Pursuit of Happiness

 

Kindred by Octavio Butler
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
                                        

Becoming American

 

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Smith

Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Louis P. Masur

Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

 

Freedom

 

Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen Ray Bradbury

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Animals Farm and 1984 by George Orwell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

Picturing America

 

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge

Travels with Charley in search of America by John Steinbeck

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville