Pace-GLI MA in American History Summer 2021 Book List

Legacies of the Age of Revolutions

1. Adelman, Joseph. Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the , 1763–1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 2. O’Brien, Jean. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2010. 3. Young, Alfred. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass

1. Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018. 2. Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Edited By David W. Blight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 3. Douglass, Frederick. The Selected Speeches and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Edited by Philip S.Foner and Yuval Taylor. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999. (Accessible through Pace University with your library credentials) 4. Buccola, Nicholas. The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Black Women’s History

1. Cooper, Brittany. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019. 2. Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Ona Judge. New York: 37 Ink, 2018. 3. Hunter, Tera W. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 4. McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Vintage, 2011. 5. Mustakeem, Sowande’ M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 6. Obama, Michelle. Becoming. New York: , 2018. 7. Owens, Deirdre Cooper. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. The History of American Protest

1. Trodd, Zoe, ed. American Protest Literature. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Conflict and Reform: The United States, 1877-1920

1. Lears, Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. 2. Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999. 3. Riordon, William. Honest Graft: The World of George Washington Plunkitt. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.

The Great Depression and the New Deal

1. Olmsted, Kathryn S. Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism. New York: New Press, 2015. 2. Rauchway, Eric. Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Historiography and Historical Methods

1. Cheng, Eileen Ka-May. Historiography: An Introductory Guide. New York: Continuum, 2012. 2. Foner, Eric and Lisa McGirr. American History Now (Critical Perspectives on the Past). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. 3. Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.