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WAR TERRIBLE WAR
A HISTORY OF US v. 6
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Primary Text:
A History of US
volume 5: Liberty for All? 1820-1860 revised third edition by Joy Hakim
Necessary Additional Texts:
A Young People's History of the United States
volume 1 by Howard Zinn
Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks didn't tell you about America's Westward Expansion
by Steve Sheinkin
Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War
by Steve Sheinkin
Optional Additional Reading
Picture Books
O'Brien -
Duel of the Ironclads: The Monitor vs. the Virginia
Picture Books
- Biography/Autobiography
(listed by person)
Edmonds, Sarah -
Nurse, Soldier Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
by Marissa Moss
Smalls, Robert -
Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Fiction/Historical Fiction
Alcott, Louisa M.
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Little Women
Avi -
Hard Gold:
The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859
Iron Thunder: The Battle between the Monitor and the Merimac
Brink, Carol Ryrie -
Caddie Woodlawn
Cannon, A.E. -
Charlotte's Rose
Cavanna, Betty -
Runaway Voyage
Crane, Stephen
- The Red Badge of Courage
Fox, Paula -
The Slave Dancer
Giff, Patricia Reilly -
Maggie's Door; Water Street
Hudson, Jan -
Sweetgrass
Hunt, Irene
- Across Five Aprils
Patterson, Katherine -
Jip: His Story; Lyddie
Preus, Margi -
Heart of a Samurai
Robinet, Harriette Gillem -
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Schotter, Roni -
F is for Freedom
Smucker, Barbara -
Runaway to Freedom
Wyss, Thelma Hatch - Bear Dancer: The Story of a Ute Girl
Biography/Autobiography
(listed by person)
Blackwell, Elizabeth -
The First Woman Doctor
by Rachel Baker
Brown, Aunt Clara -
One More Valley, One More Hill
by Linda Lowery
Darwin, Chalres -
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
by Deborah Heiligman
Lincon,
Abraham & Douglas, Frederick - Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglas: The Story Behind an American Friendship
by Russell Freedman
Stowe, Harriet Beecher -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers
by Jean Fritz
Tubman, Harriet -
Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad
by Ann Petry
Waheena -
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
by Gilbert L. Wilson
Non-fiction
Laing, Alexander -
The American Heritage History of Seafaring
America
Lester, Julius -
To Be a Slave
Marcy, Randolph B. Capt. U.S. Army
The Prairie Traveler, Best Selling Handbook for America's Pioneers
Optional Additional Materials & Resources