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American History to 1865

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1. Colonization (1500-1776)

Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present by Cynthia Clark Northrup; Jerry H. Bentley; Patrick Manning; Kenneth Pomeranz; Steven Topik; Alfred E. Eckes, Jr
ISBN: 9780765680587
Publication Date: 2004-12-31
Transatlantic Slave Networks by Pamela D. Toler
Publication Date: 2017-07-15

The Salem Witch Trials by Don Nardo
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
The Salem Witch Trials by Don Nardo; Tanya Dellaccio
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
The Salem Witch Trials by Kristin Marciniak
Publication Date: 2014-01-01

America's Beginnings by Tony Williams
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
From Columbus to Colonial America by Jeff Wallenfeldt (Editor); Britannica Educational Publishing Staff
Publication Date: 2011-12-15

2. Bacon's Rebellion - 1676

Escaping Servitude by Antonio T. Bly; Tamia Haygood
Publication Date: 2014-12-24
Times Are Altered with Us by Roger M. Carpenter
ISBN: 9781118733240
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
Virginia Women by Cynthia A. Kierner (Editor); Sandra Gioia Treadway (Editor)
ISBN: 9780820342627
Publication Date: 2014-12-30

3. Boston Tea Party - 1774

The Boston Tea Party by Linda Crotta Brennan
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
The Spirit Of 74 by Ray Raphael; Marie Raphael
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
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4. American Independence (War 1774-1783)

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Allen Jayne
ISBN: 9780813148366
Publication Date: 2015-01-13

The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine by Jack Fruchtman
ISBN: 9780801892844
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9781497672192
Publication Date: 2014-09-23
Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine by Mark Wilensky
ISBN: 9781611210286
Publication Date: 2008-02-19

The Classical Foundations of the American Constitution by David J. Bederman
ISBN: 9780521885362
Publication Date: 2008-02-11
The Revolutionary Era by Carol Sue Humphrey
ISBN: 9780313320835
Publication Date: 2003-12-30

The Boston Massacre by Neil L. York
ISBN: 9780415873482
Publication Date: 2010-05-21
America's Beginnings by Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781442204874
Publication Date: 2010-11-16
Documenting American Violence by Christopher Waldrep; Michael A. Bellesiles
ISBN: 9780199724321
Publication Date: 2006-01-12

The Stamp Act Crisis by Edmund S. Morgan; Helen M. Morgan
ISBN: 9780807845134
Publication Date: 1995-03-20
Prologue to Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan
ISBN: 9780807807620
Publication Date: 1959-01-01
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network by Ralph Frasca
ISBN: 9780826216144
Publication Date: 2006-01-18

Origins of the Bill of Rights by Leonard W. Levy
ISBN: 9780300129021
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard E. Labunski
ISBN: 9780195181050
Publication Date: 2006-07-04
Limited Government and the Bill of Rights by Patrick M. Garry
ISBN: 9780826219718
Publication Date: 2012-07-06

5. Causes of the Civil War (1861-1865)

Prologue to Conflict by Holman Hamilton; Michael F. Holt (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780813191362
Publication Date: 2005-04-22
The Constitution in Congress by David P. Currie
ISBN: 9780226129167
Publication Date: 2006-01-15
Freedom's Delay by Allen Carden
ISBN: 9781621900504
Publication Date: 2014-07-30

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781467768566
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
Rethinking Uncle Tom by William B. Allen
ISBN: 9780739127988
Publication Date: 2009-03-16
The Civil War in American Culture by Will Kaufman
ISBN: 9780748619351
Publication Date: 2006-03-30

Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union by Fred I. Greenstein; Dale Anderson (As told to)
Publication Date: 2015-06-23
Slavery and the American West by Michael A. Morrison
Publication Date: 1997-04-28
Nebraska Moments by Donald R. Hickey; Susan A. Wunder; John R. Wunder
Publication Date: 2007-12-01

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil by Mark A. Graber
Publication Date: 2006-07-03
Origins of the Dred Scott Case : Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 by Austin Allen
Prudence Crandall's Legacy by Donald E. Williams
Publication Date: 2014-06-10

The Afterlife of John Brown by E. Herrington (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005-01-01

The Slave Catchers by Stanley W. Campbell
Publication Date: 2012-12-01
The Rescue of Joshua Glover by H. Robert Baker
Publication Date: 2006-12-31
Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner
Publication Date: 2015-01-01

6. American Slavery

The Slave's Rebellion by Adélékè Adéèkó
Publication Date: 2005-07-21
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia by Nat Turner; Thomas R. Gray (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood by Patrick H. Breen
Publication Date: 2016-01-14

The Underground Railroad by Sheila Griffin Llanas
ISBN: 9781624314230
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
My Journey on the Underground Railroad by Lynda Arnéz
ISBN: 9781482440102
Publication Date: 2015-12-30

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage by Maria Diedrich (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Carl Pedersen (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999-10-21
Slavery in the United States by Junius P. Rodriguez (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007-03-20

Calling Out Liberty by Jack Shuler
Publication Date: 2009-07-20

7. Reconstruction Era (1865-1900)

14th Amendment
15th Amendment

Suffrage Reconstructed by Laura E. Free
Publication Date: 2015-11-06
Everyman's Constitution by Howard Jay Graham
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment by Elizabeth Reilly (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-09-09
Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments by Laura Mars (Editor); Grey House Canada Staff
Publication Date: 2017-01-15
This thought-provoking and interesting text provides a complete examination of each of our nation's 27 Constitutional Amendments. From the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, to slavery, to the voting rights of women, this text illustrates how the US Constitution has changed since its ratification in 1789.

Fighting Chance by Faye E. Dudden
Publication Date: 2011-07-13
How Laws Are Made in the U. S. a by Helen Maes (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Suffrage Reconstructed by Laura E. Free
Publication Date: 2015-11-06

8. Abraham Lincoln (Alive 1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln by Michael Anderson (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781615309429
Publication Date: 2012-12-30
Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin Platt Thomas; Michael Burlingame (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780809328871
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
Abraham Lincoln by Adam I. P. Smith
ISBN: 9781502619129
Publication Date: 2016-07-30

Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment by B. J. Best
Publication Date: 2015-07-15
The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom by Alexander Tsesis
Publication Date: 2004-12-12
The Promises of Liberty by Alexander Tsesis (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-09-30

The Emancipation Proclamation by Judy Dodge Cummings
Publication Date: 2016-08-15
Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment by B. J. Best
Publication Date: 2015-07-15
Lincoln's Proclamation by William A. Blair (Editor); Karen Fisher Younger (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009-11-01

The Gettysburg Address- Full Text
The Gettysburg Address by Sean Conant (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015-05-22
The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by Jared Peatman
Publication Date: 2013-10-30

9. Andrew Jackson (Alive 1767-1845)

Andrew Jackson by Sherman Hollar (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781615309412
Publication Date: 2012-12-30
Andrew Jackson in Context by Matthew Warshauer
ISBN: 9781607417095
Publication Date: 2011-04-01

A Nation of Counterfeiters by Stephen Mihm
Publication Date: 2009-06-30

The Trail of Tears by Kristen Rajczak Nelson
Publication Date: 2017-07-15
Life As a Native American on the Trail of Tears by Ann Byers
Publication Date: 2016-07-15

10. Thomas Jefferson (Alive 1743-1826)

Thomas Jefferson by Michael Anderson (Contribution by); Michael Anderson (Editor); Britannica Educational Publishing Staff
Publication Date: 2012-12-15
Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History by Hannah Spahn
Publication Date: 2011-12-06
Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy
ISBN: 9780748624997