University of Georgia

HIST4000

SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

Spring Semester 2003




Reading List and Schedule


Week 4:Mobility, Immigration, & Urbanization9:05 AM Class11:15 AM Class
Oscar Handlin,Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880 : a study in acculturationJessica Ellington
David Hackett Fischer,Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in 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, 1789-1860Jennifer MadlemMegan Cooper
Sean Wilentz,Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850Courtney Langevin


Week 5:Work & Labor9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Richard Stott,The Worker in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York CityReid Peacock
Bruce Laurie,Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-century AmericaDoug Childers
W. J. Rorabough,The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in AmericaGreg Anderson
Peter Way,Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860Luke Foster
Alice Kessler-Harris,Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United StatesSaiward Pharr


Week 6:Class & Culture9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Mary Ryan,Cradle of the Middle Class: the Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865Melissa Wright
Karen Haltunnen,Confidence Men & Painted Women: a Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870Jenny BonoAmanda Dominy
Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America
John F. Kasson,Rudeness and CivilityGina McDonaldChristine Loughman
Nathan O. Hatch,The Professions in American History
Alan Dawley,Class and Community: the Industrial Revolution in Lynn


Week 7:Religion9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Permanently Filled
Michael Barkum,Crucible of the Millenium: the Burned-Over District of New York in the 1840sJames Knauff
Paul Johnson,A Shopkeeper's Millenium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837Rachelle Mervis
Christine Heyrman,Southern Cross: the Beginnings of the Bible BeltGreg ThomasAdam Hebbard
Keith Hardman,Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875: Revivalist and Reformer
Anthony F. C. Wallace,Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
Anne M. Boylan,Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880Jessica PerryAmanda Jordan


Week 8:Popular Culture9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Permanently Filled
William J. Mahar,Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular CultureHeath Ward
Susan G. Davis,Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia
Neil Harris,Humbug: The Art of P. T. BarnumWestray Day
Andrea Stulman Dennett,Weird and Wonderful: the Dime Museum in AmericaSylvia Little
Lawrence Levine,Highbrow/Lowbrow: the Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in AmericaSara LaRose
Elliot J. Gorn,The Manly Art: Bare-knuckle Prize Fighting in AmericaPatrick FolzRick Snell


Week 9:The South & Slavery9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Permanently Filled
Mark M. Smith,Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American SouthFreddy Saldana
James Oakes,Slavery and Freedomandrew turnerDanielle Sullivan
Bess Beatty,Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900
Christopher Morris,Becoming Southern; The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860Nathan UhlenbrockAli Robinson
Stephanie McCurry,Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low CountryBilly Peppers


Week 10:Women9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Nancy F. Cott,The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
Thomas Dublin,Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860Katherine Taylor
Janet Farrell Brodie,Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century AmericaTonya WrightAimee Pavlik
Barbara L. Epstein,The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth Century America Claire Bufe
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:Family9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
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 Terry Aldrich
Anya Jabour,Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal
Jacqueline S. Reinier,From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850Carly Harrell
Stephen M. Frank,Life With Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-century American NorthZach FieldsMandy Bishop


Week 12:Utopian Experiments9:05 AM Class
Permanently Filled
11:15 AM Class
Marvin S. Hill,Quest for Refuge: the Mormon Flight from American PluralismJohnny Anderson
Seymour R. Kesten,Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental Colonies Dedicated to Changing the World Russell Frazier
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 CommunitiesPaul Davis
Thomas D. Hamm,God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846Josh Harbour
Roger Wunderlich,Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New YorkJeff Reilley
Spencer R. Claw,Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community


Week 13:Social Reform9:05 AM Class11:15 AM Class
Permanently Filled
David J. Rothman,The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
Charles E. Rosenberg,The Care of Strangers: the Rise of America's Hospital System
Barbara L. Bellows,Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670-1860 Charles CarterJessica Filliat
John W. Quist,Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
David B. Tyack
and Elisabeth Hansot,
Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public SchoolsJonathan Edwards
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 Ryals StoneMina Elmankabady




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