| Week 1: | Rural Society |
| Robert H. Wiebe, | The Opening of American Society: From the
Adoption of the Constitution to the Eve of Disunion |
| Charles Sellers, | The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America,
1815-1860 |
| Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (editors), | The Market Revolution
in America: Social, Political and Religious Expressions, 1800-1880 |
| James Henretta, | The Origins of American Capitalism |
| Stephen Hahn and Jonathan Prude, | The Countryside in the Age of the
Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America |
| Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin, | Commonwealth: A Study in the
Role of Government in the American Economy |
| John Ashworth, | Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum
Republic (Volume 1:Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850) |
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| Week 2: | Transportation
Revolution |
| George Rogers Taylor, | The Transportation Revolution,
1815-1860 |
| Leo Marx, | Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in
America |
| Ronald E. Shaw, | Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United
States, 1790-1860 |
| Louis C. Hunter, | Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and
Technological History |
| Robert W. Fogel, | Railroads and Economic Growth |
| James A. Ward, | Railroads and the Character of America,
1820-1887 |
| James D. Dilts, | The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and
Ohio, The Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853 |
| Daniel H. Calhoun, | The American Civil Engineer: Origins and
Conflict |
| U. B. Phillips, | History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton
Belt |
| John Majewski, | "Commerce and Community: Economic Culture and Internal
Improvements in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1790-1860." |
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| Week 3: | Industrialization |
| Thomas Dublin, | Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and
Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 |
| Anthony F. C. Wallace, | Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in
the Early Industrial Revolution |
| Phillip Scranton, | Proprietary Capitalism |
| Merritt Roe Smith, | Harper's Ferry Armory and the New
Technology |
| Alan Dawley, | Class and Community: the Industrial Revolution in
Lynn |
| Charles B. Dew, | Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo
Forge |
| Judith A. McGaw, | Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social
Change Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 |
| Morton Horwitz, | The Transformation of American Law |
| Robert Dalzell, | Enterprising Elite: the Boston Associates and the World
They Made |
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| Week 4: | Mobility, Immigration, &
Urbanization |
| Oscar Handlin, | Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880 : a study in
acculturation |
| David Hackett Fischer, | Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
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| James H. Cassedy, | Medicine and American Growth,
1800-1860 |
| Ronald Hoffman (editor), | Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on
Personal Identity in Early America |
| Alan Taylor, | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the
Frontier of the Early American Republic |
| Christine Stansell, | City of Women: Sex and Class in New York,
1789-1860 |
| Paul Boyer, | Urban Masses and Moral Order in America,
1820-1920 |
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| Week 5: | Work & Labor |
| Sean Wilentz, | Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the
American Working Class, 1788-1850 |
| Richard Stott, | The Worker in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and
Youth in Antebellum New York City |
| Bruce Laurie, | Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-century
America |
| W. J. Rorabough, | The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine
Age in America |
| Robert Starobin, | Industrial Slavery |
| Peter Way, | Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North
American Canals, 1780-1860 |
| Alice Kessler-Harris, | Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women
in the United States |
| H. J. Habakuk, | American and British Technology in the Nineteenth
Century |
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| Week 6: | Class Formation & the
Professions |
| Mary Ryan, | Cradle of the Middle Class: the Family in Oneida County,
New York, 1790-1865 |
| Stuart M. Blumin, | The Emergence of the Middle Class |
| Karen Haltunnen, | Confidence Men & Painted Women: a Study of
Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 |
| Richard L. Bushman, | The Refinement of America |
| John F. Kasson, | Rudeness and Civility |
| Nathan O. Hatch, | The Professions in American History |
| Maxwell H. Bloomfield, | American Lawyers in a Changing Society,
1776-1876 |
| Joseph F. Kett, | The Formation of the American Medical Profession: the
Role of Institutions, 1780-1860 |
| Richard Sennett, | The Fall of Public Man |
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| Week 7: | Religion |
| Michael Barkum, | Crucible of the Millenium |
| Paul Johnson, | A Shopkeeper's Millenium: Society and Revivals in
Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 |
| Christine Heyrman, | Southern Cross: the Beginnings of the Bible
Belt |
| George M. Thomas, | Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity,
Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-century United States |
| Keith Hardman, | Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875: Revivalist and
Reformer |
| William G. McLoughlin Jr., | Revivals, Awakenings, and
Reform |
| Curtis D. Johnson, | Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New
York, 1790-1860 |
| Lori D. Ginzburg, | Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality,
Politics and Class in the Nineteenth Century United States |
| Anne M. Boylan, | Sunday School: The Formation of an American
Institution, 1790-1880 |
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| Week 8: | Spring Break |
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| Week 9: | Popular Culture |
| Dale Cockrell, | Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their
World |
| Michael Feldberg, | The Turbulent Era: Riot & Disorder in Jacksonian
America |
| David Grimsted, | American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil
War |
| Susan G. Davis, | Parades and Power: Street Theatre in
Nineteenth-century Philadelphia |
