US Hist 1301: Elgin

Abigail Adams: a biography by Phyllis Lee Levin

Abraham Lincoln: the man behind the myths by Stephen B. Oates

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson

Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 by John Thornton; Michael Adas (Contribution by); Edmund Burke (Contribution by); Philip D. Curtin (Contribution by)

After secession: Jefferson Davis and the failure of Confederate nationalism by Paul D. Escott

Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti-Slavery by Elizabeth Sterling

Albert Sidney Johnston: soldier of three republics by Charles P. Roland; Gary W. Gallagher (Foreword by)

Albion's seed: four British folkways in America by David H. Fischer

The alcoholic republic: an American tradition by W. J. Rorabaugh

Alexander Hamilton: a biography by Forrest McDonald

American holocaust: the conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard

The Americans: the national experience by Daniel J. Boorstin

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates by Ralph Ketcham (Introduction by)

Ar'n't I a woman?: female slaves in the plantation South by Deborah Gray White

The awakening of American nationalism, 1815-1828 by George Dangerfield

Aztecs: an interpretation by Inga Clendinnen

Aztec thought and culture: a study of the ancient Nahuatl mind by Miguel Leon-Portilla; Jack Emory Davis (Translator)

Ballots for freedom: antislavery politics in the United States, 1837-1860 by Richard H. Sewell

Becoming America : the revolution before 1776 by Jon Butler

The beleaguered city: the Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 by Shelby Foote

Beyond 1492: encounters in colonial North America by James Axtell

The birth of the Republic, 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan

Black Elk speaks: being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt; Vine Deloria (Introduction by)

Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood

The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution by Sidney Kaplan; Emma Nogrady Kaplan

Black southerners, 1619-1869 by John B. Boles

Black Texans by Alwyn Barr

Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 by Shirley J. Yee

Brought to bed: childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950 by Judith Walzer Leavitt

The burned-over district: the social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western New York, 1800-1850 by Whitney R. Cross

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown

The Canadian frontier, 1534-1760 by William J. Eccles; W. J. Eccles; William Eccles (Contribution by); Howard R. Lamar (Contribution by); Martin Ridge (Contribution by); David J. Weber (Contribution by)

Canals for a Nation: the Canal Area in the United States, 1790-1860 by Ronald E. Shaw

The Civil War: Volume 1 by Shelby Foote

The Civil War: Volume 2 by Shelby Foote

The Civil War: Volume 3 by Shelby Foote

The Civil War: Volume 4 by Shelby Foote

The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy; Alvin M. Josephy

Civil War Soldiers by Reid Mitchell

Cochise: Chiricahua Apache chief by Edwin R. Sweeney

Columbus: his enterprise: exploding the myth by Hans Koning

The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 by Emory M. Thomas

The conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo; John M. Cohen (Translator, Introduction by)

The conquest of the last Maya kingdom by Grant D. Jones

Cosmos crumbling: American reform and the religious imagination by Robert H. Abzug

Cultivating the rosebuds: the education of women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 by Devon A. Mihesuah; Devon Mihesuah

Cultures in conflict: the American Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth

Daughters of the earth: the lives and legends of American Indian women by Carolyn Niethammer

Dearest friend: a life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey

Decision in Philadelphia: the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by Christopher Collier; James Lincoln Collier

The Democratic Republic, 1801-1815 by Marshall Smelser

The destructive war: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster

The devil's dominion: magic and religion in early New England by Richard Godbeer

The devil in the shape of a woman: witchcraft in colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen; Carol Karlsen

Devil Knows How to Ride: the True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders by Edward E. Leslie

Diary of a Confederate soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade by William C. Davis (Editor, Introduction by)

The discovery of the asylum: social order and disorder in the new republic by David J. Rothman; David Rothman

Ecological Revolutions by Carolyn Merchant

The economy of British America, 1607-1789 by John J. McCusker; Russell R. Menard

An empire divided: the American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Andrew J. Oshaughnessy

An empire for slavery: the peculiar institution in Texas, 1821-1865 by Randolph B. Campbell

Entertaining Satan by John Demos

The era of good feelings by George Dangerfield

The federalist papers by James Madison; Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; Isaac Kramnick (Editor, Introduction by); Alexander Hamilton

