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Early U.S. History Reading List
Important Historiographic Collection
Foner, Eric. The New American History
Colonial
Recommended Synthesis: Taylor, Alan, American Colonies: The Settling of North America.
- Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005)
- Berkin, Carol. First Generations: Women in Colonial America
- Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
- Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
- Calloway, Colin. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
- Cronon, William. Changes in the Land
- Greene, Jack. Pursuits of Happiness
- Greven, Philip. Four Generations: Population, Land and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
- Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away
- Isaac, Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia
- Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998)
- Morgan, Edmund, American Slavery American Freedom
- Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
- Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
- White, Richard, The Middle Ground
Revolution/Early Republic
Recommended Synthesis American Revolution: Robert Middlekauf, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Recommended Synthesis Early Republic: Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
- Berkin, Carol, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2003)
- Bailyn, Bernard. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- Holton, Woody, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007)
- Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
- McCoy, Drew. The Elusive Republic
- Nash, Gary. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution
- Rothman, Adam, Slave Country (2007)
- Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution
- Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
- Waldstreicher, David, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997)
- Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
- Wood, Gordon. Creation of the American Republic
- Young, Alfred, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
- Zagarri, Rosemarie, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2008)
Antebellum
Recommended Synthesis Antebellum: Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford)
- Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses, Moral Order
- Feller, Daniel. The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815 to 1840
- Genovese, Eugene. Roll Jordan Roll
Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness - Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery
- Walters, Ronald. American Reformers, 1815-1860