Book update

I finally finished re-reading/reading the books I assigned to my students for summer reading. My AP US History class has to read "Mayflower", "Founding Brothers", and "Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution" while my AP US Government and Politics class has to read "Miracle at Philadelphia" and "Showdown at Gucci Gulch." I've read all of these books before except for "Mayflower" and "Miracle at Philadelphia" but I didn't mind re-reading the others, I always learn something new (especially from the Lincoln book).

So now I am going to read a few books for pleasure. I just started "Sea of Glory" by Nathaniel Philbrick, a book about a naval expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the discovery of Antarctica in the early 19th century. After that I think I am going to read Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir "Wait Till Next Year", a book about her growing up in New York in the 1950's. I then hope to read "American Colonies" which is about the early years of the colonies. I am pretty weak in early American history so I want to bone up before school starts next month.