AP US HISTORY (APUSH) SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
2013/2014
Ms. Young
[email protected]
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SUGGESTED READINGS
*Remember you really should read one of these books in addition to
Founding Brothers. You will thank me later!
The Killer Angels – by Michael Shaara
Undaunted Courage – by Stephen Ambrose
Confederates in the Attic – by Tony Horwitz
Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times – by H. W. Brands
1776 – by David McCulloch
Seabiscuit: An American Legend- Laura Hillenbrand
Water for elephants – by Sara Gruen
Under the Banner of Heaven – John Krakauer
March – by Geraldine Brooks
The Help – by Kathryn Stockett
Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy – by Jules Tygiel
Somebody Knows My Name – by Lawrence Hill
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood – by Jane Leavy
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura
Hillendbrand
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
Founding Mothers – by Cokie Roberts
Team of Rivals – by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lies My Teacher Told Me – by James W. Loewen
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougalss – by Frederick Douglass
The Greatest Generation – by Tom Brokaw
Devil in the White City – by Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts – by Erik Larson
The Rape of Nanking – by Iris change
Triangle: the Tire that Changed America – by David von Drehle
We Were Soldiers Once…and Young – by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
A Rumor of War – by Philip Caputo
Lonesome Dove – by Larry McMurtry
At the Hands of Persons Unknown – Phillip Dray
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America – Laura Wexler
SUGGESTED MOVIES
*The movies are divided by historical eras. I have also placed the rating next to the
movie. You can find a synopsis of the movies on imdb.com. Discuss watching these
movies with your parents before viewing. Also, many of these titles may be available
at Montgomery County Public Libraries. (Some may also be on youtube.) YOU ARE
REQUIRED TO WATCH TWO OF THE MOVIES AND COMPLETE A CAPTURE
SHEET FOR EACH ONE. THE CAPTURE SHEET IS PROVIDED IN THIS PACKET.
Exploration
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992/PG-13)
The New World (2005/PG-13)
Apocalypto (2006/R)
Black Robe (1991/R)
Colonial America
The Crucible (1996/PG-13)
Last of the Mohicans (1992/R)
Jefferson in Paris (1995/PG-13)
Revolutionary War
1776 (1972/G)
Johnny Tremain (1957-Approved)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951/Approved)
John Adams (HB0 movie)
Slavery
Roots (TV mini-series)
Amistad (1997/R)
Slavery and the Making of America (2005 Documentary)
The Journey of August King (1995/PG-13)
Pre- Civil War
Jeremiah Johnson (1972/PG)
The Color Purple (1985/PG-13)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987/TV Movie)
Civil War
Lincoln (2012)
Gettysburg (1993/PG)
Andersonville (1996/Made for TV)
Glory (1989/R)
North and South (1985/TV mini-series)
Gone With The Wind (1939/Approved)
Shenandoah (1965/Approved)
Cold Mountain (2003/R)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976/PG)
The West and the Last West & Native Americans
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962/Unrated)
Lonesome Dove (1989/TV mini-series)
Into the West (2005/TV mini-series)
Comanche Moon (2008/TV mini-series)
Open Range (2003/R)
Shane (1953/Unrated)
Fort Apache (1948/Approved)
Paint Your Wagon (1969/PG-13)
How the West Was Won (1962/PG)
Unforgiven (1992/R)
Dances with Wolves (1990/PG-13)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007/HBO)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939/ Approved)
I Will Fight No More Forever (1975/Not Rated)
Little Big Man (1970/Not Rated)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993/PG-13)
High Noon (1952/PG)
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993/R)
Tombstone (1993/R)
Wyatt Earp (1994/PG-13)
Turn of the Century America
Hawaii (1966/TV MA)
Rough Riders (1997/TV Movie)
Eight Men Out (1988/PG)
Far and Away (1992/ PG-13)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944/G)
Ragtime (1981/PG)
Avalon (1990/PG)
Iron-Jawed Angels (2004/TV Movie)
Wizard of Oz (1939/G)
World War I
Sergeant York (1941/Approved)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979/TV Movie)
War Horse (2011/PG-13)
The 1920s
The Great Gatsby (1974/PG)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984/R)
Miller’s Crossing (1990/TV MA)
The Untouchables (1987/R)
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967/Unrated)
The Great Depression
Cinderella Man (2005/PG-13)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940-Unrated)
Places in the Heart (1984/PG)
Road to Perdition (2002/R)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000/PG-13)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969/PG-13)
The Color Purple (1985/PG-13)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008/G)
World War II
Band of Brothers (2001/HBO mini-series/TV MA)
The Pacific (2010/HBO mini-series/TV MA)
Saving Private Ryan (1998/R)
Patton (1970/Unrated)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989/PG-13)
Windtalkers (2002/R)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006/R)
Schindler’s List (1993/R)
The Devil’s Arithmetic (1999/TV Movie)
Conspiracy (2001/R)
Casablanca (1942/PG)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995/PG-13)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006/R)
Come See the Paradise (1990/R)
The Young Lions (1958/Approved)
Casablanca (1942/PG)
Cold War
October Sky (1999/PG)
On the Beach (1959/Approved)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991/PG-13)
Fail Safe (2000/TV Movie)
Thirteen Days (2000/PG-13)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962/PG-13)
The Hunt for Red October (1990/PG)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964/PG)
The Day After (1983/TV Movie)
Rocky IV (1985/PG)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1958/Not Rated)
Civil Rights Era
Boycott (2001/PG)
The Long Walk Home (1990/PG)
4 Little Girls (1997/Documentary w/ some graphic images)
Mississippi Burning (1998/R)
Miss Evers Boys (1997/PG)
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996/PG)
Hairspray (1988&2007/PG)
Murder in Mississippi (1990/TV Movie)
Malcolm X (1992/PG-13)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974/TV Movie)
Nothing but a Man (1964/ Not Rated)
Unionization
Harlan County, USA (1976/Documentary/PG)
Norma Rae (1979/PG)
Matawan (1987/PG-13)
The 1960s
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987/PG)
Platoon (1986/R)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989/R)
We Were Soldiers (2002/R)
A Bright Shining Lie (1998/R)
The Hanoi Hilton (1987/R)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life or Robert McNamara (2003/PG-13)
The Deer Hunter (1978/R)
American Graffiti (1973/PG)
Easy Rider (1969/R)
Glory Road (2006/PG)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961/Approved or 2008 TV Movie)
JFK (1991/R)
The Graduate (1967/Approved)
The 1970s & 80s to the Present
All the President’s Men (1976/R)
Silkwood (1983/R)
Frost/Nixon (2008/R)
Miracle (2004/PG)
Remember the Titans (200/PG)
Lone Star (1996/R)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970/Not Rated)
Almost Famous (2000/R)
Dazed and Confused (1993/R)
Wall Street (1987/R)
American History X (1998/R)
Bowling for Columbine (2002/R)
Lions for Lambs (2007/R)
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007/R)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012/R)