MAJOR FIELD READING LIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, c1600-1865.
T. SLAUGHTER (10/13)
Adelman, Jeremy and Stephen Aron. “From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, NationStates, and the Peoples in Between in North American History.” American
Historical Review 104 (1999): 814-41.
Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. “King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of
Livestock in Early New England.” WMQ 49 (1992): 183-209.
_______.Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America . NY,
2004.
Axtell, James. “The White Indians of Colonial America.” WMQ 32 (1975): 55-88.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, MA, 1974.
_______. “Politics and Social Structure in Virginia.” In Seventeenth-Century America,
edited by James Morton Smith, 90 -115. Westport, CT, 1959.
_______. “The Central Themes of the American Revolution: An Interpretation.” In
Essays on the American Revolution, edited by Stephen G. Kurtz and James H.
Hutson, 3-31. NY, 1973.
Bender, Thomas, ed. The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem
in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley, 1992.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North
America. Cambridge, MA, 1998.
Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. London, 1856.
Branson, Susan. “From Daughters of Liberty to Women of the Republic: American
Women in the Era of the American Revolution.” In The Practice of U.S. Womens
History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues, edited by S. Jay Kleinberg,
Eileen Boris, and Vicki L. Ruiz, 50-65. New Brunswick, NJ, 2007.
Breen, T. H. “’Baubles of Britain’: The American and Consumer Revolutions of the
Eighteenth Century.” Past and Present 119 (1988): 73-104.
_______. “Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions
Once More in Need of Revising.” JAH 83 (1997): 13-39.
_______. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American
Independence. NY, 2004.
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688- 1783. NY,
1989.
Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland or The Transformation: An American
Tale. Philadelphia, 1798.
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender,
Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, 1996.
Burrows, Edwin G. and Michael Wallace. “The American Revolution: The Ideology and
Psychology of National Liberation.” Perspectives in American History 6 (1972):
167-306.
Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People.
Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in
Native American Communities. Cambridge, UK, 1995.
Canny, Nicholas P. “The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America.”
WMQ 30 (1973): 575-98.
Carp, Benjamin L. “Nations of American Rebels: Understanding Nationalism in
Revolutionary North America and the Civil War South.” Civil War History 48
(2002): 5-33.
Carr, Lois G. and Lorena S. Walsh. “The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White
Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland.” WMQ 34 (1977): 542-71.
Clarke, Erskine. By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. NY,
2013.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837. New Haven, 1992.
Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: «Woman's Sphere» in New England, 17801835. New Haven, 1977; 1997.
Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de. Letters from an American Farmer. 1782.
Cronon, William. “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.”
In Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William
Cronon, 69-90. NY, 1996.
_______. “Introduction: In Search of Nature.” In Uncommon Ground. 23-66.
Daston, Lorraine. “The Naturalized Female Intellect.” Science in Context 5 (1992): 20935.
Davis, David Brion. “Constructing Race: A Reflection.” WMQ 54 (1997): 7-18.
Degler, Carl N. “Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice.” Comparative
Studies in Society and History 2 (1959): 49-66.
Demos, John. “Shame and Guilt in Early New England.” In Emotion and Social Change:
Toward a New Psychohistory, edited by Carol Z. Stearns and Peter N. Stearns,
69-85. NY, 1988.
_______.The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America . NY, 1994.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel, 176-91. NY, 1997.
Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord . New
Haven, 2004.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,
Written by Himself, edited by David W. Blight. 1845; Boston, 1993.
Dowd, Gregory Evans. “The Indians’ Great Awakening.” In Dowd, A Spirited
Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815, 23-46.
Baltimore, 1992.
Earle, Carville V. “Environment, Disease, and Mortality in Early Virginia.” In The
Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century, 96-125.
*Eastman, Carolyn. “The Indian Censures the White Man: ‘Indian Eloquence’ and
American Reading Audiences in the early Republic.” WMQ 65 (2008): 535-64.
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New
Haven, 2006.
Fenn, Elizabeth. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People.
NY, 2014.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. NY, 1989.
«Forum: Salem Repossessed.» Special issue of WMQ 65 (2008): 301-534.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party
Before the Civil War. NY, 1970; 1995.
Foster, Stephen. “The Godly in Transit: English Popular Protestantism and the Creation
of a Puritan Establishment in America.” In Seventeenth-Century New England,
185-238. Boston, 1984.
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography.
Gilje, Paul A. “The Rise of Capitalism in the Early Republic.” In Wages of
Independence: Capitalism in the Early Republic, edited by Gilje, 1-22. Madison,
WI, 1997.
Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolution in Early America. Baltimore, 2002.
Goldfield, David. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. NY, 2011.
Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello. NY, 2008.
Gosse, Van. “’As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends’: The Emergence of African
American Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1772-1861.” American
Historical Review 113 (2008): 1003-1030.
Greenblatt, Stephen. “Learning to Curse.” In Greenblatt. Learning to Curse, 16- 39. NY,
1990.
Greene, Jack P. “An Uneasy Connection: Ann Analysis of the Preconditions of the
American Revolution.” In Essays, edited by Kurtz and Hutson, 32-80.
Gutiérrez, Ramón. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage,
Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, 1991.
Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early
New England. NY, 1989.
Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven, 2008.
Hatch, Nathan O. “The Origins of Civil Millenialism in America.” WMQ 31 (1974):
407-30.
Henretta, James A. “Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America.” WMQ 35
(1978): 3-32.
Heyrman, Christine. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. NY, 1997.
Higginbotham, Don, “War and State Formation in Revolutionary America.” In Empire
and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World, edited by Eliga H.
Gould and Peter S. Onuf, 54-71. Baltimore, 2005.
Howe, Daniel Walker . What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 18151848. NY, 2007.
Huston, James. “Property Rights and the Coming of the Civil War.” Journal of Southern
History 65 (1999): 249-86.
Hyde, Anne F. Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West,
1800-1860. Lincoln, 2011.
Isaac, Rhys. “Preachers and Patriots: Popular Culture and the Revolution in Virginia.”
The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism,
edited by Alfred F. Young, 125-56. Dekalb, IL, 1976.
Jaffee, David. “Peddlers of Progress and the Transformation of the Rural North, 17601860.” JAH 78 (1991): 511-35.
Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cottton Kingdom.
Cambridge, MA, 2013.
Jordan, Winthrop D. “American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in
the British Colonies.” William and Mary Quarterly 19 (1962): 183-200.
Juster, Susan. “’In a Different Voice’: Male and Female Narratives of Religious
Conversion in Post-Revolutionary America.” American Quarterly 41 (1989): 3462.
Keys, Sarah. “’Like a Roaring Lion’: The Overland Trail as a Sonic Conquest.” JAH 96
(2009): 19-43.
Kloppenberg, James T. “The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and
Ethics in Early American Political Discourse.” JAH 74 (1987): 9-33.
Kramnick, Isaac. “The “Great National Discussion’: The Discourse of Politics in 1787.”
WMQ 45 (1988): 341-75.
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. “Climate and Mastery of the Wilderness in SeventeenthCentury New England.” In Seventeenth-Century New England, edited by David
D. Hall et al., 3-37. Boston, 1984.
Kulikoff, Allan. “The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America.” WMQ 46 (1989): 12044.
Lambert, Frank. “’Pedlar in Divinity’: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening,
1737-1745.” JAH 77 (1990): 812-37.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. “Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism in the Early American
Northeast.” Journal of American History 90 (2003): 437-61.
Lewis, Jan. “’The Blessings of Domestic Society’: Thomas Jefferson’s Family and the
Transformation of American Politics.” In Jeffersonian Legacies, edited by Peter
S. Onuf, 109-46. Charlottesville, 1993.
Lockridge, Kenneth. “Social Change and the Meaning of the American Revolution.”
Journal of Social History 6 (1973): 403-39.
Martin, Calvin. “Epilogue: Time and the American Indian.” In The American Indian and
the Problem of History, edited by Calvin Martin, 192-220. NY, 1987.
Marshall, P. J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America
c.1750-1783. NY, 2005.
Marx, Leo. “The American Revolution and the American Landscape.” Washington, D.
C. 1974.
Meinig, D. W. “AHR Forum: The Continuous Shaping of America: A prospectus for
Geographers and Historians.” AHR 83 (1978): 1186- 1205.
