History, Emily-Style

So I'm teaching my own course this coming fall and last week I wrote my syllabus. It was a lot harder than I imagined it would be, if for no other reason than my inability to decide what monographs the students should read. The class is the second half of the US History survey, which I never took as an undergrad (so I didn't have any personal, student experiences of what worked and what didn't). I wound up choosing Murdering McKinley (which I've read and liked) and Lillian Smith's classic Killers of the Dream (which I've read and loved). Those books, coupled with the textbook, the primary source reader, and two films (Inherit the Wind and Mississippi Burning) will give them four types of sources to work off of. I think it's pretty well-rounded. What did you read/watch in your history classes?