For a US Government classroom library, some suggested books are:

1. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
2. The Constitution of the United States of America
3. The Bill of Rights by James Madison
4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
5. The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter
6. The Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist
7. The Presidency by Michael Nelson
8. The American Congress by Steven S. Smith
9. The Politics of Power by Ira Katznelson
10. The Politics of Bureaucracy by Joel D. Aberbach

For a US History classroom library, some suggested books are:

1. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
2. The American Pageant by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen
3. The Oxford History of the United States by various authors
4. The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
5. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
6. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
7. The Age of Roosevelt by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
8. The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
9. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
10. The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth

For a Sociology classroom library, some suggested books are:

1. The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
2. The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
3. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
4. The Culture Industry by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
5. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
6. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
7. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
8. The Social Animal by David Brooks
9. The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
10. The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer