Nineteenth Century America

Nineteenth Century America

The Market Revolution and Jacksonian Democracy

The Market Revolution

Johnson, Paul. A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. North, Douglass. Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860. Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. Stokes, Melvin, ed. The Market Revolution.

Labor, Race, and Gender

Boydston, Jeanne. Home & Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood. Horton, James O. Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness. Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic.

Politics

Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition. Kohl, Lawrence. The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Era. Schlesinger, Arthur. The Age of Jackson. Wallace, Anthony. The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. Watson, Harry. Liberty and Power.

Slavery and Sectional Conflict

North Anbinder, Tyler Gregory. Nativism and slavery: the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's. Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men. Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Stewart, James. Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery. Walters, Ronald. American Reformers, 1815-1860.

South

Ford, Lacy. The Origins of Southern Radicalism. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Genovese, Eugene. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South. Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll. Gray-White, Deborah. Arn’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul. Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. Rothman, Adam. Slave Country. Stampp, Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South.

Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South

Causes, Fighting, and Winning of the Civil War

Berlin, Ira et al. Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War. Boritt, Gabor. Why the Confederacy Lost. Cox, LaWanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Leadership. Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention. Fredrickson, George. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. Levine, Bruce. Half Slave, Half Free: The Roots of Civil War. McPherson, James. What They Fought For, 1861-1865. Potter, David. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. Thomas, Emory. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience.

Reconstruction and the New South

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction. Foner, Eric. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy. Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. Holt, Thomas. Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction. McKittrick, Eric. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South.

Gilded Age: Industrialism, Expansion and its Discontents

• Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie 1850-1896.
• Chandler, Alfred Dupont. The visible hand: the managerial revolution in American business.
• Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working Class History.

Expansion/Frontier

• Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
• LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898.
• Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right.
• Turner, Frederick Jackson “Significance of the Frontier in American History.”

Intellectual Currents

• Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925.
• Frederickson, George. Black Image in the White Mind.
• John Sproat, The Best Men.
• Meier, August. Negro Thought in America 1880-1915.

Populism/Labor

• McMath, Robert C. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898.
• Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will.
• Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics.
• Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America.
• Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917.