Meaghan Dwyer
Professor Quigley
Comp List: U.S. History 1850-1950
December 2, 2003
I. Civil War & Reconstruction
Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings and the Politics of the
1850s (New York, 1992).
Bernstein, Iver, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance in American Politics and
Society in the Age of the Civil War. (New York, 1990).
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA,
2001).
DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America (New York, 1935).
Edwards, Laura, Gendered Strife and Confusion: the Political Culture of Reconstruction.
(Urbana, 1997).
Foner, Eric, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (New York, 1998).
Paludan, Philip, A People’s Contest: the Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 (New York, 1988).
II. Race, ethnic, and gender relations
Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in
Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Frederickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American
Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 (New York, 1971).
Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920. (Chapel Hill, 1996).
Gordon, Linda, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge, 1999).
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (Cambridge, MA, 1998).
Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York, 1998).
McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the TwentiethCentury Urban North (Chicago, 1996).
Roediger, David R. Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
(New York, 1991).
Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United
States, 1880-1917 (Chicago, 1995).
Deutsch, Sarah, Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. (New
York, 2000).
Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860 (New York,
1986).
IV. Labor
Brundage, David, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism (Urbana, 1994).
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Deutch, Sarah. Women and the City.
Dublin, Thomas. Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution
(Ithaca, 1994).
Emmons, David. The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
(Chicago, 1989).
Finks, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy
Gerstle, Gary, Working-Class Americanism: the Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960
(New York, 1989).
Goodwyn, Lawrence, Democratic Promise: the Populist Movement in America (New York,
1976).
Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1979)
Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (New York, 1998).
Montgomery, David. Citizen Worker: the Experience of Workers in the United States with
Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century (New York, 1993).
Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City
(Cambridge, 1985).
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Stanley, Amy Dru, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the
Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge, 1998).
Way, Peter. Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of the North American Canals, 17801860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
V. Urban life and culture, machine politics, Progressivism
Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston,
1900-1925. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Erie, Stephen P. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics,
1840-1985 (Berkeley, 1989).
Ethington, Philip. The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco,
1850-1900 (Cambridge, 1994).
Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and
1871. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Kasson, Amusing the Millions.
McBee, Randy. Dance Hall Days.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New
York (Philadelphia, 1986).
Riordon, William, ed., Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical
Politics. New York, Boston: Bedford Books, 1995.
Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars
Thernstrom, Steven. Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a Nineteenth Century City
(Cambridge, MA, 1964).
VI. Culture, Religion, Identity, and Memory
Herberg, Will, Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology (Chicago,
1960).
Kammen, Michael. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American
Culture (New York, 1991).
Lears, T.J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American
Culture, 1880-1920 (New York, 1981).
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Novick, Peter, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical
Profession (New York, 1988).
Turner, James. Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (Baltimore,
1985).
Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
(Cambridge, MA, 1962).
Wiebe, Robert, The Search for Order, 1877-1920. (New York, 1967).
VII. America and the world
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (New
York, 1982).
Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chapel Hill,
1998).
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (New
Brunswick, 1988 [2nd ed.]).
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The U.S. Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and
Abroad, 1876-1917 (New York, 2000).
Kennedy, David, Over Here: the First World War and American Society (Oxford, 1982).
Kenny, Kevin. “The American Irish in Global Perspective” Journal of American History 90.1
(June 2003): 134-162. again
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Moloney, Deirdre. American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the
Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Cambridge, MA,
1988).
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