Books that have been used to supplement courses taught
History of the United States to 1877
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.
History of the United States: 1877- Present
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.
Western Civilization: Antiquity to the Renaissance
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.
Western Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
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.
History of Mexico
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.
American Government
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.