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11-22-2011 , 04:50 AM

Runningtilt

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 217

Recently been intrigued with US History. Looking for books
Mainly on 3 subjects.

Also mainly non-fiction books.

1. Revolutionary era/colonial

2. Civil war

3. Native
American

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11-24-2011 , 08:58 PM

NewTru

stranger

Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 12

2. Civil War

In order: Gods and Generals, Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure

You will be an expert in no time.

For Fun: The Starbuck Chronicles

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11-26-2011 , 08:27 PM

Tilt-N-Spew

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1,361

a people's history of the united states by howard zinn, ldo

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11-26-2011 , 10:46 PM

Morris King

banned

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 3,061

ugh, killer angels is such a piece of ****, don't bother

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11-26-2011 , 11:38 PM

Turn Prophet

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 11,558

In the revolutionary era, Gordon Wood is pretty standard fare (and Bernard Bailyn, if you want to go further back). Alan Taylor, a great historian I had the privilege of studying under, wrote a really comprehensive work on American hemisphere-wide colonies, and he recently came out with a new work on the War of 1812... I have not read it, but I've shameless pillaged his talk for material for my upcoming lecture.

Civil War is an animal all its own, but for Lincoln Presidency, everyone loves Dorris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, and if you read Reconstruction stuff, you absolutely have to read Eric Foner--for that time period, there is probably no better contemporary scholar.

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11-27-2011 , 03:11 AM

Runningtilt

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 217

Thanks for the replies everyone.... As for civil war I'm leaning towards more the war itself and the generals within the war. I here shelby foote as a
Good series but it's really long!

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12-02-2011 , 02:58 PM

tiltowhirl

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 607

I just read Unfinished Nation, thought it is brief but covers a great deal efficiently.

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