Book List

THE WEST; FRONTIERS; NATIVE AMERICANS 

Jim Bridger, Mountain Man. By Stanley Vestal. 1970

Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux.  By Stanley Vestal

Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man by John Myers

Daniel Boone : The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. By John Mack Faragher

The Life of Daniel Boone. By Lyman Copeland Draper

Tecumseh : A Life. By John Sugden

George Rogers Clark and the War in the West. By Lowell H. Harrison

George Rogers Clark: American General.  By Michael Burgen

William Clark and the Shaping of the West. By Landon Y. Jones

Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. By William E. Foley

Pathfinder : John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
By Tom Chaffin

CUSTER : The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer. By Jeffry D. Wert

Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men. By Winfred Blevins

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. By Dale L. Morgan

The Life of Ely S. Parker: Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's Military Secretary by Arthur C. Parker

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

Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T
by Dick Steward   

Pocahontas : Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. By Paula Gunn Allen

Pocahontas. By Grace Steele Woodward

Abigail Adams: An American Woman. By Charles W. Akers

Dearest Friend: The Life of Abigail Adams. By Lynne Withey

The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
By Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel

Martha Washington : An American Life. By Patricia Brady

Strength And Honor: The Life Of Dolley Madison, By Richard N. Cote

Unwise Passions : A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the First Great Scandal of 18th Century America. By Alan Pell Crawford

Mary Dyer: Biography of a Rebel Quaker. By Ruth Talbot Plimpton

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy : The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. By Elizabeth R. Varon

"Wild Rose : Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy" by Ann BlackmanMary Surratt: An American Tragedy. By Elizabeth Steger Trindal

Woman of Valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War. By Stephen B. Oates

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly : The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave. By Jennifer Fleischner

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. By Mark E. Neely

An Uncommon Soldier : The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864  by Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, et al

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
by De Anne Blanton, Lauren M. Cook 

Mrs. Robert E. Lee : The Lady of Arlington. By John Perry

The Lost German Slave Girl : The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom. By John Bailey

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero  by Kate Clifford Larson

Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter

Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman’s Life. By Mary A. DeCredico

Petticoat Affair.  By John F. Marszalek

Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld  

POLITICAL SCENE

Patrick Henry. Boston. By Moses Coit Tyler

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

Samuel Adams. By James Kendall Hosmer

James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798. By Charles Page Smith

The character of John Adams. By Peter Shaw.

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. By Joseph Ellis

Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry. By David J. Vaughan

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. By Esther Hoskins Forbes

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.  By Harvey J. Kaye

Alexander Hamilton. By Ron Chernow

American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas Jefferson. By Joseph J. Ellis

Thomas Jefferson : Author of America. by Christopher Hitchens  

Thomas Jefferson. By R. B. Bernstein

John Jay : Founding Father. By Walter Stahr

Gouverneur Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World. By James J. Kirschke

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. by Richard Brookhiser

James Monroe. By Gary Hart

Washington: The Indispensable Man. By James Thomas Flexner

John Marshall : Definer of a Nation. By Jean Edward Smith

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. By Harvey J. Kaye

James Madison. By Garry Wills, Arthur M. Schlesinger

James Madison: A Biography. By Ralph Ketcham

Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time. By Robert V. Remini

Daniel Webster, the Completest Man. By Daniel Webster, et al

John Quincy Adams. By Robert V. Remini

Andrew Jackson; a profile. Edited by Charles Sellers.

The Life of Andrew Jackson. By Robert V. Remini

Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer

Martin Van Buren. By Joel H. Silbey

James K. Polk: 1845-1849. by John Seigenthaler

Benjamin Harrison. By Charles W. Calhoun

James Buchanan. By Jean H. Baker

John Tyler: A President of Many Firsts. By Jane C. Walker

Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield. By Kenneth D. Ackerman

Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. By William C. Davis

James K. Polk: A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny
by Thomas M. Leonard  

General George Washington: A Military Life. By Edward Lengel

LEE. By Douglas Southall Freeman

Washington's General : Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution. By Terry Golway

The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer …. By M.L. Weems

John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy. By Evan Thomas

Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand (Civil War in the West). By Kirby Ross

Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman. By Walter Brian Cisco

General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier. By Jeffry D. Wert

Lee: The Last Years. By Charles Bracelen Flood

Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee. By J. Steven Wilkins

Robert E. Lee: A Biography. By Emory M. Thomas

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. By Thomas Keneally

Sam Houston. By James L. Haley

Sam Houston. By John Hoyt Williams

Gray Ghost: The Life of Colonel John Singleton Mosby. By James A. Ramage

Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III. By Ed Longacre

Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart. By Emory M. Thomas

Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan. By Craig L. Symonds

The Man Who Made the Monitor: A Biography of John Ericsson, Naval Engineer by Olav Thulesius

Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold And Daring by Spencer Tucker

Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters by Spencer C. Tucker

Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.s. Navy
by David Curtis Skaggs

EARLY AMERICA

Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation. By David A. Price

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. By Fintan O’Toole

Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream. By Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler

The gentle radical; a biography of Roger Williams. By Cyclone Covey

Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America. By Edwin S. Gaustad

The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728. By Robert Middlekauff

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS

Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield. By Stephen Mansfield

Jonathan Edwards: The Great Awakener. By Helen K. Hosier

John Witherspoon And The Founding Of The American Republic. By Jeffrey H. Morrison

American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World. By James Zug

The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves. By Andrew Levy

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. By William C. Davis

All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. By Henry Mayer

Fire From The Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown. By Louis A. Decaro

The Passionate Beechers: A Family Saga of Sanctity and Scandal That Changed America. By Samuel A. Schreiner

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds

Frederick Douglass: the Radical and the Republican.  By James Oaks American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. By Dean Grodzins

Walt Whitman, An American. By Henry Seidel Canby

An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez And New York
by Martha Jane Brazy

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. by Stephen B. Oates 

Henry David Thoreau: A Biography . by Milton Meltzer

Benjamin Rush, Patriot and Physician. By Alyn Brodsky

The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America by Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz