ADDITIONAL READINGS

Paper 1:

American Revolution: Who's Revolution Was It?

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.

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.

Jan Lewis, "'Of Every Age Sex and Condition': The Representation of Women in the Constitution," Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1995), 359-87.

Mary Beth Norton, "Revolutionary Advances for Women," (from Liberty's Daughters) and Joan Hoff Wilson, "The Illusion of Change," (from Alfred F. Young ed., The American Revolution) both reprinted in Richard D. Brown, Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, pp. 311-30.

Edmund S. Morgan, "Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox," Journal of American History 59 (1972), 5-29.

William W. Freehling, "The Founding Fathers and Slavery," American Historical Review (1972), 81-93.


Slavery and the Federal Constitution

Paul Finkelman, "Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: Making a Covenant with Death," in R. Beeman, et al, eds., Beyond Confederation (1987), 188-225.

William M. Wiecek, "The Witch at the Christening: Slavery & the Constitution's Origins," in Leonard Levy, The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution (1987), 167-84.

Thurgood Marshall, "Race and the Constitution," Social Policy 18 (1987), 29-31.

Staughton Lynd, "The Compromise of 1787," in Lynd, Class Conflict, Slavery and the U.S. Constitution (1967), 185-213.

Transition to Capitalism (The "Market Revolution")

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.

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

Industrialization in the North

Levine, Half-Slave, Half-Free; ch. 2.

Thomas Dublin, Women at Work (1979), 23-57.

Mary Blewett, Men, Women, and Work (1988), ch. 2.

Peter Way, "Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The Rough Culture of Canal Construction Laborers, " Journal of American History 79 (1993), 1397-1428.

 

Paper 2:

Slavery

James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom (1990), ch. 4.

Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside (1984), ch. 2 & 6.

Deborah White, Ar'n't I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985), ch. 4 & 1.

Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977), ch. 1.

Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion (1978), chap. 5.

 

Paper 3:

Indian Removal

William McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (1986), ch. 14.

Michael Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson & the Subjugation of the American Indian (1975), ch. 6.

Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998), ch. 7.

Theda Perdue, "The Conflict Within: Cherokees and Removal," in Cherokee Removal: Before and After , ed. William Anderson (1991), 55- 74.

 

Japanese Discovery of America

James C. Thomson, Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia (1981), ch. 1 & 5.

The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 5 The Nineteenth Century (1989), ch. 4 & 7.

Walter LaFeber, The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History (1997), ch. 1.

Charles E. Neu, The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan (1975), ch. 1.

 

Paper 4:

Civil War & Reconstruction

James Cullen, "I's a Man Now: Gender and African American Men," in Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, ed. Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber (1992), 76-91.

Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979), ch. 5.

Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, From Slavery to the Present (1985), ch. 2.

Eric Foner, "Black Reconstruction Leaders at the Grass Roots," in Black Leaders in the Nineteenth Century (1988), pp. 219-34.