Books that have been used to supplement courses taught

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Foner, Eric. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.

Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Hummel, Jeffery Rogers. Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War.

Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Kilmeade, Brian. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History.

Manegold, C.S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North.

Sandefur, Timothy. Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. 

Taylor, Alan. The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia 1772-1832.

Witt, John Fabian. Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.

Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.

Shlaes, Amity. Coolidge.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.

Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent.

Thomas, Evan. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898.

Vowell, Sarah. Unfamiliar Fishes.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre.

Hanson, Victor Davis. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

Jones, Dan. Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty.

Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. 

Winterling, Aloys. Caligula: A Biography. 

Books used only for Honors section of the course:

Matyszak, Philip. The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome’s First Dynasty 

Platt, Colin. King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England.

Beevor, Antony, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916.

Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.

Naughton, Lindie. Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel.

Neely, Sylvia. A Concise History of the French Revolution.

Books used only for the Honors section of the course:

Anderson, M.S. Peter the Great.

Knirck, Jason. Women of the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Wetzel, David. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War.

Wetzel, David. A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870-1871.

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States.

Langley, Lester D. Mexico and the United States: The Fragile Relationship.

Mayo, C.M. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.

St. John, Rachel. Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexican Border.

Carrese, Paul O. The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism.

Lukianoff, Greg. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.

O’Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics.

O’Rourke, P.J. Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.

Toobin, Jeffery. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.