AP Reading List

James Axtell, The Invasion from Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. (1986) 

Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics. (1968) 

John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-bellum South. (1972) 

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissembaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. (1974) 

Allide Black. Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt.

Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication. (1976) 

John Demos. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. (1970) 

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (Cold War)

Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. (1979) 

W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk.

John Ehle, Trail of Tears.

Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers.

John M. Farragher, Daniel Boone, The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. (1992) 

David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride. (1994) 

Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. (1970) 

Benjamin Franklin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Thomas Freedman, The World is Flat.

Graham Greene, The Quiet American.

Robert Griffith, Politics of Fear.

David Halbertstam, The Best and the Brightest (Vietnam)

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

George Herring, America’s Longest War

Jane Hunter, The Iran-Contra Connection.

Winthrop Jordan, The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. (1974) 

John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage.

John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven.

Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind.

Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X.

William Manchester, American Ceasar

David McCullough, 1776.

David McCullough, John Adams.

McKissack, Ain’t I A Woman?

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (1988) 

Devon Mihesuah, American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities.

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man.

Stanford Parker, FDR: The Words that Reshaped America.

David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. (1976) 

Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives.

Cokie Roberts. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our  Nation.

David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. (1971) 

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Jackson.

Michael Sharra, Killer Angels.

Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed: Hiroshima.

Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.

Jean Edward Smith, George Bush’s War.

June Sochen. Herstory.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Studs Terkel, Hard Times.

Mark Twain, The Gilded Age.

Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. (1982) 

David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed History.

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery.

Jack Weatherford. Indian Givers.

Laura Wexler. Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Lynching in America.

Garry Wills. Lincoln at Gettysburg.

Garry Wills. Certain Trumpets.