Bibliography adapted from The American Promise: A History of the United States, Second Compact Edition
James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, Alan Lawson, Susan M. Hartmann
Chapter 2. Europeans and the New World, 1492-1600
General Works
Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, eds., Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850 (2000).
Zvi Dor-Ner, Columbus and the Age of Discovery (1991).
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 (1987).
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America (1986).
William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (1992).
A. J. R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move (1998).
Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico (1993).
John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 (1992).
David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992).
Explorers and Empires
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony (1984).
Peggy K. Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times (1992).
John Lynch, Spain, 1516-1598: From Nation State to World Empire (1992).
David B. Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke (1985).
A.C. de C. M. Saunders, A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 (1982).
Roger C. Smith, Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus (1993).
Robert S. Weddle, The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500-1685 (1985).
Europeans Encounter the New World
James Axtell, Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (1992).
Philip P. Boucher, Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 (1992).
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (1987).
Rebecca Catz, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498 (1993)
Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986).
Alfred W. Crosby, Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History (1994).
Valerie J. Flint, The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (1992).
Anthony Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1992).
David Henige, In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage (1991).
Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986).
William F. Keegan, The People Who Discovered Columbus: An Introduction to the Prehistory of the Bahamas (1992).
Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1981).
Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism (1993).
Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, 1500-1800 (1995).
Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (1992).
Samuel M. Wilson, Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus (1990).
Conquest and New Spain
Ida Altman, Emigrants and Society: Extramadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century (1989).
Gary Clayton Anderson, The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (1999).
Frances Berdan, The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society (1982).
Peter J. Blackwell, Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650 (1984).
Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1989).
Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991).
Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (1998).
Serge Gruzinski, The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries (1993).
Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991).
Robert T. Himmerich, The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555 (1991).
Paul E. Hoffman, A New Andulacía and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century (1990).
David A. Howard, Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas (1997).
Robert H. Jackson, Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America (1999).
Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (1995).
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (1992).
James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (1983).
Lyle N. McAlister, Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 (1984).
Sabine McCormack, Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (1991).
Bonnie G. McEwan, The Spanish Missions of La Florida (1993).
Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (1995).
Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida (1993).
Carroll L. Riley, Rio del Norte: People of the Upper Rio Grande from Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt (1995).
Susan Schroeder, Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain (1998).
Robert Silverberg, The Pueblo Revolt (1994).
Steve J. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 (1982).
Chapter 3. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700
General Works
Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder, and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire (1984).
David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000).
Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. The Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (1991).
Robert M. Bliss, Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (1990).
Betty Fussell, The Story of Corn (1992).
Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (1999).
C. Dallett Hemphill, Bowing to Necessity: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 (1999).
Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000).
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000).
John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1985).
Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (1999).
Indians
James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (1985).
James Axtell, The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast (1997).
Kathryn E. Holland Braund, Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 (1993).
Frederic W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (1997).
Edward G. Gray, New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America (1999).
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580-1640 (1981).
J. A. Leo Lemay, Did Pocahantas Save Captain John Smith? (1992).
James H. Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989).
Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685 (1999).
Helen C. Rountree, The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (1989).
Helen C. Rountree, Pocahantas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries (1990).
Helen C. Rountree and Thomas E. Davidson, Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland (1997).
Bernard W. Sheehan, Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia (1980).
Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (1990).
Chesapeake Society
Warren M. Billings, John E. Selby, and Thad W. Tate, Colonial Virginia: A History (1986).
Carl Bridenbaugh, Jamestown, 1544-1699 (1980).
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).
Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh, Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (1991).
James Deetz, Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (1993).
Ronald Hoffman and Sally D. Mason, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 (2000).
James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (1994).
David W. Jordan, Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715 (1987).
John Gilman Korp, Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics in Colonial Virginia (1998).
Jon Kukla, Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660 (1989).
Aubrey C. Land, Colonial Maryland: A History (1981).
Kenneth A. Lockridge, The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744 (1987).
Gloria Lund Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (1982).
Giles Milton, Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000).
James Perry, The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 (1990).
Jacob M. Price, Perry of London: A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 (1992).
Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750, 2 vols. (1984).
Servants and Slaves
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).
Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997).
Sylviane A. Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (1998).
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (2000).
David W. Galenson, White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis (1981).
David W. Galenson, Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (1986).
Jane Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999).
James A. Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (1981).
Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade (1997).
Carolina Society
Alan Vance Briceland, Westward from Virginia: The Exploration of the Virginia-Carolina Frontier, 1650-1710 (1987).
Leland G. Ferguson, Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 (1992).
Thomas M. Hatley, The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of the American Revolution (1993).
Daniel C. Littlefield, Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina (1981).
Aaron M. Shatzmann, Servants into Planters: The Origin of an American Image: Land Acquisition and Status Mobility in Seventeenth-Century South Carolina (1989).
Richard Waterhouse, A New World Gentry: The Making of a Merchant and Planter Class in South Carolina, 1670-1770 (1989).
Robert M. Weir, Colonial South Carolina: A History (1983).
The West Indies
Virginia Bernhard, Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 (1999).
Kenneth F. Kiple, The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (1984).
Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (1986).
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985).
Chapter 4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700
General Works
Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America (1986).
