Suggested Titles for Further Reading

Lessons 1 & 2

• Theodore Roosevelt’s History of the United States, selected and arranged by Daniel Ruddy

Lesson 3

• A New World in View by Fred Young, Gary DeMar, and Jane Scott
• The Log of Christopher Columbus by Robert Fuson

Lesson 4

• A New World in View by Fred Young, Gary DeMar, and Jane Scott
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson (Selections from this hefty tome are great for multiple lessons.)

Lesson 5

• Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
• Punic Wars and Culture Wars: Christian Essays on History and Teaching by Ben House

Lesson 6

• Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were by Leland Ryken

Lesson 7

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Lesson 8

• The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, selected by Wilson Kimnach, Kenneth Minkema, and Douglas Sweeney

Lesson 9

• Samuel Adams by James Kendell Hosmer
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic by Jeffry Morrison
• Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Lesson 10

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Lessons 11 & 12

• Hero Tales from American History by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
• History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren
• The Boys of ’76: A History of the Battles of the American Revolution by Charles Carleton Coffin

Lesson 13

• Christianity and the Constitution by John Eidsmoe

Lesson 14

• George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson

Lesson 15

• The Adams-Jefferson Letters edited by Lester J. Cappon (An abridged version edited by Paul Wilstach is available used.)

Lesson 16

• The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt
• Democracy in America by Alexis DeTocqueville, abridged and edited by Richard D. Heffner

Lesson 17

• The Tennessee, Volume One, The Old River: Frontier to Secession by Donald Davidson

Lesson 18

• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

Lesson 19

• A Theological Interpretation of American History by Gregg Singer
• Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand: The Story of Frontier Religion by Ross Phares

Lesson 20

• The Causes of the Civil War, edited by Kenneth Stampp
• Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You, edited by Andrea Sutcliffe

Lesson 21

• Lincoln’s Battle With God by Stephen Mansfield

Lessons 22 & 23

• The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
• Christ in the Camp by J. William Jones
• Best Littler Stories From the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly with Ingrid Smyer
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Lesson 24

• The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren

Lesson 25

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The American West by Dee Brown
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

Lesson 26

• Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt by George Grant
• Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington by Stephen Mansfield
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington