HISTORY
6020
SELECTED
TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Field
List, 2013-2014
The list below contains 71 books and
22 articles organized into chronological and thematic subfields. Items in brackets appear elsewhere in the list. Ph.D. students doing a first or second field
in U.S. history are expected to be familiar with all the works listed.
Following the reading list are brief
profiles of the faculty teaching History 6020.
Native/European
Encounters
Colin Calloway, One
Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003).
David S. Jones,
“Virgin Soils Revisited,” William and Mary Quarterly 60, no. 4 (Oct.
2003): 703-742.
Jill Lepore, The
Name of War: King Philip=s War and the Origins
of American Identity
(1998).
James Merrell, The
Indians= New World: Catawbas
and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal (1989).
Daniel K. Richter, The
Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of
European Colonization (1992).
Richard White, The
Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region,
1650-1815 (1991).
Colonization and
Colonial Societies
Ira Berlin, Many
Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).
Kathleen Brown, Good
Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in
Colonial Virginia (1996).
Perry Miller,
"Errand into the Wilderness," in Errand into the Wilderness
(1956), Chapter 1.
Edmund Morgan, American
Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).
Laurel Thatcher
Ulrich, A Midwife=s Tale: The Life of
Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990).
American Revolution
and the Constitution
Jon Butler, “Enthusiasm Described and Decried: the Great Awakening as
Interpretive Fiction,” Journal of American History, 69 (Sept. 1982): 305-35.
Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting
Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999).
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution, revised edition
(2003).
Linda Kerber, “The
Republican Mother: Female Political Imagination in the Early Republic,” in Women
of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980).
Forrest McDonald, We
the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958).
Gordon Wood, The
Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969).
Alfred F. Young, AGeorge Robert Twelves
Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American
Revolution,@ William and Mary
Quarterly, 3rd Series, 38 (1981): 561-623.
[Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First
Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).]
[Laurel Thatcher
Ulrich, A Midwife=s Tale: The Life of
Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990).]
Jefferson and Jackson
Paul Finkelman, "Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason
Against the Hopes of the World,'" in Jeffersonian Legacies, ed. Peter S. Onuf (1993), pp.
181-221.
Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (2011).
Daniel Walker Howe,What
Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007).
Sean Wilentz, The
Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).
Class, Race, and
Gender in Antebellum Period
Paula Baker,
"The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society,
1780-1920," American Historical Review 89 (June 1984): 620-647.
Lori D. Ginzberg, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York (2005).
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass
Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985).
Nell Painter, ARepresenting Truth:
Sojourner Truth=s Knowing and
Becoming Known,@ Journal of
American History 81 (1994): 461-492.
Theda Perdue, Cherokee
Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998).
David Roediger, The
Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
(1991).
Carroll
Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between
Women in Nineteenth-Century America," Signs 1 (Autumn 1975): 1-29.
Christine Stansell, City
of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1982).
Deborah Gray White, Ar=n't I a Woman? Female
Slaves in the Plantation South (1985).
[Jon Butler, Awash
in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990).]
[Reginald Horseman, Race
and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (1981).]
[Daniel Walker Howe,What
Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007).]
[Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (2011).]
[Sean Wilentz, The
Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).]
Antebellum Slavery
and the Old South
Robert Fogel and
Stanley Engerman, APrologue: Slavery and
the Cliometric Revolution,@ in Time on the
Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974).
Eugene Genovese, The
Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave
South (1965).
Eugene Genovese, Roll,
Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974).
Walter Johnson, Soul
by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999).
[Ira Berlin, Many
Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
(1998).]
[Edmund Morgan, American
Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).]
[Nell Painter, ARepresenting Truth:
Sojourner Truth=s Knowing and
Becoming Known,@ Journal of
American History 81 (1994): 461-492.]
[Deborah Gray White, Ar=n't I a Woman? Female
Slaves in the Plantation South (1985).]
Civil War
Barbara J. Fields, AIdeology and Race in
American History,@ in Region, Race,
and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, eds. J. Morgan
Kousser and James McPherson (1982), 143-177.
Eric Foner, Free
Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the
Civil War (1970).
James McPherson, Battle
Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988).
[Eugene Genovese, The
Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave
South (1965).]
[Sean Wilentz, The
Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).]
Manifest Destiny and
the West
William Cronon, Nature=s Metropolis: Chicago
and the Great West
(1991).
Lawrence
Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in
America (1978).
Reginald Horseman, Race
and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (1981).
William Appleman
Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959).
Donald Worster, Rivers
of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth
of the American West (1985).
[Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (2011).]
[Perry Miller,
"Errand into the Wilderness," in Errand into the Wilderness
(1956), Chapter 1.]
Reconstruction and
the New South
Eric Foner, A
Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (1988).
Glenda Gilmore, Gender
and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina,
1896-1920 (1996).
Tera W. Hunter, To
‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
(1887).
Howard Rabinowitz and
C. Vann Woodward, APerspectives: The
Strange Career of Jim Crow,@ Journal of
American History 75, no. 3 (Dec. 1988): 842-868.
Jonathan Wiener,
"Class Structure and Economic Development in the American South
1865-1955," American Historical Review 84 (1979): 970-992.
C. Vann Woodward, The
Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955).
Gavin Wright, Old
South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War
(1986).
[Barbara J. Fields, AIdeology and Race in
American History,@ in Region, Race,
and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, eds. J. Morgan
Kousser and James McPherson (1982), 143-177.]
Urbanization, Industrialization,
and Labor
Alfred D. Chandler,
Jr., "The Beginnings of >Big Business= in American
Industry," Business History Review 33 (Spring 1959): 1-31. (Also in
Thomas K. McCraw (ed.), The Essential Alfred Chandler, Essays Toward a
Historical Theory of Big Business (1988), 47-73.
Nan Enstad, Ladies
of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics
at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).
Alan Trachtenberg, The
Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982).
[George Chauncey, Gay
New York: Gender Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
(1994).]
[Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom:
Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War (1887).]
[Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass
Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985).]
[David Roediger, The
Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
(1991).]
[Christine Stansell, City
of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1982).]
Immigration and
Ethnicity
Gary Gerstle,
"Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of America"; Donna R. Gabaccia,
"Liberty, Coercion and the Making of Immigration Historians," Journal
of American History, 84, no. 2 (September 1997): 524-558, 570-575.
Mae Ngai,
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2003).
Robert A.
Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian
Harlem, 1880-1950 (1986).
George
Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993).
[David
Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American
Working Class (1991).]
The
Gilded Age and Progressive Eras
George
Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay
Male World, 1890-1940 (1994).
Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987).
Linda
Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
(1994).
Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A
History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 (1979).
T. J.
Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of
American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981).
George M.
Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: the Shaping of
Twentieth-Century Evangelism, 1870-1925 (1980).
Richard
McCormick, AProgressivism:
A Contemporary Reassessment,@ in The Party Period and
Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era
(1986).
Michael
E. McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive
Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003).
Peter
Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American
Historical Profession (1988).
Emily
Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982).
Theda
Skocpol, “State Formation and Social Policy in the United States,” in Social
Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective
(1995).
[Paula
Baker, "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political
Society,
1780-1920," American Historical Review 89 (June 1984): 620-647.]
[Alfred D. Chandler,
Jr., "The Beginnings of >Big Business= in American
Industry," Business History Review 33 (Spring 1959): 1-31. (Also in
Thomas K. McCraw (ed.), The Essential Alfred Chandler, Essays Toward a
Historical Theory of Big Business (1988), 47-73.)]
[Nan Enstad, Ladies
of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor
Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).]
[Glenda Gilmore, Gender
and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina,
1896-1920 (1996).]
[Lawrence
Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in
America (1978).]
[Kenneth
Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
(1985).]
[Alan Trachtenberg, The
Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982).]
Imperialism
and World War One
Eileen J. Findlay, “Love in the Tropics: Marriage,
Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico,
1898-1910,” in Gilbert M. Joseph et al., eds., Close Encounters of Empire:
Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1998).
David
Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980).
Paul A.
Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the
Philippines (2006).
[Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A
History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 (1979).]
[Peter
Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American
Historical Profession (1988).]
[Emily
Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982).]
[William
Appleman Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959).]
1920s
Lizabeth
Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
(1990).
Ann
Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995).
[George
Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban
Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994).]
[Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987).]
[Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A
History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 (1979).]
[Kenneth
Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
(1985).]
[George
M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: the Shaping of
Twentieth-Century Evangelism, 1870-1925 (1980).]
[Mae
Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2003).]
[Emily
Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982).]
The Great
Depression and World War Two
Alan
Brinkley, Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998).
Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers= Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
John
Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986).
Melvyn P. Leffler, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953( 1994).
Penny Von
Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
(1997).
[Lizabeth
Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
(1990).]
[Linda
Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
(1994).]
[Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History
of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 (1979).]
[Kenneth
Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
(1985).
[Peter
Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American
Historical Profession (1988).]
[Emily
Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982).]
The Cold
War
Barton Bernstein, “Atomic Bombings Reconsidered,” Foreign
Affairs 74 (Jan-Feb 1995):
135-52.
Mary
Dudziak, Cold War, Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
(2002).
Elaine
Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).
Melani
McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media and U.S. Interests in the Middle
East, (2001).
Ellen
Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1999).
Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
(1991).
[Melvyn P. Leffler, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953( 1994).]
[Peter
Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American
Historical Profession (1988).]
[William
Appleman Williams, Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959).]
1945 to
present
Alice
Echols, "'We Gotta Get Out of This Place': Notes Toward a Remapping of the
Sixties," Socialist Review 22, no. 2 (1992): 9-34.
