Lonely Books in American History

Continuing with the "Lonely Books" theme, I've compiled a list of books in American History that have been in our collection for a while but have never circulated.  All of these books were reviewed in Choice and rated "highly recommended" or "essential."

You can click on the call number to see a full descriptionn of each book, its location, and whether the book is currently on the shelf.

A Black congressman in the age of Jim Crow : South Carolina's George Washington Murray	E664.M96 M37 2006
A companion to 20th-century America	E178.6 .C65 2004
A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca	E125.N9 R47 2007
A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign	E330 .L37 2007
A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution	E836 .N53 2007
African American life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900	E185.93.S7 M43 2006
Age of betrayal : the triumph of money in America, 1865-1900	E661 .B37 2008
Alexis de Tocqueville and American intellectuals : from his times to ours	E169.1 .M247 2006
Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence	E230 .F47 2007
Americanism : new perspectives on the history of an ideal	E169.1 .A52 2006
Andrew Jackson	E382 .W74 2005
Benjamin Franklin unmasked : on the unity of his moral, religious, and political thought	E302.6.F8 W545 2005
Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America	E450 .B735 2005
But one race : the life of Robert Purvis	E449.P983 B33 2007
Crazy Horse : a Lakota life	E99.O3 C72163 2006
Dean Acheson : a life in the Cold War	E748.A15 B45 2006
Diehard rebels : the Confederate culture of invincibility	E607 .P48 2007
Documents of the Coronado expedition, 1539-1542 : "they were not familiar with His Majesty, nor did they wish to be his subjects"	E125.V3 D66 2005
Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America	E445.A3 D56 2007
FDR and the Spanish Civil War : neutrality and commitment in the struggle that divided America	E183.8.S7 T54 2007
Five days in Philadelphia	E811 .P47 2005
Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction	E668 .F655 2005
Freedom is a constant struggle : the Mississippi civil rights movement and its legacy	E185.93.M6 A85 2004
Freedom on my mind : the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience	E184.6 .F74 2003
Generation on fire : voices of protest from the 1960s : an oral history	E840.6 .K57 2007
Henry Adams and the making of America	E302.1 .A2538 2005
Historic Indian towns in Alabama, 1540-1838	E78.A28 W75 2003
How Bush rules : chronicles of a radical regime	E903.3 .B55 2006
Imperial America : reflections on the United States of amnesia	E839.5 .V535 2004
In the presence of mine enemies : war in the heart of America, 1859-1863	E468 .A98 2003
Inuit women : their powerful spirit in a century of change	E99.E7 B55 2007
Jews in American politics : essays	E184.36.P64 J49 2004
Jim Crow New York : a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877	E185.93.N56 J56 2003
Journals, 1952-2000 / Arthur M. Schlesigner, Jr.	E175.5.S38 A3 2007
Liberty tree : ordinary people and the American Revolution	E209 .Y68 2006
Lincoln the lawyer	E457.2 .D575 2007
Listening to our ancestors : the art of native life along the north pacific coast	E78.N78 L58 2005
Making the Irish American : history and heritage of the Irish in the United States	E184.I6 M23 2006
Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader	E185.97.D33 A3 2003
Mestizaje : critical uses of race in Chicano culture	E184.M5 P425 2006
Neither enemies nor friends : Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos	E29.A1 N45 2005
One vast winter count : the Native American West before Lewis and Clark	E78.W5 C35 2003
Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands	E78.T4 B37 2007
Plain folk's fight : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia	E559 .W48 2005
Private lives/public consequences : personality and politics in modern America	E743 .C425 2005
Puerto Ricans in the United States : a contemporary portrait	E184.P85 A23 2006
Race in the American South : from slavery to civil rights	E185.92 .B76 2007
Roots too : White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America	E184.A1 J23 2006
Running alone : presidential leadership--JFK to Bush II : why it has failed and how we can fix it	E176.1 .B9345 2006
Running on race : racial politics in presidential campaigns, 1960-2000	E839.5 .M39 2002
Scripting the Black masculine body : identity, discourse, and racial politics in popular media	E185.86 .J334 2006
Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America	E184.A1 R426 2007
Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy	E748.M143 W53 2006
Spectres of 1919 : class and nation in the making of the new Negro	E185.6 .F65 2003
The age of Lincoln	E415.7 .B87 2007
The American ascendancy : how the United States gained and wielded global dominance	E183.7 .H855 2007
The Columbia guide to Irish American history	E184.I6 M43 2005
The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy	E183.8.I7 M428 2007
The king's three faces : the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776	E195 .M33 2006
The life of Benjamin Franklin	E302.6.F8 L424 2006
The lost promise of civil rights	E185.61 .G64 2007
The Missouri Compromise and its aftermath : slavery & the meaning of America	E373 .F67 2007
The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln	E302.1 .W55 2005
The rise of Hispanic political power	E184.S75 D376 2003
The rule of racialization : class, identity, governance	E184.A1 M3135 2003
The scratch of a pen : 1763 and the transformation of North America	E46 .C35 2006
The segregated origins of social security : African Americans and the welfare state	E185.8 .P66 2006
Troubling the waters : Black-Jewish relations in the American century	E184.36.A34 G44 2006
W.E.B. Du Bois, American prophet	E185.97.D73 B58 2007
We who are dark : the philosophical foundations of Black solidarity	E185.615 .S475 2005
What they think of us : international perceptions of the United States since 9/11	E902 .W475 2007
When trumpets call : Theodore Roosevelt after the White House	E757 .O77 2005
White money/Black power : the surprising history of African American studies and the crisis of race in higher education	E184.7 .R66 2005
Women at the front : hospital workers in Civil War America	E621 .S35 2004
Woodrow Wilson's right hand : the life of Colonel Edward M. House	E748.H77 H63 2006

Doug Frazier

University Librarian