AP US History Summer Reading List Welcome to your first college level American History class. I have prepared a list of books for you this summer. I do not expect you to read all of these books (although one day you will). I expect you to select at least 3-4 of these books and have them read during this summer. Some of these are required reading though, among them you need to read Battle Cry before we begin the Civil War unit around Thanksgiving (it is a long book so you’ll need to start soon). The Affluent Society before Spring Break and All the President’s Men by April 15th. The books are organized roughly by topic unit but this is not set in stone. You may be interested in reading some other books than the ones on the list and that is okay just email me and let me know so I can let you know if it will be discussed during the year. There will be no quizzes or tests on the day school starts or any of that stuff.
Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Common Sense Thomas Paine The Rebels John Jakes Founding Brothers: The Rev Gen. Joseph Ellis. The Glorious Cause: The American Rev. Robert Middlekauff A More Perfect Union: The Making William Peters A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. Theodore Draper An Imperfect God: George Washington and the Creation of America, Henry Wieneck 1776 David McCullough John Adams David McCullough
Undaunted Courage Steven Ambrose The Louisiana Purchase Thomas Fleming Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Roughing It Mark Twain Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Roots Alex Haley Battle Cry of Freedom James McPherson The Autobio of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Chancellorsville. Stephen Sears. A Century of Dishonor. Helen Jackson
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. David M Potter Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown Frontier Thesis: The Frontier in American History. Frederick Jackson Turner A Short History of Reconstruction Eric Foner
How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton History of Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell The Jungle Upton Sinclair Twenty Years at Hull House Jane Addams
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington The Souls of Black Folk DuBois, W.E.B.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Color Purple Alice Walker The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Freedom From Fear: The U.S., 1929-1943. David M. Kennedy.
Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Houston Citizen Soldiers Steven Ambrose or any other WWII Ambrose Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy The Warmth of Other Suns: The Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Roots Alex Haley The Fifties David Halberstam
The Feminine Mystique Betty Freidan The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley and Malcolm X The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thirteen Days Robert Kennedy Fallen Angels Walter Dean Meyers The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam. Frances Fitzgerald Dog Soldiers Robert Stone The Pentagon Papers (Abridged) George C. Herring Nixon Stephen Ambrose All the President’s Men Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein