysses S. Grant's life as he races to finish his memoirafter being diagnosed with throat and mouth cancer.624.5 MCC McCullough, David G. The great bridge. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon andSchuster, 1982, c1972.Tells the story of the Brooklyn Bridge in the context of the age in which it was built,focusing on the work of Washington A. Roebling who was named Chief Engineer of theGreat Bridge after the death of his father.920 MCC McCullough, David G. The greater journey : Americans in Paris. 1st Simon & Schusterhardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.Tells the stories of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others whospent time in Paris between 1830 and 1900, pursuing knowledge that would help themexcel in their careers, including Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America,author James Fenimore Cooper, pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, medical student OliverWendell Holmes, and many others.921 CLE Graff, Henry F. (Henry Franklin), 1921-. Grover Cleveland. 1st ed. New York : TimesBooks/Holt, 2002.Examines the life of Grover Cleveland, the only U.S. president ever to serve two nonconsecutiveterms in office, discussing his dignity and integrity, and looking at hissuccesses and failures as leader of the country.978 MEL Meldahl, Keith Heyer. Hard road west : history & geology along the Gold Rush trail.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Describes how the geology and geography of the West affected the Westward expansion ofsettlers during the gold rush days of the mid-1800s.973.04 GON Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America. New York : Viking,2000.Traces the history of Latinos in America, focusing on the contributions that Hispanicgroups have made to national prosperity.975.7 E Egerton, Douglas R. He shall go out free : the lives of Denmark Vesey. 1st ed. Madison,Wis. : Madison House, 1999.Revised 5/2012 Page 13

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973 P Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948. History of the American frontier, 1763-1893. Boston ; : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.974.8 SER Serrin, William. Homestead : the glory and tragedy of an American steel town. 1st ed. NewYork : Times Books, c1992.Examines the business, labor, and human history of Homestead, Pennsylvania, the heart ofthe American steel industry.305.23 MIN Mintz, Steven, 1953-. Huck's raft : a history of American childhood. Cambridge, Mass. :Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.Presents a comprehensive history of American childhood from the sinful creatures earlyPuritans perceived them to be to the farms and factories of the nineteenth century and waryears of the twentieth century and examines their development and influence on the nation.910 PHI Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex. New York: Penguin, 2001, c2000.Tells the story of the Essex, a whaleship that set sail from Nantucket in 1819 on a routinevoyage, and was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the South Pacific, settingthe twenty-man crew adrift in three tiny boats.970.004 WEA Weatherford, J. McIver. Indian givers : how Native Americans transformed the world. 1stThree Rivers Press ed. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2010.Examines social, cultural, and political practices of Native Americans and indigenoussocieties, and describes how they have influenced architecture, agriculture, and otheraspects of life throughout the world.970.004 YEN Yenne, Bill 1949-. Indian wars: : the campaign for the American West. Yardley,Pennsylvania : Westholme, [c2006].The Indian wars remain the most misunderstood campaign ever waged by the U. S. Army.From the first sustained skirmishes west of the Mississippi River in the 1850s to thesweeping clashes of hundreds of soldiers and warriors along the upper plains decades later,these wars consumed most of the active duty resources of the army for the greater part ofthe nineteenth century and resulted in the disruption of nearly all of the native cultures inthe West.978 TAT Tate, Michael L. Indians and emigrants : encounters on the overland trails. Norman :University of Oklahoma Press, c2006.Examines relations between Native Americans and emigrants who crossed the plains andmountains to Oregon, California, and Utah in the mid-nineteenth century, drawing fromemigrant diaries, journals, and letters, as well as Native American oral traditions, to arguethat encounters were more often cordial than hostile.970.4 H Hyde, George E., 1882-1968. Indians of the High Plains: : from the prehistoric period to thecoming of Europeans. [1st ed.]. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1959].338.09 LIC Licht, Walter, 1946-. Industrializing America : the nineteenth century. Baltimore : JohnsHopkins University Press, 1995.Revised 5/2012 Page 14

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973 APP Appleby, Joyce Oldham. Inheriting the revolution : the first generation of Americans.Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 2000.Details the experiences of the first generation of Americans who inherited the independentcountry, discussing the lives, businesses, and religious freedoms that transformed thecountry in its early years.973.04 SHA Shannon, Timothy J. (Timothy John), 1964-. Iroquois diplomacy on the early Americanfrontier. New York : Penguin Books, 2009, c2008.Tells the story of the six nations that made up the Iroquois confederacy of colonial Americaand their intercultural diplomacy that helped them to maintain neutrality during the Frenchand Indian Wars.974.7 SHO Shorto, Russell. The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattanand the forgotten colony that shaped America. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2004.996.9 OKI Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-. Island world : a history of Hawai'i and the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2008.Depicts the island's influence on the mainland of the U.S., such as Hawaiians fighting in theCivil War and living in California prior to the gold rush, and effect on American culture inthe twentieth century, and rejects the idea that islands are insignificant tiny spaces to beacted upon by continents.978 WHI White, Richard, 1947-. "It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a new history of theAmerican West. Norman [Okla.] : University of Oklahoma Press, [1993], c1991.History of the American West that focuses on its creation rather than the vanishing of thefrontier.973.5 REM Remini, Robert Vincent, 1921-. The Jacksonian era. 2nd ed. Wheeling, Ill. : HarlanDavidson, c1997.Explores the political atmosphere of the Jacksonian era, with discussion of Jackson'streatment of Native Americans, war against the Bank of the United States, responses toissues of tariff and internal improvements, and approach to the market revolution.921 SMI Barbour, Barton H., 1951-. Jedediah Smith : no ordinary mountain man. Norman :University of Oklahoma Press, c2009.Describes the life of Jedediah Smith, the legendary fur trader and mountain man of thenineteenth century, and discusses Smith's childhood, early influences toward exploring,personality traits, and other related topics.973.4 MCC McCullough, David G. John Adams. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster,2002, c2001.Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring thelove story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship withThomas Jefferson.Revised 5/2012 Page 15

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography921 HAN Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. John Hancock : merchant king and American patriot. New York :John Wiley & Sons, c2000.Chronicles the life of American patriot John Hancock, discussing how he became one ofAmerica's founding fathers and the first governor of the independent state ofMassachusetts.921 JAY Stahr, Walter. John Jay : founding father. New York : Hambledon :, 2005.Chronicles the life of John Jay, focusing on his role in the formation of the United States,discussing his role as the youngest delegate to the first Continental Congress, his years asGovernor of New York, his interactions with other founding fathers, and other relatedtopics.921 SUT Hurtado, Albert L., 1946-. John Sutter : a life on the North American frontier. Norman :University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, c2006.A comprehensive biography of American pioneer, John Sutter, that documents his life andpersonal successes and failures in the midst of the California Gold Rush.921 WIN Bremer, Francis J. John Winthrop : biography as history. New York : Continuum, c2009.A biography of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, that covers hisreligious beliefs, his understanding of society, and his struggle with how to judge new anddifferent ideas based on their potential for creating political and religious growth and thepossible threats they posed to the stability of society.979 GRO Groom, Winston, 1944-. Kearny's march : the epic creation of the American west, 1846-1847. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2011.Recounts the adventure and danger General Stephen Watts Kearny and his troupsencountered while carrying out orders to occupy Mexican territory, an expedition thatended with the United States doubled in size and stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific.977.3 MOR Morgan, M. J., 1955-. Land of big rivers : French & Indian Illinois, 1699-1778. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.Using historical, botanical, and ecological research discusses people and environmentalconditions in early-eighteenth-century Illinois before the influx of American settlers.973.8 WES West, Elliott, 1945-. The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story. Oxford ; : Oxford UniversityPress, 2009.Offers a comprehensive analysis of the Nez Perce war of 1877, describing the early historyof the Nez Perce, their relationship with white settlers, the fraudulent treaties that tookaway their land, and the events that drove the formerly peaceful tribe to violence and led tothe last great Native American conflict.978 LIM Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-. The legacy of conquest : the unbroken past of theAmerican West. New York : Norton, 1988.Argues that the settling of the American West was driven by the economic realities ofprofit, loss, competition, and consolidation, rather than by a series of romantic quests foradventure.Revised 5/2012 Page 16

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.5 WAT Watson, Harry L. Liberty and power : the politics of Jacksonian America. 1st rev. ed. NewYork : Hill and Wang, 2006.An examination of democracy as practiced by America's seventh president AndrewJackson, looking at the political party system inspired by Jackson's administration and thesocial and economic conditions in which it developed.342.7302 MEY Meyerson, Michael. Liberty's blueprint : how Madison and Hamilton wrote the federalistpapers, defined the constitution, and made democracy safe for the world. New York : BasicBooks, c2008.A comprehensive examination as to how the Federalist Papers were written, therelationship between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, and how these documentshelped to ratify the Constitution.921 MAT Silverman, Kenneth. The life and times of Cotton Mather. 1st Welcome Rain ed. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002, c1984.Examines the life of Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister and supporter of the Salem witchtrials and executions, discussing how his beliefs governed his behavior, and consideringhow he was influenced by the times in which he lived.921 BOO Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. The life of Daniel Boone. 1st ed. Mechanicsburg,PA : Stackpole Books, c1998.Chronicles the life of Daniel Boone and discusses his childhood in Pennsylvania, his loveof hunting, his involvement in the French and Indian War, his contribution to the settlementof Kentucky and Missouri, and other related topics.973.7 DAV Davis, William C., 1946-. Lincoln's men : how President Lincoln became father to an armyand a nation. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000, c1999.Draws from the letters and diaries of Union soldiers to tell the story of how AbrahamLincoln, new to the office of president, inspired so much admiration, love, and loyalty inthe men who fought to preserve the nation in the Civil War.921 HEN Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. Lion of liberty : Patrick Henry and the call to a new nation. 1stDa Capo Press ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010.An examination of the life of Patrick Henry that discusses his success as an orator andlawyer, fight against Great Britain, family, legacy, and more.996.9 SIL Siler, Julia Flynn. Lost kingdom : Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings, and America's firstimperial adventure. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2012.Details the history of the Polynesian people and the life of Lili'uokalani, the last queen ofHawai'i, chronicling the rise and fall of the Hawaiian kingdom, and discussing the island'srelationship with the United States.323.44 NOO Noonan, John Thomas, 1926-. The lustre of our country : the American experience ofreligious freedom. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.Discusses religious freedom in the United States and includes information on howAmerica's policy on religion has affected the policies of other countries.Revised 5/2012 Page 17

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography920 BUR Burstein, Andrew. Madison and Jefferson. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2010.Examines the partnership that existed between two of America's Founding Fathers, JamesMadison and Thomas Jefferson, discussing Madison's lesser-known role as Jefferson'scampaign secret manager and the ways in which each man on American politicaldevelopment and United States history.970.04 WOO Woodworth, Steven E. Manifest destinies : America's westward expansion and the road tothe Civil War. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2010.Explains how the United States westward expansion was a catalyst for the Civil War,describing events and individuals and the tension surrounding the debate over slavery asAmericans looked to new opportunities in the West.306.3 BER Berlin, Ira, 1941-. Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in NorthAmerica. Second printing, 1998. Cambridge, Mass., : The Belknap Pressof HarvardUniversity Press, [c1998].921 VAN Widmer, Edward L. Martin Van Buren. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, 2005.Chronicles the life of President Martin Van Buren and examines his political career at aU.S. Senator, governor, Secretary of State, and Vice President under Andrew Jackson aswell as his presidency and the economic disasters that cost him his second term.974.4 C Clark, Judith Freeman. Massachusetts from colony to commonwealth : an illustratedhistory. Sun Valley, CA : American Historical Press, 2002.973.2 PHI Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war. New York :Viking, 2006.A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England that discusses such topics as thediseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the relationship between thePilgrims and the Wampanoags, and the impact of the King Philip's War.973 L Linklater, Andro. Measuring America : how an untamed wilderness shaped the UnitedStates and fulfilled the promise of democracy. New York : Walker, 2002.Tells the story of how a single system of weights and measures was devised in the yearsfollowing the American Revolution, and discusses the impact of that accomplishment onthe course of U.S. history.973.7 HOR Horwitz, Tony, 1958-. Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the CivilWar. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2011.Tells the story of the raid in Harper's Ferry West Virginia that started the Civil War in1859.331.4 Z Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer, 1937-. A mine of her own : women prospectors in theAmerican West, 1850-1950. 1st ed. Lincoln, : University of Nebraska, [c1997].Part 1 : 1850-1918 ; Part 2 : 1919-1950. A study of women prospectors in the AmericanWest, looking at the achievements of approximately 100 women, and discussing their rolein mining in the years between 1850 and 1950.Revised 5/2012 Page 18

