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HIST 1301 SO Snaples

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Reading List Titles Beginning with the Letters "O", "P", "R" and "S"

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Old Man River : the Mississippi River in North American history
On the brink of Civil War : the Compromise of 1850 and how it changed the course of American history
Ordeal by fire : the Civil War and Reconstruction 
Osceola and the great Seminole war : a struggle for justice and freedom 
Our savage neighbors : how Indian war transformed early America 
Out of the storm : the life and legacy of Martin Luther 
Party of the people : a history of the Democrats 
Patrick Henry : champion of liberty 
Patriot pirates : the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution 
Patriotic fire : Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans 
Peacekeepers and conquerors : the Army Officer Corps on the American frontier, 1821-1846 
Plain, honest men : the making of the American Constitution 
Punitive war : Confederate guerrillas and Union reprisals
Puritans and adventurers : change and persistence in early America 
Quakers and abolition
Rebel yell : the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson 
Reconstruction 
Red gentlemen & white savages : Indians, federalists, and the search for order on the American frontier 
Redemption : the last battle of the Civil War 
Religion in America : a political history 
Revolutionary backlash : women and politics in the early American Republic 
Revolutionary dissent : how the founding generation created the freedom of speech 
Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution 

Runaway and freed Missouri slaves and those who helped them, 1763-1865 
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Samuel Adams : a life 
Scars of independence : America's violent birth 
Seeds of discontent : the deep roots of the American Revolution, 1650-1750 
Seneca possessed : Indians, witchcraft, and power in the early American republic 
Shays's Rebellion : Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America 
Ship of Death : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World 
Signing their rights away : the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the United States Constitution 
Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy 
Slave counterpoint : Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry 
Slavery and politics in the early American republic 
Slavery, freedom, and expansion in the early American West 
Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons 
Southern Reconstruction 
Starving the South : how the North won the Civil War 
Still the arena of Civil War : violence and turmoil in reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874 
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow 
Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science