Alphabetical List of Texts (click title to go to review page):
Douglass G. Adair, The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: Republicanism, the Class Struggle, and the Virtuous Farmer, 2000
Joyce Appleby, “Commercial Farming and the 'Agrarian Myth' in the Early Republic", Journal of American History 68:4, March 1982
Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, 1984
Hal S. Barron, Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England, 1984
Charles A. Beard, “Written History as an Act of Faith”, The American Historical Review 39:2 (Jan., 1934), 219- 231.
Carl Lotus Becker, Detachment and the Writing of History: Essays and Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1958
“Everyman His Own Historian”, Becker’s AHA Presidential Address in Minneapolis, December 29, 1931.
Percy W. Bidwell, Rural Economy in New England at the Beginning of the 19th Century, 1916
Martin Bruegel, Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860, 2002
Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance, 2021
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism, 1990
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, 1983
Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 1972
Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow, 2007
Eric Foner, Reconstruction, America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, 1988
John Higham, History: Professional Scholarship in America, 1965
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, 1972
Stewart H. Holbrook, Lost Men of American History, 1946
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform, From Bryan to F.D.R., 1955
Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860, 1977
Paul L. Huston, The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War, 1987
Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837, 1978
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962
Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism, 1992
Howard R. Lamar, The Trader on the American Frontier: Myth’s Victim, 1977
Bruce Laurie, Artisans Into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America, 1989
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, 1987
Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeitors: Capitalists, Con Man, and the Making of the United States, 2007
Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution, 2005
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession, 1988
Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America, 2003
Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, 2001
Malcolm J. Rohrbough, The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837, 1990
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846, 1991
Daniel Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800, 1974
Vernon Stauffer, New England and the Bavarian Illuminati, 1918
Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England, 1991
Stephan Thernstrom and Peter R. Knights, “Men in Motion: Some Data and Speculations about Urban Population Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1:1 (Autumn, 1970)
Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier and Section: Selected Essays,1961
Margaret Walsh, The Manufacturing Frontier: Pioneer Industry in Antebellum Wisconsin, 1830-1860, 1972
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, 1967
