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Freshman level  
African American History from 1865
AMST 1595 (fa26)		 • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction & Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 by Manning Marable
U.S. History through Literature
AMST 1770 (fa26)		 • Quicksand by Nella Larsen
✔️ Hiroshima by John Hersey
✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
• Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
• The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
American History from 1500 to 1800
AMST 1985 (fa26)		 • American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
Sophomore level  
Controversies About Inequality
AMST 2225 (fa26)		 • The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich by Cristobal Young
• How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
• The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America by Oren Cass
• Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity by Joseph Fishkin
• Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America by Cornwell et al.
From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps
AMST 2391 (fa26)		 • Mapping the Nation: History & Cartography in 19th-Century America by Susan Schulten
• How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
The American Revolutionary Era
AMST 2665 (fa26)		 • American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor
American Political Thought
AMST 2669 (fa26)		 • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Federalist by Hamilton et al.
• American Political Thought by Kramnick & Lowi
• Lincoln: Political Writings & Speeches

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