IMPORTANT LITERARY WORKS WITH WHICH AP US HISTORY STUDENTS SHOULD BECOME FAMILIAR--while it would be great if you would read all of these, let's be practical and remember that this is why I will teach you about annotated bibliographies!!!!! look up some annotations on these so you know what they are about

 

Letters from an American Farmer (1770): Jean de Crevecoeur

Democracy in America (1840):  Alexis de Tocqueville

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1850): Harriet Beecher Stowe

Progress and Poverty (1879): Henry George

A Century of Dishonor (1881):  Helen Hunt Jackson

Looking Backward (1888):  Edward Bellamy

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890):  Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan

How the Other Half Lives (1890):  Jacob Riis

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892):  Frederick Douglass

Maggie, Girl of the Streets (1893):  Stephen Crane

The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)  Frederick Jackson Turner

The Octupus (1901)  Frank Norris

The Souls of Black Folk (1903):  W. E. B. Du Bois

The Jungle (1906):  Upton Sinclair

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913):  Charles A. Beard

The Grapes of Wrath (1939):  John Steinbeck

Native Son (1940) Richard Wright

An American Dilemma (1944):  Gunnar Myrdal

Baby and Child Care (1946): Dr. Benjamin Spock

The Lonely Crowd (1950): David Riesman

Invisible Man (1952):  Ralph Ellison

 The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1955) Sloan Wilson

On the Road (1957)  Jack Kerouac

The Affluent Society (1958) John Kenneth Galbraith

The Other America (1962)  Michael Harrington

Silent Spring (1962)  Rachel Carson

The Feminine Mystique (1963)  Betty Friedan