Reading List: American History
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Slavery in New York by Leslie Harris and Ira Berlin
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City) by Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Dorothy Sue Cobble
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War by Clarissa W. Confer
Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 by Roger Daniels
Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life by Roger Daniels
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jonathan Edwards
Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure by Nan Enstad
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction by David A. Gerber
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (Penguin Library of American Indian History) by Theda Perdue and Michael Green
The Federalist: with Letters of Brutus (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) edited by Terence Ball, written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton
The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs
Colonial New York: A History by Michael Kammen
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (Politics and Culture in Modern America) Felicia Kornbluh
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism by George McKenna
Black Indian Slave Narratives (Real Voices, Real History) (Real Voices, Real History Series) by Patrick Minges
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Women’s Education in the United States, 1780-1840 by Margaret A. Nash
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Celia E. Naylor
The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum
Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 by Mary Beth Norton
Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck
Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border (American Indian Lives) by James W. Parins
First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (Early American Studies) Sheila L. Skemp
Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Sheila L. Skemp
An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears by Daniel Blake Smith
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America by Christina Snyder
The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (Critical Issue) by Betty Wood