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.