History Reading

     Colonial and Early National:

• Alan Taylor, American Colonies 9/2017
• Robert Middlekauf, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789
• Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky, Jeffersonian America
• Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black:  American Attitudes Towards the Negro, 1750-1812
• Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom:  The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
• Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters:  The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
• Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 10/2017
• Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism
• Richard White, The Middle Ground:  Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region 1650-1815 11/2017
• Jill Lapore, The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity 9/2017
• Thomas Foster ed., Women in Early America 10/2017
• Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic 10/2017
• David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride 9/2017
• Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs 11/2017

Early Nineteenth Century and Civil War:

• Marshall Smelser, The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815
• George Dangerfield, The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828
• Glyndon G. Van Deusen, The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848
• David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
• James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom’s Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War
• William J. Cooper, Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill, The American South
• Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution
• Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South

 Diplomatic:

•  Howard Jones, The Course of American Diplomacy

Military:

• Allan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski, For the Common Defense, A Military History of the United States

Gilded Age:

• Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System
• Thomas Schlereth, Victorian America
• Sean Cashman, America in the Gilded Age
• Frank Friedel, The Splendid Little War
• Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America
• Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons
• Frederick Jackson Turner, “Impact of the Frontier on American History” 

Progressive Era:

• Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920
• John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest
• Lewis Gould,  America in the Progressive Era, 1890 – 1914
• Arthur Link,  Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
• David Kennedy,  Over Here: The First World War and American Society

Immigration:

• John Higham, Strangers in the Land
• Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore

 Interwar:

• Isabel Leighton, ed.,  The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941
• William Leuchtenburg,  The Perils of Prosperity
• Arthur Schlessinger, Jr., The Coming of the New Deal
• Arthur Schlessinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval
• Anthony Badger.,  The New Deal

World War II:

• Lee Kennett, G.I. The American Soldier in World War II
• D. Clayton James and Anne Sharpe Wells, From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
• John M. Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II

Postwar:

• Kenneth Jackson, The Crabgrass Frontier
• Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were
• Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound
• Stephen Oates,   Let the Trumpet Sound
• Walter LaFeber,  America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1990
• James Sundquist,  Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years
• George Herring, America’s Longest War
• Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein,  All the President’s Men
• John Morton Blum,  Years of Discord:  American Politics and Society 1961-1974
• Eric Foner, The New American History

Public History Reading List:

General

• Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Kosloski, eds., Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World  10/2016
• Cathy Ambler, “Small Historic Sites in Kansas: Merging Artifactual Landscapes and Community Values,” Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 1995
• Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public
• Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What happens after they’re built
• Gary Edgerton, Ken Burns’s America
• Gary Edson and David Dean, The Handbook for Museums
• Bruce Dearstyne, The Archival Enterprise: Modern Archival Principles, Practices, and Management

Techniques

• James B. Gardner and Peter S. La Paglia, Public History: Essays from the Field
• Otis Graham, “The Uses and Misuses of History: Roles in Policymaking,”The Public Historian, Spring 1983
• Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories 
• Richard G. Hewlett, “The Practice of History in the Federal Government,’ The Public Historian, Fall 1978
• Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
• Charles Hosmer, Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949
• Barbara Howe, “Perspectives on an Anniversary,” The Public Historian, Summer 1999
• Darrell Huff and Irving Leis,  How to Lie With Statistics
• Heather Huyck, “Twenty-five Years of Public History: Perspectives from a Primary Document,” The Public Historian, Summer 1999
• G. Wesley Johnson, “The Origins of The Public Historian and the National Council on Public History,”
• The Public Historian, Summer 1999
• Arnita Jones, “Public History Then and Now,”  The Public Historian, Summer 1999
• Carol Kammen, ed. On Doing Local History
• Ellen Karsh and Arlen Fox,  The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets!
• Robert Kelley, ‘Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects,” The Public Historian, Fall 1978
• Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
• David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty, Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You, American 11/2016
• Association for State and Local History
• Edward T. Linenthal, Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields
• Martha Norkunas, The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California
• Randy Olson, Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style
• James M. O’Toole, Understanding Archives and Manuscripts
• Donald A. Ritchie, Doing Oral History
• Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
• Stacy F. Roth, Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First Person Historical Interpretation
• William Strunk, E.B. White, et al., The Elements of Style
• Eviatar Zerubavel, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past
• The National Historic Preservation Act and The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act both can be found in Federal Historic Preservation Laws, a publication of the National Center for Cultural Resources, National Park Service.
• Full text of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. (16 U.S.C. section 470).
• Roundtable on Archives, The Public Historian, Summer 1986