Federalists and Antifederalists: the Debate Over the Ratification of the Constitution by John P. Kaminski (Editor); Richard Leffler (Editor)

The first frontier: life in colonial America by John C. Miller

The founding of a nation: a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 by Merrill Jensen

Four generations: population, land, and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts by Philip J. Greven

Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely

From rebellion to revolution: Afro-American slave revolts in the making of the modern world by Eugene D. Genovese

From resistance to revolution: colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 by Pauline Maier

Frontiers of change: early industrialism in America by Thomas C. Cochran

Good wives: image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The great journey: the peopling of ancient America by Brian M. Fagan

The Grimké sisters from South Carolina: pioneers for women's rights and abolition by Gerda Lerner

Growing up with the country: childhood on the far-western frontier by Elliot West

Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini

A history of the American Revolution by John R. Alden

The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: Volume 1 by Meriwether Lewis; William Clark; Elliott Coues (Editor)

Horse sweat and powder smoke: the First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War by Stanley S. McGowen

The ideological origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

The impending crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter

Inheriting the revolution: the first generation of Americans by Joyce O. Appleby

In her own right: the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith

In pursuit of reason: the life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham

Inside the great house: planter family life in eighteenth-century Chesapeake society by Daniel Blake Smith

Inside war: the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War by Michael Fellman

The Invasion Within: the contest of cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell

Jacksonian America : society, personality, and politics by Edward Pessen

The Jacksonian era: 1828-1848 by Glyndon G. Van Deusen

The Jacksonian persuasion: politics and belief by Marvin Meyers

James Madison: the founding father by Robert Allen Rutland

Jefferson's America, 1760-1815 by Norman K. Risjord

Jefferson vs. Hamilton: confrontations that shaped a nation by Noble E. Cunningham

The Jewish Confederates by Robert N. Rosen

John Adams by David McCullough

John Paul Jones: a sailor's biography by Samuel Eliot Morison

The last of the fathers: James Madison and the Republican legacy by Drew R. McCoy

The legacy of conquest: the unbroken past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick; Patricia Limerick

Liberty's daughters: the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton

Liberty's exiles: American loyalists in the revolutionary world by Maya Jasanoff

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of land: the plunder of early America by Daniel M. Friedenberg

Lincoln and Black Freedom by LaWanda Cox

Lincoln at Gettysburg: the words that remade America by Garry Wills

Lone Star by T. R. Fehrenbach

The long, bitter trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians by Eric Foner (Editor); Anthony F. Wallace

The long argument: English Puritanism and the shaping of New England culture, 1570-1700 by Stephen Foster

Look away!: a history of the Confederate States of America by William C. Davis

Manitou and providence : Indians, Europeans, and the making of New England, 1500-1643 by Neal Salisbury

Marching through Georgia: the story of soldiers and civilians during Sherman's campaign by Lee B. Kennett

Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt

Mary Todd Lincoln by Jean H. Baker

Montcalm and Wolfe: the French and Indian War by Francis Parkman

Mutiny on the Amistad: the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy by Howard Jones

Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T. H. Breen; Stephen Innes

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / written by himself by Frederick Douglass

Nativism and slavery: the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's by Tyler G. Anbinder

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles; Thad W. Tate

The New England merchants in the seventeenth century by Bernard Bailyn

North of slavery: the negro in the free states, 1790-1860 by Leon F. Litwack

The ordeal of the longhouse: the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization by Daniel K. Richter

The origins of American politics by Bernard Bailyn

Paine and Jefferson on liberty by Lloyd S. Kramer (Editor); Thomas Paine; Thomas Jefferson

Passionate liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the dilemma of reform by Robert H. Abzug

Patriots: the men who started the American Revolution by A. J. Langguth

The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp

Plain folk and gentry in a slave society: white liberty and Black slavery in Augusta's hinterlands by J. William Harris

Portia by Edith B. Gelles

The Protestant temperament: patterns of child-rearing, religious experience, and the self in early America by Philip Greven

The Puritan dilemma: the story of John Winthrop by Edmund S. Morgan

The radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

Ratification: the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier

Rebels and redcoats: the American Revolution through the eyes of those who fought and lived it by George F. Scheer; Hugh F. Rankin

Red earth, white lies: Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact by Vine Deloria

The refinement of America : persons, houses, cities by Richard L. Bushman; Richard Lyman Bushman

A respectable army: the military origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 by James Kirby Martin; Mark Edward Lender

Revolt against chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the women's campaign against lynching by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

A revolutionary people at war: the Continental Army and American character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster

The rising American empire by Richard W. Van Alstyne

The road to disunion by William W. Freehling

Roll, Jordan, roll: the world the slaves made by Eugene D. Genovese; Eugene D. Genovese

Roots of conflict: British armed forces and colonial Americans, 1677-1763 by Douglas Edward Leach

The ruling race: a history of American slaveholders by James Oakes

Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark expedition by Ella E. Clark; Margot Edmonds

Salem possessed: the social origins of witchcraft by Paul Boyer; Stephen Nissenbaum

Schooled to order: a social history of public schooling in the United States by David Nasaw

Servants of Satan: the age of the witch hunts by Joseph Klaits

The Shaker Experience in America by Stephen J. Stein

Sherman's march by Burke Davis; Jeff Stone (Editor); Carolyn Reidy (Editor)

Slave counterpoint: Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Cu

The slave narratives of Texas by Ron Tyler (Editor); Lawrence R. Murphy (Editor)

Slave religion: the "invisible institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau

Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental, and African slave trades by Patrick Manning

Slaves Without Masters by Ira Berlin

A sorrow in our heart: the life of Tecumseh by Allan W. Eckert

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Southern women: black and white in the Old South by Sally G. McMillen; John Hope Franklin (Editor); Abraham S. Eisenstadt (Editor)

Stephen F. Austin: empresario of Texas by Gregg Cantrell

A stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

The struggle for equality : abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James M. McPherson

Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz

Their tattered flags: the epic of the confederacy by Frank E. Vandiver

Till freedom cried out: memories of Texas slave life by T. Lindsay Baker (Editor); Julie P. Baker; Kermit Oliver (Illustrator)

Time on the cross: the economics of American Negro slavery by Robert William Fogel; Stanley L. Engerman

To the halls of the Montezumas: the Mexican War in the American imagination by Robert W. Johannsen

Trail of tears: the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation by John Ehle

The turbulent era: riot & disorder in Jacksonian America by Michael Feldberg

Ulysses S. Grant: soldier & president by Geoffrey Perret

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

The Union at risk: Jacksonian democracy, states' rights, and the nullification crisis by Richard E. Ellis

The urban crucible: the northern seaports and the origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash

Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South by Dickson D. Bruce

Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Illustrator); Bill McKibben (Introduction by)

The war for America: 1775-1783 by Piers Mackesy; John W. Shy (Introduction by); Piers Mackesey

The war of American independence: military attitudes, policies, and practice, 1763-1789 by Donald Higginbotham

Warpaths: invasions of North America by Ian K. Steele

Washington, the indispensable man by James Thomas Flexner

Water from the rock: Black resistance in a revolutionary age by Sylvia R. Frey

When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away: marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramon A. Gutierrez

When ladies go a-thieving: middle-class shoplifters in the Victorian department store by Elaine S. Abelson

The Whiskey Rebellion: frontier epilogue to the American Revolution by Thomas P. Slaughter

The white man's burden: historical origins of racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan

White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan

Why the South lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer; Herman Hattaway; Archer Jones; William N. Still

Witchcraft, magic, and religion in 17th-century Massachusetts by Richard Weisman

With Malice Toward None, the Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates

The wolf by the ears: Thomas Jefferson and slavery by John C. Miller; F. Thornton Miller

The Women's West by Susan Armitage; Elizabeth Jameson

Women and the work of benevolence: morality, politics, and class in the nineteenth-century United States by Lori D. Ginzberg

Women at work: the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by Thomas Dublin

Women of the Republic: intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Staff (Contribution by)

Worlds of wonder, days of judgment: popular religious belief in early New England by David D. Hall

The world they made together: Black and white values in eighteenth-century Virginia by Mechal Sobel

Yankee stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the freedmen by William S. McFeely

The young Hamilton: a biography by James Thomas Flexner