04 June 2008
Bibliography: Outline of U.S. History
RECENT PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS
The Bancroft Prize for American History
(Awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University)
2005
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1790s Through the Civil War
By Melvin Patrick Ely
Alfred A. Knopf
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By Michael J. Klarman
Oxford University Press
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
By Michael O'Brien
The University of North Carolina Press
2004
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
By Edward L. Ayers
W.W. Norton and Company
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Jonathan Edwards: A Life
By George M. Marsden
Yale University Press
2003
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James F. Brooks
University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
By Alan Gallay
Yale University Press
2002
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By David W. Blight
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
By Alice Kessler-Harris
Oxford University Press
2001
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
By Susan Lee Johnson
W. W. Norton and Company
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By David Nasaw
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States
(Awarded by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)
2005
Washington's Crossing
By David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press
2004
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2003
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
By Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company
2002
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
By Louis Menand
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
2001
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By Joseph Ellis
Alfred A. Knopf
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
American Historical Association (AHA)
http://www.historians.org/index.cfm
American History: A Documentary Record
1492 - Present
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Major Collections
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/major.htm
Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
The Library of Congress
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
The Library of Congress
American Memory: Timeline
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/index.html
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov
National Archives and Records Administration: Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/
National Archives and Records Administration: Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
National Park Service: History and Culture
http://www.nps.gov/history/
National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
http://www.oah.org/
Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/
The Historical Society
http://www.bu.edu/historic/
WWW Virtual Library: History: United States
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/
We the People
http://www.wethepeople.gov
[The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources from other agencies and organizations listed above. All Internet links were active as of Fall 2005.]