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography977 AMB Ambrose, Stephen E. The Mississippi and the making of a nation : from the Louisianapurchase to today. Washington, D.C : National Geographic, c2002.An exploration of the Mississippi River, tracing its length from Minnesota to the Gulf ofMexico, and discussing its important role in the history of the United States. Includesphotographs, period illustrations, artwork, documents, and maps.920 WAL Waldrup, Carole Chandler, 1925-. More Colonial women : 25 pioneers of early America.Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2004.Profiles the lives of twenty-five women pioneers of Colonial America including DeborahFranklin, the commonlaw wife of Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, and LucyWinthrop, the sister of John Winthrop.332.1 STR Strouse, Jean. Morgan : American financier. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1999.A biography of late nineteenth-century banker J. Pierpont Morgan, discussing his childhoodand schooling, his relationships, and his interest in art; and considering his lasting impacton American finance and culture.978 S Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-. Mormon country. 1st Bison book printing. Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, 1981, c1970.974.7 BRA Brands, H. W. The murder of Jim Fisk for the love of Josie Mansfield : a tragedy of theGilded Age. New York : Anchor Books, c2011.Examines the life of James "Diamond Jim" Fisk, Jr., focusing on how his open affair withshowgirl Josie Mansfield led to his murder and presenting information about the time inwhich he lived.921 DOU Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an Americanslave. New York : Pocket Books, [2004].An autobiographical account by the runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles hisexperiences with his owners and overseers, and discusses how slavery affected both slavesand slaveholders.996.9 COF Coffman, Tom. Nation within : the history of the American occupation of Hawaiʿi. Rev.ed. Kihei, Hawaiʿi : Koa Books, c2009.Discusses various issues related to the American occupation and annexation of Hawai'iaround the turn of the twentieth century.305.8 DIN Dinnerstein, Leonard. Natives and strangers : a multicultural history of Americans. 4th ed.New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.A wide-ranging historical narrative that illuminates the shifting tides of America's ethnicpast and present, from the English colonists of Jamestown to the Asians and Mexicans ofthe West. A sweeping, ambitious chronicle of our unique cultural mosaic, spanning overnearly four hundred years, Natives and Strangers surveys America's legacy of assimilationand difference, of poverty and economic advancement, of ethnic conflict and interculturalmingling, expertly weaving together these strands into an engaging and informative whole.Revised 5/2012 Page 19

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography327.73 LAF LaFeber, Walter. The new empire : an interpretation of American expansion, 1860-1898.35th anniversary ed. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1998.A study of American foreign policy during the last half of the nineteenth century,examining the economic forces which resulted in commercial and landed expansion, anddiscussing the link between that era and the maturation of the United States into a worldpower.974.7 LEP Lepore, Jill, 1966-. New York burning : liberty. slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenthcenturyManhattan. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2005.Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, anddescribes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned atthe stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and1740s.385 AMB Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing like it in the world : the men who built the transcontinentalrailroad, 1863-1869. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.Profiles the men who built the transcontinental railroad, the investors who risked theirbusinesses to fund it, the politicians who understood its importance, the Irish and Chineseimmigrants who worked on it, and the other laborers who did the dangerous work of layingthe track.921 WAL Bundles, A'Lelia Perry. On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C. J. Walker.New York : Washington Square Press, [2002], c2001.The author chronicles the life of her ancestor, early-twentieth-century African-Americanentrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, who rose to riches after creating a hair care formula forblack women.362.73 OCO O'Connor, Stephen. Orphan trains : the story of Charles Loring Brace and the children hesaved and failed. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.Tells the story of the orphan trains that were operated by the Children's Aid Societybetween 1854 and 1929, taking abandoned children from New York to homes in theMidwest and West; and discusses the life and motivations of young minister Charles LoringBrace, founder of the society.327.73 MIL Miller, John J., 1970-. Our oldest enemy : a history of America's disastrous relationshipwith France. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday :, c2004.978 K Kelly, Charles, 1889-. The outlaw trail : a history of Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch.Bison Books ed. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [1996], c1938.Recounts the escapades of Butch Cassidy and the other members of his Wild Bunch,describing his most notorious crimes and favorite hideouts.338.54 SOB Sobel, Robert, 1931 (Feb. 19)-. Panic on Wall Street; : a history of America's financialdisasters. New York : Macmillan, [1968].Revised 5/2012 Page 20

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography921 WOL Brumwell, Stephen, 1960-. Paths of glory : the life and death of General James Wolfe.Montreal [Quebec] ; : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.A biography of British General James Wolfe, who died in a victorious battle over theFrench that established British rule in Canada, and describes the life and military career ofa celebrated figure in North American history.973.5 GRO Groom, Winston, 1944-. Patriotic fire : Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle ofNew Orleans. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006.Recounts the Battle of New Orleans and the efforts of Andrew Jackson and French pirateJean Laffite as they struggled to hold on to the city of New Orleans and thwart the Britisharmy.921 PIC Salomon, Carlos Manuel, 1967-. Pío Pico : the last governor of Mexican California.Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010.Examines the life of Pío Pico, his rise to become one of the wealthiest men in Californiaand the last governor of California before it became one of the United States.921 POL Borneman, Walter R., 1952-. Polk : the man who transformed the presidency and America.1st Random House Trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009,c2008.Chronicles the life of James K. Polk, discussing his childhood in a prominent frontierfamily, rise in public office, years in the House of Representatives, influential four years asPresident, lasting impact on American history, and other related topics.973 POL Polk, William Roe, 1929-. Polk's folly : an American family history. 1st ed. New York :Doubleday, c2000.Chronicles the history of the author's family from the 1680 arrival of his Scots-Irishforefather in the United States through his family's participation in the Revolutionary War,James Polk's presidency, the Civil War, the Second World War, the civil rights movement,the Cold War, and several other aspects of U.S. history.973.8 G Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist moment : a short history of the agrarian revolt inAmerica. New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.614.5 FEN Fenn, Elizabeth A (Elizabeth Anne), 1959-. Pox Americana : the great smallpox epidemicof 1775-82. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2001.Explains how the smallpox epidemic of 1775 to 1782 affected all aspects of American life,including information on the epidemic's impact on the country's children, work force,government, and economy.973.09 BES Beschloss, Michael R. Presidential courage : brave leaders and how they changed America,1789-1989. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & SchusterPaperbacks, 2008, c2007.Profiles George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and other U.S.presidents, discussing their courage in the face of criticism, political risk, and even threat ofdeath to follow their convictions in various foreign and domestic policy situations.Revised 5/2012 Page 21

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.09 TAR Presidential leadership : rating the best and worst in the White House. New York : FreePress, c2004.A collection of essays that rank the nation's presidents, examining their performance,contributions to U.S. history, and lasting impact on America's role as a world leader.920 KEN Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963. Profiles in courage. Harper, 1956.While Senator Kennedy convalesced in 1954-55 from effects of war wounds, he wrotethese dramatic profiles of Americans who took difficult and courageous stands at crucialmoments in public life. John Quincy Adams, Sam Houston, Daniel Webster, Robert A. Taftare some of them.973 L Link, Arthur Stanley. Progressivism. Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, Inc., c1983.A history of progressivism, a term used to define the rash of reform movements that sweptthe United States in the early twentieth century, looking at activities in the areas of politicsand government, social justice, and social control.289 BAC Bacon, Margaret H. The quiet rebels; : the story of the Quakers in America. New York :Basic Books, [1969].920 RUS Rust, Val Dean. Radical origins : early Mormon converts and their colonial ancestors.Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.Investigates Mormon history in the colonial period of the United States.385 WHI White, Richard, 1947-. Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modernAmerica. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.An exploration of industrialization in America during the Gilded Age, focusing on thetranscontinental railroads and contending its development resulted in corruption,opposition, and antimonopoly politics, and comparing its economic influence to theeconomic downturn of the early twenty-first century.306.3 MCK McKissack, Pat, 1944-. Rebels against slavery : American slave revolts. New York :Scholastic, c1996.Story of the men and women, slaves and free blacks, Northerners and Southerners, whitesand Native Americans, who rebelled against the system of slavery, often giving up theirlives in the process.071.8 DAR Dary, David. Red blood & black ink : journalism in the Old West. 1st ed. New York :Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.973.3 RAK Rakove, Jack N., 1947-. Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America.Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.Explores how the private lives of the Founding Fathers were suddenly transformed intopublic careers between 1773 and 1792, focusing on the evolution of their ideas and thecrystallizing of their purpose in crafting a new nation.Revised 5/2012 Page 22

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography920 WOO Wood, Gordon S. Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different. New York :Penguin Books, 2007, c2006.In 10 essays from previously published articles, the author presents miniature portraits ofGeorge Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, andothers known as the founding fathers.973.5 WIL Wilentz, Sean. The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln. 1st ed. New York :Norton, c2005.Examines the history of American democracy in the years after the Revolutionary War tothe beginning of the Civil War, and describes the framing of the Constitution, Jeffersoniansand Federalists, fugitive slaves, and other fundamental ideas and events that helped toshape the political structure of the nation.338.6 POR Porter, Glenn. The rise of big business, 1860-1920. 2nd ed. Wheeling, Ill. : HarlanDavidson, c1992.Examines the sweeping changes that took place in the American economy and its businesssystem during the period 1860-1920. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of giantcorporate organizations. The final chapter and bibliographical essay of this third editionhave been updated to reflect recent scholarship.980 THO Thomas, Hugh, 1931-. Rivers of gold : the rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus toMagellan. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c2003.Chronicles Spain's early conquests in the Americas, describing how Spain became a worldpower in the sixteenth century, only to have that power destroyed by the government'sgreed and deception.921 HOU Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-. Sam Houston : and the American Southwest. 3rd ed. NewYork : Pearson Longman, c2007.Chronicles the life of Sam Houston, focusing on his achievements as a United Statessenator, his military career, and his impact on the development of the American West.973.3 KET Ketchum, Richard M. Saratoga : turning point of America's Revolutionary War. 1st ed.New York : Henry Holt and Company, [c1997].In 1777, the British government mounted an invasion from Canada with the objective ofsplitting the rebellious American colonies into manageable fractions. On a map the taskseemed easy. But on the ground, Sir John Burgoyne's route was dominated by ruggedterrain, creating insoluble logistics problems. Even had Sir William Howe advanced towardAlbany instead of turning south to Philadelphia, Burgoyne, was unlikely to have gone muchfarther. The American northern army, Continentals and militiamen effectively delayed theBritish until enough reinforcements could be concentrated to offer battle around Saratoga.327.73 BOO Boot, Max, 1968-. The savage wars of peace : small wars and the rise of American power.New York : Basic Books, c2002.Explores the impact the Barbary Wars, the Boxer Rebellion,and the occupations of Haiti,Nicaragua, and the Philippines played in America's rise throughout the last two centuries.Revised 5/2012 Page 23

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography910 PHI Philbrick, Nat. Sea of glory : America's voyage of discovery : the U.S. ExploringExpedition, 1838-1842. New York : Viking, 2003.Chronicles the nineteenth-century American expedition that charted the islands of thePacific, discovered Antarctica, and changed the face of geographic and marine knowledgebut has been forgotten by history, focusing on the personality and actions of its captain,Charles Wilkes.973 SEN A Sense of history : the best writing from the pages of American heritage. New York :American Heritage Press ;, c1985.For almost 50 years, "American Heritage" magazine has been telling America's story infresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history.In this comprehensive and informative book, the editors of "American Heritage" havecombed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. Theresult - by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying - is an unusually revealinginformal history of American civilisation from the first settlements to the close of thetwentieth century. "A Sense of History" proves that the best history is always the bestreading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and publicfigures of recent years.973.8 JAC Jacoby, Karl, 1965-. Shadows at dawn : an Apache massacre and the violence of history.New York : Penguin Books, 2009, c2008.Presents an account of the massacre of 150 inhabitants of an Apache camp in Arizona by aposse of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Native Americans in 1871,describing the histories and motivations of each group involved and presenting the West asan extension of the Mexican north and home to various Native communities.920 MOR Morton, Joseph C. Shapers of the great debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 : abiographical dictionary. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2006.Offers biographical profiles of the men who played significant roles in the 1787Constitutional Convention, including profiles of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,George Washington, and James Madison.306.3 MAR Martien, Jerry. Shell game : a true account of beads and money in North America. 1st ed.San Francisco : Mercury House, c1996.Investigates the nature of money by looking at how the Island of Manhattan was purchasedin 1627 through an exchange of shells or beads, which the author believes probably did nothold the same significance for both parties in the transaction.921 JEN Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons.1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.A biography of Paul Jennings, slave of President James Madison and African Americanabolitionists, discussing his life as slave in the White House and on Madison's plantation,what life was like for African American's in early Washington D.C., and his work as aabolitionist.Revised 5/2012 Page 24

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography973.8 CON Connell, Evan S., 1924-. Son of the Morning Star. 1st Perennial Library ed. New York :Harper & Row, 1985, c1984.Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than onehundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argueabout even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn.973.0496073 DU Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. The souls of Black folk.Bantam classic ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1989.A collection of essays by W.E.B. Du Bois that describe the effects of racism in America.305.8 AYE Ayers, Edward L., 1953-. Southern crossing : a history of the American South, 1877-1906.Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 1995.Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers totenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progress andrepression, of new industries and old ways. Ayers weaves all these details into thecontradictory story of the New South, showing how the region developed the patterns itwas to follow for the next fifty years.973.9 ROS Rosenberg, Emily S., 1944-. Spreading the American dream : American economic andcultural expansion, 1890-1945. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 1981.973.8 PAI Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon : the United States, 1877-1919. New York :Norton, 1989, c1987.Includes bibliographies and index. A history of America's age of industrialization focusingon labor and politics from 1877 to 1919.973.7 FOO Foote, Shelby, 1916-. Stars in their courses : the Gettysburg campaign, June-July 1863.Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1994.Provides an account of the Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign and the events that precededthe three-day battle, and includes maps.323.44 FON Foner, Eric. The story of American freedom. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1998.Chronicles America's quest for freedom and profiles the different people and events thathave helped, and hindered, America's struggle to be free.973 TAK Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-. Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans.Updated and rev. ed. Boston : Back Bay Books, c1998.A history of Asian Americans, introducing the people, the cultures, and their hope, fears,contributions, and dreams. In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personalrecollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans.He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantationlaborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope ofbecoming part of the American dream.Revised 5/2012 Page 25

