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HIST 1302 SO Snaples

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

 
Officer, nurse, woman : the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War 
One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America 
One summer : America, 1927 
Operation Drumbeat : the dramatic true story of Germany's first U-boat attacks along the American coast in World War II 
Ordinary Americans : U.S. history through the eyes of everyday people 
Original gangstas : the untold story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the birth of West Coast rap 
Our America : a Hispanic history of the United States 
Panama fever : the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal 
Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history 
Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world 
Party games : getting, keeping, and using power in Gilded Age politics 
Party of the people : a history of the Democrats 
Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war 
Poisoning the press : Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the rise of Washington's scandal culture 
President Carter : the White House years 
Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine : the Cold War call to arms 
Prohibition 
Prophesies of godlessness : predictions of America's imminent secularization, from the Puritans to the present day 
Pure grit : how American World War II nurses survived battle and prison camp in the Pacific
Queer : a graphic history / Barker, Meg
Race over empire : racism and U.S. imperialism, 1865-1900 
Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America 
Reagan : the Hollywood years 
Reagan and Thatcher : the difficult relationship 
Redeemer : the life of Jimmy Carter 
Religion in America since 1945 : a history 
Remaking Black power : how Black women transformed an era 
Respect yourself : Stax Records and the soul explosion 
Retribution : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 
Riding the rails in the USA : trains in American life 
Rightful heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of America 
Roosevelt's lost alliances : how personal politics helped start the Cold War 

Ruthless tide : the heroes and villains of the Johnstown flood, America's astonishing gilded age disaster
Saddling up anyway : the dangerous lives of old-time cowboys 
Scorpions : the battles and triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court justices 
Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America 
Shades of glory : the Negro leagues and the story of African-American baseball 
Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11 
Shovel ready : archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America 
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 
Sons and soldiers : the untold story of the Jews who escaped the Nazis and returned with the U.S. Army to fight Hitler 
Sons of freedom : the forgotten American soldiers who defeated Germany in World War I 
Soul searching : Black-themed cinema from the March on Washington to the rise of blaxploitation 
Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair 
Space race : the epic battle between America and the Soviet Union for dominion of space 
Stagecoach : Wells Fargo and the American West 
Stokely : a life 
Suffragists in an imperial age : U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929 
Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 
Supreme City : how Jazz Age Manhattan gave birth to modern America 
Surviving Wounded Knee : The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory 
Susan Sontag : the making of an icon 
Sweat and blood : a history of U.S. labor unions