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FOR FURTHER
READING
What is Historical
Thinking
What Is Historical
Thinking?
Colonization and Settlement
(1585-1763)
- Africans in America: America's Journey through
Slavery (PBS video, 1998) (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html).
- Breen, Timothy. "Myne Owne
Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1980.
- Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives,
Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial
Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1996.
- Demos, John, ed. Remarkable
Providences: Readings on Early American History. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1991.
- Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in
the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: Norton,
1987.
- Merrell, James. The Indians' New
World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of
Removal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1989.
- Thornton, John. "The African
Experience of the '20 and Odd Negroes' Arriving in Virginia in 1619."
William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 3 (1998):
421-434.
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Revolution and the New Nation
(1745-1820s)
- Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands
Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
- Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and
Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press,
1976.
- Kerber, Linda K. No
Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of
Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
- ---. Women of the Republic:
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1980.
- Robinson, Donald. Slavery
in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1971.
- Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. Atlas of Great
Lakes Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1986.
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A
Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812.
New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
- White, Richard. Middle Ground: Indians,
Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge
University Press, 1991.
- Wills, Garry. Inventing America:
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Garden City: Doubleday,
1978.
- Young, Alfred, ed. Explorations
in the History of American Radicalism: The American Revolution. DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 1976.
- Young, Alfred, ed. The Shoemaker
and the Tea Party. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press,
1999.
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Expansion and Reform
(1801-1861)
- Blassingame, John, ed. Slave Testimony:
Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
- Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited
Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
- DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage:
The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
- Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free
Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
- Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. ed. L. Maria Child. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1987.
- Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life
Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1999.
- Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery,
1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
- McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small
Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the
Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. New York: Oxford University Press,
1995.
- Rossi, Alice, ed. The Feminist Papers:
From Adams to de Beauvoir. New York: Columbia University Press,
1973.
- Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution:
Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford University Press,
1991.
- Stansell, Christine. City of
Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Knopf,
1986.
- Walker, David. David Walker's appeal, in
four articles, together with a preamble to the coloured citizens of the world,
but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of
America. New York: Hill and Wang, revised edition,
1995.
- Wilentz, Sean. Chants
Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class,
1788-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Yellin and Van Horne, eds. The
Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
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Civil War and Reconstruction
(1850-1877)
- Berlin, Ira, et al, eds. Free at Last: A
Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War. New York: The
New Press, 1992.
- Berlin, et al. Slaves No More: Three
Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
- Evans, William McKee. Ballots and Fence
Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1995.
- Foner, Eric. A Short History of
Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and Row,
1990.
- Johnson, Michael, ed. Abraham Lincoln,
Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's,
2001.
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The Emergence of a Modern
Industrial America (1877-1930)
- Barrett, James. Work and Community in
the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1987.
- Cronon, William. Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton,
1991.
- Curry,
Lynne. Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender,
Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. Columbus: Ohio State
University Press, 1999.
- Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A
History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. New York, NY:
HarperCollins, 1990.
- Fink, Leon. Workingmen's Democracy: the
Knights of Labor and American Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1983.
- Grossman, James R. Land of Hope:
Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1989.
- Lee, Erika. "Enforcing the Borders: Chinese
Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882–1924," The
Journal of American History June 2002
<http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/89.1/lee.html> (31 Jul.
2003).
- McMath, Robert C. American Populism: A
Social History, 1877-1898. New York: Hill and Wang,
1993.
- Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working
Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia : Temple
University Press, 1986.
- Smith, Carl S. Urban Disorder and the
Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town
of Pullman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1995.
- White, Richard. "Information, Markets, and
Corruption: Transcontinental Railroads in the Gilded Age," The Journal of
American History June 2003
<http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.1/white.html> (31 Jul.
2003).
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The Great Depression and World
War II (1929-1948)
- Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The
Depression Years, 1933-1940. New York: Hill & Wang,
1989.
- Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest:
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York:
Knopf,1982.
- --, The End of Reform: New Deal
Liberalism in Depression and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1995.
- Cohen, Lizbeth. Making a New Deal:
Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge University Press,
1990.
- Gregory, James Noble. American Exodus:
the Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
- Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the
Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
- Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper & Row,
1963.
- Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home
Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982. Cornell
University Press, 1994.
- Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for
Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National
Issue.
1978; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press,
1981.
- Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race
and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1996.
- Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral
History of the Great Depression. 1970; reprint, New Press,
2000.
- Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the
Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. 1984; reprint, New Press,
1998.
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The Cold War and Second
Reconstruction
(1948-1975)
- Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black
Woman's Story. New York: Pantheon Books,
1992.
- Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage:
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of
American Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1995.
- Dittmer, John. Local People: The
Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana : University of Illinois
Press, 1994.
- Echols, Alice. Scars of Sweet Paradise:
The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. New York: Metropolitan Books,
1999.
- Formisano, Ronald P. Boston Against
Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
- Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know:
Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997.
- Goldfield, David. Black, White, and
Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
- Herring, George C. America's Longest
War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. 1979; reprint, Boston:
McGraw-Hill, 2002.
- Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier:
The Suburbanization of the United States. New York : Oxford University
Press, 1985.
- May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound:
American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books,
1988.
- McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer. New
York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in
Mississippi. 1968; reprint, Laureleaf,
1997.
- Morris, Aldon. The Origins of the Civil
Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for
Change.
Collier Macmillan, 1984.
- Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of
Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
- Ralph, James. Northern
Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights
Movement.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Rogin, Richard "Joe Kelly Has Reached
His Boiling Point," in Murray Freedman, ed. Overcoming Middle Class
Rage. Philadelphia, Westminster Press 1971.
- Schrecker, Ellen. Many are the Crimes:
McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown,
1998.
-
Sitkoff, Harvard. "Race
Relations: Progress and Prospects," in James T. Patterson, ed. Paths to
Present. Minneapolis: Burges Publishing Co.,
1975.
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Contemporary United States
History (1975-present)
- Dionne, E. J. Why Americans Hate
Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
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