American History - Kling

Compiled by Samuel Kling, Northwestern University.

Survey

• Bender, Thomas. 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: 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: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

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

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

• Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan. New York: Vintage, 2006.

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

• Merrell, James H. 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: The Ordeal of Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975.

• Richter, Daniel K. Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

• Richter, Daniel K. Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts. Cambridge: Belknap, 2011.

• Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. New York: Penguin, 2001.

• White, Richard. 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: 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: The Revolution of the People. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.

• Breen, T.H. 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: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

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

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

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

• Royster, Charles. 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: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

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

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

• McCurry, Stephanie. 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: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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

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

• Thernstrom, Stephan. 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 Four Great Migrations. New York: Viking, 2010.

• Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belknap, 2001.

• 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. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1983.

• Genovese, Eugene D. Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

• Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

• Hahn, Steven. 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: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

• Masur, Kate. 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: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

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

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

• Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2008.

• Stanley, Amy Dru. 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: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

• Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition. New York: Vintage, 1948.

• Jacobson, Matthew Frye. 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 Unbroken History of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.

• Montgomery, David, 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: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

• Roediger, David. 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: 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: City Government in America, 1870-1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984.

• Teaford, Jon C. 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: 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: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1830-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

• Bederman, Gail. 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: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York: Holt, 2004.

• Chauncey, George. 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: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1991.

• Gilbert, James H. Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

• Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

• Grossman, James R. 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: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

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

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

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

• McGerr, Michael. 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: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.

• Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. 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: Social Progress in a Progressive Age. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1998.

• Seiler, Cotten , 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: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Vintage, 1996.

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

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

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

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

• Jackson, Kenneth T. 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: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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

• Von Eschen, Penny M. 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: 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: Dangerous Emotions, Divisive Discourses, and the Abandoned Alliance," Diplomatic History 34 (January 2010), 25-46.

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

• Dower, John W. 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”: The U.S. Religious Revival and the ‘Diem Experiment,’” 1954-55, DH 25.4 (Fall 2001): 589-624

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

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

• Schrecker, Ellen. ed., 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: The United States Since the 1930s. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

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

• Zipp, Samuel. 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: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Verso, 1990.

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

• Kruse, Kevin. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

• McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

• McGreevy, John. 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: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

• Satter, Beryl. 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: Race and Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

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

• Thompson, Heather Ann. " 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: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

• Wilson, William Julius. 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: 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: 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 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: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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