The University of Southern Mississippi
Department of History
Ph.D. Reading List:
Early American and United States History, 1500—1865
Drs. Greg O’Brien, William K. Scarborough, & Kyle F. Zelner
* designates a classic, essential work. (80 total)
NOTE: In addition to the titles here, students should familiarize themselves with journals such as the
William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of American History, Journal of
Southern History, New England Quarterly, Ethnohistory, Reviews in American History and applicable
state history journals. They should also consult works on American historiography, such as Francis
Couvares, ed., Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives or the American
Historical Association’s New American History: Critical Perspectives on the Past, ed. Eric Foner, rev.
and exp. ed., Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
General Studies and Overviews (9)
*Greene, Jack P. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies
and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole. Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early
Modern Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. 10th Anniversary ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press,
1988.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1982.
Potter, David Morris, and Don Edward Fehrenbacher. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. New York:
Harper & Row, 1976.
*Sellers, Charles Grier. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991.
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Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.
Watson, Harry L. Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America. New York: Hill and Wang,
1990.
The Atlantic World (11)
Armitage, David, and M. J. Braddick. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002.
*Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, The Curti Lectures; 1985.
New York: Knopf, 1986.
Canny, Nicholas P., and Anthony Pagden. Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
*Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. 30th
anniversary ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.
Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and Slaves; the Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 16241713. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at
Williamsburg, Va., 1972.
Eccles, W. J. The French in North America, 1500-1783. Rev. ed. Markham, Ont.: Fitzhenry &
Whiteside, 1998.
Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Buford Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the
Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Rediker, Marcus Buford. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and
the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1987.
Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New York, NY:
Simon & Schuster, 1997.
*Thornton, John Kelly. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. 2nd ed,.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University, 1992.
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Biography—Selected American (21)
Bremer, Francis J. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
Bushman, Richard L. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1984.
Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1997.
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington, the Indispensable Man. Boston: Little, 1974.
Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Hall, Michael G. The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, 1639-1723. Middletown,
Conn: Wesleyan University Press; 1988.
Lockridge, Kenneth A. The Diary and Life of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744. Chapel Hill:
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the
University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
McCoy, Drew R. The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1989.
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1979.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Norton, 1990.
McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1981.
Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Gentle Puritan; a Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795. Published for the
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1962.
Morgan, Edmund Sears. Roger Williams; the Church and the State. New York: Harcourt, 1967.
Niven, John. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography, Southern Biography Series. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
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Royster, Charles. Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Thomas, Emory M. Robert E. Lee, a Biography. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Economy, Markets, Work, and Labor-- Colonial & Revolutionary (10)
Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. "King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in
Early New England." William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series 49 (1992): 183-209.
Bushman, Richard L. "Markets and Composite Farms in Early America." William & Mary Quarterly,
3rd Series 55 (1998): 351-74.
Carr, Lois Green, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena Seebach Walsh. Robert Cole's World: Agriculture
and Society in Early Maryland. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
*Henretta, James A. "Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America." William & Mary
Quarterly, 3rd Series 35, no. 1 (1978): 3-32.
Heyrman, Christine. Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts,
1690-1750. New York: W.M. Norton & Co., 1984.
Innes, Stephen. Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Innes, Stephen. Work and Labor in Early America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789, Needs and
Opportunities for Study Series. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Smith, Billy Gordon. The "Lower Sort:" Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts,
1630-1850. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by
the University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
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Economy, Markets, Work, and Labor-- Early National & Antebellum (18)
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early
Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Carp, Roger E. "The Limits of Reform: Labor and Discipline on the Erie Canal." Journal of the Early
Republic 10 (1990): 191 -- 220.
Clark, Christopher. "Household Economy, Market Economy, and the Rise of Capitalism in the
Connecticut Valley, 1800 -- 1860." Journal of Social History 13 (1979): 169 -- 89.
Egerton, Douglas R. "Markets without a Market Revolution." Journal of the Early Republic (1996):
207 -- 21.
Hounshell, David A. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of
Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1984.
*Johnson, Paul E. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 18151837. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
*Merrill, Michael. "Cash Is Good to Eat: Self-Sufficiency and Exchange in the Rural Economy of the
U. S." Radical History Review (1977): 42 -- 71.
*Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
Rev. ed. London; New York: Verso, 1999.
Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right. New York:
Hill and Wang, 1995.
Stokes, Melvin, and Stephen Conway. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and
Religious Expressions, 1800-1880. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.
*Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. New York: Rinehart, 1951.
Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 17881850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Woodman, Harold D. King Cotton & His Retainers; Financing & Marketing the Cotton Crop of the
South, 1800-1925. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968.
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Wright, Gavin. The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the
Nineteenth Century. New York: Norton, 1978.
Zboray, Ron. "Antebellum Reading and the Ironies of Technology Innovation." American Quarterly
(1988): 65 -- 82.
Zboray, Ron. "The Transportation Revolution and Antebellum Book Distribution, Reconsider."
American Quarterly (1986): 53--71.
Ethnohistory, Native Americans, and Native-European Contact (23)
Axtell, James. The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985.
*Brooks, James. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Virginia, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native
American Communities. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Calloway, Colin G. One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 17451815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn. Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 16701717. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Gleach, Frederic W. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Hatley, M. Thomas. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of
Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
*Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. New
York: Norton, 1976.
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Merrell, James Hart. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact
through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
O'Brien, Greg. Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2002.
Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1998.
Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
*Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: Change and Persistence on the Iroquois Frontier,
1609-1720, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Ronda, James P. Lewis and Clark among the Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 15001643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Saunt, Claudio. A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek
Indians, 1733-1816. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
*Usner, Daniel H. Indians, Settlers & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi
Valley before 1783. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and
Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Vaughan, Alden T. New England Frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675. 3rd ed. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
*White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region,
1650-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Gender, Women’s Studies, & Family History-- Colonial & Revolutionary
(17)
Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. New York:
Knopf, 2005.
Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power
in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and
Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
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Clinton, Catherine, and Michele Gillespie. The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Crane, Elaine Forman. Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth; Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1970.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
Glover, Lorri. All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina
Gentry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Greven, Philip J. Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover,
Massachusetts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New
York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
*Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by The University
of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Levy, Barry. Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
Main, Gloria L. Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
*Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American
Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 17501800. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American
Myth. New York: Knopf, 2001.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New
England, 1650-1750. New York, N.Y.: Knopf, 1982.
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Gender, Women’s Studies, & Family History-- Early National & Antebellum (22)
Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United
States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Blewett, Mary H. Men, Women, and Work: A Study of Class, Gender, and Protest in the NineteenthCentury New England Shoe Industry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in NineteenthCentury New York. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.
*Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Cott, Nancy F. "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology." Signs 4 (1978): 219
-- 36.
Davis, Angela. "Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves." The Black
Scholar 3, no. 4 (1971): 2 -- 15.
Dorsey, Bruce. Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2002.
*Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old
South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Ginzberg, Lori D. Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the
Nineteenth-Century United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
*Gutman, Herbert George. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1976.
Halttunen, Karen. Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,
1830-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Hewitt, Nancy A. Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1984.
Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 17841860. New York: Norton, 1984.
Ryan, Mary P. Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carol. "The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19th-Century
America." Social Research 39 (1972): 652 -- 78.
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Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
*Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1987.
Tyrell, Ian T. "Women and Temperance in Antebellum America, 1830 -- 1860." Civil War History 28
(1982): 128 -- 52.
*Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 17851812. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Varon, Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women & Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
*Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood." American Quarterly 18 (1966): 151 -- 75.
*White, Deborah G. Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Rev. ed. New York:
Norton, 1999.
Politics and Government—Colonial & Revolutionary (25)
*Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1967.
*Becker, Carl Lotus. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New
York: Vintage Books, 1958.
Bellesiles, Michael A. Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the
Early American Frontier. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Breen, T. H. Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1980.
*Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of
Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert. The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the
American Revolution as a Social Movement, Perspectives on the American Revolution.
Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University
Press of Virginia, 1996.
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*Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American
Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Isaac, Rhys. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Jensen, Merrill. The Articles of Confederation; an Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History
of the American Revolution 1774-1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.
*Lemisch, Jessie. "Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary
America." William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series 25, no. 3 (1968): 371-407.
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf.,
1997.
Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York:
Knopf, 1980.
Morgan, Edmund Sears. Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and
America. New York: Norton, 1988.
*Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American
Revolution. Abridged ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Rodgers, Daniel T. "Republicanism: The Career of a Concept." Journal of American History 79
(1992): 11 -- 38.
*Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character,
1775-1783. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
*Shalhope, Robert E. "Republicanism and Early American Historiography." William & Mary
Quarterly, 3rd Series XXXIX, no. 2 (1982): 334-56.
*Shalhope, Robert E. "Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of
Republicanism in American Historiography." William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series 29, no. 1
(1972): 49-80.
Szatmary, David P. Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1980.
*Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: Published for the
Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., 1969. SEE ALSO
"Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America." William and Mary Quarterly, Third Ser. XLIV
(1987): 628 -- 40.
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*Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1992.
Appleby, Joyce, Barbara Clark Smith, Michael Zuckerman, and Gordon S. Wood. “How
Revolutionary was the Revolution: A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood’s The Radicalism
of the American Revolution” William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 51 no. 4 (1994):
677-716.
Young, Alfred Fabian. Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American
Radicalism. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Young, Alfred Fabian. The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
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*Appleby, Joyce Oldham. Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s.
New York: New York University Press, 1984.
Banning, Lance. "Jeffersonian Ideology Revisited: Liberal and Classical Ideas in the New American
Republic." William and Mary Quarterly, Third Ser. 43 (1986): 3 -- 34.
Banning, Lance. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal
Republic. New York: Cornell University Press, 1995.
*Beard, Charles Austin. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New
York: Macmillan, 1960.
Beeman, Richard R., Stephen Botein, and Edward Carlos Carter. Beyond Confederation: Origins of the
Constitution and American National Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
for Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Va., 1987.
Benson, Lee. The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy; New York as a Test Case. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1961.
Buel, Richard. Securing the Revolution; Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1972.
*Bushman, Richard L. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. New York:
Knopf, 1992.
Cayton, Andrew R. L. The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1986.
Charles, Joseph E. The Origins of the American Party System, Three Essays. Williamsburg, Va.:
Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1956.
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Elkins, Stanley M., and Eric L. McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis; Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1971.
Feller, Daniel. "Politics and Society: Toward a Jacksonian Synthesis." Journal of the Early Republic
10 (1990): 135 -- 62.
Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2001.
Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of
Native American Nations. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Green, Michael D. The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of
the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1977.
Howe, Daniel Walker. The Political Culture of the American Whigs. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1979.
Hutson, James. "The Creation of the Constitution: Scholarship at a Standstill." Reviews in American
History (1984): 463 -- 77.
Kruman, Marc W. "The Second American Party System and the Transformation of Revolutionary
Republicanism." Journal of the Early Republic 12 (1992): 509 -- 38.
*McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill:
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the
University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
*McDonald, Forrest. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1985.
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Remini, Robert Vincent. The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Satz, Ronald N. American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2002.
*Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
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Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1993.
Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Storing, Herbert J., and Murray Dry. What the Anti-Federalists Were For. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1981.
Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 17761820. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge,
Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1993.
Widmer, Edward L. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Baker, Jean H. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Cooper, William J. The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1978.
Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical
Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
*Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil
War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
*Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987.
*Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Wiley, 1978.
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Oakes, James. "From Republicanism to Liberalism: Ideological Change and the Crisis of the Old
South." American Quarterly 37 (1985): 551 -- 62.
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Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, Studies in Cultural History.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Davis, Derek. Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
*Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New
England. New York: Knopf, 1989.
*Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind, from the Great Awakening to the Revolution.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert. Religion in a Revolutionary Age, Perspectives on the American
Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the
University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Lambert, Frank. The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
*May, Henry Farnham. The Enlightenment in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
*Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1956.
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Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Banner, Lois. "Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation." Journal of
American History (1973): 34 -- 41.
Bender, Thomas, John Ashworth, David Brion Davis, and Thomas L. Haskell. The Antislavery Debate:
Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1992.
Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1941.
Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-over District; the Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic
Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1950.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Griffin, Clifford. "Religious Benevolence as Social Control." Journal of American History 44 (1957):
423 -- 44.
*Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1989.
*Heyrman, Christine Leigh. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York: A.A.
Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1997.
