HIST 1302 – BOOK REVIEW BOOKS
PRE-APPROVED BY THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT
- C. Vann Woodward. Reunion and Reaction
- Lawrence Goodwyn. The Populist Movement
- Matthew Josephson. The Politicos
- Homer Socolofsky and Allen Spetter. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
- Ben Maddow. A Sunday Between Wars
- Sam Acheson. Joe Bailey
- Ben Proctor. Not Without Honor
- G.J.A. O'Toole. The Spanish War
- Graham Cosmas. An Army for Empire
- John Offner. An Unwanted War
- Frederick Allen. Since Yesterday
- David Shannon. Between the Wars
- William Leuchtenberg. In the Shadow of FDR
- John G. Adams. Without Precedent
- Walter Goodman. The Committee
- John Gaddis. Strategies of Containment
- Seymour Brown. The Faces of Power
- Arnold Offner. The Origins of the Second World War
- William Manchester. American Caesar
- Forrest Pogue. George C. Marshall
- E.B. Potter. Bull Halsey
- Barry Goldwater. Goldwater
- Thomas Kesssner. Fiorello La Guardia
- Edward & Frederick Schapsmeier. Dirksen of Illinois
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Times to Remember
- David Oshinsky. A Conspiracy So Immense
- Anthony Champagne. Congressman Sam Rayburn
- John Martin. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
- Dewey Grantham. Hoke Smith & the Politics of the New South
- Howard Beale. Theodore Roosevelt
- Edmund Morris. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Paolo Coletta. The Presidency of William Howard Taft
- Elliot Asinoff. 1919
- Arthur Link. Woodrow Wilson & the Progressive Era
- Robert Murray. The Harding Era
- Harris Warren. Hoover & the Great Depression
- David Burner. Herbert Hoover
- Robert Divine. The Illusion of Neutrality
- Robert Herzstein. Roosevelt and Hitler
- Joseph Lash. Dealers and Dreamers
- Robert McElvaine. The Great Depression
- Geoffrey Perrett. Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
- James Burns. Roosevelt, The Lion and the Fox
- Eleanor Roosevelt. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eric Goldman. The Crucial Decade and After
- William O'Neill. American High
- Stephen Oates. Let the Trumpet Sound
- Robert Divine. The Sputnik Challenge
- Dwight Eisenhower. At Ease
- Stephen Ambrose. The Supreme Commander
- _____________. Eisenhower: The President
- David Halberstram. The Best & the Brightest
- William OíNeill. Coming Apart
- Allen Matusow. The Unraveling of America
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf. It Doesnít Take a Hero
- Joan & Clay Blair. The Search of JFK
- Henry Hurt. Reasonable Doubt
- John Barry. The Ambition and the Power
- Gary Wills. The Kennedy Imprisonment
- Paul Conkin. Big Daddy from the Pedernales
- Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream
- Theodore White. The Making of the President 1964
- Lewis Gould. Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
- Fawn Brodie. Richard Nixon
- Stephen Ambrose. Nixon
- Robert Litwak. Detente and the Nixon Doctrine
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein. The Final Days
- Jimmy Carter. Keeping Faith
- Lou Cannon. Reagan
- Ronnie Dugger. On Reagan
Then go to the ACC Library link and see if the College has the title you like as an eBook.
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incredible librarians about how to use the ACC Library search engine.
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO PICK BOOKS THAT INTEREST YOU!
PLEASE MAKE SURE THE BOOK IS A COLLEGE LEVEL NON-FICTION BOOK with at least 150 pages.
Please note that you can request books (actual and/or E-books) through the ACC Interloan program if the library does not have your book title(s).
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BELOW ARE BOOKS RIVERBATS FROM PREVIOUS SEMESTERS HAVE ENJOYED.
Again, I want you to find historical books that interest you!
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang
- Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Blood Feud: The Hatfields & the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder & Vengeance by Lisa Alther
- The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 by Ruth Rosen
- Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans by Emily Epstein Landau
- My Face is Black and True: Callie Guy House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations – Mary Francis Berry
- The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley
- Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson
- How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
- Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S. Adler
- Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
- The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Michael A. Ross
- Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll
- The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia by Dwight B. Billings & Kathleen M. Blee
- The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff
- The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli *** 536 pages
- News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan González & Joseph Torres
- The Children by David Halberstam
- The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon
- Threat of Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s A Warning from History by Linda Gordon
- He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington & the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and
- the Death Penalty by S. Jonathon Bass
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II by Anne R. Keene
- The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
- We Were Soldiers Once Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Joseph L. Galloway
- The Lives They Saved: The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners, and the Incredible Boatlift that Evacuated Nearly
- 300,000 People on 9/11 by L. Douglas Keeney
- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.
- The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror by Mike Gray and Ira Rosen
- Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger
- Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter by Arnold Brown
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
- The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern
- America by Christopher C. Gorham
- The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II Mari K. Eder
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped
- Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
- Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest by Megan Birk
- Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S. Adler.
- Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson
- Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment by Lewis Gould
- Eleanor Roosevelt. The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
- Roosevelt & Hitler by Robert Herzstein
- The Final Days Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein.
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
- Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898
- All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American century
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
- The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai
- Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuku
- The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams
- The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang (560 pages)
- The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
- Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford
- Vegas and the Mob by Al W Moe
- The Day that Shook America by J Samuel Walker
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
- Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia by Russell King
- American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin
- Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
- The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet by Lyn Millner
- The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann
- The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement by Susan Ferriss, Ricando Sandoval
- Child of War: A Memoir of World War Two and the Cold War by Ingrid Maria Polonius
- Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Ken Standiford
- Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret by Pamela Everett
- Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York by J. North Conway
- A Complete History of the Negro Leagues: 1884 to 1955 by Mark Ribowsky
- Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era by Eric Allen Allen Hall
- People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin
