An American History Reading List

Every so often, news stories and other events converge to create a "teaching moment." This is one of those moments when you can curse the darkness or light a candle. I will try and shed some light.

Patrick Buchanan's recent "white men built America" rant on MSNBC (subject of an earlier post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-c-davis/an-american-history-lesso_b_239108.html); the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates in his home and the President's reaction to it; and my own research on a curr