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography342.7302 STE Stewart, David O. The summer of 1787 : the men who invented the constitution / David O.Stewart. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.Traces the events of the summer of 1787 as the delegates of the Philadelphia Conventionwrote the United States Constitution.973.7 GOO Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. NewYork : Simon & Schuster, c2005.Presents an overview of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, explaining the genius of hispolitical savvy, and describes the context in which he assigned a cadre of his fiercest rivalsas his closest cabinet advisors.976.4 MAC MacDonald, L. Lloyd. Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub.Co., 2009.A history of Mexico from the fifteenth century to 1836, focusing on the role of Mexicanbornrevolutionaries in securing the independence of Texas, sharing first-person anecdotesabout the experiences of individual men, women, and children involved in the struggle forfreedom, and including maps and illustrations.973.8 DON Donovan, Jim, 1954-. A terrible glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn : the last great battleof the American West. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.Presents a comprehensive account of the final battle of George Armstrong Custer at LittleBighorn River in June of 1876, based upon primary sources and forensic research of thebattleground.973.2 HAG Hagger, Nicholas. The secret founding of America : the real story of Freemasons, Puritans& the battle for the new world. London : Watkins Pub., 2009.Describes the role of the Freemasons in the founding of the United States, discussing theinfluence of the German Illuminati on the Founding Fathers and arguing that theFreemasons saw the new country as the beginning of a new world order, and traces theFreemasons' alleged influence on major events throughout American history.973.4 GOR Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings : an American controversy.Charlottesville : University Pressof Virginia, [c1997].Did Thomas Jefferson really have a long-term love affair with a slave named SallyHemings? Was Jefferson the father of her six children? These controversial questions haveplagued scholars and fascinated the merely curious for two centuries. In this painstakingreconstruction of both speculation and fact, the author claims that the majority of historianshave deliberately cast doubt upon the probability of a Jefferson-Hemings union because theexistence of such a relationship would tarnish the pristine image of Jefferson that so manyof them cherish and choose to perpetuate. Rather than taking a definitive stand, Gordon-Reed presents all the relevant information, allowing the reader to analyze the evidence andmake an educated assumption based upon the available historical research.Revised 5/2012 Page 26

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography384.1 G Gordon, John Steele. A thread across the ocean : the heroic story of the transatlantic cable.New York : Walker, 2002.Chronicles the story of the laying of a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, anunprecedented communications feat conceived of and promoted by American businessmanCyrus Field.364.152 LAR Larson, Erik. Thunderstruck. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied GuglielmoMarconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and theinvestigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H.Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the abilityto send wireless transatlantic transmissions.973.2 CHA Chartrand, René. Ticonderoga 1758 : Montcalm's victory against all odds. Oxford ; :Osprey Pub., 2000.Presents a concise study of the British attempt to capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 duringthe French and Indian Wars and profiles the opposing leaders and armies along with theBritish desire to carry the war into Canada.273 WIN Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul). The times and trials of Anne Hutchinson : Puritansdivided. Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, c2005.The author presents a new perspective on the details surrounding the excommunication andbanishment of Anne Hutchinson from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking outagainst the mainstream doctrine of the church.973.6 V Von Frank, Albert J. The trials of Anthony Burns : freedom and slavery in Emerson'sBoston. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.Provides a cultural analysis of the case of Anthony Burns, a twenty-year-old runaway slavewho was captured and put on trial in Boston in 1854, and discusses the impact of theepisode on the political and moral climate of Massachusetts and the entire nation.974.7 VON Von Drehle, Dave. Triangle : the fire that changed America. 1st ed. New York : AtlanticMonthly Press, c2003.Chronicles the events surrounding the fire at the Triangle shirtwaist factory which brokeout on March 25, 1911, killing more than one hundred factory workers who were trappedafter the fire broke out, and discusses how the fire changed the work force in America.338.092 MOR Morris, Charles R. The tycoons : how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockerfeller, Jay Gould,and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy. 1st ed. New York : Times Books,2005.Presents an analysis of how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P.Morgan revolutionized the American economy during the Industrial Age, and discusseshow each built their empires, the competition among them, and their influence on society.Revised 5/2012 Page 27

