American Social History

This seminar will explore major themes and topics in the social history of America from the colonial era to the mid-20th century. We will begin by defining the parameters of what constitutes social history, and examine the important interpretive frameworks that have guided recent scholarship in the field. This seminar cannot hope to cover everything in American social history, but will instead return again and again to certain significant themes that continually intersect when analyzing the everyday lives of Americans -- land, labor, community, religion, popular culture, and especially race, class, and gender.

The seminar will proceed chronologically, but we need to be attuned to the perception that older, traditional (political) ways of dividing up periods of American history may not be applicable nor useful for the histories of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrant minorities, sexual minorities, nor many other Americans.

REQUIRED READINGS:

• James Merrell, The Indians' New World Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal.
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
• Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860.
• Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.
• James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders.
• David Roediger, Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
• Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium.
• George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
• Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction.
• John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America.
• Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940.
• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39.
• Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

It goes without saying that every student in the seminar will attend and participate actively in the seminar (Oh, sorry, but I just said that.)

Reading Assignments:

Students are expected to purchase and read the required readings for each, complete the minimum reading assignment, and in most cases read all (or nearly all) of the additional reading. Students will also be expected to become acquainted with the material for the each week's topics for seminar papers. If we are not prepared to discuss these topics, then additional written assignments will have to be added to the seminar requirements.

Written Assignments:

You will write three papers for this seminar. Papers should be about 4-5 (single spaced) pages (1,200-2,000 words) in length. The quality of your work, not the size of your paper, is our primary concern. A list of topics and readings is included within each week of the syllabus.

Seminar papers should be able to critically analyze the arguments of historians, and concisely and convincingly present your own assessment of an important theme or topic in American social history. A good seminar paper will bring the other members of the seminar immediately into the heart of your argument, without excessive narrative or description. It will also present the most convincing evidence you can find to substantiate your interpretation. (I will gladly supply examples of strong seminar papers.) Seminar papers should include a bibliography of sources used.

Seminar papers are due by 9am on the Sunday before the seminar meets. A copy of the paper must be posted on the Classes Folder for History 135, and a paper version placed under the door of the instructor's office. Every member of the seminar will be responsible for reading each other's papers carefully prior to the seminar and offering comments on the papers as a part of the seminar session.

Discussion Leadership:

One student each week will be responsible for being the seminar discussion leader. The discussion leader will be responsible for having read book reviews of the major readings for each seminar paper, and for preparing discussion questions that both facilitate discussion for the seminar and also ask the authors of papers to relate their conclusions to the general readings that week. A good discussion leader will try to keep the discussion focused on a particular historical problem, and will be often asked to summarize the seminar discussion at the end of the class.

Examination:

All students will take a final examination. Senior honors students will also have an oral examination with the outside examiner during honors weekend, May 21-23.

BACKGROUND READINGS:

If you need to acquire a solid background on either the major events and social movements in American history or the developments in social relationships during different eras, then consult the following:

American Social History Project, Who Built America, 2 volumes.

Everyday Life in America Series:

David Freeman Hawke, Everyday Life in Early America.
Stephanie Grauman Wolf, As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of 18th-Century Americans.
Jack Larkin, The Reshaping of Everyday Life.
Daniel E. Sutherland, The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876.
Thomas J. Schlereth, Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915.
Harvey Green, The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945.

Other good surveys include:

Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free.
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age.
Nell Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919.
William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II.

SEMINAR SCHEDULE:

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS SOCIAL HISTORY & WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Minimum Reading:

• Alice Kessler Harris, "Social History," in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (1990), pp. 163-80.
• Thomas Bender, "Wholes and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History," Journal of American History 73 (1986), 120-136; and roundtable response, Journal of American History 74 (1987), 107-130.
• E.P. Thompson, "Preface," The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-13.
• Sean Wilentz, "Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement," International Labor and Working-Class History 26 (Fall 1984): 1-24 & response by Nick Salvatore, 25-30
• Barbara Fields, "Ideology and Race in American History," in J. Morgan Kousser and James McPherson, eds., Region, Race, and Reconstruction , pp. 143-77.
• Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." American Historical Review 91 (1986), 1053-75.

Additional Reading:

• Fred Anderson and Andrew R.L. Cayton, "The Problem of Fragmentation and the Prospects of Synthesis in Early American Social History," William and Mary Quarterly 50 (1993), 299-310.
• Eric H. Monkkonen, "The Dangers of Synthesis," American Historical Review 91 (1986), 1146-57.

WEEK 2: CONTACT AND CONFLICT BETWEEN CULTURES IN EARLY AMERICA

Minimum Reading:

• James Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal.
• Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, Introduction & ch. 2.
• William Cronon, Changes in the Land, pp., vii-ix, 34-81.

Additional Reading:

• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom, ch. 3-8.
• Daniel Richter, "War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience," William and Mary Quarterly 40 (1983), 528-559.
• James Axtell, After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America, ch. 8.

Topics:

Land, Property, and the Environment:

• William Cronon, Changes in the Land, ch. 2-7.
• Calvin Martin, Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade, Part 1 & Part 3.
• Shepard Krech, Indians, Animals and the Fur Trade: A Critique of Keepers of the Game, ch. 3 & ch. 2 or 4.
• Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America," William and Mary Quarterly 33 (1976), 289-99.
• Karl H. Schlesier, "Epidemics and Indian Middlemen: Rethinking the Wars of the Iroquois," Ethnohistory 23 (1976), 129-45.
• Karen O. Kupperman, "Apathy and Death in Early Jamestown," Journal of American History 66 (1979), 24-40.
• Darrett and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County Virginia, 1650-1750, ch. 2-4.

Gender:

• Carol Karlson, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, ch. 4-5, 7.
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives, Part 1.
• Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, Parts 1 & 2.
• Lois Carr and Lorena Walsh, "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland, William and Mary Quarterly 34 (1977), 542-571.
• Richard Trexler, Sex and Conquest, Introduction, ch. 3-7.
• Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846, ch. 1, 6-8.
• Nancy Shoemaker, "The Rise or Fall of Iroquois Women," Journal of Women's History 2 (1989-90), 39-57.
• Walter Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, Part 1.
• Raymond Hauser, "The Berdache and the Illinois Indian Tribe during the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century," Ethnohistory 37 (1990), 45-65.
• Claire C. Robinson and Martin A. Klein, Women and Slavery in Africa., 3-19, 49-66.
• Niara Sudarkasa, "The Status of Women in Indigenous African Societies," Feminist Studies 12 (1986), 91-103.

Labor, Servitude and Slavery:

• Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves.
• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom, ch. 3-6, 11-13, 15-16
• Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, Part 2.
• Stephen Innes, ed., Work and Labor in Early America, Introduction, ch. 1, 4.
• Philip D. Morgan, "Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700-1880," William and Mary Quarterly 39 (1982), 563-99.
• Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West.
• Sharon Salinger, "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800.

WEEK 3: REVOLUTION AND TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM

Minimum Reading:

• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale.
• Cornelia Hughes Dayton, "Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village," William and Mary Quarterly 48 (1991), 19-49.
• Paul Johnson, "The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch," New England Quarterly (1982), 488-516.
• Jeanne Boydston, "The Woman Who Wasn't There: Women's Market Labor and the Transition to Capitalism in the United States," Journal of the Early Republic 16 (Summer 1996), 183-206. Also reprinted in Paul A. Gilje, ed., Wages of Independence: Capitalism in the Early American Republic (1997), pp. 23-47.

Additional Reading:

• David Jaffee, "Peddlers of Progress and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1760-1860," Journal of American History 78 (1991), 511-535.

Topics:

The American Revolution: A Social Revolution?:

• Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
• Forum on Gordon Wood's Radicalism of the American Revolution, inWilliam and Mary Quarterly 51 (Oct. 1994), pp. 693-716.
• Alfred F. Young, "George Roberts Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 38 (1981), 561-623.
• Gary B. Nash, "The Forgotten Experience: Indians, Blacks, and the American Revolution," in William M. Fowler, ed., The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives (1979), pp. 29-42.
• Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.
• Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War.
• Sylvia Frey, Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age.
• Douglas Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion.
• Susan Juster, Disorderly Women.
• Edward Countryman, A People in Revolution.
• Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors.

