History Research Guide

Books on History

• British North America in the 17th & 18th Centuries by Stephen Foster
  • Call Number: E45 .B75 2013 
• Why Walls Don't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide by M.J. Dear
  • Call Number: F787.D43 2013 
• Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, & Reagan by Henry R. Nau 
  • Call Number: E183.7 N378 2013
• Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations by Michael Jabara Carley
  • Call Number: D34.S65 C37 2014 
• The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, & Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin
  • Call Number: HT1121 .G73 2013
• War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson
  • Call Number: E591 .M44 2012
• James Madison & The Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard E. Labunski
  • Call Number: KF4749 .L32 2006
• Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South by Lacy K. Ford
  • Call Number: E446 .F67 2009
• The Rise & Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics & The Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt
  • Call Number: JK2331 .H63 1999
• Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James K. Polk by William Dusinberre
  • Call Number: E417 .D87 2003
• Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History & Memory by Kenneth S. Greenberg
  • Call Number: F232.S7 N46 2003
• Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin & Loren Schweninger
  • Call Number: E447 .F7 1999
• American Settler Colonialism: A History by Walter L. Hixson
  • Call Number: E179.5 .H59 2013
• Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
  • Call Number: HN79.A13 G54 2008
• West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late 19th & Early 20th Century Ghana by Sandra E. Greene
  • Call Number: HT1394.G48 G74 2011
• Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood by Steven Mintz
  • Call Number: HQ792.U5 M57 2004 
• Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics by John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr
  • Call Number: UB271.R9 H388 2006
• Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States by Timothy J. Henderson
  • Call Number: JV6895.M48 H46 2011 
• How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement & Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger
  • Call Number: E184.A1 R642 2008
• Fog of War: The Second World War & The Civil Rights Movement by Kevin Kruse & Stephen Tuck
  • Call Number: D744.7.U6 F64 2012 
• Living with Jim Crow: African American Women & Memories of the Segregated South by Anne Valk & Leslie Brown 
  • Call Number: E185.61 .V35 2010
• Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective by Richard M. Fried
  • Call Number: E743.5 .F67 1990
• American Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman
  • Call Number: E841 .I87 2000
• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
  • Call Number: HD8073.P38 D69 2009 
• The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
  • Call Number: E807 .P4
• Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle & the Hundred Days that Created Modern America by Adam Cohen
  • Call Number: E806 .C5925 2009
• France in the American Revolution by James Breck Perkins
  • Call Number: E265 .P44 1970
• Massacre at Cavett's Station: Frontier Tennessee During the Cherokee Wars by Charles H. Faulkner
  • Call Number: F444.K7 F37 2013
• Tennessee History: A Bibliography by Sam B. Smith
  • Call Number: Z1337 .S55
• The Overmountain Men: Early Tennessee History, 1760-1795 by Pat Alderman
  • Call Number: F436 .A37 1970
• Andrew Jackson & Early Tennessee History by Samuel Heiskell & John Sevier
  • Call Number: F436 .H472
• Tennessee: A History by Philip M. Hamer
  • Call Number: F436 .H23
• Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights by Robert Hamburger
  • Call Number: F443.F3 H35
• To the Battles of Franklin & Nashville & Beyond: Stabilization & Reconstruction in Tennessee & Kentucky by Franklin Cooling
  • Call Number: E470.5 .C83 2011
• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
  • Call Number: F444.O3 K54 2013b
• Parties, Politics, & The Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832 - 1861 by Jonathan M. Atkins
  • Call Number: F436 .A85 1997
• Tennessee: A Bicentennial History by Wilma Dykeman
  • Call Number: F436 .D983 1976
• The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion & Reconstruction, 1863-1890 by Nannie Haskins Williams & Minoa D. Uffelman
  • Call Number: F444.C6 W57 2014
• Let Us Fight As Free Men: Black Soldiers & Civil Rights by Christine Knauer
  • Call Number: E185.63 K58 2014
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass by Paul Finkelman
  • Call Number: E185 .E545 2006
• Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates
  • Call Number: E185 .G27 2011