Alexander Noonan
U.S.: Colonial to Reconstruction (Rogers)
Fall 2010: Approved (84)
Native Americans and the Colonial Period:
1. James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
(1985).
2. Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.
Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2005.
3. Paul Boyer and Steven Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
4. Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2001).
5. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New
England.
6. John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
7. Karen O. Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000).
8. Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
(1998).
9. Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815.
Revolutionary America:
10. Clinton Rossiter, 1787: The Grand Convention
11. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967).
12. Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
13. T.H. Breen, The Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the
Eve of the Revolution.
14. Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in
America, 1788-1828.
15. Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the
American Revolution in Virginia.
16. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers.
17. Pauline R. Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).
18. Jackson Turner Main, The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788.
19. Garry Nash, The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the
American Revolution.
20. Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of
American Society (1996).
21. Bernard Schwartz, The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of
Rights.
22. Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
Washington and Adams:
23. David McCullough, John Adams
24. John Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800.
25. Forrest McDonald, The Presidency of George Washington. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1974.
26. John C. Miller, The Federalist Era, 1789-1801.
27. James Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis.
28. Gerald Stourzh, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (1970).
Jeffersonian America:
29. Andrew Burstein, Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic SelfImage.
30. Donald Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict.
31. Drew McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America.
32. -----, The Last of the Founding Fathers: James Madison & the Republican Legacy
(1989).
33. Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2000).
34. Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (2002).
35. James Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis.
Jacksonian America:
36. Lawrence Kohl, The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the
Jacksonian Era.
37. Jean Matthews, Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800-1830.
38. Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846.
39. William Weeks, Building the Continental Empire: American Expansion from the
Revolution to the Civil War.
40. Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America.
Antebellum Society and Culture:
41. Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.
42. Charles C. Bolton, Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in
Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi.
43. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1992).
44. Susan-Mary Grant, North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in
the Antebellum Era.
45. James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders.
46. Ronald G. Walters, The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolition After 1830.
47. Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working
Class, 1788- 1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Antebellum Politics and Economics:
48. Mary W.M. Hargreaves, The Presidency of John Quincy Adams (1985).
49. David Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in
Nineteenth-Century America.
50. Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire.
51. Daniel Walker Howe, What God Had Wrought: The Transformation of America, 18151848.
52. Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United
States.
53. William H. Rehnquist, Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel
Chase and President Andrew Johnson (1992).
54. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American
Working Class.
55. Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 18171862.
Law and Slavery:
56. Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and
Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
57. Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders
58. Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
59. Michael Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African
Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998).
60. Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul, Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
61. Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: the Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
(1975).
62. William E. Nelson, Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
63. R. Kent Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (2001).
64. Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South.
65. Mark V. Tushnet, Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and
Literature, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
66. G. Edward White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 (1988).
Sectional Difference and Crisis:
67. Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of
the 1850s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
68. Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the
American Civil War.
69. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party
Before the Civil War.
70. Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s.
71. David Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861.
Civil War and Reconstruction:
72. David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
73. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution.
74. Robert M. Goldman. Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and
Cruikshank. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
75. Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation,
Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment (Abridged Edition). Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2005.
76. James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
77. James Oakes. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln,
and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
78. Heather Cox Richardson, West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after
the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
79. Nina Silber. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2005.
80. Charles Lofgren, The Plessy Case
81. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America.
Books Relevant to Other Lists:
82. David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007).
83. Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History.
84. Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American
Historical Profession.