Nineteenth-Century American History Comprehensive Exam Reading List with David Quigley
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American Revolution –
Politics –
Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1992.
Gender –
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill,
NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800.
Boston: Little Brown, 1980.
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The Early Republic and the Formation of the American Identity –
Identity and Nationalism –
Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, MA: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Lepore, Jill. A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 17761820. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Watts, Steven. The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820. Baltimore,
Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Politics –
Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 17881828. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Freeman, Joanne. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Have, Connecticut:
Yale University Press, 2001.
Kerber, Linda. Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1970.
Gender –
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York:
Vintage Books, 1990.
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The Revolutions of Jacksonian America –
Religion and Reform –
Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Bole, John B. editor. Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American
South, 1740-1870. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York Mission
Movement, 1812-1870. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Confronting Black America –
Bay, Mia. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1999.
Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1961.
The Antebellum South –
Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Women’s World in the Old South. New York: Pantheon
Books, 1982.
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1976.
Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Norton, 1982.*
The Development of Urban Space –
Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth
Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1986.
Market Revolutions –
Masur, Louis P. 1831: Year of Eclipse. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
May, Robert W. Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994.
Sheriff, Carol. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862. New
York: Hill & Wang, 1996.
The Formation of Class Culture and Politics –
Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 17881850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
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The Political and Ideological Crises of the 1850s –
Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Baker, Jean H. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil
War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987.
Sinha, Manisha. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina.
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Experiencing and Imagining the American Civil War –
Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance in American Politics and Society in
the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber ed. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1992.
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Gallagher, Gary W. The Confederate War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
George Fredrickson. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. New
York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance Between Black Soldiers and White
Officers. New York: Free Press, 1990.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Touchstone, 1995.
Leonard, Elizabeth. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 1994.
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McPherson, James. The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Paludan, Philip. A People’s Contest: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865. Lawrence, Kansas:
University Press of Kansas, 1996.
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Reconstruction: Reconfiguring the Political and Racial Landscape –
The Racialized Economy –
Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. 1997.
Frederickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character
and Destiny, 1817-1914. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of
Slave Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Remembering the War –
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
The Remaking of Democracy –
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row
Publishers, 1988.
Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American
Democracy. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth
Amendment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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The Gilded Age and Jim Crow –
White Supremacy –
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Litwack, Leon F. Troubles in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1998.
Race and Civilization –
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United
States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Campbell, James T. Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and
South Africa. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Populism and Working Class Movements –
Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1976.
Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1951.
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Confronting and Responding to Modernity –
Progressivism –
Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1985.
Kennedy, David. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1982.
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang,1967.
The Anxiety of Modernity –
Lears, T.J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture,
1880-1920. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.
O’Malley, Michael. Keeping Watch: A History of American Time. New York: Viking, 1990.
Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and Marginalization
of Morality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 1979.
Wrobel, David. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New
West. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
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