Books Read: History

“The Good War”

An Oral History Of World War II
Studs Terkel1984

1066

The Year of the Conquest
David Howarth1977

A History of Knowledge

The Pivotal Events, People and Achievements of World History
Charles Van Doren1991

A People’s History of the United States

Howard Zinn1992

A World Lit Only By Fire

The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
William Manchester1992

America Goes To War

The Civil War and Its Meaning to Americans Today
Bruce Catton1958

American Nations

A History of the 11 Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard2011

Citizen Tom Paine

Howard Fast1943

Confederates in the Attic

Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz1998

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
David E. Kyvig2002

Dean Acheson

The Cold War Years, 1953-1971
Douglas Brinkley1992

Eisenhower

The White House Years
Jim Newton2011

Flight of the Eagle

The Grand Strategies that Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
Conrad Black2013

Hail, Hail, Euphoria

The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup
Roy Blount, Jr.2010

Hard Times

An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel1970

His Excellency George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis2004

In Review

Pictures I've Kept
Dwight D. Eisenhower1969

In The Wake of the Plague

The Black Death & the World it Made
Norman Cantor2001

Kissinger 1973

The Crucial Year
Alistair Horne2009

Life In Year One

What The World Was Like In First-Century Palestine
Scott Korb2010

Longitude

Dava Sobel1995

Midnight Rising

John Brown & the Raid that Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz2011

Mr. Citizen

Harry S Truman1960

Nixonland

The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein2008

O Albany!

William Kennedy1983

Off The Record With FDR

The War Years 1942-1945
William D. Hassett1958

Polk

The Man who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter K. Borneman2008

President Nixon

Alone In The White House
Richard Reeves2001

Rome At War

AD 293 - 696
Michael Whitby2002

Six Months In 1945

FDR, Stalin, Churchill & Truman - from World War to Cold War
Michael Dobbs2012

Stars In Their Courses

The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863
Shelby Foote1963

Street Without Joy

The French Debacle In Indochina
Bernard B. Fall1964

The Accidental President

Harry S Truman And The Four Months That Changed The World
A. J. Baime2017

The American Civil War

A Military History
John Keegan2009

The Conquerors

Roosevelt, Truman & the Destruction of Hitler's Germany
Michael Beschloss2002

The Haldeman Diaries

Inside The Nixon White House
H.R. Haldeman1993

The Imperial Presidency

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.1973

The Irish Way

Becoming American In The Multiethnic City
James R. Barrett2012

The Johnstown Flood

The Story Behind The 1889 Disaster
David McCullough1968

The Landscape Of History

How Historians Map The Past
John Lewis Gaddis2002

The Wars of Watergate

The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon
Stanley I. Kutler1990

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro2012

Thirteen Days

A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy1967

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Capt. Ted W. Lawson1943

Tried By War

Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief
James M. McPherson2008

Washington Goes To War

David Brinkley1988

What Hath God Wrought

The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
Daniel Walker Howe2007

Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey

1840-1870
Lillian Schlissel1992

Working

People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Studs Terkel1974

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