In addition to a bevy of articles and essays, students in my Spring 2019 courses will be reading these books.
Introduction to Historical Methods
Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, 4th ed. (Wiley Blackwell, 2015) ISBN 9781118745441
Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011) ISBN 9780691153001
Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 8th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2013) ISBN 9780226816388
American Presidency
Mark R. Cheathem, The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1421425986
Erika Falk, Women for President: Media Bias in Nine Campaigns, 2d. ed. (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0252076916
John Fea, Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump (Eerdmans, 2018) ISBN 978-0802876416
David Greenberg, Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (W.W. Norton, 2017) ISBN 978-0393353648
Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics 