The following list represents suggested readings in support of the various courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels in this discipline. Books as well as periodicals are identified and provide a general overview of the topics in this subject area. The list is not meant to be comprehensive nor are all the items available either in-print or in one specific library or collection. The list, however, is meant to be a starting point for research and further information.

----- . Glory Road . NY: Doubleday, 1952.

----. From Napoleon to Stalin and other Essays . London , 1980.

----. Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945 . London : Fontana Paperbacks, 1983.

----. Weimer: A Cultural History, 1918-1933 . London , 1974.

________. Reconstruction: America 's Unfinished Revolution . New York : Harper & Row, 1989

_______________. Blacks in America 's wars; the shift in attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam . New York , Monad Press; distributed by Pathfinder Press, 1973

___________________. New Day in Babylon . The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Abendroth, Wolfgang. A Short History of the European Working Class . New York : Monthly Review Press, 1972.

Albrecht-Carrie, Rene. Europe After 1815 . Totowa , NJ : Littlefield, Adams and Company, 1968.

Allen, Frederick L. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties . 1931.

Andreano, Ralph, ed. The Economic Impact of the Civil War . 1961.

Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth. Battleground Berlin , Diaries 1945-1948 . NY: Paragon House Publisher, 1990.

Andrew, Christopher and Kanya-Forstner, A.S. France Overseas: The Great War and the Climax of French Imperial Expansion . London , 1981.

Andrews, William and Stanley Hoffman. The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France . Albany , NY : State University of New York Press, 1981.

Angela Davis. Women, Race, and Class . New York : Random House, 1983

Ausubal, Herman, ed. The Making of Modern Europe . Book II: Waterloo to the Atomic Age . New York : The Dryden Press, 1951.

Ayres, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction . 1992.

Baker, Christopher et al., eds. Power, Profit and Politics: Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India . Cambridge , 1981.

Banov, Boris. The Ulster Tragedy . Moscow : Novosti Agency Publishing House, 1973.

Barnard, F.M. Herder's Social and Political Thought . Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1965.

Bar-On, Dan. Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich . Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1989.

Basil Davidson. African Civilization Revisited . Trenton , NJ : Africa World Press, 1990

Belik, Paul and Laurence Lafore. Modern Europe . New York : Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1959.

Beringer, Richard E., Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones and William N.Still. Why the South Lost the Civil War . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1986.

Bernstein, Barton. Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration . 1970.

Bert J. Thomas (ed.) The struggle for liberation: From DuBois to Nyere . Brooklyn , NY : T. Gaus, 1982

Bessel, Richard, ed. Life in the Third Reich . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Biles, Roger. A New Deal for the America People . 1985.

Blumenthal, Sinney. The Rise of the Counter-Establishment . 1986.

Boritt, Gabor. Why the Confederacy Lost . NY: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus . NY: George Braziller, 1986.

Brenda L. Moore. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race. The Story of the Only African American WACs stationed overseas during World War II. New York and London : New York University Press, 1996

Brown, J.F. The New Eastern Europe . New York : Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1966.

Brown, J.N. The New Eastern Europe . New York : Harper and Row Publishers, 1966.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny . NY: Perennial Library, 1962.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives . NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Carr, E.H. The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 . 2 vols. London , 1952.

Catton, Bruce. A Stillness at Appomattox . NY: Doubleday, 1953.

Chambers, John W. The Tyranny of Change: Americans in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 . 1992

Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler. All that we can be. Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army way . New York : BasicBooks, 1996

Cipolla, Carlos M. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 . New York : Norton, 1994.

Clark, Martin. Modern Italy , 1871-1982 . London : Longman, 1984.

Clough, Shepard B. et al. The European Past . Volume II: Reappraisals in History Since Waterloo . New York : The Macmillan Company, 1964.

Collier, Richard. Duce!: A Biography of Bernito Mussolini . NY: Viking Press, 1971.

