Term Paper: Each student will write a paper of... works of history dealing with the same general subject. ...

Term Paper: Each student will write a paper of ten to twelve pages, comparing two works of history dealing with the same general subject. The paper should analyze and compare the approach, use of evidence, and overall interpretation and conclusions of the two three works (rather than simply summarizing their arguments.) It should judge how well each author succeeds in what he or she sets out to do, and indicate which of the works you find most persuasive, and why. The paper is due at the ta sections during the week of April 28. Below is a list of significant works from which to choose, organized by subject. Those who wish to write on other topics or books should speak to me, or to your discussion section leader, as should those seeking guidance on choosing topics and books. I have not included studies of specific individuals, but it is perfectly acceptable to compare, for example, two biographies of Andrew Jackson or Frederick Douglass. Jacksonian Society: Edward Pessen, Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War Douglas Miller, Jacksonian Aristocracy Carl Fish, The Age of the Common Man Richard Brown, Modernization Peter Knights, Plain People of Boston Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants Raymond Mohl, Poverty in New York John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth Randolph Roth, The Democratic Dilemma John M. Faragher, Sugar Creek Paul Bourke, Washington County Gregory Nobles, American Frontiers Jacksonian Politics: Lee Benson, The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy John W. Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age Robert Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party Robert Remini, The Election of Andrew Jackson Richard McCormick, The Second American Party System James Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication Daniel Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs Major Wilson, Space, Time, and Freedom James Young, The Washington Community Arthur Cole, The Whig Party in the South Dixon R. Fox, The Decline of Aristocracy in New York State Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion Harry Watson, Jacksonian Democracy and Community Conflict Richard Carwardine, Evangelicals and Politics Amy Bridges, A City in the Republic John Ashworth, Agrarians and Aristocrats Michael Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party The Bank War: Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Bank War Roger Sharp, The Jacksonians Versus the Banks William Shade, Banks or No Banks Willard Smith, Economic Aspects of the Second Bank of the United States Jean Wilburn, Biddle's Bank James McFaul, The Politics of Jacksonian Finance Bray Hammond, Banks and Politics in America Indian Policy: Anthony Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians Michael Rogin, Fathers and Children Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages Ronald Satz, American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era Grant Foreman, Indian Removal Frederick Hoxie, Parading Through History The Economic Revolution: George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution Thomas Cochran, Frontiers of Change Douglas North, The Economic Growth of the United States Peter Temin, The Jacksonian Economy Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of Canals and Railroads Morton Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law Louis Hartz, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought Robert Albion, The Rise of New York Port Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Carl Siracusa, A Mechanical People Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman, To Their Own Soil Labor: Walter Hugins, Jacksonian Democracy and the Working Class Alan Dawley, Class and Community Edward Pessen, Most Uncommon Jacksonians Bernard Mandel, Labor: Free and Slave Bruce Laurie, Working People of Philadelphia Anthony Wallace, Rockdale Ronald Schultz, The Republic of Labor Robert Steinfeld, The Invention of Free Labor Peter Way, Common Labour Christopher Tomlins, Labor, Law, and Ideology in the Early Republic David Zonderman, Aspirations and Anxieties Teresa Murphy, Ten Hours Labor Jama Lazerow, Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America Women: Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress Catherine Clinton, The Other Civil War Thomas Dublin, Women at Work Barbara Berg, The Remembered Gate Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class Julie Jeffries, Frontier Women Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood Hannah Josephson, The Golden Threads Keith Melder, Beginnings of Sisterhood Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work Christine Stansell, City of Women Nancy Osterud, Bonds of Community Norma Basch, In the Eyes of the Law Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America Julie Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism Reform: Arthur Bestor, Backwoods Utopias John Harrison, Quest for the New Moral World Whitney Cross, The Burned Over District Clyde Griffen, Their Brothers' Keepers Ian Tyrell, Sobering Up William Rorabough, The Alcoholic Republic Rush Welter, Popular Education and Democratic Thought Michael Katz, The Irony of Early School Reform Carl Kaestle, The Evolution of an Urban School System Carl Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic Stanley Schultz, The Culture Factory Yehoshua Arieli, Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers Millennium Abolitionism: Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slvaery Aileen Kraditor, Means and Ends in American Abolitionism Leonard Richards, Gentlemen of Property and Standing Gerald Sorin, New York Abolitionists Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists Lewis Perry, Radical Abolitionism Gilbert Barnes, The Antislavery Impulse Lawrence Freidman, Gregarious Saints Dwight Dumond, Antislavery Russel Nye, Fettered Freedom John and Jane Pease, They Who Would be Free Ronald Walters, The Antislavery Appeal Daniel McInerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom Slavery: General Works Ulrich B. Phillips, American Negro Slavery Richard Wade, Slavery in the Cities Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey William Scarborough, The Overseer William Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee William Jenkins, Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor Eugene D. Genovese, The Slaveholders' Dilemma Leonard P. Curry, The Free Black in Urban America James and Lois Horton, In Hope of Liberty Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small World Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Slavery: Origins and Era of the American Revolution Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black Edward Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., In the Matter of Color Peter Wood, Black Majority Betty Wood, Slavery in Colonial Georgia Lorenzo Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England Duncan McLeod, Slavery, Race, and the American Revolution David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution Robert McColley, Slavery and Jeffersonain Virginia John Miller, The Wolf by the Ears Slavery: Resistance: Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts Eugene D. Genovese, From Resistance to Revolution Stephen Oates, The Fires of Jubilee Slavery: Comparative Carl Degler, Neither Black Nor White Herbert Klein, Slavery in the Americas George Fredrickson, White Supremacy Frank Tannebaum, Slave and Citizen Frederick Cooper, Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death Eugene D. Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor Slavery: Culture John Blassingame, The Slave Community George Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup Leslie Owens, This Species of Property Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Consciousness Arthur Robateau, Slave Religion Thomas Webber, Deep Like the Rivers Deborah White, Ain't I a Woman? Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom Slavery: Economics: Robert Starobin, Industrial Slaverty in the Old South Harold Woodman, King Cotton and His Retainers Frank Owsley, Plain Folk of the Old Sourth Ronald Lewis, Coal, Iron, and Slaves Frederic Bancroft, Slave Trading in the Old South Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, A Deplorable Scarcity Luther Jackson, Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Coercion Frederick Siegel, The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness Slavery and Politics: Donald Robinson, Slavery in the Structure of American Politics Charles Sydnor, The Development of Southern Sectionalism John McCardle, The Idea of a Southern Nation J. Mills Thornton, Politics and Power in a Slave Society William Cooper, The South and the Politics of Slavery Ralph Wooster, Politicians, Planters, and Plain Folk William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, vol I. Lacy Ford, The Origins of Southern Radicalism David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness Alexander Saxton, The White Republic Expansion and Politics in the l840s: Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission Norman Graebner, Empire on the Pacific Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence Ernest Lander, The Reluctant Imperialists Joseph Rayback, Free Soil Frederick Blue, The Free Soilers Chaplain Morrison, Democratic Politics and Sectional Controversy Kinley Brauer, Cotton Versus Conscience Frederick Merk, Slavery and the Annexation of Texas Holman Hamilton, Prologue to Conflict Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny

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