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Currently doing a read through of the Oxford History of the United States series

Posted on 8/25/22 at 7:50 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68288 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 7:50 pm
I'm on the first volume of the series (The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff) and am enjoying the book so far. It'll eventually be volume three as two more books (American Origins and Colonial America) will be written and released sometime in the future.

The books that have been released in this series thus far are as follows:

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (1982)
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood (2008)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (2009)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson (1988)
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White (2017)
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (1999)
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson (1996)
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore by James T. Patterson (2005)
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 by George C. Herring (2008)

The next book in the series (Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 by Bruce Schulman) isn't due out for another couple of years so I figured I'd read the other books in the series in preparation for that one's publication. These are highly acclaimed non-fictional accounts that are considered the definitive one volume histories of their subjects. I could not recommend them more.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
150063 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 7:55 pm to
Oxford History of the United States >>> Starkville History of the United States
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
32501 posts
Posted on 8/29/22 at 5:48 am to
Interesting. How dry of a read are these?
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68288 posts
Posted on 9/1/22 at 3:13 pm to
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How dry of a read are these?


You’re asking the wrong guy, my friend. I get a boner for this shite. I’m currently about 465 pages through the first volume and consider it a page turner. It was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize the year of its release.
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