Commanger, Henry Steele, ed. The Blue and the Gray . Volumes 1,2. NY: Meridian , 1950.

Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the 1930s . Revised ed. 1990.

Craig, Gordon A. Europe Since 1915 . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

Craig, Gordon A. and Felix Gilbert. The Diplomats, 1919-1939 . Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press, 1994.

Craven, Avery. The Coming of the Civil War . IL: Chicago University Press, 1942.

Crook, David P. The North, the South and the Powers, 1861-65 . 1974.

Deighton, Len. Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family . NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Denny, Robert E. Civil War Medicine . NY: Sterling , 1995.

Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. 1967 .

Dilks, David, ed. Retreat from Power . London , 1981.

Draggnich, Alex and Jorgen Rasmussen. Major European Governments . Homewood , IL : The Dorsey Press, 1982.

Draper, Alfred. Amritsar : The Massacre that Ended the Raj . London , 1981.

Durant, William. The Story of Civilization . Simon and Schuster, 1935.

Edward Roland Leader. Understanding Malcolm X: The controversial changes in his political philosophy . New York : Vantage Press, 1993

Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age . NY: Anchor Books, 1989.

Eric Foner. Nothing but Freedom. Emancipation and its Legacy. Baton Rouge , LA : Louisiana State University Press, 1982

Erorng, Robert. Europe Since Waterloo . Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, 1952.

Eugene Genovese. Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made . New York : Vintage, 1976

Fairbank, John. East Asia : Tradition and Transformation . Houghton-Mifflin, 1973.

Fell, Joseph. Heidegger and Sartre . NY: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Ferguson , Wallace K. and Geoffrey Brunn. A Survey of European Civilization . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.

Fest, Joachim C. Hitler , translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. NY: Vintage Books, 1975.

Fest, Joachim C. The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership . NY: Pantheon Books, 1970.

Fieldhouse, Ronald. Colonialism 1870-1945: An Introduction . London , 1981.

Foote, Shelby . The Civil War: A Narrative . Volumes 1-3. NY: Random House.

Frank N. Schubert. Black valor: buffalo soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 . Wilmington , DE : Scholarly Resources, 1997.

Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction: After the Civil War . 1961.

Fraser, David. Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel . NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993.

Fred Powledge. Black power, white resistance; notes on the new civil war. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1967

Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command . NY: Touchstone, 1942.

Gaddis, John L. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War . 1972.

George Breitman . Malcolm X Speaks . New York : Grover Press, 1990.

Gerald Horne. Black and Red: W.E. B. DuBois and the Afro-American response to the Cold War, 1944-1946 . New York : State University of New York Press, 1986

Gerda Lerner. Black Women in White America . New York : Vintage, 1992

Gilbert, Felix. The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present . 2nd ed. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1979.

Gilbert, Martin. The European Powers 1900-1945 . New York : A Plume Book from New American Library, 1965.

Gilbert, Martin. Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe . London , 1979.

Gould, Stephen J. Ever Since Darwin . NY: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Grant, A.J. and Harold Tempereley. Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1789-1950 . New York : Longmans Green and Company, 1952.

Grant, Michael. The Founder of the Modern World: A History of Greece and Rome . New York : Scribners and Sons, 1991.

Gregor, A. James. Interpretations of Fascism . [S.1] Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Grey, Ian. Stalin: Man of History . London , 1979.

Griffith, William E. Communism in Europe . Two Volumes. Cambridge : The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1967.

Grunfeld, Frederich V. Prophets Without Honor: A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and their World . New York , 1979.

Hall, Walter P. and William S. Davis. The Course of Europe Since Waterloo . New York : Appleton-century-crafts, Inc., 1957.

Hastings, Max. The Korean War . 1987.

Hayes, Carlton and Charles Cole. History of Europe Since 1500 . New York : The Macmillan Company, 1956.

Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom. An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980.

Hoffman, Charles. The Depression of the Nineties: An Economic History. 1970.

