A Short History of the United States

Reading List

ch a p t er 1: Discovery and Settlement of the New World

Brian M. Fagan, The Great Journey: The People of Ancient America
( 1987 ).
William D. Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus ( 1992 ).
David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America ( 1992 ).
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Europe an Discovery of America ( 1971 , 1975 ).
William T. Hagen, American Indians ( 1961 ).
Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America ( 1986 ).
W. J. Eccles, France in America ( 1972 ).
John E. Pomfret and Floyd M. Shumway, Founding the American Colo-
nies, 1583–1660 ( 1970 ).
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of
Colonial Virginia ( 1975 ).
Colin Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europe ans, and the Remak-
ing of Early America ( 1997 ).
Michael Kammen, Empire and Interest: The American Colonies and the
Politics of Mercantilism ( 1970 ).
Winthrop Jordan, White over Black ( 1968 ).
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in
North America ( 1999 ).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of
Women in Northern New England, 1650–1750 ( 1982 ).