A Nation Rising (25 page)

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History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison: 1809–1817
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Amar, Akhil Reed.
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Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848.
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Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History.
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Borneman, Walter R.
1812: The War That Forged a Nation.
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Brands, H. W.
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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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Brookhiser. Richard.
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
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Burstein, Andrew.
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The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving.
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The Passions of Andrew Jackson.
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Calloway, Colin G.
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The Shawnees and the War for America
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Carroll, Andrew, ed.
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Carroll, Anna Ella.
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Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire.
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Chernow, Ron.
Alexander Hamilton.
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Dawdy, Shannon Lee.
Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans.
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Drimmer, Frederick, ed.
Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750–1870.
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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Rebellion of 1800 and 1802
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Ellis, Joseph J.
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
. New York: Knopf, 1997.

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Essays: First and Second Series.
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Fehrenbach, T. R.
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
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Fitch, Raymond E., ed.
Breaking with Burr: Harman Blennerhasset's Journal, 1807.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.

Fleming, Thomas.
Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America
. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

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Liberty: The American Revolution
. New York: Viking, 1997.

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
. 8th ed. New York: Knopf, 2009.

Frémont, Jessie Benton.
A Year of American Travel
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Gaustad, Edwin, and Leigh Schmidt.
The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today
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Genovese, Eugene D.
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
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Goerke, Betty.
Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend: A History of Marin County's Namesake and His People
. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, 2007.

Gordon, John Steele.
An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
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Gordon-Reed, Annette.
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Gould, Lewis L.
Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans.
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Gunn, Giles, ed.
Early American Writing.
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Hamilton, Alexander.
Writings.
New York: Library of America, 2001.

Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler.
Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Hendrick, George, and Willene Hendrick.
The
Creole
Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship.
Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Herman, Arthur.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
. New York: Three Rivers, 2001.

Herr, Pamela.
Jessie Benton Frémont: A Biography.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts.
New York: Da Capo, 1998.

Hirshson, Stanley P.
The White Tecumseh: A Biography of William T. Sherman
. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Holliday, J. S.
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

Hochschild, Adam.
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Howe, Daniel Walker.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Irons, Peter.
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases Have Shaped Our Constitution
. New York: Viking Penguin, 1999.

Isaacson, Walter.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Isenberg, Nancy.
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr.
New York: Viking, 2007.

Jacoby, Susan.
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

James, Marquis.
The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1929.

Jefferson, Thomas.
Jefferson: Public and Private Papers.
New York: Library of America, 1990.

Jones, Howard.
Mutiny on the
Amistad. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kennedy, Roger G.
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Kluger, Richard.
Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea
. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Kly, Y. N., ed.
The Invisible War: The African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars
. Atlanta, Ga.: Clarity Press, 2006.

Knetsch. Joe.
Florida's Seminole Wars: 1817–1858.
Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2003.

Kolchin, Peter.
American Slavery: 1619–1877.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Laumer, Frank.
Dade's Last Command.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.

Langguth, A. J.
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Lepore, Jill.
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Levy, JoAnn.
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Lockhart, James, and Stuart B. Schwartz.
Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Lucas, Eileen.
The Aaron Burr Treason Trial: A Headline Court Case.
Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow, 2003.

McCaleb, Walter Flavius.
The Aaron Burr Conspiracy: A History Largely from Original and Hitherto Unused Sources.
Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 2006. (Reprinted from the 1903 edition.)

McCullough, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Madison, James.
Writings.
New York: Library of America, 1999.

Mahon, John K.
History of the Second Seminole War: 1835–1842
. Rev. ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1985.

Mayer, Henry.
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
. New York: Norton, 1998.

Meacham, Jon.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
. New York: Random House, 2008.

Melton, Buckner F., Jr.
Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason.
New York: Wiley, 2002.

Meltzer, Milton.
Hunted Like a Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War.
Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple, 2004.

Michno, Gregory, and Susan Michno.
A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West.
Caldwell, Ida.: Caxton, 2007.

Miller, Nathan.
Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents
. New York: Scribner, 1998.

Mihm, Stephen.
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Northup, Solomon.
Twelve Years a Slave
. Radford, Va.: Wilder, 2008.

Oates, Stephen B.
The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.

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With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.