Book Review FALL

Keep in mind that although all of these are ebooks, the library has access to only one electronic copy for many of them. That means they may not be accessible at any given time. As such, please plan accordingly. This should be added incentive not to wait til the last minute on this assignment. You MUST review a book from this list.

Approved Book List

James P. Byrd, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution

Craig Yirush, Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: the roots of early American political theory, 1675-1775.

Eran Shalev, American Zion: the Old Testament as a political text from the Revolution to the Civil War.

Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan, eds. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.

Timothy L. Wesley, The Politics of Faith during the Civil War.

Clarissa Confer, Cherokee Nation in the Civil War.

David Lightner, Slavery and the Commerce Power: how the struggle against the interstate slave trade led to the Civil War.

Ben Railton, Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893.

Leon Fink, The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order

Kevin Mattson, Creating a democratic public: the struggle for urban participatory democracy during the Progressive Era.

E.R. Meyhew, Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I.

Kevin Michael Kruse and Stephen G.N. Tuck, Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Jonathan Steinberg, All or Nothing: the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943.

Carolle Carter, Mission to Yenan: American liason with the Chinese Communists, 1944-1947.

Chris Tudda, A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972.

V.M Zubok and Konstantin Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khruschchev.

James Graham Wilson, The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War.

Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War.

Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers, Ethnic Americans: A history of Immigration.

Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.

John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants un Urban America

David Gerber, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction.

Ronald Eller, Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945.

William H. Turner, Blacks in Appalachia.

Melissa Schrift, Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South.