Friday, April 4, 2008

American Civilization List: Possible Classes and Books

Gender:

Catherine Beecher

Beyond Separate Spheres

Grounding of Modern Feminism

Women and Temperance

Individualism vs. Community:

A New England Town: The First Hundred Years (1970) By Kenneth Lockridge

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974) By Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum

Perfectionism:

The Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975) By Sacvan Bercovitch

Storming Heaven

American Jeremiad

Cities on a Hill

Race:

Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon

American Slavery, American Freedom (1975) by Edmund Morgan

War Without Mercy

Work and Leisure:

Methodology:

Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon [Wide array of sources - fossil records, travel narratives, natural science records, etc]

War Without Mercy

Amoskeag [Oral histories]

Environmental History:

Changes in the Land (1983) By William Cronon

Nature's Metropolis By William Cronon

Dust Bowl By Donald Worster

Resistance:

Roll Jordan Roll

Making of a New Deal

Eight Hours for What We Will


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