| Neil Harris, | Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum |
| Andrea Stulman Dennett, | Weird and Wonderful: the Dime Museum in
America |
| Lawrence Levine, | Highbrow/Lowbrow: the Emergence of Cultural
Hierarchy in America |
| Elliot J. Gorn, | The Manly Art: Bare-knuckle Prize Fighting in
America |
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| Week 10: | Women |
| Nancy F. Cott, | The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New
England, 1780-1835 |
| Linda Kerber, | Women of the Early Republic |
| Jackie Jones, | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow |
| Catherine Clinton, | Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old
South |
| Ann Douglas, | The Feminization of American Culture |
| Janet Farrell Brodie, | Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century
America |
| Barbara L. Epstein, | The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism,
and Temperance in Nineteenth Century America |
| Barbara J. Harris, | Beyond her Sphere: Women and the Professions in
American History |
| Susan E. Kennedy, | If All We Did Was to Weep at Home: A History of
White Working-Class Women in America |
| Timothy J. Gilfoyle, | City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the
Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 |
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| Week 11: | Family |
| Mary Beth Norton, | Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and
the Forming of American Society |
| Richard H Chused, | Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of
Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law |
| Martha Elizabeth Hodes, | White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the
Nineteenth-century South |
| Anya Jabour, | Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt
and the Companionate Ideal |
| Jacqueline S. Reinier, | From Virtue to Character: American Childhood,
1775-1850 |
| Geraldine Youcha, | Minding the Children: Child Care in America from
Colonial Times to the Present |
| Lee A. Craig, | To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm
Productivity in the Antebellum North |
| Stephen M. Frank, | Life With Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the
Nineteenth-century American North |
| David H. Fisher, | Growing Old in America |
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| Week 12: | The South, Slavery, and
Abolition |
| Eugene Genovese, | Roll, Jordan, Roll: the World the Slaves
Made |
| Eugene Genovese, | Political Economy of Slavery |
| James Oakes, | Slavery and Freedom |
| Peter Kolchin, | American Slavery, 1619-1877 |
| Gavin Wright, | The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households,
Markets, and Wealth in the 19th Century |
| Bert Wyatt-Brown, | Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old
South |
| Christopher Morris, | Becoming Southern; The Evolution of a Way of
Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 |
| Stephanie McCurry, | Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households,
Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low
Country |
| Merton L. Dillon, | Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and their Allies,
1619-1865 |
| James Brewer Stewart, | Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American
Slavery |
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| Week 13: | Utopian
Experiments |
| John C. Spurlock, | Free Love: Marriage and Middle-class Radicalism in
America, 1825-1860 |
| Marvin S. Hill, | Quest for Refuge: the Mormon Flight from American
Pluralism |
| Lawrence Foster, | Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments
of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons |
| Louis J. Kern, | An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian
Utopias : the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community |
| Seymour R. Kesten, | Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental
Colonies Dedicated to Changing the World |
| Carl J. Guarneri, | The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in
Nineteenth-century America |
| Christopher Clark, | The Communitarian Moment: the Radical Challenge
of the Northampton Association |
| Carol A. Kolmerten, | Women in Utopia: the Ideology of Gender in the
American Owenite Communities |
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| Week 14: | Deviation and
Asylum |
| David J. Rothman, | The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and
Disorder in the New Republic |
| Michael Stephen Hindus, | Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice, and
Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878 |
| Charles E. Rosenberg, | The Care of Strangers: the Rise of America's
Hospital System |
| Mary Ann Jimenez, | Changing Faces of Madness: Early American
Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane |
| Peter L. Tyor and Leland V. Bell, | Caring for the Retarded in America: A
History |
| Harlan Lane, | The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf
Community |
| Frances A. Koestler, | The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness
in America |
| Michael B. Katz, | In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of
Welfare in America |
| Barbara L. Bellows, | Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the
Poor in Charleston, 1670-1860 |
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| Week 15: | Educational & Governmental
Reforms |
| Charles Leslie Glenn, Jr., | The Myth of the Common School
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| William J. Reese, | The Origins of the American High
School |
| David B . Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot, | Learning Together: A History of
Coeducation in American Public Schools |
| Carl Bode, | The American Lyceum; Town Meeting of the
Mind |
| Bruce Sinclair, | Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics; a History of the
Franklin Institute, 1824-1865 |
| Myra C. Glenn, | Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners,
Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America |
| Edward L. Ayers, | Vengenace and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the
19th Century South |
| Louis P. Masur, | Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the
Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 |
| Alexander W. Pisciotta, | Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the
American Reformatory-prison Movement |
| W. J. Rorabaugh, | The Alcoholic Republic, an American
Tradition |
| Ian R. Tyrrell, | Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in
Antebellum America, 1800-1860 |
