Series: Oxford History Of The United States
by Author Daniel Walker Howe
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (2007)
NOTE: This was a little more detail here than I wanted, but it was interesting enough to keep me going all the way through. Over the course of two months, I plodded through these six hundred pages with overall less enjoyment than I had hoped for, particularly during the order-of-battle sections, ...
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005)
My final stop on my march through the ages is James T. Patterson's Restless Giant. This volume has a very different feel from both Patterson's previous book Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States) and from the Oxford series in general. This book is m...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (2003)
I was at Gettysburg yesterday and decided to purchase a copy since I have only a grade-school knowledge of the war.In "Battle Cry of Freedom", the author does an excellent job portraying the views of all sides and tracing the American Civil War back to General Scott's victory over Mexico 25 years...
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (2008)
This edition to the Oxford American History series is different in that it focuses on a subject rather than a time period. Herring does a good job of showing the continuity in American foreign policy over the years, and underscoring where it has changed and how.This book is particularly good at p...