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Bibliography for HIST 104 DCE: Books, Films,
Websites
This bibliography is not intended to be a comprehensive
list of courses on early American history. It is, rather, a resource list
specific to the course. Suggestions of additional resources for use and
listing are welcome! The lists are in evolution, as we’re still adding and
annotating titles.
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Books: Suggestions for Reviews
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Thelen
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The Presence of
the Past
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McNeill
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Mythistory
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Krieger
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Ranke: The Meaning
of History
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Becker
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Everyman His Own
Historian
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Crevecoeur
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Letters from an
American Farmer
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Loewen, James W.
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Lies My Teacher
Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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New Press, 1995
New York:
Touchstone, 1996
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Loewen argues that American history as traditionally
taught is full of misconceptions, largely due to the textbook industry, but
also because as a nation we suppress things we don’t want to hear about.
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Cross, C.F.
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Justin Smith
Morrill: Father of the Land-Grant Colleges
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East Lansing: Michigan State University
Press, 1999
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Webb, Walter P.
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The Great Plains
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Adams, Andy
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Log of a Cowboy
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Dick, Everett
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The Sod-House
Frontier
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Custer, George A.
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My Life on the
Plains
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West, Elliott
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The Contested
Plains
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Cather, Willa
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My Antonia
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Smith, Adam
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The Wealth of
Nations
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Chernow
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Titan: The Life of
John D. Rockefeller
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Krause
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The Battle for Homestead
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Raaen, Aagot
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Grass of the Earth
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Rolvaag, Ola
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Giants in the
Earth
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Rikoon, Sandy, Ed.
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Rachel Calof’s Story
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Handlin, Oscar
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The Uprooted
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Baum, Lyman Frank
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The Wonderful
Wizard of OZ
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Kazin
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A Godly Hero
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Brown, Charles H.
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The Correspondents’ War: Journalists in the
Spanish-American War
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New York:
Scribner, 1967
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The yellow press played a key role influencing American
public opinion about the war with Spain.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
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The Rough Riders
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New York: Review of Reviews, 1904
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TR’s own account of the
exploits of his celebrated regiment.
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Mahan, A.T.
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The Influence of
Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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Boston: Little, Brown—many editions
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A work influential in convincing Americans they needed
to play a role in world affairs, and they needed a great navy to do so.
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Kennedy, David
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Over Here: The
First World War and American Society
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1980
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Barry, John M.
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The Great
Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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2004
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Farrell, Robert H.
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Woodrow Wilson and
World War I, 1917-1921
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1985
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Remarque, Erich M.
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All Quiet on the
Western Front
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Morris, Edmund
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Theodore Rex
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Sheldon, Charles
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In His Steps
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Roosevelt, Theodore
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Ranch Life and the
Hunting Trail
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Sinclair, Upton
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The Jungle
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Arvold, Afred
W.
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The Little Country
Theater
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Allen, Frederick Lewis
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Only Yesterday
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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The Great Gatsby
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MacLean, Nancy
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Behind the Mask of
Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
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Leuchtenburg, William
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The Perils of
Prosperity
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Terkel, Studs
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Hard Times
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Kennedy, David M.
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Freedom from Fear:
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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Brinkley, Alan
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Voices of Protest:
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
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Guthrie, Woody
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Bound for Glory
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Films:
Suggestions for Reviews
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Title
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Production
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Norma Rae
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North
Country
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Red
River
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Shane
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Powwow Highway
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A Corner in Wheat
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My Big Fat Greek
Wedding
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West
Side Story
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All Quiet on the
Western Front
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The Wind and the
Lion
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Flyboys
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Sergeant York
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Inherit the Wind
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Elmer Gantry
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The Great Gatsby
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The Plow that
Broke the Plains
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The Grapes of
Wrath
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A Night at the
Opera
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Seabiscuit
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