This is a brief list of books from which you can write a book review. Please see me after class if you need any information about them. Reviews should be three or four double-spaced pages, typed, and provide BOTH a nice synopsis of the book and a general critique. Students will receive up to 50 points for each book review they complete.
Colonial Era
Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World, a
New History
Alberto Galindo, In Search of the Inca: Destiny and Utopia in the Andes
Alison Games, Witchcraft in Early North America
Robert Goodwin, Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-
American Explorer of the American South
Ramon Gutierrez, ‘When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away': Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 David Hall, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Daniel Mandell, King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare Owen Stanwood, The Empire
Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious
Revolution
Harry Stout, The New England Soul
Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family
Revolutionary America
Catherine Adams, Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary
America
John Alexander, Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Edwin Burrows, Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the
Revolutionary War
Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Julie Flavell, When London was Capital of America
Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America
Susan Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in
America, 1760-1820
Pauline Maier, Ratification: the People Debate the Constitution, 1787-88
Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters:
Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the America Revolution
Jeffersonian Era
Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
Joseph Ellis, After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture
Edward Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800,
America's First Presidential Campaign
John C. Miller, The Federalist Era
Robert M. Owens, Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of
American Indian Policy
Ben Rose, Mother of Freedom: Mum Bett and the Roots of Abolition
Robert Tucker, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson
Early National and Jacksonian Periods
Will Bagley, Overland West: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848
Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York,
1815-1837
Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation
in 19th-Century America
Lawrence Kohl, The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the
Jacksonian Era
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery
Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion
James Parins, Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border
Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children
Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution
Mid-19th Century Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural
Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American
City, 1760-1900
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Honor and Violence in the Old South
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand
Carol Faulkner, Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's rights in 19th century
America
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party
Before the Civil War
Lori Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
Robert McGlone, John Brown's War Against Slavery
Sally McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
William Moran, The Belles of New England
James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
Robert Remini, At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved
the Union
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Edgar Thompson, The Plantation
Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the
Stono Rebellion
Civil War and Reconstruction
Michael Les Benedict, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
Edward Bonekemper, Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian
Victoria Bynum, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
David Eicher, Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Eric Foner, Reconstruction, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Michael Green, Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War
James McPherson, Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era
Phillip Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Joan Waugh, U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction