Fall '25 - HIST 1301 - Darbonne - by Kara Dixon: HIST 1301 Book Lists

These books have been pre-approved for the Book Review assignment by the History Department and Professor Darbonne.

GENDER / WITCHCRAFT

• Women & the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics & Class in the 19th Century United States by Lori D. Ginzberg
• American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
• The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
• Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast By Joan DeJean
• A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
• Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers by Dr. Anthony Delaney
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
• The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
• Black Women Abolitionists by Conrad, Earl. Yee, Shirley J.
• Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth Century by Richard Weisman
• Salem Possessed: The Social Origin of Witchcraft by Stephen Boyer, Paul; Nissenbaum
• The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen
• The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials by Marion L. Starkey
• The Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch
• Trials by Marilynne K. Roach
• The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 - 1835 by Nancy F. Cott
• Women Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920 By Suzanne M. Marilly
• Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution,
• Philadelphia, 1730-1830 by Clare A. Lyons
• Public Faces, Secret Lives by Wendy L. Rouse
• Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh by John Gilbert McCurdy
• The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I by Clare Jackson
• The Six Loves of James I by Mr. Gareth Russell
• The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains by Glenda Riley
• Patriots In Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War by Richard Hall
• Protect and Obey: The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender by Lee Ann Whites
• Women Warriors of the Civil War 1993 by Richard Hall
• Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 By Devon A. Mihesuah

ROANOKE & JAMESTOWN

• The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives by Brandon Fullam
• Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller
• The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler
• Jamestown, the Truth Revealed by William M. Kelso
• Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley
• A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America by James Horn

TEXAS & MEXICO

• Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas by John Hoyy Williams,
• The Life of Stephen F Austin: Founder of Texas by Eugene C. Barker
• Portia: The World of Abigail Adams by Edith Gelles
• Early Times in Texas; or The Adventures of Jack Dobell by John C. Duval
• Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 by Andrew J. Torget
• Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas by Sam W. Haynes (**** 464 pages)
• The Slave Narratives of Texas by Murphy, Lawrence R. and Ronnie C. Tyler.
• Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California by Dr. Carlos Manuel Salomon Ph.D.

INDIGENOUS & NATIVE AMERICANS / EARLY HISTORY

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca- Andres Resendez
• Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast
• (Native Americans of the Northeast) by Guy Chet
• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
• History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson
• An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The
• Lamar Series in Western History) by Benjamin Madley (***520 pages!)
• Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan C. Lindsay (***450pages!)
• American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
• Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
• Nine Years Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann
• Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz
• Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt
• Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England by Strother E. Roberts
• Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783 (Indigenous Education) by Margaret Connell Szasz

AFRICAN AMERICANS / ENSLAVEMENT / RACE / RACE RELATIONS

• The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building
• of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
• Walking the way of Harriet Tubman Therese Taylor-Stinson & Barbara A. Holmes
• Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from
• Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger
• Black Women Abolitionists by Shirley J. Yea
• White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop Jordan
• A White Man's Burden by Winthrop Jordan
• Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy - Edward Ball
• Black Southerners 1619-1869 by John B. Boles
• Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African American Church in the South, 1865-1900 by William Montgomery
• Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
• South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War - Alice L. Baumgartner
• The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of
• Reconstruction by William A Blair
• The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia by Mechal Sobel
• The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
• The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in
• 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne
• Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon Litwack

MISC TOPICS / WARS

• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie & Alison McCullough (Translator)
• Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas
• The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown
• The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis
• Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World by Kelly Watson
• Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten by George Franklin Feldman
• The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman
• Vineyards and Vaqueros (Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico Series) (Volume 1) by Phillips
• Taverns and Drinking in Early America by Sharon V. Salinger
• Rum Punch & Revolution: Tavern Going & Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia by Peter Thompson
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
• 1776 by David McCullough
• The Boston Massacre - Hiller B. Zobel
• The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony
• That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
• The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
• Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
• Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History by Alfred W. Crosby,
• The Columbus Exchange biological and cultural consequences of 1492
• The Black Death: A New History of the Great Mortality in Europe, 1347-1500 by John Aberth
• The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
• Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler
• Till Freedom Cried out by Lindsey & Julie Baker
• The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel. T Boorstin
• Boys Captives by Clinton L. Smith
• Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll
• The Pioneers by David Mccullough
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Jefferson’s America - Norman K. Risjord
• Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War by Steven Woodworth
• The Civil War by Bruce Catton
• Discipline and Bayonets: The Armies and Leaders of the War of the American Revolution by Joseph B. Mitchell
• Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War by Michael Fellman
• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
• Becoming Benjamin Franklin by Ormond Seavey & Richard Weisman