These reading lists have been assembled by the Smithsonian and highlight the resources available within our collections and those resources available at the Weatherford Public Library.
Advise & Consent by Allen Drury 2nd floor 813 D796aa
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 2nd floor 2nd floor 973.4092 H217
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 2nd floor 813 W286a
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George J. Sanchez
Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism by William H. Goetzmann
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressman by Phillip Dray 2nd floor 973.81 D768
Democracy: An American Novel by Henry Adams
Huey Long by T. Harry Williams 2nd floor 976.306 L8481w
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White 2nd floor 973.921 W5821m
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar 2nd floor 324.62 K524r
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Phillip Dray 2nd floor 342.73 F673
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity by Susan Zaeske
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham 2nd floor 973 M479
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Grinspan
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis 2nd floor 328.7309 L672
Animal Farm by George Orwell 2nd floor 823 O79af
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2nd floor 305.8009 C652
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 2nd floor 823 H9863b
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Juvenile FIction jF L185li
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 2nd floor 823 G6192L
1984 by George Orwell 2nd floor 823 O79o
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 2nd floor 301.451 B19no
Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion by D.J. Herda Curriculum E5 26.00 250 530
Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove 2nd floor 973 Z784p
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum Curriculum E4 65.80 4300 105
A Bus of Our Own by Freddi Williams Evans Juvenile Fiction jF E9242b
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution by Betsy Maestro Juvenile j347 M186m
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan Juvenile Fiction jF K452a
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein Curriculum E3 65.90 6900 203
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz Juvenile j342.73 F9195s
We the Kids: Preamble of the Constitution of the United States by David Catrow Juvenile Fiction jF C367w
All titles listed by the Weatherford Public Library can be found on their website using Hoopla!
Democracy: An American Novel by Henry Adams
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
Advise & Consent by Allen Drury
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
The American Future by Simon Schama
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Grinspan
The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America by Barbara Clark Smith
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White
Signatures of Citizenship by Susan Zaeske
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Something in Between by Melissa De La Cruz
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Good Braider by Terry Farish
With Courage and Cloth by Ann Bausum
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
On Democracy by E.B. White
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