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990).
Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1998).
David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989).
Jack P. Greene, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988).
David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989).
Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (1995).
David Jaffee, People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 (1999).
David S. Lovejoy, Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution (1985).
Robert Blair St. George, Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America (2000).
Helena M. Wall, Fierce Communalism: Family and Community in the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (1990).
Indians
Colin G. Calloway, The Western Abenaki of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People (1990).
Richard W. Cogley, John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War (1999).
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983).
Matthew Dennis, Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (1993).
Carol Devens, Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900 (1992).
James David Drake, King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676 (2000).
Edward G. Gray, New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America (1999).
Francis Jennings, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from its Beginings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 (1983).
Yasughide Kawashima, Puritan Justice and the Indian: White Man's Law in Massachusetts, 1630-1763 (1986).
Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998).
James W. Mavor, Manitou: The Sacred Landscape of New England's Native Civilization (1989).
Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685 (1999).
Jean M. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (1997).
Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriages in Early New England (2000).
Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992).
Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell, Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800 (1987).
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982).
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).
Hilary E. Wyss, Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (2000).
New England
David Grayson Allen, In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century (1981).
Virginia Dejohn Anderson, New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1991).
Theodore Dwight Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism (1988).
T. H. Breen, Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (1980).
Francis J. Bremer, Shaping New Englands: Puritan Clergymen in Seventeenth-Century England and New England (1994).
Jonathan M. Chu, Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay (1985).
Charles Lloyd Cohen, God's Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience (1986).
James F. Cooper Jr., Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (1999).
David Cressy, Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (1987).
Bruce Colin Daniels, Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England (1995).
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 (1995).
John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (1982).
Stephen Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (1991).
Richard P. Gildrie, The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679-1749 (1994).
Richard Godbeer, The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (1992).
Judith S. Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall (2000).
Philip Gura, A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in Seventeenth-Century New England, 1620-1660 (1984).
Stephen Innes, Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield (1983).
David Jaffee, People of the Wachusetts: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 (1999).
Sydney V. James, The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change (2000).
Jane Kamensky, Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England (1997).
Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1987).
Michael W. Kaufman, Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostaligia in Puritan New England (1998).
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony (1993).
Bruce H. Mann, Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut (1987).
Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989).
James G. Mosely, John Winthrop's World: History as a Story, the Story as History (1992).
Margaret Ellen Newell, From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England (1999).
Carla Gardina Pestana, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts (1991).
Mark A. Peterson, The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (1998).
Amanda Porterfield, Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism (1992).
Michael J. Puglisi, Puritans Besieged: The Legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1991).
Elizaberth Reis, Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997).
Phillip H. Round, By Nature and By Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (1999).
Robert Blair St. George, Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture (1998).
Timothy J. Sehr, Colony and Commonwealth: Massachusetts Bay, 1649-1660 (1989).
Richard C. Simmons, Studies in the Massachusetts Franchise, 1631-1691 (1989).
Darren Staloff, The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts (1997).
Harry S. Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (1986).
Lawrence William Towner, A Good Master Well Served: Masters and Servants in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1750 (1998).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (1982).
Lisa Wilson, Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England (1999).
Michael P. Winship, Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment (1996).
Avihu Zakai, Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (1992).
Middle Colonies
Graham Russell Hodges, Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863 (1999).
Rebecca Larson, Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775 (1999).
Cathy Matson, Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (1998).
Brendan McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (1999).
Donna Merwick, Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences (1990).
Donna Merwick, Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York (1999).
David E. Narrett, Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City (1992).
Oliver A. Rink, Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York (1986).
Allen Tully, Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (1994).
Karin A. Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (2000).
Chapter 5. Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770
General Works
Douglas Anderson, The Radical Enlightenment of Benjamin Franklin (1997).
Richard Aquila, The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701-1754 (1997).
Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America (1986).
Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1986).
Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (1998).
Richard D. Brown, Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 (1989).
Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776 (2000).
Colin G. Calloway, News Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1997).
A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (1987).
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (2000).
Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 (1986).
Jack P. Greene, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492-1800 (1993).
Patrick Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish and the Creation of the British Atlantic World, 1689-1764 (2001).
Timothy D. Hall, Contested Boundaries: Itineracy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (1994).
C. Dallett Hemphill, Bowing to Necessity: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 (1999)
Nancy F. Koehn, The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire (1994).
Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1723-1770 (1994).
Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening" (1999).
Michael N. McConnell, A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its People, 1724-1774 (1997).
Gregory H. Nobles, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1997).
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996).
Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790 (1992).
A. G. Roeber, Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America (1993).
Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (2000).
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998).
Carole Shammas, The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America (1990).
Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2000).
David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (1997).
Marianne E. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (1999).
Stephanie Grauman Wolf, As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans (1993).
New England
John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 (1989).
David W. Conroy, In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts (1995).
Jay Coughtry, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (1981).
Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800 (1998).
Christopher Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (1999).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 (1984).
Douglas Lamar Jones, Village and Seaport: Migration and Society in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts (1981).
Daniel R. Mandell, Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts (1996).
Gerald R. McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (2000).
Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989).
Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (2000).
William D. Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England (1988).
Erik R. Seeman, Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (1999).
Lynne Withey, Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century (1984).
Middle Colonies
Randall H. Balmer, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies (1989).
Thomas J. Davis, A Rumor of Revolt: The 'Great Negro Plot' in Colonial New York (1985).
Thomas M. Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia (1986).
Firth Haring Fabend, Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals (2000).
Aaron Spencer Fogelman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (1996).
J. William Frost, A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania (1990).
Eric Hinderaker, Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800 (1997).
Jessica Kross, The Evolution of an American Town: Newtown, New York, 1642-1775 (1983).
Ned C. Landsman, Scotland and Its First American Colony, 1683-1765 (1985).
Rebecca Larson, Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775 (1999).
Stephen L. Longenecker, Piety and Tolerance: Pennsylvania German Religion, 1700-1850 (1994).
Peter C. Mancall, Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991).
Brendan J. McConville, These Darling Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (1999).
James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999).
Benjamin H. Newcomb, Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies, 1700-1776 (1995).
Sharon V. Salinger, "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servitude in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (1987).
Sally Schwartz, "A Mixed Multitude": The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (1987).
Mary M. Schweitzer, Custom and Contract: Household, Government, and the Economy in Colonial Pennsylvania (1987).
Beverly Prior Smaby, The Transformation of Moravian Bethlehem: From Communal Mission to Family Economy (1988).
Billy G. Smith, The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 (1990).
Merrill D. Smith, Breaking the Bonds: Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 (1991).
Jean R. Soderlund, Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit (1985).
Southern Colonies
Edward J. Cashin, Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier (1992).
David R. Chesnutt, South Carolina's Expansion into Colonial Georgia, 1720-1765 (1989).
Peter A. Coclanis, The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989).
A. Roger Ekirch, Poor Carolina: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776 (1981).
David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement (2000).
Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (1998).
Allan Gallay, The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier (1989).
Michael Angelo Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998).
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1992).
Thomas N. Ingersoll, Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 (1999).
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982).
George Johnson, The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736-1800 (1997).
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (1992).
Marvin L. Michael Kay, Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 (1995).
Cynthia A. Kierner, Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835 (1998).
John Gilman Kolp, Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Politics and Political Commentary in Colonial Virginia (1998).
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (1986).
Hugo Prosper Leaming, Hidden Americans: Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas (1995).
Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (1982).
Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country (1998).
Michael Mullin, Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831 (1992).
Robert Olwell, Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 (1998).
Michael J. Rozbicki, The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (1998).
Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 (1999).
Jon F. Sensbach, A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (1997).
Daniel Blake Smith, Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (1980).
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia (1987).
Elisabeth W. Sommer, Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801 (2000).
Donna Spindel, Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1776 (1989).
Daniel B. Thorp, The Moravian Community in Colonial North Carolina: Pluralism on the Southern Frontier (1989).
Lorena S. Walsh, From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (1997).
Betty Wood, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (1997).
Chapter 6. The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775
General Works
John R. Alden, A History of the American Revolution (1989).
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985).
Marc Egnal, A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution (1988).
Francis Jennings, The Creation of America through Revolution to Empire (2000).
A. J. Langguth, Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution (1989).
Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (1982).
Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
Native Americans and the French and Indian War
Fred Anderson, A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War (1984).
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000).
Francis Jennings, Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years' War in America (1988).
Douglas E. Leach, Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763 (1986).
Michael N. McConnell, A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774 (1992).
James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999).
Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (1999).
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).
The British View of Empire
John L. Bullion, A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765 (1983).
Don Cook, The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785 (1996).
Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Politics of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 (1986).
Philip Lawson, George Grenville: A Political Life (1984).
Alison Gilbert Olson, Making the Empire Work: London and American Interest Groups, 1690-1790 (1992).
The Revolutionary Crisis of the 1760s and 1770s
Bernard Bailyn, Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence (1990).
Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1750-1800 (1985).
John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 (1989).
John E. Ferling, The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988).
David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (1994).
Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 (1982).
Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999).
Thomas A. Lewis, For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760 (1993).
Pauline Maier, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams (1980).
Edmund S. Morgan, The Genius of George Washington (1980).
Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988).
Peter Shaw, American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution (1981).
John W. Tyler, Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution (1986).
Ann Fairfax Withington, Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the Formation of American Republics (1991).
Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution (1999).
Women
Richard Buel and Joy Day Buel, The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America (1984).
Joan Gundersen, To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790 (1996).
Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980).
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (1980).
Slavery
Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution (1983).
Sylvia Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (1991).
Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1989).
Philip Morgan, Slave Counterpoint (1998).
Regional Studies
Richard R. Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (1984).
T. H. Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the American Revolution (1985).
Richard Bushman, King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985).
Edward Countryman, A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 (1981).
A. Roger Ekirch, "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in North Carolina, 1729-1776 (1981).
Paul Gilje, Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (1987).
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982).
William Pencak, Politics and Revolution in Provincial Massachusetts (1981).
Bruce A. Ragsdale, A Planters' Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia (1996).
Steven Rossman, Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the "Lower Sort" during the American Revolution (1987).
Albert H. Tillson, Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789 (1991).
Chapter 7. The War for America, 1775-1783
General Works
Michael A. Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000).
Benson Bobrick, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution (1997).
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985).
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782 (2002).
Don Higginbotham, The War of Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practices, 1763-1789 (1983).
Don Higginbotham, War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of Conflict (1988).
Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution (1984).
Mark V. Kwasny, Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783 (1996).
Ray Raphael, A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2001).
Geoffrey Scheer, Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It (1988).
John Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (rev. ed., 1990).
James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of the American Revolution (1991).
Harry M. Ward, The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society (1999).
The Wartime Confederation
John Alden, George Washington (1984).
Joseph J. Ellis, Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993).
John Ferling, John Adams: A Life (1992).
Jay Fliegelman, Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance (1993).
Edith Gelles, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (1992).
James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1980).
Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).
Lynne Withey, Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams (1981).
The Loyalists
Robert M. Calhoon, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays (1989).
Malcolm Frieberg, Prelude to Purgatory: Thomas Hutchinson in Provincial Massachusetts Politics, 1760-1770 (1990).
Adele Hast, Loyalism in Revolutionary Virginia (1982).
William Pencak, American's Burke: The Mind of Thomas Hutchinson (1982).
Janice Potter, The Liberty We Seek: Loyalist Ideology in Colonial New York and Massachusetts (1983).
The War in the North
Michael A. Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier (1993).
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (1998).
Clare Brandt, The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold (1994).
Richard Buel Jr., Dear Liberty: Connecticut's Mobilization for the Revolutionary War (1980).
Colin G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (1995).
E. Wayne Carp, To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 (1984).
Edward Countryman, A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 (1981).
Gregory E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (1992).
Joseph R. Fischer, A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois, July-September 1779 (1997).
Richard J. Hargrove Jr., General John Burgoyne (1983).
Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1989).
Isabel T. Kelsay, Joseph Brant, 1743-1807 (1984).
Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War (1997).
Donald R. Lennon and Charles E. Bennett, A Quest for Glory: Robert Howe and the American Revolution (1991).
James Kirby Martin, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997).
James Kirby Martin and Edward Mark Lender, A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 (1982).
David B. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution (1995).
Holly A. Mayer, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (1996).
John A. Tilley, The British Navy and the American Revolution (1987).
Robert K. Wright Jr., The Continental Army (1983).
Diplomacy
Jonathan R. Dull, A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution (1985).
Reginald Horsman, The Diplomacy of the New Republic, 1776-1815 (1985).
James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1980).
The Southern Strategy
Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (1998).
M. Thomas Hatley, The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution (1993).
Henry Lumpkin, From Savannah to Yorktown (1981).
Jerome J. Nadelhaft, The Disorders of War: The Revolution in South Carolina (1981).
John S. Pancake, This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782 (1985).
John E. Selby, The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783 (1988).
Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (1990).
Chapter 8. Building a Republic, 1775-1789
General Works
Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (1995).
Jacob E. Cooke, Alexander Hamilton (1982).
Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988).
Richard B. Morris, The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 (1987).
Peter S. Onuf and Cathy D. Matson, A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (1990).
John Phillip Reid, The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution (1988).
Robert E. Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800 (1990).
The Confederation Government
Daniel M. Friedenberg, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America (1992).
Peter S. Onuf, Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (1987).
Rosemarie Zagarri, The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 (1987).
The Sovereign States
Willi Paul Adams, The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (1980).
Marc W. Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America (1997).
Citizenship
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).
Robert Dinkin, Voting in Revolutionary America (1982).
Ruth Wallis Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (2001).
Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980).
Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998).
Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 (1998).
Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Sonderlund, Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath (1991).
Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).
Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (1997).
Rosemarie Zagarri, A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (1995).
The Critical Period
William G. Anderson, The Price of Liberty: The Public Debt of the American Revolution (1983).
Robert A. Becker, Revolution, Reform, and the Politics of American Taxation, 1763-1783 (1980).
John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 (1989).
David P. Szatmary, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection (1980).
Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (1990).
The Constitution and Ratification
John K. Alexander, The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage (1990).
Richard B. Bernstein and Kym S. Rice, Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution (1987).
M. E. Bradford, Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution (1993).
Roger H. Brown, Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution (1993).
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (1987).
Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999).
John P. Kaminski and Richard Leffler, Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate over the Constitution (1998).
Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (1986).
Ralph Ketcham, Framed for Posterity: The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution (1993).
Peter B. Knupfer, The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861 (1991).
Elizabeth P. McCaughey, Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution (1987).
William Lee Miller, The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding (1992).
Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution (1985).
Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (1990).
Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996).
John Phillip Reid, Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights (1986).
William H. Riker, The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution (1996).
Stephen L. Schechter, The Reluctant Pillar: New York and the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1985).
Bernard Schwartz, The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of Rights (1992).
Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (1981).
Religion
Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800 (1985).
Morton Borden, Jews, Turks, and Infidels (1984).
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990).
Naomi W. Cohen, Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality (1992).
Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1989).
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982).
Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (1994).
Jacob Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985 (1989).
William Lee Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic (1986).
Sally Schwartz, A Mixed Multitude: The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (1987).
