| 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 |
| 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 |
| Week 5: | Work & Labor |
| Thomas Dublin, | Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 |
| Charles B. Dew, | Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge |
| 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 |
| Week 6: | Class Formation & the Professions |
| Mary Ryan, | Cradle of the Middle Class: the Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 |
| Robert Dalzell, | Enterprising Elite: the Boston Associates and the World They Made |
| 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 |
| Alan Dawley, | Class and Community: the Industrial Revolution in Lynn |
| Week 7: | Religion |
| Charles Sellers, | The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1860 |
| Michael Barkum, | Crucible of the Millenium: the Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840s |
| Ronald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler (editors), | The Disappointed: Millerism and Millennarianism in the Nineteenth Century |
| 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 |
| Anthony F. C. Wallace, | Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution |
| Week 8: | Popular Culture |
| Dale Cockrell, | Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World |
| William J. Mahar, | Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture |
| 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 |
| Week 9: | The South, Slavery, and Abolition |
| Mark M. Smith, | Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South |
| 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 |
| John Ashworth, | Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic (Volume 1:Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850) |
| Merton L. Dillon, | Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and their Allies, 1619-1865 |
| James Brewer Stewart, | Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Week 12: | 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 |
| Thomas D. Hamm, | God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 |
| Edward K. Spann, | Hopedale: From Commune to Company Town, 1840- 1920 |
| Roger Wunderlich, | Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York |
| Spencer R. Claw, | Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community |
| Week 13: | 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 |
| Week 14: | Educational & Governmental Reforms |
| Charles Leslie Glenn, Jr., | The Myth of the Common School |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John W. Quist, | Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan |