Reading Lists for the pre-1877 American History Major Graduate Field, Department of History, Ohio State University June 13, 2003 Candidates for the General exam in U.S. History, pre-1877, should plan on developing exam lists of 120 books, plus articles, using the following list as a point of departure. The final list for each exam is to be determined by the candidate in consultation with field advisors. Sixty-six fundamental interpretive studies, chosen by OSU Faculty in American History to 1877, June, 2003. Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Belknap, 2001. Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970. Bushman, Richard. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. New York: Knopf, 1992. Bynum, Victoria. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womenhood: “Women’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Crosby, Alfred, Jr. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972. Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. PRE-1877 GRADLIST2003 6 13 03.doc 1 Edmunds, R. David. The Shawnee Prophet. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Escott, Paul D. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Fehrenbacher, Donald. The Slaveholder's Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relation to Slavery, Ward M. McAfee, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Frey, Sylvia. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1992. Gomez, Michael. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Greene, Jack P. Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Gutierez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991. Harris, William. Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1985. Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Heyrman, Christine Leigh. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York: A. A. PRE-1877 GRADLIST2003 6 13 03.doc 2 Knopf, 1997. Hurst, William J. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1956. [Ch 1 or 2] Horowitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Isaac , Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Jordan, Winthrop. White over Black: American Attitudes towards the Negro, 1550- 1812. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969. Kammen, Michael. People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization. New York: Random House, 1973. Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: IEAHC and the University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: Random, 1989. Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. Kraditor, Aileen. Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and his Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850. New York: Pantheon, 1969. Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Knopf, 1979. Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town, The First One Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts,1636-1736. New York: Norton, 1970. Maier, Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: Random House, 1974. McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The economy of British America, 1607-1789. Chapel Hill: IEAHC and University of North Carolina Press, 1985 McLoughlin, William G. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. PRE-1877 GRADLIST2003 6 13 03.doc 3 Meyers, Marvin. The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Belief. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957. Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Boston: Beacon Press, 1953. Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press /Belknap, 1956. Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975. Morgan, Edmund S. Inventing the People: the Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America. New York: Norton, 1988. Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry. OIEAHC and University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. Novak, William J. The People's Welfare Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. O'Brien, Jean. Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Paludan, Phillip S. A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Potter, David. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954. Potter, David. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Purdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783. IEAHC and University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. [First half.] PRE-1877 GRADLIST2003 6 13 03.doc 4 Thornton, John. Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1440-1680, 2nd ed.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Ulrich, Laurel. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Usner, Daniel. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Wood, Gordon S. Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1992. Wood, Peter. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 to the Stono Rebellion. New York: Norton, 1975. Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. PRE-1877 GRADLIST2003 6 13 03.doc 5 The following lists are recommended by the faculty as you develop your understanding of the discipline and build your reading lists: Some bibliographical resources: Norton, Mary Beth, and Pamela Gerardi, eds. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. Third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Ammerman, David L. and Philip D. Morgan, comps. Books about Early America: 2001