Among
the best ways to gain a
more complete understanding, deeper appreciation, and find
more enjoyment in history is to read accredited books and
to watch good documentaries. The following list of books and movies
are recommended by our Social Studies Department.
Books
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
Bury
My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Mike
Force by L.H. Bucky Burrus
Killing
Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
Killing
Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly
Twenty
Years at Hull House by Jane Adams
Looking
Backward by Edward Bellamy
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
We
Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore
No Easy Day, by Mark Owen
The Last Lion, by William Manchester and Paul Ried
The Outpost, by Jake Trapper
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
No Easy Day, by Mark Owen
The Last Lion, by William Manchester and Paul Ried
The Outpost, by Jake Trapper
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
Twenty
Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
Looking
Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
Giants
in the Earth by Ole Rolvaag
Plunkitt
of Tammany Hall by William L. Riordon
The
Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Up
From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The
Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
John
Adams by David McCullough
Truman
by David McCullough
1776
by David McCullough
Mother
Jones by Elliot Gorn
The
Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The
First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
The
First World War by John Keegan
Hear
That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Dee Brown
The
Battle for Stalingrad: Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
My
American Dream by Colin Powell
Undaunted
Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Band
of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
D-Day
by Stephen Ambrose
Americans
at War by Stephen Ambrose
Nothing
like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by
Stephen Ambrose
The
Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose
Citizen
Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
Theodore
Rex by Edmund Morris
The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
When
Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House by Patricia O’Toole
War
Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Caroll
The
Firs American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
Empire
Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Brain
Titan:
The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
Founding
Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
American
Sphinx: the Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
Thirteen
Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert Kennedy
The
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Gods
and Generals by Jeff Shaara
The
Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara
To
the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
We
were Soldiers Once... and Young: la Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in
Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
The
Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Mission by
Robert Vincent Remini
Ghost
Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Victory by
Hampton Sides
First
Mothers: The Women who shaped the Presidents by Bonnie Angelo
America’s
Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
The
Bonus Army by Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen
The
Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
Flag
of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Flyboys
by James Bradley
Report
from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith
102
Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim
Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Team
of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
No
Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The
Fitzgerald’s and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lyndon
Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
All
the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Restless
Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore by James T. Patterson
The
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candiice Millard
Mayflower
by Nathaniel Philbrick
The
Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by
Nathaniel Philbrick
A
Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – the Last Great Battle of the
American West by James Donovan
The
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles Mann
The
Last Champaign: Robert Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America by Thurston
Clarke
American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
1960:
LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon by David Pietrusza
A
Country of Vast Designs: James Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the
American Continent by Robert W. Merry
The
Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
Tears
in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
On
Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery by Robert M. Poole
Theodore
Roosevelt’s History of the United States by Daniel Ruddy
Wounded
Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox
Richardson
A
Vast and Fiendish Plot, by Clint Johnson
Movies
and Documentaries:
From
a historical perspective documentaries almost always tend to be more fact based
then Hollywood movies While Hollywood is keen on adapting
great stories the emphasis is usually on
entertainment value over historical fact. It is important to keep that
in mind when watching any movie. While most Americans
sum up History with one word, "boring" they flock in droves to watch
movies about historical events It is the story in
his-"story", that calls to us. It is also much more
enjoyable to watch a movie when you have a solid understanding of the
events upon which it is based. One more reason to study
history.
Invictus
Miracle
Behind
Enemy Lines
United
93
Munich
The
Killing Fields
Valkyrie
Flags
of our Fathers
Born
on the Fourth of July
Platoon
Hamburger
Hill
The
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
J.
Edgar
Enemy
at the Gates
The
Conspirator
Titanic
Tombstone
Amistad
Glory
Gettysburg
Dances
with Wolves
Troy
The
Odyssey
Spartacus
Hotel
Rwanda
Blackhawk
Down
Saving
Private Ryan
Schindler's
List
Wind
Talkers
Flyboys
Braveheart
Mississipi
Burning
Ghosts
of Mississippi
The
Patriot
Forest
Gump
We
Were Soldiers
Ken
Burns' Civil War
Ken
Burns' The West
Ken
Burns' When it Was a Game
Thirteen
Days
The
Kennedy's
JFK
Frost/Nixon
Pearl
Harbor
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