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, itll 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. Heres 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 theyll 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
LOCAL Academic Libraries |
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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, 20,0005000 BC (2003).
Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: Americas 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
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).
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 Americas
Greatest City on the Mississippi (2009).
Lynne Sebastian,
The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest (1992).
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).
J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and
Spain in America, 14911830 (2006).
Mark G. Hanna, Pirate Nests and the Rise of the
British Empire, 15701740 (2015).
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009).
William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds
of Christopher Columbus (1992).
Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: Americas Ancient Pasts (2011).
John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 12501820 (2012).
David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier
in North America (2009).
Roger Crowley, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (2015).
Henry Arthur
Francis Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 14921763 (2004).
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Roanoke: The Abandoned
Colony (2nd ed.,
2007).
J. R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 14151808: 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, 14761498
(1993).
Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest,
14921650 (1998).
Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering
the New World Columbus
Created (2012).
Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and Decline
of the People
Who Greeted Columbus (1992).
Herman L. Bennett, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2010).
David Ewing Duncan,
Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas (1995).
Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, The Coronado Expedition
(2003).
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).
Hugh
Thomas, World without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global
Empire (2015).
Stephanie Gail
Wood, Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish
Colonial Mexico (2003).
Chapter
3 The Southern Colonies in the 17th Century, 1601-1700 |
Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in the Age of Expansion, 15601660
(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, 15501624 (2007).
Steve Sarson, British
America, 15001800: Creating Colonies, Imagining
an Empire (2005).
Joseph M. Hall Jr., Zamunos 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).
SLAVERY AND INDENTURED SERVITUDE
Russell R. Menard, Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British
America (2001).
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).
Andrιs Resιndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in
America (2016).
CAROLINA SOCIETY AND THE WEST INDIES
Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006).
Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial
North Carolina (2002).
Matthew Mulcahy,
Hubs of Empire:
The Southeastern Low Country and British Caribbean (2014).
Chapter
4 The Northern Colonies in the 17th Century, 1601-1700 |
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).
Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in the
Age of Revolution, 16401661 (2004).
James Pritchard, In
Search of Empire: The
French in the Americas, 16701730 (2007).
Jill Lepore,
The Name of War: King Philips War and the Origins of American Identity
(1998).
Ann
Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriages
in Early New England
(2000).
Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon:
The Mayflower
Pilgrims and Their World (2010).
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).
Mary Beth Norton, In the Devils 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).
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).
Jennifer L. Anderson,
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America
(2012).
Ira Berlin,
Generations of Captivity: A History of
African-American Slaves (2003).
Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire:
The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
(2010).
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).
David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence
of American Trade and Taste (2009).
Brendan McConville,
The Kings Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America,
16881776 (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).
Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 16301800 (1998).
George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards:
A Life (2003).
Lisa Norling,
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whale Fishery, 17201870 (2000).
Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (2005).
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, 16261863 (2003).
Eric Hinderaker,
Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in
the Ohio Valley, 16731800 (1997).
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).
Vincent Carretta, Equiano the
African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005).
Robert H. Jackson, Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish
America (2005).
Brett Rushforth, Bonds
of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (2012).
Jon F. Sensbach, Rebeccas 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 |
Edward Countryman,
The American
Revolution (2003).
Merrill Jensen, The Founding of a Nation:
A History of the American
Revolution, 17631776 (2004).
Robert Middlekauff,
The Glorious
Cause: The American
Revolution, 17631789 (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
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).
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors:
How Indian War Transformed
Early America (2009).
THE REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS OF THE 1760S AND 1770S
Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1976).
Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the
Struggle for Americas 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, 17401790 (1996).
Ray Raphael, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington
and Concord (2002).
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).
Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the
Struggle for Americas Independence (2005).
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985).
John E. Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (2009).
Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
THE WARTIME CONFEDERATION AND ITS LEADERS
Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (2010).
Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency: George Washington (2004).
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).
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana:
The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 17751782
(2002).
Robert Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (2001).
Myra Jasanoff, Libertys Exiles: American
Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2012).
David G. Martin, The Philadelphia Campaign: June
17771778 (2003).
James Kirby Martin, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997).
Alfred F.
