AP US History
Book Review Sources
Colonial America
Richard Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (2004).
Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002).
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).
Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
Jane Kamensky, Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England (1997).
Peter Charles Hoffer, The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1996).
Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).
Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (1995).
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983).
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982).
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).
The American Revolutionary Period
Sarah J. Purcell, Sealed With Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002).
Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001).
Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000).
Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2000).
Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (1996).
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996).
Lance Banning, Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding (1995).
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967).
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1996).
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980).
Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996).
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
Paul A. Rahe, Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992).
Nineteenth-Century South
Charles M. Boyer Lewis, Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860 (2001).
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s (2001).
Laura F. Edwards, Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000).
Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).
Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998).
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1880-1940 (1998).
Peter W. Bardaglio, Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (1995).
Eugene D. Genovese, The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism (1994).
David Brion Davis, Slavery and Human Progress (1984).
Eugene D. Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery (1965).
Charles Joyner, Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (1984).
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993).
Stephanie McMurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (1995).
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956).
Antebellum America
Catherine Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2004).
Anne M. Boylan, The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840 (1992).
Mark Smith, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (2001).
Mary H. Blewett, Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England (2000).
Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (2000).
Richard Wightman Fox, Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal (1999).
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (2000).
Michael F. Holt, The Rise of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999).
Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionists: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).
Mary P. Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (1997).
Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 (1996).
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991).
Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994).
William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991).
Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 (1995).
Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1989).
Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (1978).
David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991).
Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860 (1978).
Burton J. Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America (1978).
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era
Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001).
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001).
William C. Davis, Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (1999).
James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr., eds., Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (1998).
LeeAnn Whites, The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890 (1995).
George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (1994).
Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 (1994).
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996).
Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction (1990).
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1991).
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970).
The American Nineteenth-Century West
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretative History (2000).
Jon Gjerde, The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1997).
Stephen Aron, How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996).
Peter H. Argersinger, The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (1995).
Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993).
The Late Nineteenth-Century New South
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992).
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996).
Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979).
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951).
Gilded Age America
Jackson Lears, Something For Nothing: Luck in America (2003).
Jane Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (2003).
Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000).
Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001).
Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (1998).
Kristen L. Hoganson, Fighting For American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998).
Louis A Perez, Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (1998).
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994).
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982).
Progressive-Era America
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003).
Frank Ninkovitch, The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900 (1999).
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000).
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (2000).
William M. Tuttle, Jr., Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970).
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955).
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998).
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1998).
Leon Fink, Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemma of Democratic Commitment (1997).
Mary E. Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995).
Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994).
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995).
Paula S. Fass, The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977).
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986).
Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood, Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (1982).
Robert Weibe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990).
Martin J. Sklar, The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s (1992).
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994).
The Great Depresssion and the New Deal
David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999).
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995).
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression (1982).
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990).
William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (1963).
Postwar America
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000).
Eric C. Schneider, Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York (1999).
Daniel J. Walkowitz, Working With Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity (1999).
James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (1996).
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996).
Alan Brinkley, Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998).
Cold War America
Arnold A. Offner, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War (2002).
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997).
Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).
Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, and the Architect of an American Myth (1995).
Robert J. McMahon, The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan (1994).
Lloyd C. Gardner, Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, from Munich to Yalta (1993).
Ernest R. May, ed., American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC-68 (1993).
The Civil Rights Movement
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003).
J. Mills Thornton III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (2002).
Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (2001).
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994).
Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989).
1960s America
Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (2003).
W. J. Rorabaugh, Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (2002).
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2000).
William M. Hammond, Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War (1998).
Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1975 (1998).
Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1998).
David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994).
Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (1986).
1970s America
Bruce J. Shulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (2001).
Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (2001).
Melvin Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999).
Twentieth-Century America
Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998).
Gary Okihiro, Common Ground: Reimagining American History (2001).
Robert Brent Toplin, ed., Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy (2000).
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001).
Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000).
Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change in the Twentieth Century (1999).
Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (1998).
Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s (1995).