EARLY AMERICA READING LIST

European/Indian/ African Interaction
John Murrin et al., Colonial America:  Essays in Politics and Social Development
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
Alan Taylor, American Colonies
Richard White, The Middle Ground
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs
Gregory Dowd, War Under Heaven

Seven Year's War/American Revolution
Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers:  The Revolutionary Generation
Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution
David Hackett Fisher, Washington's Crossing
Gordon S. Wood, The American Revolution:  A History
Cynthia Kierner, Revolutoinary America
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution
Ned Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials
David Holmes, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
David McCulloch, 1776
Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces
Gary Nash, American Crucible
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

The Constitution/Early American Republic
Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx
Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors
Reginald Horsman, The New Republic
Charles Sellers, Market Revolution
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
James R. Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Jon Meacham, American Lion:  Andrew Jackson in the White House

Slavery
Stephen McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds
Peter Wood, The Black Majority
Ira Berlin,  Generations of Captivity
Richard Hildreth, The White Slave
David Grimsted, American Mobbing:  1828-1861:  Toward a Civil War

The Civil War
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom
Gabor Bornt, Why the Confederacy Lost
Maury Klein, Days of Defiance
Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering
Michael Kauffamn, American Brutus
David Williams; Howard Zinn, A People's History of the Civil War

Women/Gender
Paul Boyer; Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed
Richard Godbeer, The Devil's Dominion
Richard Godbeer, The Sexual Revolution in Early America
Joan Gunderson, To Be Useful to the World
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women
Joshua Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood
Ruth Bloch, Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture
Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America