Week 4: | Mobility, Urbanization & Immigration |
| 1. James Hankins | Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 |
| 2. Bobby Walker | Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
| 3. Matt Fricker | Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: a study in acculturation |
| 4. Chris Jackson | James H. Cassedy, Medicine and American Growth, 1800-1860 |
Week 5: | Labor & Work |
| 1. Kim McClellan |
Richard Stott, The Worker in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City |
| 2. Mandy Bonifacious | Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 |
| 3. Hailey Duncan |
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States |
| 4. Tim Hudak | W. J. Rorabough, The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America |
Week 6: | Class Formation |
| 1. Andrew Veal | Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man |
| 2. Seth Guy | Stuart M. Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class |
| 3. Amanda Helton | John F. Kasson, Rudeness and Civilty |
| 4. Jennifer Lesseur | Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: the Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 |
| 5. Lauren Raymond | Karen Haltunnen, Confidence Men & Painted Women: a Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 |
| 6. Ashley Alexander | Nathan O. Hatch, The Professions in American History |
Week 7: | Religion |
| 1. Nicole Marino |
Lori D. Ginzburg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics and Class in the Nineteenth Century United States |
| 2. Justin Swartzwelder | Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: the Beginnings of the Bible Belt |
| 3. Shaka Owens | Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millenium: Society and Revivals in Rochester New York |
| 4. Cortnie Zachery | Michael Barkum, Crucible of the Millenium: the Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s |
| 5. Josh Gibson | George M. Thomas, Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-century United States |
| 6. Justin Johnson | Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1860 |
Week 8: | Popular Culture |
| 1. Carley Ruff | Susan G. Davis, Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia |
| 2. Kati Anderson | Michael Feldberg, The Turbulent Era: Riot & Disorder in Jacksonian America |
| 3. Cleat McAlister | Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: the Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America |
| 4. Mary Jane Snow | David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War |
| 5. Matthew Jones | Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum |
| 6. Joshua Balkcom | Elliot J. Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare-knuckle Prize Fighting in America |
Week 9: | The South, Slavery &tc |
| 1. James Hankins |
Christopher Morris, Becoming Southern; The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 |
| 2. Nicole Marino |
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South |
| 3. Tim Hudak | Merton L. Dillon, Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and their Allies, 1619-1865 |
| 4. Cleat McAlister | James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom |
| 5. Emily Williams |
Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South; Households, Markets, and Wealth in the 19th Century |
Week 10: | Women |
| 1. Kim McClellan |
Catherine Clinton, Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South |
| 2. Mandy Bonifacious | Nancy Cott, Bonds of Womanhood |
| 3. Mary Jane Snow | Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture |
| 4. Emily Williams |
Barbara J. Harris, Beyond her Sphere: Women and the Professions in American History |
| 5. Ashley Alexander | Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America |
Week 11: | Family |
| 1. Andrew Veal | Lee A. Craig, To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North |
| 2. Amanda Helton | Anya Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal |
| 3. Joshua Balkcom | Stephen M. Frank, Life With Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-century American North |
| 4. Matthew Jones | David H. Fisher, Growing Old in America |
| 5. Carley Ruff | Jacqueline S. Reinier, From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850 |
Week 12: | Utopian Experiments |
| 1. Josh Gibson | Marvin S. Hill, Quest for Refuge: the Mormon Flight from American Pluralism |
| 2. Hailey Duncan | John C. Spurlock, Free Love: Marriage and Middle-Class Radicalism in America, 1825-1860 |
| 3. Jennifer Lesseur | Carol A. Kolmerten, Women in Utopia: the Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities |
| 4. Bobby Walker | Roger Wunderlich, Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York |
| 5. Justin Johnson | Carl J. Guarneri, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-century America |
Week 13: | Deviancy & Asylum |
| 1. Justin Swartzwelder | Michael Stephen Hindus, Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878 |
| 2. Kati Anderson | Mary Ann Jimenez, Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane |
| 3. Cortnie Zachery | David J. Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic |
| 4. Chris Jackson | Barbara L. Bellows, Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670-1860 |
Week 14: | Governmental Reforms |
| 1. Seth Guy | W. J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic: an American Tradition |
| 2. Matt Fricker | Louis P. Masur, Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 |
| 3. Lauren Raymond | Ian R. Tyrrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860 |
| 4. Ashley Alexander | William J. Reese, The Origins of the American High School |
| 5. Shaka Owens | John W. Quist, Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan |