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Problems and Directed Readings II: Nineteenth-Century America
Revised by Ann Fabian and Jan Lewis 8/2002.
The following reading list is divided into twenty-four sections to parallel the introductory course. The list is meant to work on three levels: a specialist in the 19th century should have a working familiarity with the entire list; someone studying for his/her examination should have read several books from each section; and faculty members teaching the recent American introductory course will generally assign books from this list. The list should not be assumed to represent a comprehensive bibliography of historiography on the Middle Period, and in most cases, supplemental bibliographies will be available when the course is taught. But the list should provide some structure when studying for qualifying examinations. Students should also be familiar with a basic textbook in American history; for example, Jeanne Boydston, et al., Making a Nation or Christopher Clark, et al., Who Built America.
1. The New Nation
Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics; In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000).
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (2000).
David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975).
Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2000).
Richard Hofstadter, The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (1969).
Drew R. McCoy, The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989).
Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Power, Property and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 (1999).
Alan Taylor, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996).
David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).
2. Market Revolution
Norma Basch, “Marriage, Morals, and Politics in the Election of 1828,”The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 3. (Dec., 1993), pp. 890-918. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-
Stuart Blumin, "The Hypothesis of Middle Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century America: A Critique and Some Proposals," American Historical Review, 90 (1985),
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299-338. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002- 8762%28198504%2990%3A2%3C299%3ATHOMFI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).
Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992).
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990).
Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977).
Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (1978).
Richard L. McCormick, "The Party Period and Public Policy: An Exploratory Hypothesis," JAH, 66 (1979), 179-298. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- 8723%28197909%2966%3A2%3C279%3ATPPAPP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
Mary P. Ryan, The Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981).
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991).
Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990).
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of t he American Working Class, 1 788-1850 (1984).
3. Slavery and the South
Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (2001).
William Dusinberre, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (2000).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic; An Account of the Unites States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001).
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988).
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974).
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2001).
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987).
James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1982).
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, an Interpretation of the Old South (1990)..
Nell Painter, "Soul Murder and Slavery: Toward a Fully-Loaded Cost Accounting," in
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U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, Linda Kerber et al., eds., (Chapel Hill, 1995).
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2000)
Diane Miller Sommerville, “The Rape Myth in the Old South Reconsidered,” Journal of Southern History, LXI (1995), 481-518.
Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996)
Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985).
4. Gender, Sexuality, Family
Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce; From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians ((1999).
Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization : a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995).
Mary Blewett, Men, Women and Work: A Study of Class, Gender and Protest in the 19th Century Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1998).
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood : "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (1977).
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2001)
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex (1992).
Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence : Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-century United States (1990).
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in 19th Century America (1985).
Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999).
Linda K. Kerber, "Separate Spheres, Female Words, Women's Place,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 75, No. 1. (Jun., 1988), pp. 9-39. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- 8723%28198806%2975%3A1%3C9%3ASSFWWP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (1984).
Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (1983)
Jan Lewis, "Politics and the Ambivalence of the Private Sphere: Women in Early
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Washington, D.C.," Donald Kennon, A Republic for the Ages (University Press of Virginia, 1999), 122-151
E. Anthony Rotundo, "Romantic Friendship: Male Intimacy and Middle-Class Youth in the Northern United States, 1800-1900," Journal of Social History, 23 (Fall 1989), 1-25
Daniel Scott Smith, "Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America," in Mary Hartman and Lois W. Banner, eds., Clio's Consciousness Raised (NY, Harper Torchbooks, 1974), 119-131
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985)
Christine Stansell, City of Women; Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987).
Laurel Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001).
5. Religion and Reform
Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994).
Thomas Bender, ed., The Anti-Slavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (1992)--the 1985 AHR debate between Thomas Haskell and David Brion Davis.
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990).
Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).
Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and the British Caribbean to 1830 (1998).
Nathan Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity (1989).
Nancy Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, NY, 1822-1872 (1984).
Christine Heyerman, Southern Cross
Donald Mathews, Religion in the Old South (1977)
Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue the Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (1990).
Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South (1978).
Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom : American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (1999).
Nell Irvin Painter, “Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known,” Journal of American History, Sept. 1994, pp. 461-492
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James Turner, Without God, without Creed: the Origins of Unbelief in America (1985).
Ronald Walters, The Anti-Slavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 (1984).
6 Expansion, Removal, and the American West
William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991).
William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (1992).
Alberto Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California (1999).
Susan Johnson, Roaring Camp : the Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987).
William McLoughlin, Cherokee Renaissance in the New Republic (1986).
Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (1975).
Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West (1998).
Sylvia Van Kirk, "The Role of Native American Women in the Creation of Fur Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1830," in The Women's West, 53-62.
Elliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998).
Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West (1991).
7. American Foreign Relations
Wai-chee Dimock, Empire for Liberty : Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989)
James Field, “American Imperialism: The Worst Chapter in Almost Any Book,” American Historical Review, Vol. 83 (June 1978), 644-683, and responses by Walter LaFeber and Robert Beisner
Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design; Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America (1985).
Nancy Hewitt’s Southern Discomfort
Kristen Hogansen, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998)
Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny (1986)
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Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Amy Kaplan, and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (1993)
Walter LeFeber, The New Empire; an Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1963)
Angela Miller, The Empire of the Eye : Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875 (1993).
Stuart Creighton Miller, Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (1982)
Bradford Perkins, The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (1993)
David Pletcher, “Rhetoric and Results: A Pragmatic View of American Economic Expansionism, 1865-1898, Diplomatic History, 5 (1981), 93-106
Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right 1995)
J.A. Thompson, “William Appleman Williams and the ‘American Empire,’” Journal of American Studies, 7 (1973), 91-104
Robert W. Tucker and David Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas efferson (1990)
Walter L. Williams, “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism,” Journal of American History, 66 (1980), 810-831
8. The Coming of the Civil War—Politics at Mid-Century
Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1995)
Jean Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of the Northern Democrats in the Mid- Nineteenth Century (1983).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective (1978; abridged edition 1981).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s (1962)
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970).
William Gienapp, “The Crisis of American Democracy: The Political System and the Coming of the Civil War,” in Gabor Boritt, ed. Why the Civil War Came (1996).
Daniel Walker Howe, “The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North during the Second Party System,” JAH, 77 (March 1991), 1216-1239.
Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: an Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-
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Douglas Debates (1972, 1983)
David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976).
9. War
Ira Berlin, et al, eds. Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War (1992).
Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (1990).
Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Divided Houses: gender and the Civil War (1992).
George Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965).
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).
Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1991).
Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992)
10. Reconstruction (and after)
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992)
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001).
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935).
Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).
William Gillette, Retreat from Reconstruction: A Political History, 1867-1978 (1979).
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow : Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996).
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)
Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 (1994).
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract : Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1998)
Joel Williamson, After Slavery (1965)
11. Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Gilded Age
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James R. Barrett, "Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930." The Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 3, Discovering America: A Special Issue. (Dec., 1992), pp. 996-1020. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021- 8723%28199212%2979%3A3%3C996%3AAFTBUI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
Mia Bay, The White Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (1999).
Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis : New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001).
Philip Deloria, Playing Indian (1998).
Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880- 1940 (1987).
Barbara Fields, “Ideology and Race in American History,” in J.M. Kousser and J.M. McPherson, eds. Region, Race, and Reconstruction (1982).
Neil Foley, The White Scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997).
Philip Gleason, “Crevecoeur’s Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity,” in Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past (1988).
Frederick E. Hoxie, The Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880- 1920 (1984)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color (1999).
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)
Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, ed., Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics (1990).
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 (2000).
David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness : Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991).
John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York before Chinatown : Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 (1999).
Peter Way, “Labour’s Love Lost: Observations on the Historiography of Class and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century,” JAH, 28 (April 1994), 1-22..
Peter Way, Common Labour : Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860 (1993).
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12. Politics and the State
Paula Baker, "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920," American Historical Review, 89 (1984), 620-647. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002- 8762%28198406%2989%3A3%3C620%3ATDOPWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
John W. Chambers II, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890- 1920, 2nd ed. (1992).
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).
Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997).
Louis Galambos, "The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History," Business History Review 44 (1970), 279-290.
