Grant Library

Allida M. Black, Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (Columbia University Press, 1996).

Allida M. Black, Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elain M. Smith, eds., Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World; Essays and Selected Documents (Indiana University Press, 1999).

Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars (Monthly Review Press, 1985).

Hmoob Neej, Hmong Lives: From Laos to La Crosse (The Pump House, 1994).

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (HarperPerennial, 1980).

Joan Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.

Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor, Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle.

Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist.

Peter Nabokov, Native American Testimony (Revised edition) (Penguin Books, 1999).

Rex M. Ellis, With A Banjo On My Knee: A Musical Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Watts, 2001).

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of American Technology (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.

Theresa M. Collines and Lisa Gitelman, eds., Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002).

Joy Hakim, A History of US: All The People, 1945-2001 (Oxford University Press, 2003).*

Dennis Denenberg and Loraine Roscoe, 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet.*

Russell Freedman, Immigrant Kids (Scholastic, Inc., 1980).*

*Courtesy of National Council for History Education

Cross River History Consortium 2003-2004 Book List

Alan Taylor, American Colonies (Viking Adult, 2001).

Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. (Harvard University Press, 2001).

Elizabeth Jameson, The Women’s West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).

Elspeth Leacock, Places in Time (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003).

Jarred Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel (Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1999).

Jim Murphy, Blizzard! (Scholastic Press, 2000). *

Jim Murphy, The Great Fire. (Scholastic Inc., 1995). *

Joy Hakim, The New Nation: 1789-1850. (Oxford University Press, 1993). *

Marjorie L. McLellan, Six Generations Here (Wisconsin Historical Society, 1997).

Richard White, Middle Ground (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis (W. W. & Company, Inc., 1992).

*Courtesy of National Council for History Education

Cross River History Consortium 2004-2005 Book List

Bobbie Malone; Jon Kasparek; & Erica Shock. Wisconsin History Highlights

(University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).

Dave Kenney, Hillary Wackman, and Nancy O'Brien. Northern Lights: The Stories of

Minnesota's Past (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2003).

Emily S. Rosenberg. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American History

(Duke University Press, 2003).

Emily S. Rosenberg. Spreading the American Dream (Lawrence Hills Books, 1982).

Jonathan Rees and Jonathan Z.S. Pollack. The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on

Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture (Davidson, Harlan

Incorporated, 2004).

Linda K. Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart. Women's America: Refocusing the Past,

6th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Nelson Lichtenstein. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton

University Press, 2002).

Thomas Peacock. Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions (Afton Historical

Society Press; 1st edition, 2001).

Walter Russel Mead and Richard C. Leone. Special Providence: American Foreign Policy

and How It Changed the World (Routledge, 2002).