Mr. A's APUSH Extra Credit Reading Offer!!!

"Year Long Offer...Take Advantage Now."

Select a Book from Mr. A's reading list or choose your own. If choosing your own, check out with Mr.A.. Let's keep the books to non-fiction or historical fiction topics on American History. You may do as many book assignments as you wish as long as they are a supplement for solid work and effort in class... in other words you must keep up with your work and effort in class in order to be eligible for supplemental extra credit!! That makes sense.

Requirements for extra credit:

  1. You must demonstrate completion of reading by completing a "gist sheet" thoroughly.
  2. In a two paged typed or word processed paper you may give a " character analysis" or "critique".
    • Character Analysis must include a background of the character, positive or negative contributions to American History and how these contributions are felt today.
    • Critique the book on easiness of the read, thoroughness of the historical research, and emotional impact, etc. It is wide open here...demonstrate your understanding of the significance of the person, place, or thing in the larger context of American History.

* The intent of the extra credit is to give yourself the outside information and knowledge so encouraged on the AP Exam. Take responsibility for your own success and also understand that there are some good books out there , other than Harry Potter! Good Luck! Go Nutso!

Book List

  • Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin
  • Rabble in Arms, Kenneth Roberts
  • George Washington, Joseph Ellis
  • Alexander Hamilton, Chertow
  • John Adams, David McCulloch
  • 1776, David McCulloch
  • The American Revolution, John Richard Alden
  • Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
  • Trail of Tears, John Ehle
  • Andrew Jackson, Ward
  • American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald Walters
  • So Far from God, John Eisenhower
  • Army of Manifest Destiny,
  • Autobiography of Frederick Douglas, Douglas
  • Soujourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman, McKissack
  • The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
  • Gods and Generals, Jeff Shaara
  • Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara
  • Battle Cry of Freedom, Macpherson
  • The Civil War, Bruce Catton
  • Grant Takes Command, Bruce Catton
  • From fields of fire and Glory, Gragg
  • Jeb Stuart: Last Cavalier, Burke Davis
  • The Gray Fox, Burke Davis
  • Lincoln and his Generals, T. Harry Williams
  • Words That Remade America, Garry Wills
  • The Wars of North America, John Keegan
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
  • The Gilded Age, Mark Twain
  • How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
  • Up from Slavery, Booker L Washington
  • Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
  • The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
  • To the Last Man, Jeff Shaara
  • Franklin and Winston, Meacham
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • At Dawn We Slept, Gordon Prange
  • The World at War, Mark Arnold Forster
  • The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan
  • Total War, Calvocarresi and Wint
  • Flags of Our Fathers, Bradley
  • American Caeser, William Manchester
  • Hiroshima, John Hershey
  • The Post-War Epoch, Yarnell
  • The Intellectuals and McCarthy, Rogin
  • The Korean War, Max Hastings
  • Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, Persico
  • Report of the Warren Commission
  • Lyndon: Oral History, Merle Miller
  • The Fifties, David Halberstam
  • Truman, David McCulloch
  • We Were Soldiers Once and Young, Moore and Galloway
  • Doc: Platoon Medic, Daniel Evans
  • The Ravens, Robbins
  • The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
  • Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
  • Silent Spring, Rachel Carson