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== 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.