US History since the Civil War - HIS 1220

US HISTORY FROM RECONSTRUCTION, 122: ANNALIESE M BONACQUISTA

 

BOOK LIST #1

 

RECONSTRUCTION:

-The avenger takes his place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 days that changed the nation, Howard Means

-Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 ,Eric Foner

-Civil War & Reconstruction, Rodney P Carlisle

-Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, 1864-1896, Christopher Collier (eAudiobook)

-Destruction and reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war, Richard Taylor (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

 

NATIVE HISTORY:

-Bureau of Indian Affairs / Donald L. Fixico (eBook)

-Children of the Indian boarding schools / Holly Littlefield (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee / Jeffrey Ostler

-Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown

-In the shadow of Wounded Knee : the untold final chapter of the Indian Wars / Roger L. Di Silvestro

-Voices of Wounded Knee / by William S.E. Coleman

-Song of the meadowlark : the story of an American Indian and the Nez Perce War / John A. Sanford

-The Buffalo Hunters, Mari Sandoz

-Voices of American Indian assimilation and resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard / Siobhan Senier

-A Century of Dishonour, Helen Hunt Jackson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Crazy Horse : a Lakota life / Kingsley M. Bray

-Crazy Horse and Custer : the parallel lives of two American warriors / by Stephen E. Ambrose (eBook)

-Crazy Horse : the life behind the legend / Mike Sajna

-The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick

-The lance and the shield : the life and times of Sitting Bull / Robert M. Utley

-Sitting Bull : champion of the Sioux : a biography / by Stanley Vestal (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Showdown at the Little Big Horn, Dee Brown

-Autobiography of Red Cloud : war leader of the Oglalas / edited by R. Eli Paul (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Black Kettle : the Cheyenne chief who sought peace but found war / Thom Hatch

-Blood at Sand Creek : the massacre revisited / Bob Scott

-Finding Sand Creek : history, archeology, and the 1864 massacre site / Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott

-Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy / Kent Nerburn

-Chief Joseph : guardian of the people / Candy Moulton

-Cochise : Chiricahua Apache chief / Edwin R. Sweeney

-The fox and the whirlwind : General George Crook and Geronimo : a paired biography / Peter Aleshire

-Son of the Morning Star, Evan S. Connell

-Crimsoned Prairie, S.L.A. Marshall (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-War Cries on Horseback, Stephen Longstreet (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Geronimo : a biography / Alexander B. Adams

-Geronimo's story of his life / taken down and edited by S.M. Barrett

-Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker & the Rise & Fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian Tribe in -American History/ S.C. Gwynne

-Conquest: sexual violence and American Indian genocide, Andrea Smith

 

WESTERN HISTORY:

-No one ailing except a physician : medicine in the mining West, 1848-1919 / Duane A. Smith & Ronald C. Brown

-The great Pikes Peak gold rush / by Robert L. Brown

-Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women / Marianne Monson

-A wild West history of frontier Colorado : pioneers, gunslingers & cattle kings on the eastern plains / Jolie Anderson Gallagher

-The fifty-niners : roaring Denver in the gold rush days / Stanley W. Zamonski and Teddy Keller (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Colorado Gunsmoke: True Stories of Outlaws & Lawmen on the Colorado Frontier,  Kenneth Jessen, Kenneth C. Jessen

-Colorado Mining Camps / Dave Southworth

-Colorado Mining Stories/ Caroline Arlen

-Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure / Caroline Bancroft (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The Climax Mine: An Old Man Remembers the Way it Was/  Jim Ludwig

-Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine/  Stephen M. Voynick

-Colorado Colorful Characters, Gladys R. Bueler

 

INDUSTRY, TYCOONS & WORKERS:

-Andrew Carnegie / David Nasaw

-Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America / Les Standiford

-Out where the west begins : profiles, visions & strategies of early western business leaders / Philip F. Anschutz

-Blood passion : the Ludlow Massacre and class war in the American West / Scott Martelle

-Industrializing the Rockies : growth, competition, and turmoil in the coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, -1868-1914 / David A. Wolff

-The Coal War : A Novel / Upton Sinclair (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war / Thomas G. Andrews

-Rebel voices an IWW anthology / edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh ; introduction by Fred Thompson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR) 

-Pinkerton's great detective : the amazing life and times of James McParland / Beau Riffenburgh

 

PRESIDENTIAL:

-The Reconstruction Presidents, Brooks D Simpson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Ulysses S. Grant, Josiah Bunting III

-From battlefield to bottom line: the leadership lessons of Ulysses S. Grant, Bil Holton (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant / Ronald C. White

-Grover Cleveland / Henry F. Graff

-William McKinley : twenty-fifth president 1897-1901 / written and illustrated by Mike Venezia

-Roosevelt's Rough Riders : fearless cavalry of the Spanish-American War / by Brynn Baker

-Rough Riders : Theodore Roosevelt, his cowboy regiment, and the immortal charge up San Juan Hill / Mark Lee Gardner

-Theodore Roosevelt / Louis Auchincloss

-Theodore Roosevelt : champion of the American spirit / by Betsy Harvey Kraft

-The bully pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism / Doris Kearns Goodwin

-Leading them to the promised land Woodrow Wilson, covenant theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913--1915 / Mark Benbow (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The will to believe Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's strategy for peace and security / Ross A. Kennedy (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-When the Cheering Stopped : The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson / Gene Smith (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Warren G. Harding / John W. Dean

-Herbert Hoover / William E. Leuchtenburg

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt : the New Deal president / by Brenda Haugen

-Traitor to his class : the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / H.W. Brands

-FDR and the American crisis / Albert Marrin

 

THE GREAT WAR:

-Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world / Margaret MacMillan

-March 1917 : on the brink of war and revolution / Will Englund

-The locomotive of war : money, empire, power, and guilt / Peter Clarke

-Voices of World War I : stories from the trenches / by Ann Heinrichs

-Weapons of World War I / by Matt Doeden

-Eleventh month, eleventh day, eleventh hour : Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and its violent climax / by Joseph E. Persico

 

THE GREAT DEPRESSION:

-Rainbow's end : the crash of 1929 / Maury Klein

-Six days in October : the stock market crash of 1929 / Karen Blumenthal

-The great crash, 1929 / John Kenneth Galbraith

-Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster

-Letters from the Dust Bowl / by Caroline Henderson

-The Dust Bowl through the lens : how photography revealed and helped remedy a national disaster / Martin W. Sandler

-The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan

 

WOMEN’S HISTORY:

-Wicked women : notorious, mischievous, and wayward ladies from the Old West / Chris Enss

-Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / Lael Morgan

-Ladies of the Lamplight / Kay Reynolds Blair

-Bordellos’ of Blair Street; The Story of Silverton’s Notorious Red Light District / Allen G. Bird (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Brass Checks and Red Lights / Fred & Jo Mazzulla (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Six Racy Madams of Colorado / Caroline Bancroft (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Golden Girls of Market Street; Denver Infamous Red Light District, Jacqueline Grannell Couch (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Women in pants : manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades / Catherine Smith & Cynthia Greig

-African American women of the Old West / Tricia Martineau Wagner

-Seneca falls and the origins of the women's rights movement, Sally G. McMillen

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : a friendship that changed the world / Penny Colman

-Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words / Lynn Sherr (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life / Lori D. Ginzberg

-The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader : correspondence, writings, speeches / edited and with a critical commentary by Ellen Carol DuBois ; foreword by Gerda Lerner

-A to Z of American women leaders and activists / Donna Langston

-The Suffragette : The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement / Sylvia Pankhurst (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Winning the vote : the triumph of the American woman suffrage movement / Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr. in collaboration with the National Women's History Project

-Created equal : women campaign for the right to vote, 1840-1920 / Ann Rossi (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Eleanor Roosevelt / Blanche Wiesen Cook

-America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal / Michael Golay

 

CULTURAL:

-Charlie Chaplin : a brief life / Peter Ackroyd

-Babe Ruth : launching the legend / Jim Reisler

-The Harlem renaissance : hub of African-American culture, 1920-1930 / Steven Watson

-Blues legacies and Black feminism Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (eBook) / Angela Y. Davis

 

RANDOM:

-Ellis Island : gateway to the American dream / Pamela Reeves

-Children of Ellis Island / Barry Moreno (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-John Muir : rediscovering America / Frederick Turner

-My first summer in the Sierra / John Muir ; introduction by Gretel Ehrlich

-Pancho Villa : Mexican revolutionary hero / by R. Conrad Stein (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry

-The influenza pandemic of 1918 / Claire O'Neal (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby

-Influenza 1918 : the worst epidemic in American history / Lynette Iezzoni