Selected Readings for Short Paper

Charles W. Akers.  Abigail Adams: An American Women  Second edition (2000)

Stephen E. Ambrose.  Undaunted Courage: Merriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West.  (1996)

James Axtell.  The Invasion from Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (1986)

Bernard Bailyn.   The Origins of American Politics. (1968)

John Blassingame.  The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South.  (1972)

Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum.  Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.  (1974)

John Demos.  A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony.  (1970)

Thomas Dublin.  Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860.  (1979)

John M Faragher.  Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer.  (1992)

David Hackett Fischer.  Paul Revere's Ride.  (1994)

Eric Foner.  Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War.  (1970)

Winthrop Jordan.  The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States  (1974)

James F. Marzalek.  The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House.  (1997)

James McPherson.  Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution.  (1991)

James McPherson.  For Cause andComrades: Why Men Fought in the CivilWar.  (1997)

David M. Potter.  The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861  (1976)

Carol Reardon.  Pickett's Charge in History and Memory.  (1997)

David Rothman.  The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971)

Michael Shaara.  Killer Angels.  (1974)

Harriet Siegerman.  Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West.  (1997)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.  A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her diary, 1785-1812.  (1982)