David
Greenberg, Nixon=s Shadow: The History of an Image (2003).
Jacqueline
Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,”
Journal of American History, 91 (Mar. 2005): 1233-1263.
Peniel E.
Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black
Power Era (2006).
Nancy
Maclean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
(2006).
Lisa
McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).
Joanne
Meyerowitz, ABeyond
the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958,@ Journal
of American History 79 (March 1993): 1455-1482.
Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making
America Conservative in the 1970s (2008).
Thomas
Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar
Detroit (1996).
[Alan
Brinkley, Liberalism and its Discontents (1998).]
[Lizabeth
Cohen, A Consumers= Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Postwar America (2003).]
[Mary Dudziak, Cold War, Civil Rights: Race
and the Image of American Democracy (2002).]
[Kenneth
Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
(1985).]
[Elaine
Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
(1988).]
[Melani
McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media and U.S. Interests in the Middle
East (2001).]
[Peter
Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American
Historical Profession (1988).]
[Ellen
Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1999).]
Brief Profiles
of the Faculty Members in 6020
Marc
Egnal
My interests have evolved during the several decades
that I’ve been at York – an evolution that’s reflected in the books I’ve
written. My dissertation and earliest work focused on the Revolutionary period.
My research in this area led to A Mighty Empire: The Origins of
the American Revolution (1988).
Another field of interest has been comparative Canadian-US economic history. My work in this field provided the basis for Divergent
Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
(1996) and New World Economies: The
Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Canada (1998). My book on the Civil
War, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War appeared
early in 2009. Finally, I remain most interested in the US novel as social
history, which is the focus of my fourth-year seminar and my current book
project.
Molly Ladd-Taylor
My
research focuses on the intersection of ‘private’ life and ‘public’ policy,
especially in health, welfare, poverty, and reproductive policy. My monograph, Mother-Work: Women, Child
Welfare and the State investigates
progressivism, maternalism, and the American welfare state. Women, Health
and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945 (co-edited with York
colleagues Kate McPherson, Gina Feldberg, and Alison Li), addresses the impact
of national policy differences on women’s health and feminist politics. My current research looks at similar themes
from a different angle. I explore
eugenics, disability, childhood, and the punitive side of US welfare policy in
‘Bad' Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America (co-ed.
with Lauri Umansky); “Eugenics, Sterilisation and Modern Marriage: the Strange
Career of Paul Popenoe,” Gender & History (2001), “The
‘Sociological Advantages’ of Sterilization: Fiscal Politics and Feebleminded
Women in Interwar Minnesota,” in Mental Retardation in America, eds. S.
Noll and J. Trent; and a forthcoming article on US social policy and the
“hopeless” child. I also teach a 5000-level seminar on race, class and gender
in US history.
Carolyn Podruchny
My research and teaching interests reside in early North American
history, from the last ice age to the mid 19th century. My research
has focused on the relationships forged between indigenous peoples and French
newcomers. My first monograph, Making the
Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
(2006), focuses on French Canadian voyageurs that worked in the North American
fur trade based out of Montreal, and ranging to the Great Lakes, the Great
Pains, northern woodlands. and the subarctic. I co-edited, with Laura Peers, Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade
Histories (2010), which illuminate new theories and methodologies in
ethnohistory in central North America, spanning the Canadian and U.S.
borderlands. I have co-edited, with Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall, a
volume exploring Metis history in the same region, entitled Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility
and History (2012). I am currently writing books on the meeting and mixing
of narratives between voyageurs, Anishinaabe, and Cree; on a
French-Anishinaabemowin dictionary compiled in the mid 19th century
by a Catholic missionary; and on the material culture of Metis buffalo hunters
on the Great Plains.
Marlene
Shore
I have two major fields of research
interest -- 19th and 20th-century cultural history and the history of the
social and behavioral sciences in the United States and Canada. These are
reflected in the books I have written: The
Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of
Social Research in Canada (1987); The Contested Past: Reading Canada's
History (2002); The Transformation of Psychology: Influences of
19th-Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science (2001), co-edited
with Christopher Green and Thomas Teo. I am currently finishing a book on
psychology and the culture of modernism in North America, 1880 to World War II.
Marc Stein
My specialty is the history of
sexuality in the United States, but I am also a social, cultural, and political
historian and my teaching and research interests include urban history, the
history of social movements, legal history, the history of race and gender, and
the history of African Americans and women. My first book, City of Sisterly
and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (2000), deals
with urban geographies, public culture, and political activism. I also served
as the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender History in America (2003). My second monograph, The U.S.
Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973 (2010), examines major rulings
concerning abortion, birth control, homosexuality, interracial marriage, and
obscenity. My most recent major publication is Rethinking the Gay and
Lesbian Movement (2012).