Agrarian Capitalism:

• James Henretta, "Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre-Industrial America, " William and Mary Quarterly 35 (1978), 3-32.
• Michael Merrill, "Cash is Good to Eat: Self-Sufficiency and Exchange in the Rural Economy of the United States," Radical History Review 4 (Winter 1977), 42-71.
• Allan Kulikoff, Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992), ch. 1.
• Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts: 1780-1860 .
• Steven Hahn & Jonathan Prude, eds., The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation , pp. 3-21.
• Winifred Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy, ch. 2, 4-5.
• Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 .

Revolution and Race:

• Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Free Black Community, 1720-1840.
• Sylvia Frey, Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age.
• Douglas Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion.
• Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810.
• Colin Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country.
• William McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence.
• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery American Freedom, ch. 18.
• Thomas Bender, ed., The Antislavery Debate.

Construction of Victorian Gender System:

• Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, ch. 1-2.
• Linda K. Kerber, "Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History." Journal of American History 75 (1988): 9-39.
• Nancy Cott, "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, " in Nancy Cott and Elizabeth Pleck, eds., A Heritage of Her Own, pp. 162-181.
• Charles Rosenberg, "Sexuality, Class and Role in 19th Century America." in Pleck, Elizabeth H., and Joseph H., eds., The American Man.
• Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood, ch. 1-2.
• Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America.
• Cynthia Russett, Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood.
• Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work.

WEEK 4: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF WORK

Minimum Reading:

• Christine Stansell, City of Women.
• Peter Way, "Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers, " Journal of American History 79 (1993), 1397-1428.
• Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ch. 1.

Additional Reading:

• Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium, ch. 2.
• Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, ch. 2-3.
• Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture & Society in Industrializing America, ch. 1.

Topics:

Gender and Industrial Transformation:

• Thomas Dublin, Women at Work.
• Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution.
• Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, ch. 2.
• Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1789-1910 .

Working Class Identity:

• Bruce Laurie, Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America.
• David Brody, In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker.
• Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850.
• Peter Way, Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860.
• Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn.

Industrialization: Transforming Work and Society:

• Barbara Tucker, Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry,1790-1860.
• Jonathan Prude, The Coming of the Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860, Part I.
• Thomas Dublin, Women at Work, ch. 1-4.
• Arthur Chandler, The Visible Hand, Part I.
• Judith A., McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine : Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885.
• Cynthia Shelton, The Mills of Manayunk, ch. 1-3.

Urbanization, Mobs, and Race Violence:

• Paul Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834, Part 2 & Part 3.
• David Montgomery, "The Shuttle and the Cross: Weavers and Artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844." Journal of Social History 5 (1972), 411-446.
• David Grimsted, "Ante-Bellum Labor: Violence, Strike and Communal Arbitration, Journal of Social History 19 (1985), 5-28.
• Susan G. Davis, Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, ch. 4.
• Michael Feldberg, The Turbulent Era : Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America.
• Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots.

WEEK 5: SLAVERY AND THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF SLAVES

Minimum Reading:

• Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.
• Deborah Gray White, Arn't I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, ch. 1.

Additional Reading:

• Norrece Jones, Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina, ch. 1-3, 6.
• Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, pp. 450-523.
• Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South, ch. 8.

Topics:

Slave Religion and African American Culture:

• Lawrence Levine, Black Culture, Black Consciousness, ch. 1-2 (3-4).
• Albert Raboteau, Slave Religion, ch. 5-6
• John Blassingame, The Slave Community, ch 2.
• Ira Berlin, Slaves Without Masters, ch. 1-2, 6, 8-10
• Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth Century Virginia, Part 3.
• Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America.
• Margaret Creel, A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs.

Slave Family and Gender Construction:

• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, ch. 3.
• Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, ch. 2.
• Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White, ch. 7-8.
• Deborah Gray White, Arn't I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South.
• Patricia Morton, ed., Discovering the Women in Slavery.
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, ch. 1.
• James Cullen, "I's a Man Now: Gender and African American Men." in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, 76-91.
• Carol Bleser, ed., In Joy and in Sorrow : Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900.

Slave Resistance and Rebellion:

• Norrece Jones, Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina, ch. 1-3, 6.
• Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Book Four.
• Dorothy Sterling, ed., We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, ch. 6.
• Melton McLaurin, Celia, A Slave.
• Douglas Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion.

WEEK 6: WHITE SOUTHERN SOCIETY, SLAVEHOLDING, AND WHITE RACISM

Minimum Reading:

• James Oakes, The Ruling Race.
• David Roediger, Wages of Whiteness.
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, ch. 1-2, 17.

Additional Reading:

• Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, pp. 3-7.
• Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds, ch. 6-7 (also ch. 2-3 if you have time)
• James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, ch. 2.
• Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress, ch. 2.

Topics:

Economics of Slavery:

• Eugene Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery.
• Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South, ch. 1 & 2.
• Fogel & Engerman, Time On The Cross, ch. 2, 3 & 4.
• Herbert G. Gutman, Slavery and the Numbers Game , 1-42.
• Genovese & Genovese, Fruits of Merchant Capital, 5 & 6.
• Barbara J. Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, chapters 1-3.
• Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery.

The Slaveholding Class/ Master-Slave Relations:

• James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, ch. 3.
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, Part 1 & Part 3.
• Eugene Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made, Part Two, ch. 2-4.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South,
• Joan Cashin, Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier.
• Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg.
• Drew Faust, Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War,
• Lacy Ford, Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860.

White-Class Relations in the Slave South:

• James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, ch. 3.
• J. William Harris, Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society.
• Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds.
• Victoria Bynum, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South.
• Elliott Gorn, "'Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch': The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry," American Historical Review 90 (1985), 18-43.
• Dennis C. Rousey, "Aliens in the WASP Nest: Ethnocultural Diversity in the Antebellum Urban South," Journal of American History 79 (1992), 152-164.
• Charles C. Bolton, Poor Whites of the Antebellum South.
• Bill Cecil-Fronsman, Comon Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina.
• Allen Tullos, Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont.
• Kenneth Greenberg, Honor and Slavery.

White Racism in America:

• Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic.
• Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelry and the American Working Class.
• Michael Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indians.
• Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny.
• Drew Faust, ed., The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860.

WEEK 7: RELIGION, MORAL REFORM, AND CLASS FORMATION

Minimum Reading:

• Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium.
• Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity, ch. 1, 3-6.

Additional Reading:

• Alexander, Ruth M. "'We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters': Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850," Journal of American History 75 (December 1988), 763-85.
• Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence, ch. 4.
• Lawrence Frederick Kohl, "The Concept of Social Control and the History of Jacksonian America," Journal of the Early Republic 5 (1985), 21-34.
• Nell Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, ch. 6-7, 9-10, 13, 15-16, 18.

Topics:

Revivalist Religion -- Evangelicals, Etc.

• William McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, ch. 1 & 4.
• Whitney Cross, The Burned-Over District.
• Donald G. Mathews, "The Second Great Awakening as an Organizing Process, 1780-1830," American Quarterly 21(Spring 1969), 23-43.
• Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, ch. 4.
• Jama Lazerow, Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America.
• Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias.
• Dickson Bruce, And They All Sang Hallelujah.
• Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.
• Jan Shipps, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition.

Moral Reformers:

• Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence.
• Nancy Hewitt, Women's Activism and Social Change.
• Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.
• Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, eds., The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America.
• Shirley Yee, Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860.
• Nell Painter, Sojourner Truth.
• W. J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic,
• Ian Tyrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America.

Dealing with "Deviants" -- Insanity, Crime, Prostitution:

• Gerald Grob, The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill.
• Mary Jimenez, Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane.
• David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum, ch. 5-6, 3-4.
• Daniel Cohen, Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture.
• Louis Masur, Rites of Execution.

Creation of the Middle Class:

• Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class.
• Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class.
• Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women.
• Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.
• C. Dallett Hemphill, "Middle-Class Rising in Revolutionary America: The Evidence from Manners," Journal of Social History 30 (1996), 317-44.

WEEK 8: EMANCIPATION AND POST-CIVIL WAR SOCIETY -- NORTH AND SOUTH

Minimum Reading:

• Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction.
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction, 1863-1877, Preface, (& Read at least 2 reviews of this book in journals like New York Review of Books, Reviews in American History, Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Journal of Southern History, Journal of Social History, NY Times Book Review, etc.) [Skim ch. 3-4, 7-10, 12.]