Chapter 9. The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800
General Works
David P. Currie, The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period, 1789-1801 (1997).
Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (1993).
Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000).
John F. Hoadley, Origins of American Political Parties, 1789-1803 (1986).
Ralph Ketcham, Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984).
John R. Nelson, Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 1789-1812 (1987).
James Rogers Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993).
Larry E. Tise, The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783-1800 (1999).
David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).
Washington's Administration
Kenneth R. Bowling, Politics in the First Congress, 1789-1791 (1990).
Jerry A. Clouse, The Whiskey Rebellion: Southwestern Pennsylvania's Frontier People Test the American Constitution (1995).
Leonard W. Levy, The Origins of the Bill of Rights (1999).
Forrest McDonald, The American Presidency: An Intellectual History (1994).
Robert A. Rutland, The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791 (1991).
Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986).
The Economy and Hamilton's Program
Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (1984).
Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton, American (2000).
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990).
Jacob E. Cooke, Alexander Hamilton (1982).
James A. Henretta, The Origins of American Capitalism: Collected Essays (1991).
Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (1986).
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992).
Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (1982).
Winifred Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 (1992).
Herbert E. Sloan, Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (1995).
Women
Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001).
Native Americans and The Frontier
Colin G. Calloway, Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1987).
Andrew R. L. Cayton, Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Century, 1780-1825 (1989).
Gregory E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (1992).
R. Douglas Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830 (1998).
John Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (2000).
Wiley Sword, President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795 (1985).
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).
Foreign Relations
Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (1991).
Peter P. Hill, French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793 (1988).
Daniel G. Lang, Foreign Policy in the Early Republic (1985).
Martin Ros, Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon and the Battle for Haiti (1993).
William Stinchcombe, The XYZ Affair (1981).
Richard J. Twomey, Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radicalism in the United States, 1790-1820 (1989).
Federalists and Republicans
Larry D. Eldridge, A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America (1994).
Joseph J. Ellis, Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993).
John Ferling, John Adams: A Life (1992).
Leonard Levy, The Emergence of a Free Press (1985).
Drew McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980).
Jeffrey L. Pasley, "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (2001).
State Histories
Andrew R. L. Cayton, Frontier Indiana (1996).
Christopher Grasso, A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (1999).
Charles Steffen, The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812 (1984).
Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (1990).
Chapter 10. Republic Ascendancy, 1800-1824
General Works
Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999).
Noble E. Cunningham, In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987).
Ralph Ketcham, Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984).
David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fêtes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).
Stephen Watts, The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (1987).
Jefferson and Republicans
Doron S. Ben-Atar, The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy and Diplomacy (1993).
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997).
Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997).
Herbert A. Johnson, The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 (1997).
Lawrence S. Kaplan, "Entangling Alliances with None": American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson (1987).
Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr (1982).
Richard K. Matthews, The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View (1984).
Drew R. McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (1980).
Drew R. McCoy, The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (1989).
R. Kent Newmyer, The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney (1986).
Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1998).
Robert A. Rutland, The Presidency of James Madison (1990).
Jack M. Sosin, The Aristocracy of the Long Robe: The Origins of Judicial Review in America (1989).
Francis N. Stites, John Marshall: Defender of the Constitution (1981).
Robert W. Tucker, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1990).
G. E. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 (1988).
Lewis and Clark and the West
Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996).
Albert Furtwangler, Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals (1993).
David Freeman Hawke, Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1980).
James P. Ronda, Lewis and Clark among the Indians (1984).
Foreign Policy and the War of 1812
Carl Benn, The Iroquois in the War of 1812 (1998).
Pierre Berton, The Invasion of Canada (1980).
Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler and Robert L. Ivie, Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic (1983).
Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (1989).
C. Edward Skeen, Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812 (1999).
J. C. A. Stagg, Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783-1830 (1983).
Slavery
Douglas Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion (1993).
Sylvia Frey, Water from the Rock (1991).
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (1997).
Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 (1988).
James Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia (1997).
Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1710-1810 (1991).
Native Americans
Henry Warner Bowden, American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict (1981).
Christopher Densmore, Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator (1999).
Gregory E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (1992).
R. David Edmunds, The Shawnee Prophet (1983).
R. David Edmunds, Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (1984).
Bil Gilbert, God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War (1989).
William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839 (1984).
James Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989).
Paul Francis Prucha, The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (1984).
John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (1997).
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991).
Women, Marriage, and Religion
Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (1999).
Norma Basch, In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (1982).
Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (1998).
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990).
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2001).
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (1985).
Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1989).
Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History (2000).
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (1994).
Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic (1980).
Jan Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia (1983).
Carla Pestana, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts (1991).
Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1786-1812 (1990).
Monroe and Adams Presidencies
Noble E. Cunningham Jr., The Presidency of James Monroe (1996).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises (1980).
Mary W. M. Hargreaves, The Presidency of John Quincy Adams (1986).
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life (1997).
Chapter 11. The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840
General Works
Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 (1995).
Michael F. Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln (1992).
Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (1987).
Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991).
Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990).
Robert H. Wiebe, The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the Constitution to the Eve of Disunion (1984).
The Market Revolution
Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 (1989).
Mary H. Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910 (1988).
Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Worcester, Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1990).
Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994).
Tony A. Freyer, Producers versus Capitalists: Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum America (1994).
Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989).
John D. Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (2000).
Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 (1996).
Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City (1990).
Christopher L. Tomlins, Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (1993).
Barbara Tucker, Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860 (1984).
The Spread of Democracy
Paul Goodman, Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry and the Great Transition in New England, 1826-1836 (1988).
Daniel W. Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (1980).
Lawrence Frederick Kohl, The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era (1989).
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 (1981).
Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984).
Culture and Society
Gerald J. Baldasty, The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century (1992).
Stuart M. Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900 (1989).
Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992).
Kenneth Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).
Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (1998).
Faye E. Dudden, Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 (1994).
Ann Fabian, Card-Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (1992).
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1982).
Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995).
Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 (1983).
John F. Kasson, Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).
Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988).
Lewis Perry, Boats against the Current: American Culture between Revolution and Modernity, 1820-1860 (1993).
E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993).
Mary P. Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (1990).
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985).
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1986).
Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1995).
Ronald J. Zboray, A Fictive People: Antebellum Development and the American Reading Public (1993).
Reform and Religion
Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994).
R. J. M. Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (1983).
Ellen Eslinger, Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism (1999).
Lawrence J. Friedman, Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830-1870 (1982).
Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990).
Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism (1996).
Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1989).
Nancy A. Hewitt, Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 (1984).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997).
Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).
Steven Mintz, Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995).
Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981).
Jacksonian Politics
Irving H. Bartlett, John C. Calhoun: A Biography (1993).
Maurice G. Baxter, Henry Clay and the American System (1995).
Donald B. Cole, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (1993).
Richard E. Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis (1987).
Daniel Feller, The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (1984).
Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999).
Peter B. Knupfer, The Union as It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861 (1991).
John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (1988).
John Niven, Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics (1983).
Lynn Hudson Parsons, John Quincy Adams (1998).
Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991).
Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time (1997).
Leonard Richards, The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986).
Native Americans
John A. Andrew, From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America (1992).
Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998).
Anthony F. C. Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (1993).
Philip Weeks, Farewell, My Nation: The American Indian and the United States, 1820-1890 (1990).
J. Leitch Wright, The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the Old South (1981).
Chapter 12. The Free North and West, 1840-1860
General Works
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2000).
Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People (1990).
David B. Danbom, Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (1995).
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995).
John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Frontier (1986).
Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990).
Jon Gjerde, The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1997).
Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1991).
Bruce Laurie, Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989).
The Economy and Free Labor
Howard Bodenhorn, A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation Building (2000).
Paul G. Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (1981).
J. Matthew Gallman, Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1854-1855 (2000).
Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America (1991).
Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar, Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860 (1986).
Donald R. Hoke, Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector (1990).
David A. Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (1984).
Reeve Huston, Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York (2000).
Paul Israel, From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920 (1992).
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992).
Edward Laxton, The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America (1998).
Bruce Laurie, Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850 (1980).
Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860 (2000).
Jonathan Prude, The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860 (1983).
W. J. Rorabaugh, The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America (1986).
Antebellum Culture and Reform
Norman Basch, In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (1982).
Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1790-1900 (1989).
Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).
Joseph P. Ferrie, Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840-1860 (1999).
Lawrence Foster, Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons (1991).
Rhoda Golden Freeman, The Free Negro in New York City in the Era before the Civil War (1994).
Paul Goodman, Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (1998).
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1982).
Debra Gold Hansen, Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1993).
Nancy A. Hewitt, Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 (1984).
Leo P. Himel, Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform (1998).
Sylvia D. Hoffert, When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America (1995).
James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (1998).
Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998).
Joan M. Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (1986).
Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).
Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 (1983).
Spencer Klaw, Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community (1993).
Henry Mayer, All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (1998).
William J. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991).
Kerby A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985).
Steven Mintz, Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995).
John W. Quist, Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan (1998).
Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).
Mary P. Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (1998).
Mark S. Schantz, Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island (2000).
John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002).
Albert J. Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston (1998).
Edward L. Widmer, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City (1998).
Shirley Yee, Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 (1992).
Jean Fagan Yellin, Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture (1989).
Politics and Expansion
Peter J. Blodgett, Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858 (1999).
Yong Chen, Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community (2000).
Donald E. Chipman, Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 (1992).
Arnoldo De Leon, The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 (1982).
James R. Gibson, Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786-1846 (1985).
William H. Goetzmann, New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery (1986).
Thomas R. Hietala, Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America (1985).
Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (1981).
Albert L. Hurtado, Indian Survival on the California Frontier (1988).
Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo, Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians (1995).
David Alan Johnson, Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 (1992).
Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).
Charles J. McClain, In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (1994).
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on Five Hundred Years of History, vol. 2., Continental America, 1800-1867 (1993).
Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman, The Course of Mexican History (4th ed., 1991).
David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (1987).
Gregory H. Nobles, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1997).
Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains (1988).
Brian Roberts, American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture (2000).
Joel H. Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1915 (1991).
David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico (1982).
The Mexican War
John S. D. Eisenhower, So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848 (1989).
Robert W. Johannsen, To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
Ernest M. Lander Jr., Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, the South Carolinians, and the Mexican War (1980).
James M. McCaffrey, Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1992).
