Bibliography of Readings in Early American Culture
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I. A Selection of Primary American Texts [1620s to 1850s]

Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646. [1630s-40s]

Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, Letters From An American Farmer [1782]

Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Fredeick Douglass, American Slave [ 1845]

Edwards, Jonathan, Sermons [1740s]

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays [1830s-40s]

Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography and Other Writings [1789]

Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist Papers [1788]

Jefferson, Thomas , Notes on the State of Virginia [1782]

Jackson, Andrew, Presidential Addresses [1830s]

Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark, The Journals of Lewis and Clark [1804-06]

Melville, Herman, Moby Dick [1851]

Smith, John, The General History of Virginia, New England, the Summer Isles [1620s]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin [1852]

Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America [1836]

Thoreau, Henry David, Walden Pond [1854]

Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass [1855]

II.  A Selection of American Studies Interpretive "Classics" [pre-1967]

Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Knopf, 1965

Beard, Charles A., An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)

Boorstin, Daniel, The Americans. 3 Volumes [1958-65]

Brooks, Van Wyck, The Flowering of New England [1936]

Cash, Wilbur, The Mind of the South [1940]

Commager, Henry Steele, The American Mind [1950]

Elkins, Stanley, Slavery: A Problem in American Intellectual and Institutional Life [1959]

Hartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America [ 1955]

Hofstadter, Richard, Anti-Intellectualism in America Life [1963]

Marx, Leo, The Machine and the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America [1964]

Mattheissen, F.O., American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman [1940]

Miller, Perry, The New England Mind . 2 volumes [1939-49]

Parrington, Vernon L., Main Currents in American Thought 3 volumes [1927-30]

Potter, David, People of Plenty [1954]

Rourke, Constance, American Humor: A Study in National Character [1930]

Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth [1950]

Turner, Frederick Jackson, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" [1893]

Ward, John William, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age [1953]

Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore; Literature of the Civil War [1963]

III.  Notable Recent Work in Early American Cultural History/American Studies

Bercovitch, Sacvan, The American Jeremiad. UWisconsin, 1979

Bushman, Richard, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Knopf, 1992

Butler, Jon, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Harvard, 1990

Capper, Charles, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol I Oxford, 1992

Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977).

Creighton, Margaret S. and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and   Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Johns Hopkins, 1996.

Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Hill & Wang, 1983.

Deetz, James, In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early America. 1977.

Deetz, James, Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864. UVirginia, 1993

Delbanco, Andrew, Puritan Ordeal. Harvard UP, 1990

Fischer, David Hackett, U Albion’s Seed: Four English Folkways in the Forming of  American Culture 1991

Fogel, Robert W. and Stanley Engerman, Time On The Cross: The Economics of   American Negro Slavery. 1974

Genovese, Eugene, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaveholders Made. 1974

Glassie, Henry, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts. UTennessee, 1975

Greenberg, Kenneth, Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses…. Princeton UP, 1996

Innes, Stephen, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New   England. Norton, 1996

Isaac, Rhys, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. UNorth Carolina, 1982.

Kasson, John F., Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900. 1976

Kolodny, Annette, The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers. UNorth Carolina, 1984

Kulikoff, Alan, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake UNorth Carolina, 1986

McCaw, Judith, ed., Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to1850. UNorth Carolina, 1994

McCusker, John J. and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 North Carolina, 1985

Meinig, D.W., The Shaping of America, I: Atlantic America, 1492-1800. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Morgan, Edmund S., American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. Norton, 1975.

Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 Oxford, 1979.

Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge UP, 1987.

Rutman, Darrett and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex, Virginia, 1650-1750. 1984.

Reynolds, David S., Walt Whitman’s America. Vintage, 1995.

St. George, Robert Blair.  Conversing by Signs:  Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture.  Chapel Hill:  U of North Carolina P, 1998.

Seelye, John, Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life and Literature. Oxford, 1977.

Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 Wesleyan, 1973.

Stansell, Christine, City of Women:Sex and Class in New York. Knopf, 1986.

Tate, Thad W. and David L. Ammerman, eds., The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society . UNorth Carolina, 1979.

Vickers, Daniel, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts 1630-1850. UNorth Carolina, 1994.

Wilentz, Sean, Chants Democratic;

Wood, Gordon, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Knopf, 1994.