Ian Delahanty
Fall 2008
PhD Comprehensive Exam
Professor David Quigley
Mid Nineteenth-Mid Twentieth Century United States History
I- The Civil War & Reconstruction
Blight, David. Race and Union: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. See Notes
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the
American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. See
Notes
Foner, Eric. Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the
Republican Party Before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press,
1995. See Notes
________. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New
York: Harper & Row, 1988. Have
Gallagher, Gary. The Confederate War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1997. See Notes
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance Between Black Soldiers
And White Officers. New York: Free Press, 1990. See Notes
McConnell, Stuart Charles. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic,
1865-1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. See Notes
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine
Books, 1989.
Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham
Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,
2007. See Notes
Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of
American Democracy. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. F128.47 .Q54 2004
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the
Thirteenth Amendment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. See Notes
II- Problems in American Education
Cremin, Lawrence. The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American
Education, 1876-1957. New York: Vintage Books, 1961. LA209 .C7 1961 (See
Notes)
Dewey, John. Education and Democracy. LC206.G7 E3
Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia
Blacks, 1965-1873. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press,
1981. See Notes
Katz, Michael. The Irony of Early School Reform: Education Innovation in MidNineteenth Century Massachusetts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1968. See Notes
Katznelson, Ira. Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal..
New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Lemann, Nicholas. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New
York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999. See Notes
III- Slavery & Race
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in
The United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
HQ1075.5.U6 B43 1995 (CR)
Gilmore, Glenda. Gender & Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in
North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1996. Have, See Notes
Litwack, Leon. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Knopf,
1979. See Notes
________. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1961. E185.9 .L5
________. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York,
1998. E185.6 .L58 1998
Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New
England, 1780-1860. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s
Boston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Have
IV- Labor & Class Politics
Barrett, James R. “Americanization from the Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking
Of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930.” Journal of American
History 79.3 “Discovering America: A Special Issue.” (December 1992): 9961020.
Brundage, David. The Making of Western Labor Radicalism. Urbana, IL: The University
of Illinois Press, 1994. See Notes
Gerstle, Gary. Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City,
1914-1960. New York, 1989. HD8039.T42 U646 1989
Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. HD8055 .K7 F56 1983 @350615
(K-C)
Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York, 1998. See Notes
Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial
City. Cambridge, 1985. HD7395.R4 R67 1985
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York:
Knopf, 1986.
Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American
Working-Class, 1788-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
HD8085.N3 W54 1984
V- Urban Development and Progressivism
Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in
Boston, 1900-1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
F73.5 .C745 1998 (also in Boston section)
Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. HQ1439.B7 D48 2000
Erie, Stephen P. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine
Politics, 1840-1985. Berkely, 1989. E184.I6 E75 1989
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed.
1998. F75.A1 G36 1999 (also in Boston section)
Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870
and 1871. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. F128.9.I6 G67 1993
Thernstrom, Steven. Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth-Century City.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964. HN65 .T45
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge,
MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. HN57 .R556 1998
Ryan, Mary P. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the
Nineteenth Century. Berkely: University of California Press, 1997. JK1764 .R9
1997
VI- Immigration & Ethnicity
Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985. E184.A1 B59 1983
Handlin, Oscar. Boston’s Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation, 1790-1880. 2nd ed.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. See Kenny List
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. 2nd ed.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988. See Kenny List
Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York City’s Two Great Waves of
Immigration. Have
Kazal, Russell. “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in
American Ethnic History,” American Historical Review, 100.2 (April 1995): 437471. Have, See Notes
Ngai, Mae. “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination
of the Immigration Act of 1924,” Journal of American History (June 1999):
pp. 67-92. Have, See Notes
Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. Have, See Notes
VII- Boston in the 19th and 20th centuries
Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in
Boston, 1900-1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
F73.5 .C745 1998
Lukas, J. Anthony. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three Boston
Families. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.
O’Connor, Thomas. Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1997.
________. Building a ‘New Boston’: The Politics of Urban Renewal, 1950-1970. 1993.
________. The Boston Irish: A Political History. 1995.
Kennedy, Lawrence. Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. 1992.
Ryan, Dennis P. Beyond the Ballot Box: A Social History of the Boston Irish, 1845-1917.
Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983.
Thernstrom, Stephan. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in an American
Metropolis. 1973.
Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900.
1962.
Gamm, Gerald. Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
VIII- Intellectual/Ideological History
Bennet, David. The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in
America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
E183 .B43 1988
Hofstader, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: G. Braziller,
1959. HM22.U5 H61
Kloppenberg, James. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in
European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1986. JA84.E9 K57 1986
Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Re-interpretation of American History,
1900-1916. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. HC106 .K77
McGreevy, John. “Thinking on One’s Own: Catholicism in the American Intellectual
Imagination, 1928-1960.” Journal of American History 84.1 (1997):
________. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W.W. Norton,
2003.
Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. Huntington, NY:
R.E. Krieger Publishing Co., reprint, 1976. E179.5 .T956 1976