America, 1789-1877
Constitution:
Beeman, Plain, Honest Men
Cornell, The Other Founders
Holton, Unruly Americans
Rakove, Original Meanings
Wood, Creation of the American Republic
Early Republic:
Politics/Law:
Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution
Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott
Nelson, Marbury v. Madison
Elkins and McKitrick, The Age of Federalism
Freeman, Affairs of Honor
Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy
Brands, Andrew Jackson
Freehling, The Road to Disunion
Eisenhower, So Far from God
Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
Social/Cultural:
Bushman, The Refinement of America
Johnson and Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias
Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium
Johnson, A Roaring Camp
Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters
Rockman, Scraping By
Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic
Taylor, William Cooper’s Town
Wilentz, Chants Democratic
Women:
Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewitt
Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
Slavery:
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll
Blassingame, The Slave Community
Kolchin, American Slavery
Stampp, The Peculiar Institution
Civil War:
Ayers, In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Faust, This Republic of Suffering
Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over
McPherson, For Cause and Comrades
Reconstruction:
Foner, Nothing but Freedom
Foner, Reconstruction
Keith, The Colfax Massacre
Labbe and Lurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases
Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction