Nineteeth Century United States

Book Summaries

• Menahem Blondheim. News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897 (1994).
• Paul Boyer. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (1992).
• Amy Bridges. A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics (2008).
• Henry Bryant and Katina VanCronkhite. Images of America: East Atlanta (2014).
• Francis G. Couvares. The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919 (1984).
• Albert Bricker. Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
• Robin L. Einhorn. Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 (2001).
• Douglas R. Egerton. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era (2014).
• Philip J. Ethington. The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 (2001).
• Ann Fabian. Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (1999).
• Drew Gilpin Faust. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008).
• Eric Foner. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (2002).
• David B. Freeman. Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain (1997).
• Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan (ed). The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000).
• Eugene D. Genovese. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1976).
• Paul Gilroy The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993).
• Steven Hahn. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2005).
• Harper-Ho, V. Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, the Law and Current Prospects for Change. Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev., 21, 477. (2000).
• Steven Hertzberg. Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915 (1978).
• Thomas R. Hietala. Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire (2002).
• Richard Hofstadter. The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it (1989).
• Richard Hofstadter.Social Darwinism in American Thought (1992).
• Michael F. Holt.Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln (1992).
• John R. Hornady.Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1922).
• Noel Ignatiev. How the Irish Became White (1995).
• Amy Kaplan.The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2005).
• Ari Kelman. A Misplaced Massacre (2013).
• Philip S. Klein. President James Buchanan: A Biography (1962).
• Larry D. Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (2004).
• Leon Litwack. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States: 1790 – 1860 (1961).
• Drew R. McCoy. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1996).
• Pearson, R. Towards an Historical Model of Services Innovation: The Case of the Insurance Industry, 1700–1914. The Economic History Review, 50(2) , 235–256. (1997).
• Howard N. Rabinowitz. Race Relations in the Urban South: 1865 – 1890 (1978).
• Wallace Putnam Reed. History of Atlanta, Georgia: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (2011).
• Heather Cox Richardson. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2004).
• Daniel T. Rodgers. Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence (1998).
• Mary P. Ryan. Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (1992).
• Claudio Saunt. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmasking of an American Family (2005).
• Allison L. Sneider. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 (2008).
• Christine Stansell. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987).
• Ann Laura Stoler. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006).
• Wendy Hamand Venet. A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta (2014).
• Sam Bass Warner, Jr. The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth (1987).
• Sean Wilentz. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition (1984).
• Richard C. Wade. Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820 - 1860 (1964).
• T. Harry Williams.Lincoln and His Generals (1952).
• Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010).
• Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey G. Mauck. On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield (1997).