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For U.S. History students I offer two opportunities for obtaining extra credit. Students may either read a book related to American History, nonfiction or fiction, or watch a movie related to American History. For both, students must write a review of the book or movie.

Movie Review Format Sheet may be found in the Study Skills section of this website.

Movie
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
1492 Conquest of Paradise
1776
A Thin Red Line
All the King's Men
Amistad
Amistad
Band of Brothers
Barbary Coast
Birth of a Nation
Buffalo Soldiers
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Citizen Kane
Cold Mountain
Dances with Wolves
Eight Men Out
Enemy at the Gates
Fort Apache
Gangs of New York
Geronimo
Gettysburg
Glory
Gods and Generals
Gone With the Wind
Gone With The Wind by Sidney Howard
How the West was Won
Iron Jawed Angels
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
Jim Thorpe
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Last Of The Mohicans
Little Big Man
Little Women
Matewan
Midway
Moby Dick
Molly McGuires
Mornings on
Newsies
Norma Rae
North and South
Pearl Harbor
Pocahontas
Quantrill's Raiders by Edward Bernds
Radicalsim of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood
Red Badge of Courage
Ride with the Devil
Roots
Rough Riders
Seven Angry Men by Charles Marquis Warren
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
The Alamo
The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892 by Paul Krause
The Bridge at Remagen
The Bucaneer
The Crossing
The Crucible
The Day After
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 by David Montgomery
The Grapes of Wrath
The Longest Day
The Mayflower: Desperate Crossing
The Miracle Worker
The Mission
The New World
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Patriot
The Scarlet Letter
The Untouchables
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred Chandler
They Died With Their Boots On
This is America, Charlie Brown
Titanic
To Hell and Back
Tombstone
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Young Guns

Book
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
1776 by David McCullough
A Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler		Average
A Rumor of War by Phil Caputo
A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Air Force One: The History of the President and their Planes by Kenneth T. Walsh
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
All The Presidents Men by Woodward & Bernstein
America Afire by Bernard Weisberger
American Sphinx: Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
An Unfinished Life, J.F.K. by Robert Dallek
Andrew Jackson by H.W. Brands
April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends by Dwight D.Eisenhower
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Morgan
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Dreams Die Hard by David Harris
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Everything We Had by Al Santoli
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Fiasco: the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
Fire in the Lake
First Ladies: the saga of the presidents' wives and their power by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
First Off the Tee by Don von Atta
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Freedom from Fear by David Kennedy
Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Boritt
Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
Gone for the Soldiers by Jeff Shaara
Hiroshima by John Hersey
His Excellency by Joseph Ellis
Home before Morning by Lynda van Devanter
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Ely
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas Friedman
Madam Secretary by Madeline Albright
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
Negro President by Garry Wills
New York Burning by Jill Lepore
Nixon and Mao by Margaret MacMillan
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Ordinary Time by Doris Goodwin Kearns
Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen Ambrose
Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove
Our Endangered Values Americas Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
Power Faith and Fantasy America in the Middle East by Michael Oren
Reaping the Whirlwind by Robert Norrell
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling From Cedars by David Guterson
Team of Rivals The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Thanks For The Memories Mr President by Helen Thomas
The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger Jr
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley
The Birth of The Republic by Edmund Morgan
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
The Conquerors by Michael Beschloss
The Deadly Bet by Walter Lafeber		Average
The Fifties by David McCullough		Challenging
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Last Campaign by Zachary Karabell
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson		Average
The Name of War: King Philips War by Jill Lepore
The Scratch Of A Pen by Colin Calloway
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien		Average
The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos
They Marched into Sunlight		Challenging
Truman by David McCullough		Challenging
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals		Easy Reading
We Are Still Here by Peter Inverson		Challenging

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