Nineteenth Century
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Capitalism
Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Expansion, Environment, Imperialism
Politics
Religion
Slavery
- Hindle, Brooke, and Steven D. Lubar. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.
- Howe, Daniel W. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Rockman, Seth. Scraping by: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
- White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
Culture, Gender, Sexuality
- Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Clark, Emily. The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.
- Cohen, Patricia Cline, Timothy J Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. The Flash Press Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Fabian, Ann. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
- Fox, Richard Wightman. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Halttunen, Karen. Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
- Johnson, Susan. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Expansion, Environment, Imperialism
- Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
- Greenberg, Amy S. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Rico, Monica. Nature's Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
- Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Significance of the Frontier in American History. Reprint edition. London: Penguin UK, 2008.
Politics
- Anbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850’s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Blight, David W. Race and Reunion. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
- Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
- Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
- Hahn, Steven A. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South, from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 2003.
- Jones, Martha S. All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Kantrowitz, Stephen. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889. New York: Penguin, 2012.
- McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
- McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.
- Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Religion
- Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Gordon, Sarah Barringer. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
- Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Religion and the Rise of the American City; the New York City Mission Movement, 1812-1870. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Slavery
- Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
- Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1998.
- Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Knopf, 2011.
- Glymph, Thavolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.
- ———. Soul by Soul. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.