History 46: The Coming of the Civil War
Swarthmore College, Fall 1998
Professor Bruce Dorsey

Supplemental Readings

Week 1.

• David Jaffee, "Peddlers of Progress and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1760-1860," Journal of American History 78 (1991), 511-535.
• Allan Kulikoff, Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992), ch. 1.
• Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution, chap. 3.
• Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War, chap. 2-3.
• Peter Way, "Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers, " Journal of American History 79 (1993), 1397-1428.

Week 2.

• R. Laurence Moore, Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, chap. 3.
• Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith, chap. 8.
• Nancy Cott, Bonds of Womanhood, chap. 4.
• Linda Kerber, Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History," The Journal of American History 75 (June 1988), 9-39.

Week 3.

• Bruce Dorsey, "Friends Becoming Enemies: Philadelphia Benevolence and the Neglected Era of American Quaker History," Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Fall 1998), 395-428.
• Nell Painter, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, ch. 6-7, 13-14, 16.
• Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Introduction & chap. 3.
• Carroll Smtih-Rosenberg, "Beauty, the Beast, and the Miltant Woman: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America," American Quarterly 23 (1971), 562-84.
• Lawrence Frederick Kohl, "The Concept of Social Control and the History of Jacksonian America," Journal of the Early Republic 5 (1985), 21-34.

Week 5.

• Bertram Wyatt Brown, Honor and Violence in the Old South, chap. 1-2, 9
• James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom, chap 2-3.
• Joan Cashin, Family Venture, chap. 2.
• Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds, chap. 2-3 or 6-7

Week 6.

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Slave .
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl .
• Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside, chap. 2.
• Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made, pp. 285-324.

Week 7.

• "Resistance" in Dorothy Sterling, ed., We Are Your Sisters, pp. 56-69.
• Norrece Jones, Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave, ch. 1-3.
• Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside, chap. 6.
• Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South, chap. 8.
• Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion, chap. 5.

Week 8.

• "Political Engagement and Disengagement in Antebellum America: A Round Table," Journal of American History 84 (December 1997), 855-909.
• Lynn Marshall, "The Strange Still Birth of the Whig Party," American Historical Review (1966-67), 445-468.

Week 9.

• Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, chap. 5, 9.

Week 10.

• Michael F, Holt, "The Politics of Impatience: The Origins of Know Nothingism," Journal of American History 60 (1973), 309-331.
• Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism, chap. 5 & 7.
• Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America, chap. 5 & 7.
• Thomas R. Hietala, Manifest Design: Anxious Aggrandizement in Late Jacksonian America.
• Michael P. Rogin, Fathers and Children, chap. 6 & 7.

Week 11.

• Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society, chap. 1.
• John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek,
• Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell, "Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail," Feminist Studies 2 (Fall 1975), 150-66.

Week 12.

• Paul Finkelman, ed., Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents.
• Kenneth M. Stampp, The Imperiled Union, chap. 7.
• Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War, chap. 3.
• David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, chap. 13 & 17.