HIST 1301 (History 1)

Book Analysis Approved Book List

Dr. T. Thomas

Austin Community College

 

The following books correspond to the textbook chapters.  Find a book on a topic that interests you.

 

These books are representative but certainly not exhaustive, of the period and topics covered in History 1.  These books have been chosen because they fulfill one or more of the following criteria:

Ψ  the book is considered a classic in its subject area;

Ψ  students in the past have enjoyed the book and recommended it to others;

Ψ  the book is suitable for the assignment; that is, it’ll enable you to thoughtfully & thoroughly answer the Book Analysis Assignment questions;

Ψ  the book is a quality scholarly book; that is, it is well-researched, well-documented, and well-written;

Ψ  the book is on a subject matter that may not be covered in-depth in your textbook, and so, it gives you an opportunity to learn more about a particular subject;

Ψ  most of the books are available locally - in and around Austin - at the ACC libraries, or at one of the other college/university libraries.

 

If you see a book you like, try to find a copy available in a local library.  If you prefer to purchase the book, try a used bookseller.

 

Below are links to local academic libraries, where you should be able to find most of the books. 

 

ACC students ARE allowed to check books out of other Texas public college/university libraries. Here’s how:

 

HOW TO GET BORROWING PRIVILEGES AT UT or TEXAS STATE:

Ψ  go to any ACC librarian and ask for a “Tex Share” card. 

Ψ  then, fill it out and bring it (along with your ACC ID) to the college/university library of your choice

Ψ  show them the Tex Share card and they’ll give you a one-semester card for their library

Ψ  the borrowing privileges will probably be good for one semester only, and the library might charge you a nominal fee

Ψ  The Tex Share card is good ONLY at PUBLIC college/universities in Texas (such as UT, Texas A&M and other community colleges in Texas) and may NOT be honored at private institutions, such as St. Ed’s or Concordia.  Check with THOSE institutions to see if they give borrower privileges to ACC students.

 

 

LOCAL Academic Libraries

ACC libraries

 St.Edward's

 University

 Library

TX State University - San Marcos library

UT-Austin libraries

Chapter 1 – Ancient America: Before 1492

GENERAL  WORKS

Robson Bonnichsen and Karen L. Turnmire, Ice Age Peoples of North America (1999).

Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen R. Stothert, Women in Ancient America (1999).

Thomas D. Dillehay, The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory (2000).

Brian Fagan, Ancient North America (2005).

Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001).

J. C. H. King, First People, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America (1999).

Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (2006).

Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC (2003).

Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2010).

Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (2006).

NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES IN TERRITORY OF PRESENT-DAY UNITED STATES

Kenneth M. Ames and Herbert D. G. Maschner, Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory (1999).

Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos (2002).

Linda S. Cordell, Archaeology of the Southwest (2009).

Richard J. Dent Jr., Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions (1995).

E. James Dixon, Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America (1999).

Kendrick Frazier, People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Cultures (1999).

George C. Frison, Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains (2nd ed., 1991).

Steven A. LeBlanc, Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (1999).

Stephen H. Lekson, The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest (1999).

Timothy R. Pauketat, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Greatest City on the Mississippi (2009).

Lynne Sebastian, The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest (1992).

Lynda Shaffer, Native Americans before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands (1992).

THE MEXICA

David Carrasco, City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (1999).

Susan Toby Evans, Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History (2008).

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Felipe Solis Olguin, Aztecs (2002).

Chapter 2 – Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492-1600

GENERAL  WORKS

J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1491–1830 (2006).


Mark G. Hanna, Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 (2015).

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009).

David Parrott, The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2013).

William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (1992).

Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011).

John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 (2012).

David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (2009).

EXPLORERS AND EMPIRES

Roger Crowley, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (2015).

Henry Arthur Francis Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763 (2004).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony (2nd ed., 2007).

Francesc Relaρo, The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2002).

J. R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808: A World on the Move (1998).

Hugh Thomas, Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan (2004).

EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD

Rebecca Catz, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476–1498 (1993).

Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650 (1998).

Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (2012).

Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, 1500–1800 (1995).

Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (1992).


CONQUEST AND NEW SPAIN

Herman L. Bennett, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2010).

Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1989).

David Ewing Duncan, Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas (1995).

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, The Coronado Expedition (2003).

Serge Gruzinski, The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries (1993).

Robert H. Jackson, Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America (1999).

John L. Kessell, Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico (2010).

Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (1995).

Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southwestern Indians (1999).

Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (2009).

Hugh Thomas, World without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire (2015).

Charles A. Truxillo, By the Sword and the Cross: The Historical Evolution of the Catholic World Monarchy in Spain and the New World, 1492–1825 (2001).

Stephanie Gail Wood, Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (2003).

Chapter 3 – The Southern Colonies in the 17th Century, 1601-1700

CHESAPEAKE SOCIETY

Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 (2012).

Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).

Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in the Age of Expansion, 1560–1660 (2009).


April Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2003).

James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (2006).

Peter C. Mancall, The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624 (2007).

Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (2010).

Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (2013).

Steve Sarson, British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (2005).

Christopher L. Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (2010).

Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763 (2010).

NATIVE AMERICANS

Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717 (2002).

Joseph M. Hall Jr., Zamuno’s Gifts: Indian European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (2012).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2010).

Jayme A. Sokolow, The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800 (2003).

Margaret Holmes Williamson, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2003).

SLAVERY AND INDENTURED SERVITUDE

Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (2007).
James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002).

Tim Hashaw, The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown (2007).

Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas (2007).

Russell R. Menard, Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America (2001).

Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians (1999).

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).

Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004).

Simon P. Newman, A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (2013).

Andrιs Resιndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (2016).

CAROLINA SOCIETY AND THE WEST INDIES

Cara Anzilotti, In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina (2002).

Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006).

Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (2002).

Russell K. Menard, Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados (2006).

Matthew Mulcahy, Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Low Country and British Caribbean (2014).

Chapter 4 – The Northern Colonies in the 17th Century, 1601-1700

GENERAL  WORKS

Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004).

Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 (2012).

Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1998).


Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (2010).

David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989).

Christopher L. Pastore, Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England (2014).

Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 (2004).

James Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730 (2007).

NATIVE  AMERICANS

Russell Bourne, Gods of War, Gods of Peace: How the Meeting of Native and Colonial Religions Shaped Early America (2002).

Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (1998).

Daniel R. Mandell, King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty (2010).

Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685 (1999).

Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriages in Early New England (2000).

NEW ENGLAND

Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World (2010).

James F. Cooper Jr., Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (1999).

Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789 (1995).

Lisa M. Gordis, Opening Scriptures: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (2003).

Katherine Grandjean, American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England (2015).

David D. Hall, A Reforming People: Transformation of Public Life in New England (2013).

Jane Kamensky, Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England (1997).

Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans (2005).

Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002).

Mark A. Peterson, The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (1998).

Wendy Warren, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (2016).

MIDDLE COLONIES

Evan Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (2012).

Ned C. Landsman, Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America (2010).

Cathy Matson, Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (1998).

David E. Narrett, Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City (1992).

Chapter 5 – Colonial America in the 18th Century, 1701-1770

GENERAL  WORKS

Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (2012).

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).

Stephen R. Berry, Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World (2015).

Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005).


Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (2010).

Robert S. DuPlessis, The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650–1800 (2016).

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006).

Adrian Finucane, The Temptations of Trade: Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire (2016).

Patrick Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764 (2001).

David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (2009).

Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (2007).

Anthony Pagden, The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (2013).

Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (2008).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2012).

Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (2013).

NEW ENGLAND

Richard Aquila, The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701–1754 (1997).

Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630–1800 (1998).

Phyllis Whitman Hunter, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780 (2001).

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003).

Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whale Fishery, 1720–1870 (2000).

Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (2005).

MIDDLE COLONIES

Katherine Cartι Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (2009).

Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 (2003).

Eric Hinderaker, Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800 (1997).

Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763 (2003).

Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch- Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006).

Simon P. Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003).

David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (2004).

SOUTHERN  COLONIES

Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005).

Robert H. Jackson, Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America (2005).

Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (2006).

Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country (1998).

Gregory E. O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807 (2014).

Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (2012).

Jon F. Sensbach, Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005).

Randy J. Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey (2004).

———Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World (2016).

David J. Weber, Bαrbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment (2005).

Chapter 6 – The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775

GENERAL  WORKS

Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (2003).

Merrill Jensen, The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (2004).

Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2005).


Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1993).

Alfred F. Young, Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (2006).

NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR

Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Year War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (2001).

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America (2007).

Gregory Evans Dowd, War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire (2004).

Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2002).

Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (2009).

THE REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS OF THE 1760S AND  1770S

Richard Archer, As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (2010).

Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1976).

Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence (2006).

H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010).

Benjamin L. Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010).

John E. Ferling, The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988).

Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (2001).

Joan Gundersen, To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790 (1996).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006).

Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (1996).

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2013).

Ray Raphael, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord (2002).

SLAVERY

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (2000).

Douglas R. Egerton, Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009).

Sylvia Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (1991).

Philip Morgan, Slave Counterpoint (1998).

Chapter 7 – The War for America, 1775-1783

GENERAL  WORKS

Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence (2005).

Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985).

John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (2009).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005).

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).

Ray Raphael, A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2001).

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 (1996).

William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication Innovation and the American Revolution (2013).

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).

Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (2011).


THE WARTIME CONFEDERATION AND ITS LEADERS

Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (2010).

Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington (2004).

John E. Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution (2000).

Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (2004).

Woody Holton, Abigail Adams (2010).

Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).

Sheila L. Skemp, The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit (2012).

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, AND SOLDIERS

Wayne K. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War (2004).

W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (1998).

Edwin G. Burrows, The Prisoners of New York (2008).

Colin G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (1995).

E. Wayne Carp, To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783 (1984).

Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–1782 (2002).

Joseph R. Fischer, A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois, July–September 1779 (1997).

Robert Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (2001).

Myra Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2012).

Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1989).
Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (1997).

David G. Martin, The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777–1778 (2003).

James Kirby Martin, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997).

Holly A. Mayer, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (1996).

Alfred F. Young, Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004).

Chapter 8 – Building a Republic, 1775-1789

GENERAL  WORKS

Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (1995).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006).

Peter S. Onuf and Cathy D. Matson, A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (1990).

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).

Robert E. Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760–1800 (2004).

Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006).

Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969).

THE CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES

Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (2014).

Daniel M. Friedenberg, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America (1992).

Marc W. Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America (1997).

Peter S. Onuf, Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (1987).

Charles Rappleye, Robert Morris, Financier of the American Revolution (2010).


Jack N. Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979).

CITIZENSHIP

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).

Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980).

Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860 (1998).

Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (2002).

Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).

Rosemarie Zagarri, A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (1995).

THE CONSTITUTION AND RATIFICATION

John K. Alexander, The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage (1990).

Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (2010).

Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2003).

Richard Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003).

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1999).

Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007).

John P. Kaminski and Richard Leffler, Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate over the Constitution (1998).

Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (1994).

Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 (2011).

Jackson Turner Main, The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788 (2006).

William Lee Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic (1986).

Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution (1985).

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996).

Chapter 9 – The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800

POLITICS

Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003).

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (2004).

Jerry A. Clouse, The Whiskey Rebellion: Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Frontier People Test the American Constitution (1995).

Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993).

Todd Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (2006).

John E. Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson:The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2005).

———The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon (2010).

Ralph Ketcham, Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789–1829 (1984).

Jeffrey L. Pasley, The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (2001).

Larry E. Tise, The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783–1800 (1999).

Richard J. Twomey, Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radicalism in the United States, 1790–1820 (1989).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Richard D. Brown, Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700–1865 (1989).

Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: Women’s Sphere in New England, 1780–1835 (1997).

Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001).


Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1996).

Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1997).

Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2002).

Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (2000).

Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007).

NATIVE AMERICANS  AND THE FRONTIER

Andrew R. L. Cayton, Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780–1825 (1989).

Gregory E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815 (1992).

R. Douglas Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830 (1998).

Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (1999).

