AP History Books-Section 2
These books were donated to the Waverly High School Media Center in honor of our AP History teacher, Mr. Dan Jensen, being named Gilder Lehrman Institute of Am. History teacher of the year in 2005. Any of these titles may be selected for your AP History book report.
Basker, James G., Amazing Grace: an Anthropology of Poems about Slavery (821.0080355 BAS) This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking world, from 1660 (when Britain restored its monarchy) to 1810 (just after Britain banned the Atlantic slave trade).
Berlin, Ira, Free at Last: a Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War (973.0496 BER) This collection's editors are all connected with the Freedom Project; Berlin is the coordinator. The letters, reports and depositions included here, largely drawn from Union records, tell at first hand the human story of African Americans in the Civil War, which, the editors contend, was also a second American revolution. Between 1861 and 1865 government was transformed, citizenship redefined, social classes rearranged--and blacks were at the center of the process.
Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (973.0496 IRA) Berlin reveals the color-caste codes of the Afro-Creoles of the Chesapeake, the survival of African culture in the South Carolina-Georgia-Florida coastal area, and the intermingling of Africans with French and Spanish in the Mississippi Delta area.
Blight, David W., Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory (973.7 BLI) Almost all the dominant views of the Civil War and its aftermath, including Reconstruction and "reunion," prevalent in this country until the coming of the civil rights movement, were the direct result of an extensive Southern propaganda war, argues Blight.
Carwardine, Richard, Lincoln (973.7 CAR) This clearly written book is by a true expert in the politics and history of the antebellum and Civil War eras. Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University, presents a balanced, thoughtful, well-informed treatment of Lincoln as a political leader, expertly placing him in the full context of his times.
Davis, David Brion, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty (973 DAV)
Here is a panoramic look at American history from the voyages of Columbus through the bloody Civil War, as captured in the words of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure.
Eltis, David, The Rise of African American Slavery in the Americas
(306.3 62 097 ELT) Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas provides a fresh interpretation of the development of the English Atlantic slave system.
Franklin, John Hope, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the plantation (975.00496 FRA) Organized topically, this scrupulously detailed work is based primarily on advertisements for runaways and records of court cases involving escaped slaves.
Guelzo, Allen C., Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (973.714 GUE) Analysts as diverse as Frederick Douglass and historian Richard Hofstadter have ardently criticized Lincoln's "passive" attitude toward abolition. These critics frequently point out that the Emancipation Proclamation was, in practical terms, meaningless, since it freed only those slaves in areas under Confederate control and left slaves in the Union border states in bondage. In this fine work of counterrevisionism, history professor Guelzo strives to resurrect the traditional image of Lincoln as the Great Emancipation.
Guelzo, Allen C., Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (973.7 GUE) This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president relates the outward events of Lincoln's life to his inner spiritual struggles and sets them both against the intellectual backdrop of his age.
McPherson, James M., For Cause and Comrades (973.7 MCP) McPherson has extrapolated and quoted from over 25,000 letters and 249 diaries of more than 1000 Union and Confederate soldiers. The documentation is impressive and is successful in substantiating the thesis that many motivations were at work in the hearts of the Civil War fighting men; but on the whole, they were driven by noble ideals of honor; duty; and devotion to God, country, home, and family.
Paludan, Phillip S.., The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (973.7 PAL) In this book Paludan examines aspects of the executive office, giving special emphasis to the importance of Lincoln's cabinet and the Congress.
Weigley, Russell F., A Great Civil War (973.7 WEI) Weigley's history of the Civil War accepts slavery as the conflict's moral center, but describes the war as a military contest for political ends.
Wilson, Douglas L., Honor's Voice: the transformation (973.7092 WIL) Between 1831 and 1842, Abraham Lincoln was transformed from an impoverished, unsuccessful young man of 22 into a highly regarded attorney and member of the Illinois House of Representatives, while developing the self-esteem, kindness, and political shrewdness that would make him America's most beloved president.
Yellin, Jean Fagan, Harriet Jacobs (306.6292 YEL) This biography stands on its own as the story of an oppressed slave turned engaged citizen, and especially as an account of Jacobs' impressive achievements as a free person after the Civil War.
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