Research Project Rubric: Book Review 8-9 Reflects sophisticated and thorough understanding of books; clear identification of organization

n and purpose Substantial number of quotations and references to texts; it is clear that both books have been read Strong thesis analysis; clearly links back to purpose and subject matter Critique contains substantial personal analysis of the non-fiction work and how well its purpose is achieved; incorporates solid, scholarly review of books in a sophisticated manner Clear analysis of the fictional work; paper goes beyond just the storyline and gives sophisticated analysis of the authors purpose and how he/she achieved that purpose Evaluation of books is sophisticated and scholarly; provides specific comparisons between the historical and the fictional works Bibliography is solid and in accordance with MLA format; annotation is clear and complex; students have cited a wide array of sources Paper follows all format guidelines paper is publishable; written in a sophisticated manner that reflects the synthesis of material

5-7 Reflects good understanding of books; adequate identification of organization and purpose, but may not be as clear May not incorporate as many quotes and direct references from books Acceptable thesis analysis; may not be as clearly linked to purpose and subject matter Critique contains some personal analysis; incorporates less scholarly reviews may depend on them for real analysis of the book or simply may not have appropriate number and type of resources Analysis of the fictional work is present but may be more descriptive than analytical; there is clear discussion of the authors purpose in writing the book and how he/she achieves that goal Evaluation of books not as sophisticated; may lack solid, specific comparison or have a hard time finding overlap between the two works Bibliography follows MLA format sources not as complex; not as many sources cited Paper attempt to follow all guidelines and written in an acceptable manner may have some errors

2-4 Focuses more on summary of the book; describes more than analyzes, but does only a rudimentary job organization and purpose unclear Books are not as appropriate for assignment or have little common ground between them Inappropriate attempt to quote and or cite from book Limited analysis of thesis Critique contains little to no personal analysis; reviews are weak or lacking and not incorporated in an acceptable manner Discussion of the fictional work is more descriptive than analytical; discussion of the storyline is much more prominent than treatment of the authors purpose in writing the book Evaluation extremely weak; comparison is harder to address or team chose books that are only tangentially related Bibliography is shallow sources not complex or appropriate; does not follow MLA format; sources see limited use in the paper Paper deviates from format guidelines; more serious errors and typos

Book Review Book List

1620-1789 Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America Joyce D. Goodfriend, Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel, Jr., The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life David McCullogh, 1776 Stoll, Ira, Samuel Adams: A Life Ferling, John, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War for Independence Pybus, Cassandra, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty 1790-1820 Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and Government, 1801-1832 Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Cokie Roberts, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States Bernard Schwartz, The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of Rights Robert A. Rutland, James Madison: The Founding Father Fawn Brodie, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History David McCullogh, John Adams J. Mackey Hitsman, The Incredible War of 1812: A Military History 1821-1850 John Marzalek, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jacksons White House Robert Remini, The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jackson Merril Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay and Calhoun Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell Massachusetts, 1826-1860 Meacham, Jon, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House th John Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19 Century Urban America Anthony Wallace, The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians Ian Tyrrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum American Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination Maldwyn A. Jones, American Immigration 1851-1877 Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Harriot Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl John, Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life In the Antebellum South Steven Sears, Landscape Turned Red Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank Kerns Goodwin, Doris, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln James McPherson, Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era Michael Kauffman, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies Roy Morris, Jr, Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 Eric Foner, Reconstruction : Americas Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1990) Stephen Ambrose, Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 1878-1913 Erik Larson, The Devil and the White City Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: They Myth of the Frontier in American History, 1800-1890 Lawrence Levin, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age Erik Larson, Isaacs Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Sean Cashman, America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: the Making of Teddy Roosevelts America Warren Zimmerman, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made the Country a World Power Louis Filler, Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition 1914-1929 David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I Arthur Barbeau and Florette Henri, Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I Burl Noggle, Into the Twenties: The United States from Armistice to Normalcy Eliot Asinof, 1919: Americas Loss of Innocence Nathan Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue Paula Fass, The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977) Stanley Cohen, Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America Nancy McLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of a Second Ku Klux Klan 1930-1945 Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) James McGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt: 1884-1933 Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Robert McElvaine, The Great Depression (1984) Jon Meacham, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship John Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II William ONeill, A Democracy at War: Americas Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II James Bradley, Flyboys: A True Story of Courage James Bradly, Flags of Our Fathers 1946-1980 David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993) Clay Blair, The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953 Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era Richard M. Fried, Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 David Burner, Making Peace with the Sixties David Maraniss, They Marched into the Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World Fred Emery, Watergate Schulman, Bruce The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics Robert M. Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insiders Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War