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HIST 1301 SO Snaples

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Reading List Titles Beginning with the Letter "T" part 1

Tales from a revolution : Bacon's Rebellion and the transformation of early America 
Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln 
The activist : John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the myth of judicial review 
The age of gold : the California Gold Rush and the new American dream 
The age of Lincoln 
The Amistad rebellion : an Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom 
The Appalachians : America's first and last frontier 
The Atlantic world : Europeans, Africans, Indians and their shared history, 1400-1900 
The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny 
The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown 
The bitter waters of Medicine Creek : a tragic clash between white and native America 
The bloody crucible of courage : fighting methods and combat experience of the Civil War 
The caning : the assault that drove America to Civil War 
The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction 
The color of Christ : the Son of God & the saga of race in America 
The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America 
The Creole affair : the slave rebellion that led the U.S. and Great Britain to the brink of war 
The day freedom died : the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction 
The Democrats : from Jefferson to Clinton 
The devil we knew : Americans and the Cold War 
The Empire of Necessity : Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World 
The enslavement of the American Indian in colonial times 
The fall of the house of Dixie : the Civil War and the social revolution that transformed the South 
The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery 
The fire of freedom : Abraham Galloway and the slaves' Civil War 
The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the founding father who freed his slaves 
The first frontier : the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America 
The forgotten presidents : their untold constitutional legacy 
The great awakening : the roots of evangelical Christianity in colonial America 
The hammer and the anvil : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America 
The having of Negroes is become a burden : the Quaker struggle to free slaves in revolutionary North Carolina 
The heartbreak of Aaron Burr : a tale of homicide, intrigue and a father's worst fear 
The Heathen School : a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early Republic 
The howling of the coyotes : reconstruction efforts to divide Texas 
The Irish Americans : a history 
The iron way : railroads, the Civil War, and the making of modern America 
The land shall be deluged in blood : a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt 
The legacy of conquest : the unbroken past of the American West 
The long road to Antietam : how the Civil War became a revolution 
The Louisiana Purchase : emergence of an American nation 
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America 
The men who lost America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire 
The mind of a patriot : Patrick Henry and the world of ideas 
The Mississippi and the making of a nation : from the Louisiana purchase to today 
The Native peoples of North America : a history 
The Negro in colonial New England, 1620-1776 
The oracle and the curse : a poetics of justice from the Revolution to the Civil War 
The Oregon trail 
The Oregon Trail : a new American journey 
The Oregon Trail : an American saga