Meranze, Michael. “Culture and Governance: Reflections on the Cultural History of
Eighteenth-Century British America.” WMQ 65 (2008): 713-44.
Merchant, Carolyn. “Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative.” In
Uncommon Ground, 132-70.
Merrell, James H. “The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience.” WMQ 41
(1984): 537-65.
Merrill, Michael. “Putting ‘Capitalism’ in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature.”
WMQ 52 (1995): 19026.
Miller, Perry. “Errand Into the Wilderness.” In Miller. Errand Into the Wilderness, 1-15.
Cambridge, MA, 1956.
Moogk, Peter N. “Reluctant Exiles: Emigrants from France in Canada before 1760.”
WMQ 46 (1989): 463-505.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial
Virginia. NY, 1975.
Murrin, John M. “The Great Inversion, or Court versus Country: A Comparison of the
Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776- 1816). In
Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776, edited by J. G. A. Pocock, 368-453.
Princeton, 1980.
_______. “A Roof without Walls: The Dilemma of American National Identity.” In
Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National
Identity, edited by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II,
333-48. Chapel Hill, 1987.
Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the
Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA, 1979.
_______. “Social Change and the Growth of Prerevolutionary Urban Radicalism.” In The
American Revolution, edited by Young, 3-36.
Noll, Mark A. America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. NY, 2002.
Norton, Mary Beth, Gutman, Herbert G., and Berlin, Ira. “The Afro-American Family in
the Age of Revolution.” In Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American
Revolution, edited by Berlin and Hoffman, 175-91.
Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 18611865. NY2013.
Ortner, Sherry B. “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” In Woman, Culture, and
Society, edited by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lampher, 67-87.
Stanford, 1974.
Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and
France c.1500-c.1800. New Haven, 1995.
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. 1776.
Paludan, Phillip Shaw. “Actors and Heroes: The New Social and Economic History of
the Civil War. Reviews in American History 18 (1990) 493-99.
Price, Richard. Alabi’s World. Baltimore, 1990.
Ransom, Roger L. “Fact and Counterfact: The Second American Revolution
Revisited.”Civil War History 45 (1999): 28-60.
Reis, Elizabeth. “The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England.”
Journal of American History 82 (1995): 15-36.
Richter, Daniel K. “War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience.” WMQ 40 (1983): 52859.
Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
Chicago, 1962, 1987.
Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American
Character, 1775-1783 . Chapel Hill, 1979.
Seed, Patricia. “Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of
Overseas Empires.” WMQ 49 (1992): 183-209.
Salisbury, Neil, ed. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson. Boston,
1997.
Saunt, Claudio. “Go West: Mapping Early American Historiography.” WMQ 65 (2008):
745-78.
Schweitzer, Mary. “The Ratification Paradox in the Great Valley of the Appalachians.”
In Empire and Nation, 115-35.
Shammas, Carole. “English-Born and Creole Elites in Turn-of-the-Century Virginia.” In
The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society,
edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, 274-96. Chapel Hill, 1979.
Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. NY,
2008.
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American
Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT, 1973.
Stearns, Carol Z. “’Lord Help Me Walk Humbly’: Anger and Sadness in England and
America, 1570-1750.” In Emotion and Social Change, 39-68.
Stout, Harry S. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. NY,
2006.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. Boston, 1854.
Thornton, John. “The African Experience of the 20 Odd Negroes Arriving in
Virginia in 1619.” WMQ 47 (1990): 477-502.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her
Diary, 1785-1812. NY, 1990.
Vaughan, Alden T. “From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American
Perceptions of the American Indian.” In Vaughan, Roots of American Racism:
Essays on the Colonial Experience, 3-33. NY, 1995.
Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American
Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill, 1997.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven, 1992.
Whooley, Owen. Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle Over American
Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, 2013.
Wiebe, Robert H. The Opening of American Society: From the Adoption of the
Constitution to the eve of Disunion. NY, 1984.
Witt, John Fabian. Lincoln's Code: The Laws of war in American History. NY, 2012.
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill, 1969,
1998.
_______. “Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution.” WMQ 23 (1966): 3-32.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. NY,
1982; 2007.
Zuckerman, Michael. “The Fabrication of Identity in Early America.” WMQ 34 (1977):
183-214.