Hoffman, George. The Balkans in Transition . New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963.

Jackson, Gabriel, ed. The Spanish Civil War . Chicago : Qaudranle Books, 1972.

Jacqueline Jones. The dispossessed: America 's underclasses from the Civil War to the present. New York : Basic Books, 1992.

James H. Cone. Martin & Malcolm & America: A dream or a nightmare ? Maryknoll , NY , Orbis Books, 1991

Jdckel, Eberhard. Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power . Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1972.

Jeffrey C. Stewart. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History .New York: Doubleday, 1996

Jelavich, Charles and Barbara Jelavich. The Balkans . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965.

John Higham. (Ed.) Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. University Park , Pa : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

John Hope Franklin. From Slavery to Freedom . New York : Knopf, 2000.

Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties . NY: Harper & Row, 1983.

Jones F. Davis. Who is Black? One Nation's Definition . University Park , PA : Pennsylvania University Press, 2001

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List . NY: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Kennedy, Emmet. A Cultural History of the French Revolution . Yale University Press, 1989.

Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and the Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 . NY: Vintage Books, 1987.

Kenneth L Kusmer. (Ed.) Black communities and urban development in America, 1720-1990. New York : Garland Pub., 1991.

Kersaudy, Francois. Churchill and De Gaulle . London , 1981.

Kershaw, Ian. Adolf Hitler . NY: Longman, 1991.

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris . NY: W.W.Norton, 1999.

Kershaw, Ian. The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kingsbury, Robert C. and Norman Pounds. An Atlas of European Affairs . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1964.

Knappe, Siegfried and Ted Brusaw. Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 . NY: Orion Books, 1992.

Lacouture, Hean. DeGaulle . New York : Norton, 1990.

Laqueur, Walter. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations . NY: Scribner's, 1990.

Lebra, Joyce. Japan 's Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War Two . London , 1975.

Lee, Bruce . Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II . NY: Craown Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Leekley, John, ed. Bruce Catton: Reflections on the Civil War . NY: Doubleday, 1981.

Lerone Bennett, Jr. Before the Mayflower. New York : Penguin Books, 1993

Leuchtenberg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal . 1983.

Lichtheim, George. Origins of Socialism . London : Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1969.

Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy . Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 1996.

McNeill, William. The Rise of the West . University of Chicago Press, 1963.

McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom . NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Michael Eric Dyson. Making Malcolm. The Myth and the Meaning of Malcolm X. Oxford and New York : Oxford university Press, 1995

Michael L. Levine. African Americans and civil rights: from 1619 to the present . Phoenix , Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1996.

Mitchell, Allan. The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation . 3 rd ed. MA: D.C.Heath & Co., 1990.

Mitchell, Joseph B. Decisive Battles of the Civil War . NY: Fawcett Premier, 1955.

Mohn, Raymond. The New City : Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920 . 1985.

Molefi Kete Asante and Abdulai Vandi (eds.). Contemporary Black thought: Alternative Analyses IN Social and Behavioral Science . Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1980

Munholland, J. Kim. Origins of Contemporary Europe , 1890-1914 . NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1970.

Nathan Irvin Huggins. Harlem Renaissance. New York : Oxford University Press, 1971

Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union . Volumes 1-4. NY: Collier Books.

Nolte, Ernst. Three Faces of Fascism . NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.

Parrillo, Vincent N. Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, 6th edition, Allyn & Bacon, Inc., 1999

Pennuman, Howard, ed. Britain at the Polls, 1979 . Washington , D.C. : American Enterprise Institute, 1981.

Petrova, Ada and Peter Watson. The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives . NY: W.W. Norton, 1995.

Peukert, Detlev J.K. Inside Nazi Germany : Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life . New Haven : Yale University Press, 1982.

Pinson, Koppel S. Modern Germany : Its History and Civilization . New York : Macmillan, 1966.

Poole , Peter A. America in World Politics: Foreign Policy and Policymakers since 1898 . NY: 1975.

Raymond L. hall. Black Separatism and Social reality: Rhetoric and Reason. New York : Pergamon Press, 1977

Read, Anthony and David Fisher. The Fall of Berlin . NY: W.W. Norton and Co., 1992.

Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World . Penguin, 1966.

Rempel, Gerhard. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS . Chapel Hill and London : The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Richard Delgado. The coming race war? : and other apocalyptic tales of America after affirmative Action and welfare. Introduction by Andrew Hacker. New York : New York University Press, 1996.

Richard Newman. Black Power and Black Religion: Essays and reviews . West Cornwall , CT : Locust Hill Press, 1987

Robert W. Mullen. Blacks and Vietnam . Washington , D.C. : University Press of America , 1981.

Roberts, J.M. History of the World . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Robin D. G. Kelley. Race rebels. Culture, politics, and the Black Working Class . New York : The Free Press, 1994

Schapiro, Salwyn. Modern and Contemporary European History . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953.

Schevill, Ferdinand. A History of Europe from the Reformation to the Present Day . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933 . Boston , 1957.

Schorske, Carl E. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture . NY: Vintage Books, 1981.

Scott, Jonathan F. and Alexander Batzly. Readings in European History Since 1914 . New York : F.S. Crofts and Company, 1946.

Seale, Patrick and Maureen McConville. Red Flag Black Flag: French Revolution of 1968 . New York : Ballantine Books, 1968.

Shandler, Herbert Y. The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam . Princeton , 1977.

Sharp, Samuel and Fuzrusina H. Fedlam. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . Washington , D.C. : Stryker-Post Publications, Inc., 1975.

Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant Garde in France , 1885 to World War I . Vintage Books, 1968.

Soboul, Albert. A Short History of the French Revolution 1789-1799 . trans by Geoffrey Symcox. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1977.

Stromberg, Roland. Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914 . Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas , 1982.

Susie King Taylor and Patricia W. Romero, A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Introduction by Willie Lee Rose. New York : M. Wiener Pub. : Distributed by the Talman Co., 1988

Teed, Peter. A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century History, 1914-1990 . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Terrill, Ross. Mao: A Biography . New York , 1980.

Thomas Borstelmann. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena , Harvard University Press, 2001

Thomas, Benjamin. Abraham Lincoln . 1952.

Thomson, David. England in the Twentieth Century . Baltimore : Penguin Books, Inc., 1965.

Thomson, David. Europe Since Napoleon . New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

Thomson, David. Democracy in France since 1970 . 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 1969.

Tischler, Henry L. Debating Points: Race and Ethnic Relations . Prentice Hall, 1999

Toland, John. Adolf Hitler . New York : Anchor Paperbacks, 1992.

Toland, John. Adolf Hitler . NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.

Ulam, Adam B. Stalin: the Man and his Era . New York , 1973.

Ulam, Adam. Ideologies and Illusions: Revolutionary Thought from Herzen to Slzhenitsyn . Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1976.

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V. P. Franklin. Black self-determination: A cultural history of African American resistance . Brooklyn , NY : Lawrence Hill Books, 1992

Vernadsky, George. A History of Russia . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1966.

Von Soden, W. The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East . New York : Erdmans, 1994.

W. E. B. DuBois. The Souls of Black Folk . New York , Penguin books, 1996

Wallace Terry (ed .). Bloods. An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans . New York : Ballentine, 1985

Washington, James M. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper & Collins, 1991

William E. Jr. Cross. Shades of Black: Diversity in African American identity. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991

William L. Van DeBurg . Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan. New York , New York University Press, 1997

Wilson, Edmund. To the Finland Station . London , 1966.

Wohl, Robert. The Generation of 1914 . MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Wuorinen, John H. Scandinavia . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965.

Zeldin, Theodore. France 1848-1945 . 2 vols. Oxford , 1977.