Amer. History Reading List

[ashling]

A while back I compiled a list of books that I have been reading (or have read in the last year) mostly for my graduate hisory classes.

I wondered if anybody hear has read any of these and would like to discuss them, the authora, or the subjects - or has other books of interest for discussion. Perhaps start some sort of book discussion sub group (if there is not one already - I'm sort of new to this board)
Anyway, here they are for your consideration... some of them anyway:

The Essence of Liberty: Free black women during the Slave Era, by Wilma King

Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, by Paul Finkelman

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Sean Willentz

Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason, by Buckner F. Melton

Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, & the Louisiana Purchase, by Roger Kennedy

James Madison: A Biography, by Ralph Ketcham

The Cherokee Removal, by Theda Perdu & Michael D. Green

Bound in Twine: The History & Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico & the American & Canadian Plains, by Sterling Evans

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, & Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson

Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life, by Fran Grace

The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, Ed. By Charles W. Calhoun

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties & the Great Depression, by David E. Kyvig

Still Missing: Amelia Earhart & the Search for Modern Feminism, by Susan Ware

The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom From Fear, Part I, by David M. Kennedy

I have several books that I have collected, been given, etc. which I want to read soon:

Lincoln & Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, & the President’s War Powers, by James F. Simon

To Begin the World Anew: The Genius & Ambiguities of the American Founders, by Bernard Bailyn

A Way of Work & a Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926, by Marilyn D. Rhinehart

Chapters in the History of Organized Labor in Texas, by Ruth Allen

The Great Plains, by Ian Frasier

I want to re-read Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury, Ed. By Marion K. Barthelme

My wife and I are going to a workshop at the LBJ Library in Austin this summer. They sent us a copy of The Vanishing Point, by LBJ

Last summer I read Dalleks Lone Star Rising

And suddenly I feel completely overwhelmed!