Nineteenth-Century American History Comprehensive Exam Reading List with David Quigley

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1 Nineteenth-Century American History Comprehensive Exam Reading List with David Quigley American Revolution Politics Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: A.A. Knopf, Gender Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty s Daughters The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, Boston: Little Brown, The Early Republic and the Formation of the American Identity Identity and Nationalism Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Lepore, Jill. A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, Watts, Steven. The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, Politics Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Freeman, Joanne. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Have, Connecticut: Yale University Press, Kerber, Linda. Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Gender Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, New York: Vintage Books, The Revolutions of Jacksonian America Religion and Reform Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press,

2 Bole, John B. editor. Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Religion and the Rise of the American City: The New York Mission Movement, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Confronting Black America Bay, Mia. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, New York: Oxford University Press, Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, The Antebellum South Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Women s World in the Old South. New York: Pantheon Books, Genovese, Eugene D. Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Random House, Oakes, James. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Norton, 1982.* The Development of Urban Space Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett. New York: Vintage Books, Ryan, Mary. Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Market Revolutions Masur, Louis P. 1831: Year of Eclipse. New York: Hill and Wang, May, Robert W. Manifest Destiny s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, New York: Oxford University Press, Sheriff, Carol. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, New York: Hill & Wang, The Formation of Class Culture and Politics Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Doubleday, Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, New York: Oxford University Press,

3 The Political and Ideological Crises of the 1850s Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. New York: Oxford University Press, Baker, Jean H. Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, New York: Oxford University Press, Sinha, Manisha. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Experiencing and Imagining the American Civil War Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance in American Politics and Society in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber ed. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Gallagher, Gary W. The Confederate War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, George Fredrickson. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. New York: Harper & Row, Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance Between Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press, Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Touchstone, Leonard, Elizabeth. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,

4 McPherson, James. The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine Books, McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, Paludan, Philip. A People s Contest: The Union and the Civil War, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, Reconstruction: Reconfiguring the Political and Racial Landscape The Racialized Economy Edwards, Laura. Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction Frederickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, New York: Harper & Row, Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press, Remembering the War Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, The Remaking of Democracy Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America s Unfinished Revolution, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy. New York: Hill and Wang, Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Cambridge University Press, The Gilded Age and Jim Crow White Supremacy Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, Litwack, Leon F. Troubles in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Race and Civilization Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

5 Campbell, James T. Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Populism and Working Class Movements Fink, Leon. Workingmen s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Confronting and Responding to Modernity Progressivism Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, Kennedy, David. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, New York: Hill and Wang,1967. The Anxiety of Modernity Lears, T.J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, New York: Pantheon Books, O Malley, Michael. Keeping Watch: A History of American Time. New York: Viking, Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and Marginalization of Morality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Wrobel, David. The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New West. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas,

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