Cathedral Books History Corner
Our staff can recommend books on American history from colonial to modern times. Our history consultant is history professor emeritus at Northern Virginia Community College and has taught all of American history, including specialized courses in the Reolutionary period, the Civil War era, American history in literature, the Vietnam War, World Wars I and II and American history in film.
Some of his favorite titles are listed below.
Email us for further suggestions and we will reply soon. If you like will order your books and ship them to you.
- Gordon Wood: The Radicalism of the American Revolution;
- James McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom;
- Joseph Ellis: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson;
- H.W. Brands: TR: The Last Romantic;
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt & the Home Front in World War II;
- Stanley Karnow: Vietnam: A History
- James Thomas Flexner: Washington: The Indispensable Man;
- William Manchester: The Glory and the Dream
- Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton
- David Herbert Donald: Lincoln
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