A.P. U.S. History Summer Fun 2018 Introduction Welcome to AP United States History! This course is designed to help you become a skilled researcher and interpretor of the past capable of effectively advocating your point of view about controversial issues. The summer assignment is intended to accomplish three goals: 1) introduce you to the concept of historiography by thinking about what "history" is and how we study the past; 2) familiarize you with the textbook as a research tool rather than your lone narrative of United States history; 3) establish a foundation of knowledge about the first of the nine historical time periods we will cover in the course. Taken together, these tasks should not only provide a good glimpse of the year to come, but also help guage the kind of workload you will be expected to handle as an AP student. Assignment Part 1: Textbook Read and take notes on chapters 1-3 from your textbook, America’s History 8th Edition. Your notes should be in Cornell Notes format and be handwritten and in a binder or a spiralbound notebook. This will be your notebook for all textbook notes for the year. Also, on a separate sheet of paper answer the Review Questions at the end of each chapter. These answers should be written in complete sentences and FULLY address the prompt. Part 2: Historical Monograph You will read one of the following books over the summer. You may also read a book that is not on this list, with Mr. Hartford’s approval. After reading the book you will write a 1200 word book report. You are responsible for finding a copy of your chosen books. Many books are available for free in the Woodside High School Library or in Mr. Hartford’s classroom. Other books can be found in other libraries or online. To receive full credit your book reports must each: 1. Clearly explain important facts about the author, such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, political affiliation and when and where they lived, which may have shaped their interpretation of the topic. 2. Determine what topic, question, or problem the author is addressing in the book. 3. Clearly explain what you think is the author’s thesis (the main argument that the author is trying to prove) This is usually found in the introduction of the book. 4. Clearly identify and describe the authors supporting arguments and evidence (How does the author prove his main point? What kind of evidence does he/she use?) 5. Critical Analysis: What in the book seems irrelevant to their thesis or poorly proven; and, what points are made strongly and well documented. (Provide SPECIFIC evidence from the book and include a basic in-text citation [Author, Pg.#]) 6. Be at least 1200 words long and clearly written. Due Date: First Day of School. AP Summer Reading Pre-Approved Book List: Alexis de’Tocqueville ...... Democracy in America Jane Addams ...... Twenty Years at Hull House Stephen E. Ambrose ...... Citizen Soldier Stephen E. Ambrose ...... Band of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose ...... Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America’s Wild Frontier Joyce Appleby ...... Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s James Axtell ...... The Invasion Within: The Conquest of Cultures in Colonial North America Bernard Bailyn ...... The Origins of American Politics Ira Berlin ...... Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Allida M. Black ...... Modern American Queer History Kevin Boyle ...... Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age Kathleen Brown ...... Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia Dee Brown ...... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Rachel Carson ...... Silent Spring Dan T. Carter ...... From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 Catherin Clinton...... The Plantation Mistress: Women’s World in the Old South Susan Douglas ...... Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media Joseph Ellis ...... American Creation Joseph Ellis ...... American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph Ellis ...... Founding Brothers David R. Farber ...... Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam Eric Foner ...... Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner ...... The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Eric Foner ...... Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War Betty Friedan ...... The Feminine Mystique John Lewis Gaddis ...... The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past Alison Games ...... Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World Michael D. Green ...... The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis David Halberstam ...... The Fifties David Hall...... World Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England Michael Harrington ...... The Other America: Poverty in the United States Thomas R. Hietala ...... Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire Richard Hofstadter ...... The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915 Richard Hofstader ...... The American Political Tradition Jacqueline Jones...... Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Markey Chana Kai Lee ...... For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Carol F. Karlsen ...... The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England George Kennan ...... American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 David Kennedy ...... Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Bruce Laurie ...... Artisans Into Workers: Labor in the Nineteenth Century Bruce Levine ...... Half Free and Half Slave: Roots of the Civil War John Lewis ...... Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Patricia Nelson Limerick ...... A Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Leon F. Litwack ...... Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow Leon F. Litwack ...... Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery James W. Lowen ...... Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your Textbook Got Wrong Charles Mann ...... 1491 Jennifer L. Morgan ...... Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery Jacob Riis ...... How the Other Half Lives W. J. Roraboaugh ...... Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties Tricia Wars ...... The Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop and Why it Matters Michael Schaller ...... American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation Michael Schaller ...... Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992 Bruce Schulman ...... The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture Charles Sellers ...... The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America Upton Sinclair ...... The Jungle Christine Stansell ...... City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 John Steinbeck ...... The Grapes of Wrath Jeremi Suri ...... Henry Kissinger and the American Century David Talbot ...... Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love Alan Taylor ...... American Colonies: The Settling of North America Alan Taylor ...... American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750- 1804 Barbara Tuchman ...... The Guns of August: The Outbreak of WWI Sarah Vowell ...... Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World Harry L Watson ...... Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America Isabel Wilkerson ...... The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Gordon S. Wood ...... The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 Gordon S. Wood ...... The Radicalism of the American Revolution Lawrence Wright ...... The Looming Tower: Al Quaeda and the Road to 9/11 Howard Zinn ...... A People’s History of the United States