Young, Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah
Sampson, Continental Soldier
(2004).
Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).
Robert E. Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: American Thought
and Culture, 17601800 (2004).
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 17761787 (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).
Peter S. Onuf, Statehood
and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (1987).
Charles Rappleye,
Robert Morris, Financier
of the American Revolution (2010).
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).
Leonard L. Richards, Shayss Rebellion: The American Revolutions Final Battle (2002).
Marylynn Salmon,
Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).
Rosemarie Zagarri, A Womans 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).
Woody Holton,
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the
Constitution (2007).
Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion
and the First Amendment (1994).
Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the
Constitution, 17871788 (2011).
Jackson Turner Main, The Antifederalists: Critics of the
Constitution, 17811788 (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).
Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew:
The Genius and Ambiguities of the American
Founders (2003).
Ron Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton (2004).
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, 17891829 (1984).
Larry E. Tise, The American Counterrevolution: A
Retreat from Liberty, 17831800
(1999).
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: Womens
Sphere in New England, 17801835
(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).
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, 17801825 (1989).
R. Douglas
Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible
of the Old Northwest, 17201830 (1998).
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 Nations Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (2004).
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American
Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).
NATIVE
AMERICANS, THE WAR OF 1812, AND THE WEST
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).
Douglas Egerton,
Gabriels Rebellion
(1993).
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2009).
Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom:
The Formation of
Philadelphias Black Community, 17201840
(1988).
Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End
of Slavery in New York City, 17101810 (1991).
Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 17401845
(1998).
Nancy Cott, Public
Vows: A History of Marriage
and the Nation (2001).
Mary Beth Sievens, Stray
Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National
New England (2005).
Thomas Dublin, Transforming Womens Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994).
Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian
America, 18151846 (1991).
Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox
of Progress, 18171862 (1996).
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, 18151845 (2009).
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew
Jackson in the
White House (2009).
Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).
Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1991).
Richard R.
John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System
from Franklin to Morse (1995).
Bruce Laurie, Beyond
Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (2005).
Gerda Lerner, The Grimkι Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Womens Rights and Abolition (2009).
Alisse Portnoy, Their Right to Speak:
Womens Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates (2005).
Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the
Antebellum North
(2002).
Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free
Labor in the
Antebellum United States (1991).
Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the
United States, 18201860 (2000).
David R. Meyer,
The Roots of American Industrialization (2003).
Manisha Sinha,
The Slaves 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, 18201875 (2005).
Peter J.
Blodgett, Land of
Golden Dreams: California
in the Gold Rush Decade, 18481858 (1999).
H. W. Brands,
Lone Star Nation
(2004).
Richard L. Bushman,
Joseph Smith:
Rough Stone Rolling (2005).
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 Zions Mount: Mormons, Indians, and
the American Landscape (2008).
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).
Susan
Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).
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, Its Your Misfortune and None of
My Own: A New History
of the American West (1993).
Richard Bruce Winders, Mr. Polks Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican
War (1997).
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
Womens Rights Movement
(2008).
Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the
Antebellum North
(2002).
Beth A. Salerno, Sister Societies: Womens
Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America (2005).
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton:
A Global History (2014).
Steven Deyle,
Carry Me Back: The Domestic
Slave Trade in American
Life (2005).
Richard Follett,
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisianas Cane World, 18201860 (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).
Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002).
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll,
Jordan, Roll: The World the Slave Made (1974).
Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places:
Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007).
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).
Ira Berlin,
Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997).
Anya Jabour, Scarletts Sisters: Young Women in the Old South (2007).
Adam Rothman,
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Deep South
(2005).
Loren
Schweninger,
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (2012).
Jonathan Daniel Wells, Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 18001861 (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).
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, 18481861 (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).
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).
William E. Gienapp, The
Origins of the Republican Party, 18521856 (1987).
David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 18281865: Toward Civil War (1998).
Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe:
A Life (1994).
Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum
America (1998).
Leonard L. Richards, The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (2007).
Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War
(1991).
Douglas L. Wilson,
Honors Voice: The Transformation
of Abraham Lincoln
(1998).
Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina
Upcountry, 18001860 (1988).
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).
Daniel Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989).
Michael P. Johnson,
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