Johnson, Paul E., and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias. New York: Oxford University Press,
1994.
McWhiney, Grady. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South. University, Ala.: University of
Alabama Press, 1988.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1978.
Rose, Anne C. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1981.
*Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers, 1815-1860. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
Walters, Ronald G. The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1976.
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Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1975.
Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1991.
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in
the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
*Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. New York:
Norton, 1977.
Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 16801800. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture
Williamsburg Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida, Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1999.
*Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and
Lowcountry. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Walsh, Lorena Seebach. From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community,
Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture. Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, 1997.
*Wood, Peter H. Black Majority; Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono
Rebellion. New York: Knopf, 1974.
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Berlin, Ira. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York:
The New Press, 1992.
Berlin, Ira. Slaves without Masters; the Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon
Books, 1975.
Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Rev. and enl.
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
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Carney, Judith Ann. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2001.
Clarke, Erskine. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Deyle, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Dusinberre, William. Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. 3d ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1976.
*Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross; the Economics of American
Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, 1974.
*Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll; the World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books,
1974.
Genovese, Eugene D. The World the Slaveholders Made; Two Essays in Interpretation. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1969.
Gudmestad, Robert H. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade.
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*Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard
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Jones, Norrece T. Born a Child of Freedom, yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of
Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press,
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*Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1984.
Kolchin, Peter. "American Historians and Antebellum Southern Slavery, 1959 -- 1984." In A Masters
Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald, edited by William J. Jr. Cooper, Michael F.
Holt and John McCardell, 87 -- 111. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from
Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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McCurry, Stephanie. "The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in
Antebellum South Carolina." Journal of American History 78 (1992): 1245 -- 64.
Meier, August, and Elliott Rudwick. "The Historiography of Slavery: An Inquiry into Paradigm
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Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Scarborough, William Kauffman. Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-NineteenthCentury South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum South.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
*Smith, Mark M. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. Chapel
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*Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Knopf,
1956.
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*Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of
Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
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Archer, Richard. Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century, Revisiting New
England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for the University of New
Hampshire, 2001.
Baptist, Edward E. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
*Boyer, Paul S., and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed; the Social Origins of Witchcraft.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Breen, T. H., and Stephen Foster. "The Puritans' Greatest Achievement: A Study of Social Cohesion in
Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts." Journal of American History 60 (1973): 5-22.
*Bushman, Richard L. From Puritan to Yankee; Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 16901765. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Carr, Lois Green, Philip Morgan, and Jean Burrell Russo. Colonial Chesapeake Society. Chapel Hill:
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North
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*Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1st rev.
ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1982.
Ekberg, Carl J. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Ford, Lacy K. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
Hinderaker, Eric, and Peter C. Mancall. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North
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Horn, James P. P. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
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*Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of
Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA., by University of North Carolina
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Kim, Sung Bok. Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664-1775. Chapel
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the University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina
Backcountry, 1760-1808. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History
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*Lemon, James T. The Best Poor Man's Country; a Geographical Study of Early Southeastern
Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1972.
*Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts,
1636-1736. expanded, enl. Ed. New York: Norton, 1985.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Sensory Worlds in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
Main, Gloria L. Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1982.
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*Morgan, Edmund Sears. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia.
New York: Norton, 1975.
Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2002.
Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Plain Folk of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
1949.
*Rutman, Darrett Bruce, and Anita H. Rutman. A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 16501750. New York: Norton, 1984.
Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic
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*Taylor, Alan. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American
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Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Chet, Guy. Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in Colonial
Northeast. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Cox, Caroline. A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Grenier, John. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. Cambridge:
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*Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and Their World. New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.
Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence; Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice,
1763-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
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*Kohn, Richard H., The Eagle and the Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military
Establishment in America, 1783-1802. New York: Free Press, 1975.
Kwasny, Mark V. Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,
1996.
Lee, Jean Butenhoff. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County.
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Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. New
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Massachusetts. New York: Norton, 1988.
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Durrill, Wayne K. War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion. New York:
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Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War
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Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil
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Foote, Shelby. The Civil War, a Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Random House, 1958-1974.
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Rable, George C. The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1994.
*Royster, Charles. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the
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*Stampp, Kenneth M. The Causes of the Civil War. Newly rev. ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, 1974.
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