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography979.4 YUN Yung, Judy. Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco. Berkeley :University of California Press, c1995.Analyzes the experiences of Chinese women in San Francisco between the years 1902 and1945, focusing on the ways they changed since immigrating, and also looking at how theywere isolated within Western society.917.804 AMB Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and theopening of the American West. 1st Touchstone ed. New York, NY : Touchstone, 1997.Chronicles the experiences of Meriwether Lewis, the man chosen by President Jefferson tolead a voyage from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, discusses the experiences ofthose who took part in the expedition, and tells of the leading political, scientific, andmilitary figures involved in the mapping of the American West.921 WAS Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Up from slavery. New York : Dover Publications,1995.Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator BookerTaliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographiesever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-helpinspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad,Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts hisascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president ofthe influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.921 GRA Waugh, Joan. U.S. Grant : American hero, American myth. Chapel Hill : University ofNorth Carolina Press, 2009.Examines the public perception of Ulysses S. Grant following the Civil War, initially as ahero and unifying figure but eventually less favorable as a more Southern narrative of thewar and Reconstruction, emphasizing the honor, courage, and loss of both sides, took overin the public mind.979.004 BLA Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West.1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008,c2006.Presents a comprehensive history of the native peoples of the Great Basin region acrossUtah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California; and examines how conquestand colonialism shaped the American West.921 ROG Ross, John F. War on the run : the epic story of Robert Rogers and the conquest ofAmerica's first frontier. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, c2009.A comprehensive narrative history of the life and achievements of American colonialfrontiersman, Robert Rogers who served in the British army during both the French andIndian War and the American Revolution.Revised 5/2012 Page 28

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography359.3 MCC McConaghy, Lorraine. Warship under sail : the USS Decatur in the Pacific West. Seattle :Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest :, c2009.A social history of the nineteenth-century sloop of war "Decatur," that illuminatesAmerican expansionism in the antebellum Pacific Northwest.973.4 FLE Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-. Washington : the indispensable man. 1st Back Bay ed.Boston : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, c1974.A distillation of Flexner's award-winning four-volume work on the life of the first presidentof the United States.973.7 D Donald, David Herbert, 1920-. "We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends.New York : Simon and Schuster, c2003.Examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played inhis presidency, focusing on Lincoln's close friendships and their impact on his career.973.7 OAT Oates, Stephen B. The whirlwind of war : voices of the storm, 1861-1865. New York, :HarperCollins Publishers, [c1998].306.3 JOR Jordan, Don. White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America.Washington Square, NY : New York University Press, 2008, c2007.Draws on letters, journals, and court and government papers to recount the experiences ofBritish men and women who became slaves in the American colonies.973.2 BRU Brumwell, Stephen, 1960-. White devil : a true story of war, savagery, and vengeance incolonial America. 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006,c2004.Eyewitness accounts help recreate the events surrounding the brutal massacre of the Britishgarrison of Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War.322.4 TRE Trelease, Allen W. White terror; : the Ku Klux Klan conspiracy and SouthernReconstruction. [1st ed.]. New York : Harper & Row, [1971].973.3 JAF Jaffe, Steven. Who were the founding fathers? : two hundred years of reinventing Americanhistory. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt and Co., 1996.Discusses how the lives of the fifty-six founders of the United States and the events that ledto the formation of the nation have been interpreted and reinterpreted throughout twohundred years of the country's history.976 WHO A whole country in commotion : the Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest.Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.A collection of writings that explore lesser-known aspects of the Louisiana Purchase and itsimpact on the American Southwest.977 SAN Sandlin, Lee. Wicked river : the Mississippi when it last ran wild. 1st ed. New York :Pantheon Books, c2010.921 Penn Peare, Catherine Owens. William Penn ; : a biography. New York : Lippincott, c1956.Revised 5/2012 Page 29

Saratoga High School LibraryAP United States HistoryFall Semester Power Hour Bibliography920 CHA Chartier, JoAnn. With great hope : women of the California gold rush. 1st ed. Guilford, CT: TwoDot, c2000.Draws from newspaper articles, journal entries, letters, and photographs to tell the stories oftwelve women who made the arduous journey across the U.S. to seek their fortunes inCalifornia during the Gold Rush.973.2 HIB Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-. Wolfe at Quebec : the man who won the French and IndianWar. 1st Cooper Square Press ed. New York : Cooper Square Press ;, 1999.Chronicles the British victory won by General James Wolfe over the French forces underMontcalm at Quebec in September 1759.974.088 VOW Vowell, Sarah, 1969-. The wordy shipmates. New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.An exploration of the Puritans that discusses their beliefs and practices and exploring howthey have influenced modern politics.973.7 FOR Foreman, Amanda, 1968-. A world on fire : Britain's crucial role in the American CivilWar. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c2010.Describes the thousands of British volunteers who traveled abroad to fight in the AmericanCivil War between 1861 and 1865, providing firsthand accounts, and discussing the variousroles they played for both the North and South.921 TAY Eisenhower, John S. D., 1922-. Zachary Taylor. 1st ed. New York : Times Books, 2008.Presents a biography of the twelfth president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, andfocusing on how he became elected despite never holding a lower political office, anddescribes the events that surrounded his the time in office, including California'sapplication for statehood with an anti-slavery constitution.Revised 5/2012 Page 30