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Reading List Titles Beginning with the Letters "U" through "Z"

U.S. Steel and Gary, West Virginia : corporate paternalism in Appalachia 
Uncle Sam wants you : World War I and the making of the modern American citizen 
Unsafe for democracy : World War I and the U.S. Justice Department's covert campaign to suppress dissent 
Vendetta : Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa 
Vicksburg's long shadow : the Civil War legacy of race and remembrance 
Victory in defeat : the Wake Island defenders in captivity, 1941-1945 
Vietnam : the history of an unwinnable war, 1945-1975 
Waking from the dream : the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr. 
War along the border : the Mexican Revolution and Tejano communities 
Washington gone crazy : senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt 
Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon : impact of a Constitutional crisis 
We are not what we seem : Black nationalism and class struggle in the American century 
We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball 
We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program 
We will shoot back : armed resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement 
West like lightning : the brief, legendary ride of the Pony Express 
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March 
Whatever happened to the metric system? : how America kept its feet
When the news went live : Dallas 1963 
When the United States invaded Russia : Woodrow Wilson's Siberian disaster 
When the world calls : the inside story of the Peace Corps and its first fifty years 
White man's paper trail : grand councils and treaty-making on the Central Plains 
White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America 
Who cares? : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age 
Why we fought : America's wars in film and history 
Wild Horse Annie : Velma Johnston and her fight to save the mustang 
Window on freedom : race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 
Woodrow Wilson 
Woodrow Wilson and World War I : a burden too great to bear 
Woodstock : history and hearsay 
Working class radicals : the Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 
Zoot suit riots