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Reading List Titles Beginning with a Number or the Letter "A"

"We are Lincoln men" : Abraham Lincoln and his friends 
1619 : Jamestown and the forging of American democracy 
1789 : the threshold of the modern age
1858 : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the war they failed to see 
1864 : Lincoln at the gates of history 
366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president 
A cross of thorns : the enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions 
A generation at war : the Civil War era in a northern community 
A glorious defeat : Mexico and its war with the United States 
A journey into the Transcendentalists' New England 
A just and generous nation : Abraham Lincoln and thefight for American opportunity
A kingdom strange : the brief and tragic history of the lost colony of Roanoke 
A land as God made it : Jamestown and the birth of America 
A legal history of the Civil war and Reconstruction : a nation of rights 
A man most driven : Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America 
A more perfect union 
A nation wholly free : the elimination of the national debt in the age of Jackson 
A people at war : civilians and soldiers in America's Civil War, 1854-1877 
A short life of Jonathan Edwards 
A short, offhand, killing affair : soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War 
A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation 
A strife of tongues : the Compromise of 1850 and the ideological foundations of the American Civil War 
A world on fire : Britain's crucial role in the American Civil War
Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery 
Across the Great Divide : Robert Stuart and the discovery of the Oregon Trail 
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 
After Lincoln : how the North won the Civil War and lost the peace 
Agent of destiny : the life and times of General Winfield Scott 
Alexander Hamilton 
America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation 
America 1844 religious fervor, westward expansion, and the presidential election that transformed the nation
American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths 
American crisis : George Washington and the dangerous two years after Yorktown, 1781-1783 
American emperor : Aaron Burr's challenge to Jefferson's America 
American expansionism, 1783-1860 : a manifest destiny? 
American insurgents, American patriots : the revolution of the people 
American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans 
American leviathan : empire, nation, and revolutionary frontier 
American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House 
American Methodism : a compact history 
American phoenix : John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the exile that saved American independence / Cook, Jane
American spring : Lexington, Concord, and the road to revolution 
American tempest : how the Boston Tea Party sparked a revolution 
American uprising : the untold story of America's largest slave revolt
America's God : from Jonathan Edwards to AbrahamLincoln
America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union 
America's hundred years' war : U.S. expansion to the Gulf Coast and the fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858 
Amistad's orphans : an Atlantic story of children, slavery, and smuggling 
An empire on the edge : how Britain came to fight America 
Andrew Jackson  /Wilentz, Sean
Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny 
Andrew Jackson and the rise of the Democrats : a reference guide 
Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay : democracy and development in antebellum America 
Andrew Jackson, his life and times 
Antislavery politics in antebellum and Civil War America 
As if an enemy's country : the British occupation of Boston and the origins of revolution 
Astoria : John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival