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Recommended Reading List for M.A. and Ph.D. Candidates in
American History
(titles marked with an asterisk are especially recommended for M.A. candidates)
Abzug, Robert, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and Religious Imagination (New
York, 1994)
Axtell, James, Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America (New
York, 2001)*
Ayers, Edward, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (New York,
1992)
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, 1967)
Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
(Cambridge, 1998)
Berlin, Ira, et al., Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War
(New York, 1992)*
Bodnar, John, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in America (Bloomington,
1980)*
Boyer, Paul, and Nissenbaum, Stephen, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of
Witchcraft (New York, 1993)
Bushman, Richard, The Refinement of America (New York, 1992)
Cott, Nancy F., The Grounding of Modern Feminism (New York, 1987)*
Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York, 1992)
Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosvelt and American Foreign Policy (New York, 1995)
D’ Emilio, John, and Freedman, Estelle, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
America (New York, 1988)
Dumenil, Lynn, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (New
York, 1995)
Faragher, John Mack, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, 1986)
Flexner, Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United
States, reedited by Ellen Fitzpatrick (Cambridge, 1996)*
Fogel, Robert L., Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
(New York, 1992)*
Foner, Eric, Reconstruction, America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York,
1988)*
Gaddis, John. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (New York, 1997)
Gilmore, Glenda E., Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill, 1996)
Gordon, Linda, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
(Cambridge, 1994)
Graham, Hugh Davis, The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy
and Johnson Years (New York, 1984
Greene, Jack P., Pursuit of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British
Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (Chapel Hill, 1988)*
Horton, James and Lois, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among
Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1960 (New York, 1997)*
Isenberg, Nancy, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill, 1999)
Jackson, Kenneth, Crabgrass Frontier (New York, 1990)
Paterson, James, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1972 (New York, 1996)
Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War,
1929-1945 (New York, 1999)*
Kerber, Linda, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of
Citizenship (New York, 1998)*
LaFeber, Walter, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansionism, 18601898 (New York, 1998)
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American
West (New York, 1988)
Link, William, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill, 1992)
Marsden, George, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of TwentiethCentury Evangelicalism 1870-1925 (New York, 1980)*
McDonald, Forrest, Novus Ordo Seclorum: Ther Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
(Lawrence, 1985)
McDougall, Walter, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
(New York, 1984)
McMath, Robert, American Populism: A Social History (New York, 1992)*
McPherson, James M., The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York,
1988)*
Montgomery, David, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and
American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge, 1989)
Morgan, Philip, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Chapel Hill, 1998)
Potter, David, The Impending Crisis, 1858-1861 (New York, 1976)*
Rodgers, Daniel, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge
1998)
Rose, Anne, Voices from the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860
(New York, 1995)
Taylor, Alan, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early
American Republic (New York, 1995)
Thomas, Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order (New York, 1992)*
Wallace, Anthony F.C., Thomas Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First
Americans (Cambridge, 1999)
Watson, Harry, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (New York,
1990), with Watson, Harry, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and
Development in Ante-bellum America (Boston, 1998)
White, Richard, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge, 1991)
Wiebe, Robert, The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the
Constitution to the Eve of Disunion (New York, 1984)
Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York, 1993)*