Additional Reading:

• Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, ch. 5.
• Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction, Introduction, ch 3-4.

Topics:

The Civil War:

• Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War.
• Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers.
• Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home.
• Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots.
• Drew Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.
• Winthrop Jordan, Tumult and Silence at Second Creek.
• Elizabeth Leonard, Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War.
• David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass's Civil War.

Reconstruction:

• Eric Foner, Reconstruction, 1863-1877.
• Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery,
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, ch. 2.
• Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction.
• Tera W. Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War.
• Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South, ch. 7.
• Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-70.
• Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.
• Allen Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction.

Race and the "New South":

• Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow.
• W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930.
• Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery,
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow,
• Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow.
• C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
• Howard Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890.
• Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation.
• Gerald David Jaynes, Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1882.

The Economics of Farm Life (The Social History of Populism):

• Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America.
• Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History.
• Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism,
• Jeffrey J. Crow, et al., eds., Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History.
• Scott G, McNall, The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865-1900.
• James H. Stock, "Real Estate Mortgages, Foreclosures and Midwestern Agrarian Unrest, 1865-1920," Journal of Economic History (March 1984), 89-106.
• Norman Pollack, Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism, and Democracy.
• James Turner, "Understanding the Populists", Journal of American History 67 (Sept. 1980), 354-373.
• Robert McGuire, "Economic Causes of Late-Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Unrest," Journal of Economic History 61 (Dec. 1981),
• C. Van Woodward, Tom Watson.
• Ted Ownby, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South.

WEEK 9: URBANIZATION AND THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA

Minimum Reading:

• John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America.

Additional Reading:

• Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, Part 2.
• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, ch. 11-13.
• John Higham, Strangers in the Land, ch. 7.
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives ((1901), Dover Edition, with photographs).

Topics:

Ethnicity and Acculturation:

• John Bodnar, The Transplanted.
• Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the U.S.A.
• Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, Part 2 & 3.
• Jay Dolan, The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865.
• Jon Gjerde, Conflict and Community: A Care Study of the Immigrant Church in the United States.
• Kerby A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America.
• Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Distant Shore: A History of Asian Americans.
• Mario T. Garcia, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920.
• David Reimers, Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America.

Anti-Immigrant (Nativist) Movements:

• John Higham, Strangers in the Land.
• David Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History.
• Ray Allen Billington, The Protestant Crusade,
• Alexander Saxton, The Indispensible Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California.
• Leonard Dinnerstein, Uneasy at Home: Antisemitism and the American Jewish Experience.
• David Gerber, ed., Anti-Semitism in American History.
• Kenneth Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the City.

Social Mobility and Migration:

• Stephen Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970.
• Michael Katz, et al., The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism, ch. 1-3.
• Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door.: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915, ch. 1-3.
• Howard Chudacoff, "Success and Security: The Meaning of Social Mobility in America," Reviews in American History 10 (Dec. 1982), 101-112.
• Edward Pessen., "Social Structure and Politics in American History," American Historical Review (Dec. 1982).
• James Henretta, "The Study of Social Mobility: Ideological Assumptions and Cultural Biases," Labor History 18 (Spring 1977), 164-178.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, "Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880-1920," Journal of Urban History 13 (1987), 147-168.
• Elizabeth Pleck, Black Migration and Poverty: Boston, 1865-1900.
• Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, ch. 5.
• John Bodnar, Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940.
• John Bodnar, et al., Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960.
• Clyde and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers, ch. 4.
• Jon Gjerle, From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West.
• Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925.

Urban and Ethnic Families:

• Tamara Hareven, Family Time, Industrial Time.
• Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World, Intro., ch. 1-3.
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940.
• Judith Smith, Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940.
• Ewa Morawska, For Bread with Butter: Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930.

Poverty, Welfare, and the State:

• Michael B, Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America, ch. 1 & 2.
• Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present.
• Michael B, Katz, Poverty and Policy in American History.
• James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985, Part 1 & 2.
• Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare.
• Linda Gordon, "The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State, in Linda Gordon, ed., Women, the State, and Welfare,
• Gwendolyn Mink, "Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State," in Linda Gordon, ed., Women, the State, and Welfare,
• Barbara Blumberg, The New Deal and the Unemployed.

Racial Conflict Since the Turn-of-the-Century:

• Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow.
• Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan in a Georgia Town.
• Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s.
• W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930.
• Joe William Trotter, Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45.
• Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Negro New York, 1890-1920.
• Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class.

WEEK 10: THE WEST AND THE BORDERLANDS

Minimum Reading:

• Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940.
• Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, ch. ___.

Additional Reading:

• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, pp. xv-xix, ch. 5 (also ch. 1 & 4 if you have time)
• Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest, ch. 7-8.

Topics:

The West and the Environment:

• Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest, ch. 4, 5, & 9.
• Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West.
• Richard White, Land Use, Environment, and Social Change.
• William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis.
• William Cronon, "Landscapes of Abundance and Scarcity," in The Oxford History of the American West, pp. 603-37.
• Donald Worster, An Unsettled Country.
• Donald Worster, Dust Bowl.
• R. Douglass Hurt, Dust Bowl.
• Frieda Knobloch, The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West.

The Economics of Farm Life (The Social History of Populism):

• Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America.
• Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History.
• Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism,
• Scott G, McNall, The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism, 1865-1900.
• Norman Pollack, Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism, and Democracy.
• James Turner, "Understanding the Populists", Journal of American History 67 (Sept. 1980), 354-373.
• James H. Stock, "Real Estate Mortgages, Foreclosures and Midwestern Agrarian Unrest, 1865-1920," Journal of Economic History (March 1984), 89-106.
• Robert McGuire, "Economic Causes of Late-Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Unrest," Journal of Economic History 61 (Dec. 1981),

Gender and Sexuality in the West:

• Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier, 1880-1940.
• Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jamison, eds., The Women's West.
• Lillian Schlissel, et al., ed., Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives.
• Glenda Riley, Building and Breaking Families in the American West.
• Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West.
• Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Mercy: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-1890.
• Robert Griswold, Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890.
• Vivki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives.
• Vicki Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows.

Native Americans:

• Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.
• Robert M. Utley, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation.
• Richard White, The Roots of Dependency.
• William McLoughlin, After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees Struggle for Sovereignty.
• Peter Iverson, The Navajo Nation.
• Gretchen M. Batille and Kathleen Sands, eds., American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives.
• John D Loftin, Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century.
• Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
• Vine DeLoria, Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.

Ethnicity, Immigration, Race and Racism in the West:

• Sarah Deutsch, "Landscapes of Enclaves: Race Relations in the West, 1865-1990," in Under an Open Sky, pp. 110-31.
• Richard White, "Race Relations in the American West," American Quarterly 38 (1986), 396-416.
• Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest, ch. 6-8.
• Sucheng Chan, et al., eds., Peoples of Color in the American West.
• Sucheng Chan, This Bitter-Sweet Soil.
• Alexander Saxton, The Indispensible Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California.
• Nell I. Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction.
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives.
• Neil Foley, The White Scourge.

WEEK 11: SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND FAMILY

Minimum Reading:

• George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.

Additional Reading:

• Kevin J. Mumford, "'Lost Manhood' Found: Male Sexual Impotence and Victorian Culture in the United States." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3 (1992).
• John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, pp. 222-325.
• Ann DuCille, "'Othered' Matters: Reconceptualizing Dominance and Difference in the History of Sexuality in America," Journal of the History of Sexuality (1990), 102-130.

Topics:

Reproductive Control:

• Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.
• Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying In: A History of Childbirth in America.
• James Reed, From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement in American Society.
• James C. Mohr, Abortion in America.
• Linda Gordon, Women's Body, Women's Right.
• David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America.
• Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America.

Same Sex Intimacy and Sexuality:

• Carroll Smith Rosenberg, " Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth Century America," Signs 1 (1975), 1-29.
• Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood, ch. 4.
• George Chauncey, Gay New York.
• George Chauncey, Jr., "Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War One Era." Journal of Social History 19 (1985), 189-211.
• John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Snitnow, Stansell, and Thompson, eds., Powers of Desire, pp. 100-113.
• Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers.
• Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community.
• Blanche Wiesen Cook, "The Historical Denial of Lesbianism," Radical History Review 20 (1979), 60-65.
• Martin Duberman, About Time: Exploring the Gay Past.
• Jonathan Katz, ed., Gay American History.
• Jonathan Katz, Gay and Lesbian Almanac.
• Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons, eds., Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ch. 6, 12.

Illicit Sexuality and Sex Reformers:

• Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920.
• Marilynn Wood Hill, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870.
• Ruth Rosen, Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918.
• Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American
• West, 1865-90.
• Marion S. Goldman, Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode.
• Mary E. Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920.
• Ruth M. Alexander, The "Girl Problem": Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930.
• Regina Kunzel, "Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States," American Historical Review 100 (1995), 1465-87.
• Stephen Nissenbaum, Sex, Diet and Debility in Jacksonian America.
• Jayme Solokow, Eros and Modernization: Sylvester Graham, Health Reform, and the Origins of Victorian Sexuality in America.
• Ronald Walters, ed., Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian Americans.
• Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.

Race and Sex:

• Kevin Mumford, Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century.
• Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South.
• Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, and Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, selected essays.
• Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds., The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South.
• Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, ch. 6.
• Gary B. Nash, "The Hidden History of Mestizo America,' Journal of American History 82 (1995), 941-62.
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "'The Mind That Burns in Each Body': Women, Rape, and Racial Violence," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds, Powers of Desire.
• James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro.

Marriage and Divorce:

• Michael Gordon, "The Ideal Husband as Depicted in the Nineteenth Century Marriage Manual," in Elizabeth H. Pleck and Joseph H. Pleck, eds, The American Man.
• Robert Griswold, Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890: Victorian Illusions and Everyday Realities.
• William O'Neill, Divorce in the Progressive Era.
• Elaine Tyler May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America.
• Robert Griswold, Fatherhood in America.
• John Demos, Past, Present, and Personal.
• Joseph Kett, Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present.
• Steven Mintz, A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture.
• Paula Fass, Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America.
• Miriam Formanek-Brunell, Made to Play House: Colls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930.

Women & Public Space:

• Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880.
• Mary Ryan, Civic Wars.
• Glenna Matthews, The Rise of the Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970.
• Paula Baker, The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930.
• Elizabeth Varon, "Tippecanoe and the Ladies Too: White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia," Journal of American History 82 (1995), 494-521.

Turn-of-the-Century "Crisis" in Masculinity:

• Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917.
• Gail Bederman, "'The Women Have Had Charge of the Church Work Long Enough': The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912 and the Masculinization of Middle-Class Protestantism," American Quarterly 41 (September 1989), 432-65.
• Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood.
• Joe L. Dubbert, "Progressivism and the Masculinity Crisis," in Elizabeth H. Pleck and Joseph H. Pleck, eds., The American Man.
• Peter Filene, Him/Her/Self: Sex Roles in Modern America.
• Jeffrey P. Hantover, "The Boy Scouts and the Validation of Masculinity," in Elizabeth H. Pleck and Joseph H. Pleck, eds., The American Man.
• David I. MacLeod, Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners.
• Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life.

WEEK 12: BIG BUSINESS & LABOR -- A CONSUMER SOCIETY & MASS CULTURE

Minimum Reading:

• Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39.
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements, ch. 2-3.

Additional Reading:

• David M. Gordon, et al., Segmented Work, Divided Workers, ch. 1.
• David Montgomery, Workers' Control in America, ch. 1 & 4.
• Martha May, "Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions and the Family Wage," in Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History, 1-21.

Topics:

Worker Control - Workers' Lives:

• James R. Green, The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America.
• Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920.
• David Montgomery, Workers Control in America.
• Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923.
• Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929.
• John Bodnar, Workers' World: Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940.
• Steven Ross, Workers on the Edge.
• Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life & Labor in the Immigrant Generation.

Women and Labor:

• Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States.
• Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History.
• Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered.
• Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II.
• Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life & Labor in the Immigrant Generation.
• Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950.

Labor Radicalism:

• Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist.
• David Roediger and Franklin Rosemont, eds., The Haymarket Scrapbook.
• Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All.
• Joseph Conlin, ed., At the Point of Production.
• James R. Green, Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943..
• Candace Falk, Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman.
• Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism.
• John Laslett, Labor and the Left.
• John Laslett, ed., Failure of a Dream?: Essays in the History of American Socialism.

