View source for American History - Kling

Compiled by [http://northwestern.academia.edu/SamuelKling Samuel Kling]

==Survey==

* Bender, Thomas. [[A Nation Among Nations| A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.

* Foner, Eric. [[The Story of American Freedom]]. New York: Norton, 1999.

==Colonial==

* Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. [[Salem Possessed | Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.]] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

* Brown, Kathleen M. [[Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996.

* Cronon, William. [[Changes in the Land | Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

* Elliott, J. H. [[Empires of the Atlantic World | Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830]]. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.

* Lambert, Frank. [[Pedlar in Divinity | “Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

* Lepore, Jill. [[New York Burning | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan]]. New York: Vintage, 2006.

* Lockeridge, Kenneth A.[[A New England Town | A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736]]. New York: Norton, 1970.

* Merrell, James H. [[The Indians’ New World | The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact to the Era of Removal]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1989.

* Morgan, Edmund S. [[American Slavery, American Freedom | American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Virginia]]. New York: Norton, 1975.

* Richter, Daniel K. [[Facing East From Indian Country | Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History.]] Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

* Richter, Daniel K. [[Before the Revolution | Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts]]. Cambridge: Belknap, 2011.

* Taylor, Alan. [[American Colonies | American Colonies: The Settling of North America]]. New York: Penguin, 2001.

* White, Richard. [[The Middle Ground | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

==Revolution==

* Anderson, Benedict. [[Imagined Communities | Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism]]. Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 2006.

* Bailyn, Bernard. [[The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution]]. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1967.

* Breen, T.H. [[American Insurgents, American Patriots | American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.

* Breen, T.H. [[Tobacco Culture | Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001 (Revised Edition).

* Holton, Woody. [[Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.

* Juster, Susan. [[Disorderly Women | Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England]]. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

* Nash, Gary B. [[The Urban Crucible | The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. 

* ——[[The Unknown American Revolution | The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America]]. New York: Penguin, 2006.

* Rakove, Jack N. [[Original Meanings | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution]]. New York: Vintage, 1997.

* Royster, Charles. [[A Revolutionary People at War | A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996.

==Early Republic==




* Blackmar, Elizabeth. [[Manhattan For Rent, 1785-1850]].  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

* Cott, Nancy. [[The Bonds of Womanhood | The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835]]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

* Kasson, John F. [[Civilizing the Machine | Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.

* Kerber, Linda K. [[Women of the Republic | Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1980.

* McCurry, Stephanie. [[Masters of Small Worlds | Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country]]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

* Novak, William. "[[The Myth of the 'Weak' American State]]," AHR 113.3 (2008): 752-72.

* Rockman, Seth. [[Scraping By | Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore]]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

* Sellers, Charles G. [[The Market Revolution | The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 

* Stansell, Christine. [[City of Women | City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860]]. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1982. 

* Thernstrom, Stephan. [[Poverty and Progress | Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

==Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction==

* Berlin, Ira. [[The Making of African America | The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations]]. New York: Viking, 2010.

* Blight, David W. [[Race and Reunion | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory]]. Cambridge: Belknap, 2001. 

* Foner, Eric. [[Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men | Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

* Foner, Eric. [[Nothing But Freedom | Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy]]. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1983.

* Genovese, Eugene D. [[Roll Jordan Roll | Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made]]. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

* Glymph, Thavolia. [[Out of the House of Bondage | Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household]]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 

* Hahn, Steven. [[A Nation Under Our Feet | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration]]. Cambridge: Belknap, 2003.

* Hunter, Tera. [[To Joy My Freedom | To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

* Masur, Kate. [[An Example for All the Land | An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010. 

* McCurry, Stephanie. [[Confederate Reckoning | Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

* McPherson, James M. [[Battle Cry of Freedom | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 

* Potter, David M. [[The Impending Crisis | The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861]]. New York: Harper Perennial, 1977.

* Scott, Rebecca J. [[Degrees of Freedom | Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery]]. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2008.

* Stanley, Amy Dru. [[From Bondage to Contract | From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 




==Urbanization, Labor, Race (c. 1877-1900)==

* Cronon, William. [[Nature’s Metropolis | Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West]]. New York: Norton, 1991. 

* Hofstadter, Richard. [[The American Political Tradition]]. New York: Vintage, 1948. 

* Jacobson, Matthew Frye. [[Barbarian Virtues | Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign People at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

* Limerick, Patricia Nelson. [[The Legacy of Conquest | The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken History of the American West]]. New York: Norton, 1987. 

* Montgomery, David, [[The Fall of the House of Labor | The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State,and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

* Ngai, Mae. [[Impossible Subjects | Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

* Roediger, David. [[The Wages of Whiteness | The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class]]. New York: Verso, 1991.

* Smith, Carl S. [[Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief | Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

* Teaford, Jon C. [[The Unheralded Triumph | The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900]]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984.

* Teaford, Jon C. [[City and Suburb | City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970]]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

* Turner, Frederick Jackson. [[The Significance of the Frontier in American History]]. 1893.

* White, Richard. [[Railroaded | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America]]. New York: Norton, 2011.

* Wiebe, Robert.[[The Search for Order, 1870-1920]]. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. 




==Progressivism & Reform, c. 1890-1920==




* Baldwin, Peter C. [[Domesticating the Street | Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1830-1930]]. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

* Bederman, Gail. [[Manliness and Civilization | Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

* Boyle, Kevin. [[Arc of Justice | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age]]. New York: Holt, 2004.

* Chauncey, George. [[Gay New York | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940]]. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

* Dawley, Alan. [[Struggles for Justice | Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State]]. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1991.

* Gilbert, James H. [[Perfect Cities | Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

* Goodwyn, Lawrence. [[Democratic Promise | Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

* Grossman, James R. [[Land of Hope | Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 

* Hofstadter, Richard. [[The Age of Reform]]. New York: Vintage, 1960.

* Hoganson, Kristin. [[Fighting for American Manhood | Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars]]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 

* Kennedy, David. [[Over Here | Over Here: The First World War and American Society]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

* Kennedy, David. [[Freedom From Fear | Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

* Lears, Jackson. [[Rebirth of a Nation | Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920]]. New York: Harper, 2009.

* McGerr, Michael. [[A Fierce Discontent | A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

* Menand, Louis. [[The Metaphysical Club | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America]]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. 

* Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. [[The Condemnation of Blackness | The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

* Postel, Charles. [[The Populist Vision]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

* Rodgers, Daniel T. [[Atlantic Crossings | Atlantic Crossings: Social Progress in a Progressive Age]]. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1998.

* Seiler, Cotten[[Republic of Drivers | , Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

==Liberal State and New Deal Social Order==

* Brinkley, Alan. [[The End of Reform | The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War]]. New York: Vintage, 1996.

* Brody, David. [[Workers in Industrial America | Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle]]. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

* Biondi, Martha. [[To Stand and Fight | To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City]]. 2003.

* Cohen, Lizabeth. [[Making a New Deal | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1930]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 

* Cohen, Lizabeth. [[A Consumer’s Republic | A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America]]. New York: Vintage, 2003. 

* Jackson, Kenneth T. [[Crabgrass Frontier | Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

* Hofstadter, Richard. [[The Age of Reform]]. New York: Vintage, 1960.

* Kennedy, David M. [[Freedom from Fear | Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

* MacLean, Nancy. [[Freedom is Not Enough | Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace]]. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

* Von Eschen, Penny M. [[Race Against Empire | Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957]]. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

==Foreign Relations: World War II and Cold War==

* Allen, Michael. [[Sacrilege of a Strange, Contemporary Kind | Sacrilege of a Strange, Contemporary Kind: The Unknown Soldier and the Imagined Community After the Vietnam War]],'' History & Memory, Vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2011).

* Costigliola, Frank. [[After Roosevelt's Death | "After Roosevelt's Death: Dangerous Emotions, Divisive Discourses, and the Abandoned Alliance,"]] ''Diplomatic History'' 34 (January 2010), 25-46.

* Dean, Robert D. [[Imperial Brotherhood | Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy]]. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 

* Dower, John W. [[War Without Mercy | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War]]. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

* Hunt, Michael H. [[Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy]]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. 

* Jacobs, Seth. [[Our System Demands a Supreme Being | “Our System Demands a Supreme Being”: The U.S. Religious Revival and the ‘Diem Experiment,’]]” 1954-55, DH'' ''25.4 (Fall 2001): 589-624

* Lee, Erica. [[At America’s Gates | At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2007.

* Rotter, Andrew J. "[[Gender Relations, Foreign Relations | Gender Relations, Foreign Relations: The United States and South Asia, 1947-1964]]," JAH 81 (Sept 1994): 518-42.

* Schrecker, Ellen. ed., [[Cold War Triumphalism | Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism]]. (2004): Introduction, essays by Young and, Robin. 

* Sherry, Michael S. [[In the Shadow of War | In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s]]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 

* Westad, Odd Arne. [[The Global Cold War | The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

* Zipp, Samuel. [[Manhattan Projects | Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

==Race, Deindustrialization and “Urban Crisis”==

* Davis, Mike. [[City of Quartz | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles]]. New York: Verso, 1990.

* Hirsch, Arnold. [[Making the Second Ghetto | Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

* Kruse, Kevin. [[White Flight | White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

* McGirr, Lisa. [[Suburban Warriors | Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

* McGreevy, John. [[Parish Boundaries | Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

* Nicolaides, Becky M. [[My Blue Heaven | My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

* Satter, Beryl. [[Family Properties | Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America]]. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009.

* Self, Robert O. [[American Babylon | American Babylon: Race and Struggle for Postwar Oakland]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 

* Sugrue, Thomas. [[The Origins of the Urban Crisis | The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Equality in Postwar Detroit]]. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

* Thompson, Heather Ann. "[[Why Mass Incarceration Matters | Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History]]," JAH 97 (December 2010): 703-58.

* Wiese, Andrew. [[Places of Their Own | Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century]]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

* Wilson, William Julius. [[When Work Disappears | When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor]]. New York: Knopf, 1996.

==Neoliberalism, Conservatism & the Punitive State==

* Alexander, Michelle. [[The New Jim Crow | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness]]. ''New York: New Press,'' ''2010. 

* Beth Bailey and David Farber, eds., [[America in the 70s]] (2004), essays by Bailey, Braunstein, Graebner.

* Beth Bailey and David Farber, eds., [[The Sixties | The Sixties: From Memory to History]] (1994): Farber Introduction, essays by Collins, McMahon, Echols, Bailey, Cmiel, Farber (and other essays too if you'd like). 

* Gottschalk, Marie. [[The Prison and the Gallows | The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America]]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

* Harvey, David. [[A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism]]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

* Hofstadter, Richard. “[[The Paranoid Style in American Politics]]," ''Harper's Magazine'', November 1964: 77-86.

* Jenkins, Philip. ''[[Decade of Nightmares | Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America]]. ''New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

* Sherry, Michael S. "[[Dead or Alive | Dead or Alive: American Vengeance Goes Global]]," Review of International Studies 31 (December 2005): 245-63.