Suggested References

CHAPTER 1

Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen R. Stothert, Women in Ancient America (1999).

Susan Toby Evans, Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History (2008).

Brian Fagan, Ancient North America (2005).

Kendrick Frazier, People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Cultures (1999).

Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (2006).

Timothy R. Pauketat, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Greatest City on the Mississippi (2009).

CHAPTER 2

Laurence Bergreen, Columbus: The Four Voyages (2011).

J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1491–1830 (2006).

James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (2010).

John L. Kessell, Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico (2010).

Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic (2009).

David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (2009).

CHAPTER 3

S. Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006).

Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas (2007).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (2009).

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).

Christopher L. Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (2010).

Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763 (2010).

CHAPTER 4

Ned C. Landsman, Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America (2010).

Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation (2005).

Daniel R. Mandell, King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty (2010).

Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002).

Carola Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 (2004).

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (2004).

CHAPTER 5

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).

Patrick Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764 (2001).

David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (2009).

Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country (1998).

Randy Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Odyssey (2004).

Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (2005).

CHAPTER 6

Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (2001).

T. H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010).

Douglas R. Egerton, Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006).

Alfred F. Young, Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (2006).

CHAPTER 7

Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence (2005).

Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005).

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).

Ray Raphael, A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2001).

CHAPTER 8

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1999).

Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007).

Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 (2011).

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996).

Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (2002).

Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006).

CHAPTER 9

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (2004).

Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000).

Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1997).

Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003).

Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007).

CHAPTER 10

Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000).

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Madison and Jefferson (2010).

Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (2009).

Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (2006).

Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (2010).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

CHAPTER 11

Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994).

John Lauritz Larson, The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good (2009).

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).

John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997).

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1845 (2009).

Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Slavery in the Era of Emancipation (2007).

CHAPTER 12

Lori D. Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (2009).

Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005).

Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).

Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009).

David R. Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization (2003).

Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).

CHAPTER 13

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).

Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (2005).

Lacy K. Ford Jr., Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2009).

Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007).

Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South (1995).

Michael Perman, Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South (2009).

CHAPTER 14

Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (2001).

Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001).

Susan-Mary Grant, North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000).

Bruce C. Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992).

David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (2005).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

CHAPTER 15

Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, 5 vols. (1982–2008).

Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (2007).

James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).

Anne Sarah Rubin, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868 (2005).

Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2006).

Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North (2008).

CHAPTER 16

Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (2003).

Michael W. Fitzgerald, Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (2007).

John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (2006).

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008).

Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).

Susan Eva O’Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South (2007).

CHAPTER 17

David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 (1995).

Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (2009).

David Igler, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920 (2001).

Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1730–1920 (2000).

Jeffrey Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2004).

Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).

CHAPTER 18

Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905 (2006).

Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching (2008).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (anniversary edition, 2009).

Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).

LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South (2005).

CHAPTER 19

Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton, The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (2005).

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (2004).

Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 (1987).

David R. Roediger, Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White (2005).

Robert E. Weir, Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement (2000).

CHAPTER 20

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (rev. ed., 1998).

Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892 (1992).

Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 (1994).

Jackson Lears, The Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America (2005).

Troy Rondinone, The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865–1950 (2010).

CHAPTER 21

Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2009).

John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).

Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s (2007).

Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914 (2004).

CHAPTER 22

Jean Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists (2005).

John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).

Thomas Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (2003).

Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (2008).

James N. Gregory, Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (2005).

Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001).

CHAPTER 23

Liz Conor, Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (2004).

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (2004).

Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street (2005).

William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert Hoover: 31st President, 1929–1933 (2009).

Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010).

Steven Watts, People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (2005).

CHAPTER 24

Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1990).

Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2010).

Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003).

William Edward Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (2009).

Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (2009).

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade against the New Deal (2010).

CHAPTER 25

Antony Beevor, The Second World War (2012).

John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986).

Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 (2011).

Arthur Herman, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (2012).

John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996).

Peter Schrijvers, The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II (2002).

CHAPTER 26

Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans (2009).

Campbell Craig and Fredric Logevall, America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009).

Bruce Cumings, The Korean War (2010).

Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).

Ellen W. Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998).

Philippa Strum, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (2010).

CHAPTER 27

Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock ’n’ Roll Changed America (2004).

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 (1988).

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).

Jim Newton, Eisenhower: The White House Years (2011).

Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (1994).

Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008).

CHAPTER 28

Sara Evans, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (2003).

Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2011).

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2005).

Carlos Muñoz, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (2007).

Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (2006).

CHAPTER 29

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (2008).

Frederick Downs, The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War (1978).

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (1998).

Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2010).

Margaret Macmillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (2007).

Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam (2005).

CHAPTER 30

David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (2012).

Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (2005).

Linda Hirshman, Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (2012).

J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent De­­cade in the Lives of Three American Families (1986).

Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008).

Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (2010).

CHAPTER 31

John F. Harris, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2005).

Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (2009).

George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (2005).

Richard A. Posner, A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression (2009).

David M. Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People (2005).

Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (2010).