Richard Bruce Winders, Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997).
Chapter 13. The Slave South, 1820-1860
General Works
John B. Boles, The South through Time: A History of an American Region (2nd ed., 1999).
William J. Cooper Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill, The American South: A History (2nd ed., 1996).
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (1990).
The Economy
Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy (1981).
Peter A. Coclanis, The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989).
Daniel S. Dupre, Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840 (1997).
Robert W. Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989).
Sam B. Hilliard, Atlas of Antebellum Southern Agriculture (1984).
John Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (2000).
Joseph P. Reidy, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (1992).
Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction (1987).
Slaveholders
Jane T. Censer, North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860 (1984).
Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South (1982).
Drew G. Faust, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1982).
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988).
James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (1982).
Steven M. Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (1987).
Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989).
Marli F. Weiner, Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880 (1998).
Jeffrey Robert Young, Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837 (1999).
Slaves, Slavery, and Race Relations
General Works
John B. Boles, Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983).
George M. Fredrickson, The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality (1988).
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993).
Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987).
Important Aspects of Slavery
John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (1999).
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999).
Ann Patton Malone, Sweet Chariot: Slavery, Family, and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (1992).
Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (1996).
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2000).
Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996).
Deborah G. White, Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985).
State and Local Studies
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (1989).
Margaret W. Creel, "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs (1988).
Charles B. Dew, Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (1994).
Douglas R. Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (1993).
Barbara J. Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985).
John C. Inscoe, Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989).
Charles W. Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (1984).
Society and Culture
Edward L. Ayers, Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century American South (1984).
Fred Arthur Bailey, Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation (1987).
Peter W. Bardaglio, Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South (1995).
Orville Vernon Burton, In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985).
Victoria E. Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (1992).
Bruce Collins, White Society in the Antebellum South (1985).
Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997).
David R. Goldfield, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (rev. ed., 1989).
Sally E. Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (2001).
Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983).
J. William Harris, Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands (1985).
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997).
Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984).
Robert C. Kenser, Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881 (1987).
Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (1984).
Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (1995).
Christopher Morris, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 (1995).
John Solomon Otto, The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860 (1989).
Christopher H. Owen, The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1998).
Mark M. Smith, Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997).
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).
Randy J. Sparks, On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876 (1994).
Christopher Waldrep, Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-1880 (1998).
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982).
Politics and Political Culture
Anthony Gene Carey, Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia (1997).
William J. Cooper Jr., Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 (1983).
Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988).
Kenneth S. Greenberg, Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (1985).
Robert E. May, John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (1985).
Craig M. Simpson, A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (1985).
Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998).
Peter Wallenstein, From the Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).
Harry L. Watson, Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict (1981).
Chapter 14. The House Divided, 1846-1861
General Works
John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic (1995).
Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980).
Michael F. Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln (1992).
Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (1999).
Bruce C. Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War (1992).
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982).
Anne C. Rose, Voices of the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860 (1995).
Joel H. Silbey, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics before the Civil War (1985).
Mark W. Summers, The Plundering Generation: Corruption and the Crisis of the Union, 1849-1861 (1987).
Slavery in the Territories
Paul H. Bergeron, The Presidency of James K. Polk (1987).
Paul Finkelman, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity (1981).
Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997).
Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (1990).
Northern Sectionalism
Richard H. Abbott, Cotton and Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868 (1991).
Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1992).
Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1983).
R. J. M. Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (1983).
Gary Lee Collison, Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen (1997).
Robert R. Dykstra, Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier (1993).
William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987).
Thomas F. Gossett, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and American Culture (1985).
Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (1990).
Susan-Mary Grant, North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000).
David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828-1865: Toward Civil War (1998).
Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (1994).
Pamela Herr, Jessie Benton Frémont: A Biography (1987).
Robert W. Johannsen, Lincoln, the South, and Slavery: The Political Dimension (1991).
Bruce C. Levine, The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (1992).
William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991).
John R. McKivigan, The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1830-1865 (1984).
Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (2nd ed., 1984).
Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000).
Anne C. Rose, Victorian America and the Civil War (1992).
Thomas P. Slaughter, Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North (1991).
James Brewer Stewart, Wendell Phillips, Liberty's Hero (1986).
Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (1991).
Albert J. Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston (1998).
Carol Wilson, Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865 (1994).
Douglas L. Wilson, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1998).
David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990).
Southern Sectionalism
John Barnwell, Love of Order: South Carolina's First Secession Crisis (1982).
Irving H. Bartlett, John C. Calhoun: A Biography (1993).
Tom Chaffin, Fatal Glory: Narciso López and the First Clandestine U.S. War against Cuba (1996).
Drew Gilpin Faust, James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1982).
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The South and Three Sectional Crises (1980).
Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988).
William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol. 1, Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (1990).
Thelma Jennings, The Nashville Convention: Southern Movement for Unity, 1848-1851 (1980).
Vicki Vaughn Johnson, The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845-1871 (1992).
John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (1988).
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (1990).
Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).
Eric H. Walther, The Fire-Eaters (1992).
Secession
Walter L. Buenger, Secession and the Union in Texas (1984).
Daniel W. Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989).
James L. Huston, The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War (1987).
James M. Woods, Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession (1987).
