history extra

HIST 1483               

 

 

 

This is a brief list of books from which you can write a book review for extra credit.   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 19^th-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-19^th 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 19^th 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