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (1976).
Michael McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics (1986)
Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres: The Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982).
Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform : Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877- 1917 (1999).
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992).
Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State (1982)
Barbara Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law and the American Railroad Revolut
13. Intellectual/ Culture
Richard Brodhead, Cultures of Letters : Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth- Century America (1993)
James Cook, The Arts of Deception : Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum (2000).
Ann Fabian, The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (2000).
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle Class Culture in America, 1830-1970 (1982)
James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986).
Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy (1977)
William R. Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Money, and the Rise of a New American
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Culture, 1890-1920 (1993)
T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981).
T.J. Jackson Lears and Richard W. Fox, The Culture of Consumption Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1920 (1983)
Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro- American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (1977).
Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1991)
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois, vol. I (1993)
James Livinsgton, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850- 1940 (1994)
Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880- 1940 (1989).
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings : Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998).
Warren Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century (1984).
John L. Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and the Adversary Tradition (1983)
Morton White, Social Thought in America: the Revolt Against Formalism (1976)
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982).
14. Labor and Industry
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977).
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).
Leon Fink, "American Labor History," in Foner, ed., The New American History (1990), 233 250.
Herbert Gutman, Power & Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1987)
Herbert Gutman, "Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919," in Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1966), pp. 3-78, 211-233.
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982).
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Dolores Janiewski, "Sisters under their Skins: Southern Working Women, 1880-1950" in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in American History (1990).
James Livingston, "The Social Analysis of Economic History and Theory: Conjectures on Late-19th Century American Development," AHR 92 (1987):69-95. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002- 8762%28198702%2992%3A1%3C69%3ATSAOEH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (1988)
"A Round Table: Labor, Historical Pessimism, and Hegemony," JAH, 75 (June 1988). 137-161 Stable URL:
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Robert Steinfeld, The Invention of Free labor: the Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (1991)
Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since Capitalism (1986)
15. Science, Technology and the Environment
William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991).
William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature(1995).
Gerald Grob, The Deadly Truth : a History of Disease in America (2002).
Karl Jacoby, Crimes against nature : squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation (2001).
Martin Melosi, Effluent America : Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (2001).
Philip Pauly, Biologists and the Promise of American life : from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey (2000).
Carol Sheriff, The artificial river : the Erie Canal and the paradox of progress, 1817- 1862 (1996).
Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (2000).
Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs : Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (1998).
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water Aridity & the Growth of the American West (1985).
CLASSICS
The following list includes some of the most important works that have understandings of
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the history of the United States in the nineteenth century. You should be familiar with the material in most of these books.
Lee Benson: The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case (1961). See also the retrospective article by Daniel Feller in Reviews in American History {RAH}, 20, no. 4 (December 1992), 591-601.
Whitney Cross, The Burned Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850 (1950). See also the retrospective article by Judith Wellman in RAH, 17, n. 1 (March 1989), 159-174.
Stanley Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959; 3rd edition, 1976, contains a response to his critics).
Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (1976)
Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study of Acculturation (1941; Rev. ed., 1959).
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (1955). See also Harry Scheiber, "At the Borderlands of Law and Economic History: The Contributions of Willard Hurst," American Historical Review, 75 (1970), 744-756.
John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955)
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (1962).
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (1948; Rev. ed., edited by Christopher Lasch, 1973).
James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1956).
Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Belief (1957).
Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1985 (1959).
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson (1945). See also Schlesinger, "The Age of Jackson," in Grob & Billias, Interpretations of American History, I (6th ed., 1992), 270-281.
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South (1956).
George Rogers Taylor, The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (1951).
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (2 vols., 1835, 1840). (All students should be familiar with this classic work.)
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," American Historical Association, Annual Report (1893), 199-227; reprinted in, The Frontier in American History (1921), Chapter 1.
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R.W. VanAlstyne, The Rising American Empire (1960)
Albert K. Weinberg, Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History (1935)
Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
C. Vann Woodward, The Origins of the New South (1951).
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1956 edition). See the exchange between Peskin and Woodward in JAH, 60 (1973), 63-73 & 215-223; and Benedict, in the Journal of Southern History, 46 (1980), 489-524.
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