My 2014 Reading List

My 2014 reading list is a list of books read in 2014 in bibliographic format. My focus in 2014 was primarily history and genealogy.

• Meacham, Jon. 2008. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House.

• Unger, Giles Harrow. 2009. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness. New York: MJF Books.

• Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. 2006. The Federalist. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics.

• Potter, Jerry O. 1992. The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster. Gretna: Pelican Publishing.

• Huffman, Alan. 2010. Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History. New York: Harper Collins.

• Stenton, Sir Frank M. 2001. Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxford University.

• Nunnelee, Lewis Tune II. 2008. “Lewis T. Nunnelee’s History of a Famous Company of the War of the Rebellion (So Called) Between the States Viz. Lynchburg Beauregard Rifles Viz. Beauregard Artillery Moorman’s Battery Stuart Horse Artillery Viz. Shoemaker’s Battery Stuart Horse From May 10^th 1861 to April 9^th 1865.” In Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, vol. 1. Robert J. Trout (ed.) 3-172.

• Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide. Washington: Smithsonian Books.

• Carter, William C. (ed.). 1989. Conversations With Shelby Foote. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

• Taylor, Alan. 2001. American Colonies. New York: Viking.

• Stewart, George R. 1945. Names on the Land. New York: Random House.

• Collis, Louise. 1964. Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe. London: Harper & Row.

• Grousset, René. 1970. The Epic of the Crusades. New York: Orion Press.

• Barber, Richard. 1993. Henry Plantagenet: A Biography. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.

• Barnes, Dr. Ian. 2009. The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World. New York: Cartographica.

• Wilson, Derek. 2006. Charlemagne. New York: Doubleday.

• Prestwich, Michael. 1997. Edward I. London: Yale University Press.

• Faragher, John Mack.1992. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

• Matthews, Michael. 2014. Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger. Clearwater: Oculus Publishing.

The following books from my 2014 reading list represent historical research for genealogical purposes. I am listing them separately as I did not read them entirely from cover to cover. I used these sources to deepen my understanding of 17th century Tidewater Virginia.

• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. 1958. Patrician and Plebian in Virginia: Or the Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. 1958. The Planters of Colonial Virginia. New York: Russell and Russell.

• Wertenbaker, Thomas J. 1958. Virginia Under the Stuarts, 1607 – 1688. New York: Russell and Russell.

• Stanard, William and Mary Newton. 1965. The Colonial Virginia Register. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing.

• Stanard, Mary Newton. 1928. The Story of Virginia’s First Century. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.

• Robinson, Walter Stitt. 1979. The Southern Colonial Frontier, 1607 – 1763. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

• Breen, T. H. 1985. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Bruce, Phillip Alexander. 1964. Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I, II. Gloucester: Peter Smith.

• Bruce, Phillip Alexander. 1966. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I, II. New York: Johnson Reprint Company.

Thank you for reading this article and I hope you have enjoyed my 2014 Reading List!

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