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In-Session Reading Spring 2017:
The Chosen – Karabel
Woodrow Wilson – Berg, Cooper
Abraham Lincoln – Donald, White
What Hath God Wrought – Howe
Ulysses S. Grant – McFeely, Smith
In-Session Reading Fall 2017:
Glorious Cause – Middlekauff - 689
Republic for which it stands - 873
The Peloponnesian War – Kagan - 491
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Kagan
Empire of Liberty – Wood - 738
John Adams – McCullough – 651
In-Session Reading Spring 2018:
Thomas Jefferson – Meacham, Boles – 520
Hamilton – Chernow - 731
Freedom from Fear – Kennedy - 858
Hitler – Kershaw - 956
Stalin, Volume 1 - Kotkin - 740*
Stalin, Volume 2 - Kotkin - 910*
In-Session Fall 2018:
French Revolution – Doyle – 425 
Benjamin Franklin – Brands - 717
Andrew Jackson – Brands – 561
Ulysses S. Grant – Brands - 639
American Colossus - Brands
Theodore Roosevelt – Brands - 817
Grand Expectations - Patterson - 790
Reagan: The Life - Brands - 737
Franklin Roosevelt – Brands – 825
The Age of Eisenhower - Hitchcock
JFK - Dalleck
Malcolm X
Age of Federalism – Elkins - 754
John Marshall – Smith - 524
Henry Clay – Remini - 786
LBJ volume 1 - Caro - 412*
LBJ volume 2 - Caro - 768*
LBJ volume 3 - Caro - 1041*
Are We a Nation - Schulman - 736
Titan - Chernow

* = Amended by agreement from ABS House Bill 001

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  1. Where is the Mussolini biography?

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  2. An apt observation. You are a person with great taste and aplomb.
    - Cornelius Crowninshield III

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