Supplemental Reading Lists for History 8021

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Aug. 31

Edling, Max

A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State

(postpone to 9/7 if necessary)

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John, Richard R.

"Governmental Institutions As Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787-1835." Studies in American Political Development 11 (Fall 1997): 347-80.

Sept. 7

Jensen, Laura            

Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy

Horsman, Reginald

Expansion and American Indian Policy, 1783-1812

Sept. 14

Bailyn, Bernard

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Shalhope, Robert E.

"Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 29 (1972): 49-80.

Sept. 21

Wood, Gordon S.

The Creation of the American Republic

Sept. 28

Ketcham, Ralph

Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829

 

Formisano, Ronald P.

"Deferential-Participant Politics: The Early Republic's Political Culture, 1789-1840." American Political Science Review 68 (1974): 473-87.

 

Pasley et al

Beyond the Founders, chaps. 1, 2

Oct. 5

McCoy, Drew

The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America

 

Appleby, Joyce

Capitalism and a New Social Order

 

Shalhope, Robert E.

"Republicanism and Early American Historiography." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 39 (1982): 334-56.

 

Rodgers, Daniel T.  

"Republicanism: The Career of a Concept." Journal of American History 79 (1992): 11-38

Oct. 12

Cornell, Saul

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828

 

Kramer, Larry

The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

 

Pasley, at al

Beyond the Founders, chap.  9

Oct. 19

Slaughter, Thomas P.

The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

 

Newman, Simon P.

Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic

Oct. 26

Waldstreicher, David

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism

 

Pasley, at al

Beyond the Founders, chap. 3

Nov. 2

Freeman, Joanne B.

Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the Early Republic

 

Pasley, at al

Beyond the Founders, Introduction, chaps.  5, 6, 10, 14

Nov. 9

Pasley, Jeffrey L.

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early Republic

 

Pasley, at al

Beyond the Founders, chap. 8

 

Warner, Michael

The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America, chaps. 1, 2, & 4

Nov. 16

Horn, James, et al

The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic

 

Pasley, at al

Beyond the Founders, chap. 4

Nov. 18

FRIDAY, 5pm

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Nov. 30

Davidson, Cathy N.

Revolution and the Word, 2d ed.

Dec. 7

Bushman, Richard

The Refinement of America

Dec. 16

FRIDAY, Noon

HISTORIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS DUE