History Book Review Assignment Finding a Book You can search for a book on a topic, person, or time period in American History from the 1600s to 1865 (preCivil War). Some sample topics include: Salem Witch Trials, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, American Presidents, Slavery, Frontier Life, Immigration, Labor Disputes, Constitutional History, Puritans
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The following are books that are on MWSU’s approved readings list for your dual-credit history course. All of these books are available at either St. Joseph Public Library or MWSU Library. Books are arranged in chronologic order from the 1600s (colonial times) to the 1800s (beginning of Civil War). The end of the list also contains books on special topics like religion and women in history. Mrs. Corey will be at St. Joseph Public Library (Downtown Branch) on Tuesday, October 11th, from 4 - 6 PM and MWSU Library on Wednesday, October 12th from 4 - 6 PM to assist students in finding books!
Title
Author
In the devil's snare : the Salem Mary Beth Norton witchcraft crisis of 1692
1776
David McCullough
Availability (Click to search) St. Joseph Public Library East Hills, Downtown - 133.43 NOR MWSU Stacks Upstairs - BF1575 .N67 2003 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown, Carnegie, East Hills, Washington Park - 973.3 MCC MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E208 .M133 2005
John Adams
David McCullough
St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - B MCC MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E322 .M133 2001
The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment !
Henry Commager
St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - 973.2 COM MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E163.C734
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The marketplace of revolution : how consumer politics shaped American independence
The Declaration of Independence : a global history
Author
Availability (Click to search) St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.31 BRE
T.H. Breen MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E209.B832 2004 St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - 973.313 ARM David Armitage MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E221. A732 2007 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.2 BUT
Becoming America : the revolution before 1776
Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England
The battlefields of the Civil War : the bloody conflict of North against South told through the stories of its great battles : illustrated with collections of some of the rarest Civil War historical artifacts
Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Jon Butler
MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E188.B985 2000 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 974.02 CRO
William Cronon
MWSU Stacks Upstairs - GF504 .N45 C947 2003
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7 DAV William C. Davis MWSU Oversize Upstairs - E470 .D265 B3 1991
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.715 FAU Drew Faust
MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E628 .F267 1996
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Citizen Sherman : a life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Author
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - B SHERMAN FEL Michael Fellman
Inside war : the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during Michael Fellman the American Civil War
The South vs. the South : how anti-Confederate Southerners shaped the course of the Civil War
Shades of blue and gray : an introductory military history of the Civil War
Availability (Click to search)
MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E467.1 .S55 F319 1995 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7478 FEL MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E470.45 .F319 1989 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.71 FRE
William Frehling MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E487 .F853 2002 St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - 973.73 HAT Herman Hattaway MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E470 .H366 1997 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7083 MAR
The children's Civil War
James Marten MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E468.9 .M377 1998
For cause and comrades : why men fought in the Civil War
Lee considered : General Robert E. Lee and Civil War history
Lee's miserables : life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to ! Appomattox
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7 MCP James McPherson MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E492.3 .M172 1997 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.730924 NOL Alan Nolan
MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E467.1 .L4 N787 1991 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7455 POW
Tracy Power MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E470.2 .P887 1998
Title
Robert E. Lee : a biography
The British soldier in America : a social history of military life in the Revolutionary period
Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation
Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market
Celia, a slave
Author
Availability (Click to search) St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - B LEE THO
Emory Thomas MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E467.1 .L4 T455 1995 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.341 FRE Sylvia Frey MWSU Stacks Upstairs - U767 .F893 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 305.567 FRA John Hope Franklin MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E447 .F832 1999 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 976.335 JOH Walter Johnson MWSU Stacks Upstairs - F379 .N59 N4 1999
Melton Alonza McLaurin
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown, Carnegie, Washington Park - 305.567 MCL MWSU Stacks Upstairs - KF223 .C43 M161 1991
The ruling race : a history of American slaveholders
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 975 OAK James Oakes MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E441 .O11 1998
Vindicating the founders : race, sex, class, and justice Thomas West in the origins of America
The struggle for equality : abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction !
St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - 973.5 WES MWSU Stacks Upstais - E302.1 .W521 1997 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.7114 MCP
James McPherson MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E185.2 .M172
Title
Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West
Author
Ned Blackhawk
Availability (Click to search) St. Joseph Public Library East Hills - 970.00497 AME BLA MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E78 .G67 B628 2006
First generations : women Carol Berkin in colonial America
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 305.42 BER MWSU Stacks Upstairs - HQ1416 .B512 1996
Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War
White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South
Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier
Being good : women's moral values in early America
Drew Gilpin
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown, East Hills - 973.715 FAU MWSU Stacks Upstairs - E628 .F267 1996
Martha Hodes
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 306.7097 HOD MWSU Stacks Upstairs - HQ1075.5 .U6 H687 1997
Linda Peavey
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 973.8 PEA MWSU Stacks Upstairs - F596 .P363 1994
Martha Saxton
Joseph Smith and the Richard Bushman beginnings of Mormonism
St. Joseph Public Library Downtown - 170.82 SAX MWSU Stacks Upstairs - BJ1610 .S273 2003 St. Joseph Public Library Downtown, Washington Park - 289.309 BUS MWSU Stacks Upstairs - BX8695 .S6 B978
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