Reading Between the Lines BOOK LIST
American Dreams
The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea by
Jim Cullen
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in
Urban America by John Bodnar
The Good Life by Helen & Scott Nearing
Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks by
Andrew Hurley
Finding Liberty in Literature
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B.
DuBois
Peace, Power and Righteousness: An Indigenous
Manifesto by Taiaiake Alfred
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
American Writing on Modern War
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me
Home by Tim O’Brien
Jarhead by Anthony Swoffard
War is a Force that Gives Meaning by Chris Hedges
The First Frontier: New York State and American
Expansion, 1774-1890
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of
the American Revolution by Barnet Schecter
William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan
Taylor
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the
Making of a Great Nation by Peter Bernstein
A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 by Paul E. Johnson
Branding of Place
No Logo by Naomi Klein
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure and Community by
Richard Florida
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American
City and the End of Public Space by Michael Sorkin
The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer
Contention and Dissent at the Founding of the
Republic
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph Ellis
Novus Ordo Selorum: The Intellectual Origins of the
Constitution by Forrest McDonald
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the
Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 by Saul
Cornell
What Kind of Nation? Thomas Jefferson, John
Marshall and the Epic Struggle to Create a United
States by James Simon
Cultural Crossroads at the Hudson River Valley
Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in
the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson
The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in
17th Century North America by Allan Greer
Long Hammering by A.J. Williams-Myers
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native
Americans in French and English Colonial
Literature by Gordon M. Sayre
Immigration and the Idea of America
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by
Benjamin Franklin
Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St.
John Crevecoeur
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in
America by John Bodnar
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural
America by Ronald Takaki
The Individual in a World Gone Global
African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus
by Rachel Holmes
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by
Jacobson & Colon
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our
Time by Jeffrey Sachs
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Into the American Wilderness
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the
Edge of the City by Robert Sullivan
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edwards Abbey
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Dead Cities by Mike Davis
Immigrant Mothers
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 17891860 by Christine Stansell
Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century by Hasia Diner
Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars by
Elizabeth Ewen
Paper Daughter: A Memoir by M. Elaine Mar
Travel and Tourism in the Empire State
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Tales by
Washington Irving
Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cab
Driver by Graham Hodges and Russell Gao
The Second Greatest Disappointment:
Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls by
Karen Dubinsky
Re-examining George Washington
For King and Country by Thomas Lewis
General George Washington by Edward G. Lengle
George Washington: President of the United States,
1789-1797 by James MacGregor Burns and Susan
Dunn
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves
and the Creation of America by Henry Wienceck
Wasting Away
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by
Elizabeth Royte
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit by
Vandana Shiva
Religion in American Life
The Democratization of American Christianity by
Nathan Hatch
Understanding Fundamentalism and
Evangelicalism by George Marsden
Religion and Politics in the United States by
Kenneth Ward
Rethinking Religion: Recent Women's Novels and
American Identity
Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Towards and Understanding of Today's Activism:
Social Movements in American History
American Reformers: 1815-1869 by Ronald G.
Walters
Antislavery by Dorothy Sterling
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by
Elizabeth Royte
Anti-Warriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for
America’s Hearts and Minds by Melvin Small
Transforming New York State in the 19th Century
In Hope Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest
Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 by James
& Lois Horton
A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and revivals in Rochester, new York, 1815-1862 by Paul E. Johnson
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox
of Progress, 1817-1862 by Carol Sheriff
Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in
the Rural North, 1870-1930 by Hal Barron
Women Who Dared
The Grimké Sisters from South Caolina: Pioneers for
Women’s Rights by Gerda Lerner
Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin
Carry A. Nation: Retelling a Life by Fran Grace
Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrman
Women's Work
Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and
Social Change by Sherna Berger Gluck
Brooks by Thordis Simonsen
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Working More Than 9 to 5: The American Work Ethic
Mordecai: An Early American Family by Emily
Bingham
Brooks by Thordis Simonsen
Paper Daughter: A Memoir by M. Elaine Mar
On the Road by Jack Kerouac