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Pilgrims in Their Own Lands	BR 515 M324	Marty, William	1984
Great Awakening in New England	BR520 G2	Guastad, Edwin	1968
Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in 17th Century Virginia	BR555 V8 B66	Bond, Edward L.	2000
A Fire in the Bones	BR563 N4 R24	Raboteau, Albert	1995
The Human Story	D23 .P38	Davis, James	2004
11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour: Armistice Day	D523 .P44	Persico, Joseph	2004
The Romans: From Village to Empire	DG209 .B58	Boatwright, Mary	2004
History of the Middle East	DS62.4 .M36		2004
Rape of the Nile	DT 60 F24	Fagan, Brian	2004
The Americas	E 18 F39	Fernandez, Felipe	2003
Africans in the Americas	E 29 N3C68	Conniff, Michael	1994
The Black Diaspora	E 29 N3S44	Segal, Ronald	1995
Indians & English	E 59 F53K86	Kupperman, Karen	2000
Stolen Continents	E 59 F53W75	Wright, Ronald	1992
Indian Givers	E 59 I53W53	Weatherford, Jack	1988
A Spirited Resistance	E 77 D694	Dowd, Gregory	1992
In the Hands of the Great	E 77 P14	Page, Jake	2003
Native Roots	E77 W418	Weatherford	1991
Dominion & Civility: English Imperialism & Native America, 1585 - 1685	E78 .N5 O34	Oberg, Michael L.	1999
The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast	E78 .S65 A97	Axtell, James	1997
King Philip’s War	E 83.67 S38	Schultz, Eric	1999
King Philip’s War	E 83.67 D74	Drake, James	1999
Killing Custer	E 83.876 W38	Welch, James	1994
Trail of Tears	E 93 J2	Jahoda, Gloria	1995
Jefferson and the Indians	E 93 W18	Wallace, Anthony	1999
Big Chief	E 98 F39 M55	Milton, Giles	2000
Dispossession of the American Indian: 1887-1934	E 98 L3M43	McDonnell, Janet	1991
Indians in Unexpected Places	E98 .S67 D46	Deloria, Philip	2004
Pueblo Revolt of 1680	E 99 P9K59	Knaut, Andrew	1995
Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States	E 161 A75	Aron, Cindy	1999
As Various As Their Land	E 162 W83	Wolf, Stephanie	1994
Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis	E 183.8 I55F37	Farber, David	2005
Readings in American Military History	E185 .R285	Morris, James	2004
Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America	E 185.18 W66	Wood, Peter	2003
Promised Land	E 185.6 L36	Lemann, Nicholas	1991
The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome	E185.615 .K374	Kelley, Norman	2004
Manliness & Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930	E 185.86 S865	Summers, Martin	2004
Dreams From My Father	E185.97 .O23 A3	Obama, Barack	2004
Sojourner Truth	E185.97T35P35	Painter, Nell	1996
To Keep the Waters Troubled	E185.97W55M38	McMurry, Linda	1998
Becoming America	E 188 B97	Butler, John	2000
Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America	E 197 D46	Demos, John	1994
American Scripture	E 221 M24	Maier, Pauline	1997
To Be Useful to the World	E 276 G86	Gunderson, John	1996
Inheriting the Revolution	E 301 A65	Appleby, Joyce	2000
His Excellency: George Washington	E312 .E245	Ellis, Joseph	2004
Founding Brothers	E 320.5 E45	Ellis, Joseph	2000b
Benjamin Franklin	E 302.6F8M86	Morgan, Edmund S.	2002
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin	E 302.6 F8W84	Wood, Gordon	2004
Five George Masons	E 302.6M45C58	Copeland, Pamela C.	1975
George Washington’s Mount Vernon	E 312.5 D24	Dalzell, Robert	1998
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America	E 312.17 W6	Wiencek, Henry	2003
Thomas Jefferson	E 332 B47	Bernstein, R. B.	2003
Jefferson and Monticello	E 332.2 M43	McLaughlin, Jack	1988
Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson	E 332.2 S24	Lewis, Jan	1999
A Wilderness so Immense : the Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America	E333 .K85	Kukla, Jon	2003
Rude Republic: Americans and the Politics in the 19th Century	E 337.5 A48	Altschuler, Glenn C.	2000
Battle of New Orleans	E 356 N5R46	Remini, Robert	1999
1831 Year of Eclipse	E 381 M37	Masur, Louis	2001
Slavery and the American West	E 415.7 M88	Morrison, Michael	1997
America in 1857	E 436 S78	Stampp, Kenneth	1990
Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in 19th Century America	E 441 K59	King, Wilma	1995
Black Bondage in the North	E 441 M16	McManus, Edgar	2001
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South	E 441 S8	Stampp, Kenneth	1989
Born in Bondage	E 443 S39	Schwartz, Marie	2000
Fleeing for Freedom	E450 .F535	Hendrick, George	2004
Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad	E 450 T63	Tobin, Jacqueline	1999
The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home	E 468.9M68	Mitchell, Reid	1993
Lincoln’s Generals	E 470 L72		1994
Lincoln at Gettsyburg	E 475.55 W54	Wills, Garry	1992
Last Days of the Confederacy	E 477.61 H7	Hoehling, A. A.	1986
Forged in the Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers	E 540 N3G53	Glatthaar, Joseph	1990
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey	E601 .S667	Sneden, Robert	2000
They Fought Like Demons	E 628 B52	Blanton, DeAnne	2002
Andersonville	E 612 A5M44	Marvel, William	1994
Andersonville Journey	E612 .A5 R63	Roberts, Edward	1998
Children’s Civil War	E 468.9 M125	Marten, James	1998
White Terror	E 668 T7	Trelease, Allen W.	1995
The La Follettes of Wisconsin	E 747 W3	Weisberger, Bernard A.	1994
Marching on Washington	E 743 B338	Barber, Lucy G.	2002
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s	E 784 A6	Allen, Frederick L.	1997
Hard Times	E 806 T45	Terkel, Studs	1986
Hungry Years: A Narrative Description of the Great Depression in America	E 806 W35	Watkins, T. H.	1999
Anti-Americanism	E840 . A675	Ross, Andrew	2004
Homestead	F159 H7S47	Serrin, William	1992
Creation of Washington, D. C.	F197 B69	Bowling, Kenneth R.	1991
Lost Revolutions	F216.2 D36	Daniel, Pete	2000
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall of Jack Johnson	GV1196 J64W37	Ward, Geoffrey	2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Rights & Murder in the Jazz Age	KF 224 S8B69	Boyle, Kevin	2004
Hoover Dam	TC557.5 H6S74	Stevens, Joseph	1988

 

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