Unions:

• Melvyn Dubofsky, Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920.
• Irving Bernstein, The Turbulent Years.
• Marjorie Murphy, Blackboard Unions.
• Patricia Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker : Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919.
• Sue Cobble, Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.
• Nancy S. Dye, As Equala and as Sisters.
• David Brody, Steelworkers in America.
• Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th Century America.

Consumer Society -- Work and Gender.

• Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores.
• Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store.
• Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York.
• Kathy Peiss, "Commercial Leisure and the 'Woman Question'," in Richard Butsch, ed., For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption, 105-117.
• William R. Leach, "Transformations in the Culture of Consumption: Women and Department Stores, 1890-1925," Journal of American History 71 (Sept. 1984), 319-342.
• Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours For What We Will, ch. 7-8.
• Andrew Heinze, Adapting to Abundance, esp., Introduction & ch. 2 & 8.
• William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture.
• Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market.
• Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940.

Popular Culture and Entertainment (1890-1940):

• Lewis Erenberg, Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930.
• Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry, ch. 1, 4, 5, 6 & 8.
• Robert Sklar, Movie Made America, ch. 1, 2 & 4.
• Robert W. Snyder, The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York.
• Paula Fass, The Damned and The Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920’s, part II.
• Kathy Ogren, The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz.
• Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934.
• Nathan Irvin Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, 1, 4, 5 and 6.
• Jim Cullen, The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States.
• Lawrence Levine, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History.

Sports:

• Elliott Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.
• Warren Goldstein and Elliott Gorn, A Brief History of American Sports.
• Benjamin Rader, Baseball: A History of America's Game.
• Steven A. Riess, City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports.
• Susan Cahn, Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Women's Sport.
• Peter Levine, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience.
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Social History of Habits, Vices and Social Behavior:

• John C. Burnham, Bad Habits: Smoking, Taking, Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing in American History.
• Ann Vincent Fabian, Card Sharps, Dream Books, & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th Century America.
• Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store.
• Claude S. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940.
• Harvey Levenstein, Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America.
• Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the United States.
• Kenneth Greenberg, Honor and Slavery:

WEEK 13: WORLD WAR, COLD WAR, AND SUBURBANIZATION AT MID-CENTURY

Minimum Reading:

• Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.

Additional Reading:

• Karen Anderson, "Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War Two," Journal of American History 69 (1982), 82-97.
• Robin D.G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, ch. 7.
• Robin D.G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': Re-thinking Black Working Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," Journal of American History 80 (1993), 75-112.
• Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, esp., Intro., ch. 5-7.

Topics:

Race Conflict During the War (inc. Japanese Internment):

• Nicholas Lehman, Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.
• Karen Anderson, "Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War Two," Journal of American History 69 (1982), 82-97.
• Harvard Sitkoff, "Racial Militancy and Interracial Violence in the Second World War," Journal of American History 58 (1971), 661-81.
• Daniel M. Johnson, Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History.
• Michi Weglyn, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps.
• John Tateishi, And Justice For All : An Oral History of the Japanese American
• Detention Camps.
• Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, ch. 10.
• Roger Daniels, Concentration Camps USA : Japanese Americans and World War II.

Gender and Family at Mid-Twentieth Century America:

• Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960.
• Sherna Gluck, ed., Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change.
• Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II.
• Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II.
• Wini Breines, Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties.

Suburbanization:

• Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
• Margaret Marsh, Suburban Lives.
• American Quarterly 46 (March 1994 issue).
• Richard Harris, "American Suburbs: A Sketch of a New Interpretation," Journal of Urban History 15 (1988), 98--103.
• Sam Bass Warner, Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900.
• John R. Stilgoe, Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939.
• Herbert J. Gans, The Levittowners.

Social History of the Civil Rights Movement:

• Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963.
• Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s.
• David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980.
• Aldon D. Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement.
• Robert Weisbrot, Freedom Bound.
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice.

Popular Culture and Entertainment (1940-Present):

• Jim Cullen, The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States.
• George Lipsitz, Time Passages.
• George Lipsitz, Dangerous Crossroads.
• Eric Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television.
• David Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television and American Culture.
• Ella Taylor, Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America.
• Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley.
• David Szatmary, A Time to Rock: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll.
• Paul Friedlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History.
• Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues.
• Nelson George, Hip Hop America.
• Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.
• Andrew Ross and Tricia Rose, eds., Microphone Fiends.