Chapter 15. The Crucible of War, 1861-1865
General Works
Jean Harvey Baker, David Herbert Donald, and Michael F. Holt, The Civil War and Reconstruction (2001).
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).
James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr., Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (1998).
Roger L. Ransom, Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War (1989).
Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (2000).
The Combatants
Michael Barton, Goodmen, the Character of Civil War Soldiers (1981).
Richard E. Beringer et al., Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986).
Richard Nelson Current, Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy (1992).
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995).
Lesley J. Gordon, General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (1998).
Randall C. Jimerson, The Private Civil War: Popular Thought during the Sectional Conflict (1988).
Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (1987).
John F. Marszalek, Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order (1993).
James Marten, The Children's Civil War (1998).
William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (1981).
James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (1994).
Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences (1988).
Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993).
Mark E. Neely Jr., The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America (1993).
Alan T. Nolan, Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History (1991).
Stephen B. Oates, A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War (1994).
James I. Robertson Jr., Soldiers Blue and Gray (1988).
James I. Robertson Jr., Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (1997).
Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (1988).
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865 (2000).
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (1998).
Emory M. Thomas, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (1995).
Military History
Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War (1989).
Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns (1985).
Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 (1995).
Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones, How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983).
Archer Jones, Civil War Command and Strategy: The Process of Victory and Defeat (1992).
Alvin M. Josephy Jr., The Civil War in the American West (1991).
Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (1991).
Steven E. Woodworth, Davis and Lee at War (1995).
Union and Freedom
David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989).
Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (1987).
LaWanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (1981).
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (1990).
Waldo E. Martin Jr., The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984).
William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991).
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1990).
Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986).
The South at War
Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995).
William A. Blair, Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998).
William J. Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American (2000).
Mary A. DeCredico, Patriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort (1990).
Wayne K. Durrill, War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion (1990).
Laura F. Edwards, Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000).
Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (1988).
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996).
Noralee Frankel, Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi (1999).
William W. Freehling, The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001).
Ernest B. Furgurson, Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (1996).
Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997).
John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000).
Ervin L. Jordan Jr., Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (1995).
Robert Tracy McKenzie, One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee (1994).
Mark E. Neely Jr., Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999).
John Solomon Otto, Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 (1994).
Philip Shaw Paludan, Victims: A True Story of the Civil War (1981).
George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989).
George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1994).
Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865 (1995).
Steven Elliott Tripp, Yankee Town, Southern City: Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg (1997).
David Williams, Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (1998).
Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War (1988).
The North at War
Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (1990).
Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (2000).
Earl J. Hess, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union (1988).
Howard Jones, Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War (1999).
Ernest A. McKay, The Civil War and New York City (1990).
Mark E. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991).
Philip Shaw Paludan, "A People's Contest": The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1988).
Philip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994).
Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997).
Chapter 16. Reconstruction, 1863-1877
General Works
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001).
David Herbert Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt, The Civil War and Reconstruction (2000).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (1988).
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (3rd ed., 2000).
Wartime Reconstruction
Richard H. Abbott, The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy (1986).
Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 (1991).
The Meaning of Freedom
James D. Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (1988).
Edmund L. Drago, Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (1982).
Russell Duncan, Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen (1986).
Barbara J. Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985).
Michael W. Fitzgerald, The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change during Reconstruction (1989).
Eric Foner, Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983).
Janet Sharp Hermann, The Pursuit of a Dream (1981).
William E. Montgomery, Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900 (1992).
Lynda J. Morgan, Emancipation in Virginia's Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870 (1992).
Robert Morris, Reading, 'Riting and Reconstruction (1981).
Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 (1994).
Clarence E. Walker, A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1982).
Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (1984).
The Politics of Reconstruction
Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1990).
Michael Kent Curtis, No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (1986).
Victor B. Howard, Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870 (1990).
Michael L. Lanza, Agrarianism and Reconstruction Politics: The Southern Homestead Act (1990).
William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (1981).
William E. Nelson, The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine (1988).
James E. Sefton, Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power (1980).
Hans L. Trefousse, Andrew Johnson: A Biography (1989).
The Struggle in the South
Stephen V. Ash, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South (1988).
Randolph B. Campbell, A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880 (1983).
Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 (1985).
Barry A. Crouch, The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans (1992).
Richard N. Current, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation (1988).
Jane E. Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-emancipation Virginia (2000).
Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).
Gaines Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat of the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (1987).
Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983).
Elizabeth Jacoway, Yankee Missionaries in the South: The Penn School Experiment (1980).
Jacqueline Jones, Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (1980).
Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).
Robert C. Kenzer, Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881 (1987).
Richard G. Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1865-1870 (1991).
Scott Reynolds Nelson, Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction (1999).
Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984).
Lawrence N. Powell, New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1980).
George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).
Crandall A. Shifflett, Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900 (1982).
Mark W. Summers, Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877 (1984).
Ted Tunnell, Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877 (1984).
Peter Wallenstein, From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).
Michael Wayne, The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880 (1983).
Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (1986).
The Collapse of Reconstruction
Terry L. Seip, The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and Intersectional Relationships, 1868-1879 (1983).
Mark W. Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (1993).
Margaret S. Thompson, The "Spider Web": Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant (1985).