Chapter 10 – Republicans in Power, 1800-1824

POLITICS

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Madison and Jefferson (2010).

Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997).

Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001).

Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (2008).

Peter J. Kastor, The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (2004).

Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000).

Edward J. Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign (2007).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

Richard Zacks, The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 (2006).

NATIVE AMERICANS, THE WAR OF 1812, AND THE WEST

Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996).

Carl Benn, The Iroquois in the War of 1812 (1998).

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2007).

Pekka Hδmδlδinen, The Comanche Empire (2008).

John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (1997).

Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (2010).

SLAVERY

Douglas Egerton, Gabriel’s Rebellion (1993).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2009).

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860 (1997).

Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720–1840 (1988).

Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1710–1810 (1991).

WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND RELIGION

Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000).

Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845 (1998).


Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2001).

Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (1994).

Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (2006).

Susan E. Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820 (2009).

Mary Beth Sievens, Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England (2005).

Chapter 11 – The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840

THE MARKET REVOLUTION

Edward J. Balleisen, Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (2001).

Mary H. Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910 (1988).

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).

Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994).

John Lauritz Larson, The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good (2009).

Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009).

Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (1991).

Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862 (1996).

POLITICS

John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997).

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1845 (2009).

Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2009).

Sean Michael O’Brien, In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson’s Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles (2003).

Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 (1998).
Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster,
Clay, and Calhoun (1987).

CULTURE, RELIGION, AND REFORM

Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008).

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).

Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990).

Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1991).

Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).

Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995).

Catherine E. Kelly, In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century (1999).

Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (2005).

Gerda Lerner, The Grimkι Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (2009).

Richard S. Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002).

Mark Perry, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimkι Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders (2002).

Alisse Portnoy, Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates (2005).

Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).

Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Slavery in the Era of Emancipation (2007).

Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book (2005).

Chapter 12 - The New West & the Free North, 1840-1860

THE ECONOMY AND FREE LABOR

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).

J. Matthew Gallman, Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1854–1855 (2000).

Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in the Antebellum United States (1991).

Donald R. Hoke, Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector (1990).

Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820–1860 (2000).

David R. Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization (2003).

Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (2016).

Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (2001).

WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR

Gary Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 (2005).

Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007).

Peter J. Blodgett, Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848–1858 (1999).

H. W. Brands, Lone Star Nation (2004).

Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005).

David C. Clary, Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent (2009).

Christopher Corbett, The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West (2009).

David Dary, The Oregon Trail: An American Saga (2004).

Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008).

Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (2008).

Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (2002).

Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005).

———A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2013).

Timothy J. Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (2007).

Albert Hurtado, John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier (2006).

Benjamin Heber Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003).

Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).

Kent G. Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontier (2005).

Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009).

Malcolm Rohrbough, Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (1997).

Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, Home Lands: How Women Made the West (2010).

Joel H. Sibley, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War (2005).

Michael L. Tate, Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail (2006).

John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (2012).

Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West (1993).

Richard Bruce Winders, Mr. Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997).

Steven E. Woodworth, Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to Civil War (2010).

ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).


Lori D. Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (2009).

Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (2005).

Sally McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement (2008).

Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).

Susan M. Ryan, The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence (2003).

Beth A. Salerno, Sister Societies: Women’s Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America (2005).

Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity (2003).

Chapter 13 – The Slave South, 1820-1860

SLAVEHOLDERS AND THE ECONOMY

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014).

David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003).

Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (2005).

Richard Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 (2005).

Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton South (2013).

Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (2009).

Jonathan Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (2004).

James David Miller, South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South (2002).

Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development (2006).

SLAVES, SLAVERY, AND RACE RELATIONS

David F. Allmendinger Jr., Nat Turner and the Rising in Southhampton County (2014).

Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World (2004).

Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004).

Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002).

Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (1998).

Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slave Made (1974).

Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007).

Dylan C. Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (2003).

Larry Eugene Rivers, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (2012).

Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Ira Berlin, Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974).

Christine Jacobson Carter, Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800–1865 (2006).

Laura F. Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality  in  the  Post-Revolutionary  South (2009).

Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997).

Anya Jabour, Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South (2007).

Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South (1995).

Glenn McNair, Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia’s Criminal Justice System (2009).

Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Deep South (2005).

Joshua D. Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861 (2002).

Loren Schweninger, Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (2012).

Jonathan Daniel Wells, Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861 (2004).

POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE

Anthony Gene Carey, Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia (1997).

Lacy K. Ford Jr., Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2009).

Michael Perman, Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South (2009).

Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998).

Chapter 14 – The House Divided, 1846-1861

GENERAL  WORKS

Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001).

Michael Holt, Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2004).

Bruce C. Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992).

David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848–1861 (2011).

Mark E. Neely, Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005).

Eric H. Walther, The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s (2004).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

NORTHERN SECTIONALISM

Tom Chaffin, Pathfinder: John Charles Frιmont and the Course of American Empire (2002).

Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson, eds., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (2008).

Eric Foner, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (1970).

William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (1987).

R. Blakeslee Gilpin, John Brown Still Lives! America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change (2011).

Susan-Mary Grant, North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000).

David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828–1865: Toward Civil War (1998).

Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (1994).

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998).

David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (2005).

Leonard L. Richards, The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (2007).

Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (2009).


Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (1991).

Douglas L. Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1998).

SOUTHERN SECTIONALISM

Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood (2009).

John Patrick Daly, When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War (2002).

Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 (1988).

Matthew Pratt Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008).

David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry Clay: The Essential American (2010).

William A. Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2002).

Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).

SECESSION

Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis (2010).

Daniel Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989).

Michael P. Johnson, Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia (1977).

Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (2008).
David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1942).

Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr., Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War (2003).

Chapter 15 – The Crucible of War, 1861-1865

GENERAL  WORKS

Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln (2007).

Allen C. Guelzo, A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012).

Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War (2007).

Adam I. P. Smith, The American Civil War (2007).

MILITARY HISTORY

Michael J. Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (2004).

Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865 (1995).

Joseph T. Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008).

Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (2007).

James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008).

Mark E. Neely Jr., The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction (2007).

Christopher Phillips, The Civil War in the Border South (2013).

Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865 (2000).

Donald Stoker, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War (2010).

Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (2009).

William G. Thomas, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (2011).

Joan Waugh, U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (2009).

Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865 (2000).

John Fabian Witt, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War (2012).

THE NORTH AND SOUTH AT WAR

Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (1995).


William A. Blair, With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (2014).

Victoria E. Bynum, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies (2010).

William J. Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American (2000).

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008).

Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997).

Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (2000).

William C. Harris, Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (2012).

Libra R. Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South (2012).

Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War (2010).

Mark E. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991).

Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006).

George C. Rable, God’s Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War (2010).

Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997).

James L. Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977).

Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death (2008).

Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2006).

Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man (2012).

Harry S. Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War (2006).

Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North (2008).

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010).

Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (1990).

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004).

Steven Hahn, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009).

Bruce Levine, Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2006).

William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991).

James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007).

Chapter 16 – Reconstruction, 1863-1877

GENERAL  WORKS

Laura F. Edwards, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015).

Michael W. Fitzgerald, Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (2007).

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988).

Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Ordeal of Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (2014).



THE MEANING OF FREEDOM

Ronald E. Butchart, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861–1876 (2010).

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008).

Susan Eva O’Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South (2007).

Joshua Paddison, American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California (2012).

Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (1978).

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation  (1977).

Leslie Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (1997).

Loren Schweninger, James T. Rapier and Reconstruction (1978).

THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION

Stephen V. Ash, A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot that Shook the Nation (2013).

Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877 (1990).

Philip Dray, Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen (2008).

Ellen Carol DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869 (1978).

Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).

Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (2008).

Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North, 1865–1901 (2001).

Mark Wahlgren Summers, A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (2009).

Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001).

C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951).

THE STRUGGLE IN THE SOUTH

James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003).

Nancy D. Bercaw, Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861–1875 (2003).

Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (2008).

Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (2003).

Jane E. Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-emancipation Virginia (2000).

Carole Faulkner, Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004).

Sarah E. Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937 (2004).

Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006).

Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).

George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).

Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (2009).

Christopher M. Span, From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862–1875 (2009).