John D. Jackson

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Turner, Fredrick Jackson,  The Significance of the Frontier in American History,  (Link)

General Reading: Contains information that is helpful in various units

Tuchman, Barbara, The March of Folly,--Two excelent chapters(but difficult) on The American Revolution and Vietnam

Kennedy, John F., Profiles in Courage

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me. 

Zinn, Howard, The People's History of the United States

19th Century

Hamilton, Alexander, Jay, John and Madison, James,  The Federalist Papers(Availiable online)

Schlesinger, Arthur, The Age of Jackson

Boorstein, Daniel,  The Americans: The National Experience

Potter, David M., The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

Catton, Bruce, This Hallowed Ground

Catton, Bruce, The Coming Fury

Cantor, McKinley, Andersonville

Stowe, Harriet B., Uncle Tom's Cabin(Online)

Jackson, Helen H., A Century of Dishonor

Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.

Roosevelt, Theodore, Rough Riders

Mahan, Alfred T., The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1805

Carnegie, Andrew,  The Gospel of Wealth

Alger, Horatio, Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York

Oates, Stephen, With Malice Towards None,

20th Century 

Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle

Tuchman, Barbara, The Guns of August

Ambrose, Stephen, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender 
                                                of  Germany

Ambrose, Stephen, Band of Brothers:E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's 
                                                Eagle's Nest

Ryan, Cornelius, The Longest Day

Brokaw, Thomas, The Greatest Generation

Prange, Gordon, At Dawn We Slept

Terkel, Studs, Hard Times

Bernstein, Carl and Woodward, Bob, All the President's Men