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Oxford History of the United States
Posted on 6/22/17 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 6/22/17 at 6:17 pm
Anyone else a fan of this series? Hopefully it will be completed in my lifetime as every volume I have read is a work of art. No doubt James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom is the best of the bunch so far. The next book in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896, is due out September 1.
Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 is supposed to drop next year. Which, if that happens, means that only two books left to be written in order to complete the series. The first of which, entitled American Origins, is supposed to chronicle the Age of Exploration. The second one (yet to be titled or given an author) will talk about Colonial America up through the French and Indian War.
Like I said...I hope I'm still breathing when this series finally completes itself.
Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 is supposed to drop next year. Which, if that happens, means that only two books left to be written in order to complete the series. The first of which, entitled American Origins, is supposed to chronicle the Age of Exploration. The second one (yet to be titled or given an author) will talk about Colonial America up through the French and Indian War.
Like I said...I hope I'm still breathing when this series finally completes itself.
This post was edited on 6/22/17 at 6:19 pm
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Posted on 6/22/17 at 8:18 pm to RollTide1987
Is it written well? I can't stand when authors get on tangents. My ADHD won't allow me to finish the book.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 10:22 pm to AUCE05
I personally think they are very well done. Four of the books in the series were either nominated for or won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 11:45 pm to RollTide1987
There seem to be quite a few different books on Amazon with overlapping dates.
Posted on 6/23/17 at 12:14 am to RollTide1987
quote:
I said...I hope I'm still breathing when this series finally completes itself.
Are you ok?
Posted on 6/23/17 at 12:31 am to Wasp
quote:
There seem to be quite a few different books on Amazon with overlapping dates.
Here are the books in the series:
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, 1848-1865
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Releases 09/01/17)
Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929 (Releases in 2018)
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
Also...as stated in my OP, there are still two more books left to be published in the series after Reawakened Nation publishes (fingers crossed) next year. Both of them occur chronologically before The Glorious Cause.
This post was edited on 6/23/17 at 1:20 am
Posted on 6/23/17 at 1:02 pm to RollTide1987
The timeline for each volume is wack. Why not go in order?
Posted on 6/23/17 at 5:28 pm to AUCE05
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The timeline for each volume is wack. Why not go in order?
Because each book is being written by a different author at his own pace.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 7:12 am to RollTide1987
Thanks for doing the chronology. First two books should be coming in tomorrow.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 3:08 pm to RollTide1987
Just dug in to The Glorious Cause
Posted on 6/30/17 at 7:48 am to RollTide1987
Read Glorius Cause, Empire of Liberty, What god Hath Wrought and Battle Cry.
My order:
Battle Cry is best, not close.
God hath wrought
glorious cause (thought got bogged down with too much military)
Empire of Liberty was weakest imo. And this is coming from someone who owns or has read nearly every wood book or journal. There were just too many side stories of minor people and places to portray the zeitgeist. What god hath wrought did it to a degree but was much more interesting.
My order:
Battle Cry is best, not close.
God hath wrought
glorious cause (thought got bogged down with too much military)
Empire of Liberty was weakest imo. And this is coming from someone who owns or has read nearly every wood book or journal. There were just too many side stories of minor people and places to portray the zeitgeist. What god hath wrought did it to a degree but was much more interesting.
Posted on 6/30/17 at 7:53 am to RollTide1987
I would recommend the Oxford Short Introduction Series. Wood did a concise synthesis for Modern library Chronicles and I think it's very well done.
Perhaps I should make a separate thread but I got several for my summer reading:
British Politics
Modern China
Russian History
Soviet Union
Marxism
Perhaps I should make a separate thread but I got several for my summer reading:
British Politics
Modern China
Russian History
Soviet Union
Marxism
Posted on 8/29/17 at 10:44 pm to fouldeliverer
The Glorious Cause is a tedious arse book. Im almost finished but maaaaaaan
Posted on 8/30/17 at 9:37 pm to fouldeliverer
How much detail? I might buy the Gilded age one if there's enough detail.
Extensive economic discussion? Panic of 1837?
Good coverage of Mexican American war?
Extensive economic discussion? Panic of 1837?
Good coverage of Mexican American war?
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