<h4>Colonial America</h4>
Victoria De John Anderson, New England 's generation:the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century(New York:Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Bernard Bailyn, The New England merchants in the seventeenth century(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1955)
Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic history:concept and contours(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2005)
T.H.Breen, Puritans and adventurers:change and persistence in early America(New York:Oxford University Press, 1980)
Francis J.Bremer, The Puritan experiment:New England society from Bradford to Edward(Hanover, NH:University Press of New England , 1995)
FrancisJ.Bremer, John Winthrop:America's forgotten founding father(Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2003)
Carl Bridenbaugh, Jamestown 1544-1699(New York:Oxford University Press, 1980)
Jon Butler, Becoming America:the revolution before 1776(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2001)
Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb tide in New England :women, seaports, and social change, 1630-1800(Boston:Northeastern University Press, 1998)
William Cronon, Changes in the land :Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England (New York:Hill and Wang, 1983)
John Putnam Demos, A little common wealth:family life in Plymouth Colony(New York:Oxford University Press, 1982)
John Putnam Demos, The unredeemedcaptive:a family story from early America(New York:Rand om House, 1994)
J.H.Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic world:Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830(New Haven, CT:Yale University Press, 2006)
David Hackett Fischer, Albion's seed:four British folkways in America(New York:Oxford University Press, 1989)
Stephen Foster, The long argument:English Puritanism and the shaping of New England culture 1570-1700(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
Kimberly S.Hanger, Boundedlives, bounded places:free black society in colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803(Durham, NC and London:Duke University Press, 1997)
Francis Jennings, The ambiguous Iroquois empire(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1984)
Francis Jennings, Empire of fortune:crowns, colonies, and tribes in the seven years war in America(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1988)
Edward Douglas Leach, Roots of conflict:British armed forces and colonial Americans, 1677-1763(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
Jill Lepore, The name of war:King Philip's War and the origins of American identity(New York:Alfred Knopf, 1998)
John Frederick Martin, Profits in the wilderness:entrepreneurship and the founding of New England towns in the seventeenth century(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
Richard Middleton, Colonial America:a history, 1565-1776(Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2002)
Edmund S.Morgan, American slavery , American freedom:the ordeal of colonial Virginia(New York:W.W.Norton and Company, 1975)
Gary B.Nash, Red, white, and black:the peoples of early America(Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice Hall, 1974)
Mary Beth Norton, Founding mothers and fathers:genderedpowerand theforming of American society(New York:Alfred Knopf, 1996)
Anthony S.Parent, Jr., Foul means:the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
William D.Piersen, Black Yankees:the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England (Amherst, MA:University of Massachusetts Press, 1988)
James Pritchard, In search of empire:the French in the Americas, 1670-1730(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence:Indians, Europeans, and the making of New England , 1500-1643(New York:Oxford University Press, 1982)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good wives:image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England 1650-1750(New York:Oxford University Press, 1982)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A midwife's tale:the life of Martha Ballard, basedonher diary, 1785-1812(New York:Rand om House, 1990)
Alden T.Vaughan, Roots of American racism:essays on the colonial experience(New York:Oxford University Press, 1995)
<h4>Revolution and Independence</h4>
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence:A global history(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2007)
Bernard Bailyn, The ideological origins of the American Revolution(Cambridge, MA:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967)
Bernard Bailyn, Faces of revolution:personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1990)
Bernard, Bailyn, To begin the world anew:the genius and ambiguities of the American founders(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 2003)
Colin Bonwick, English radicals and the American Revolution(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1977)
Colin Bonwick, The American Revolution(Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1991)
Pauline Maier, From resistance to revolution:colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1972)
Pauline Maier, American scripture:making the Declaration of Independence(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1996)
Robert Middlekauff, The glorious cause:the American Revolution, 1763-1789.Rev.ed.(New York:Oxford University Press, 2005)
Edmund S.Morgan, The birth of the republic, 1763-89.3rd ed.(Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Gary B.Nash, The urban crucible:social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American Revolution(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1979)
Charles Royster, A revolutionarypeople at war:the continentalarmy and American character(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1979)
John Shy, A people numerous and armed:reflections on the military struggle for American independence(Ann Arbor:The University of Michigan Press, 1976)
Gordon S.Wood, The creation of the American republic, 1776-1787(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1969)
Gordon S.Wood, The radicalism of the American Revolution(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1992)
Gordon S.Wood, The American Revolution:a history(New York:Modern Library, 2002)
<h4>The Early Republic and Antebellum America</h4>
Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the revolution:thefirstgeneration of Americans(Cambridge, MA and London:The Belknap Press of HarvardUniversityPress, 2000)
John Ashworth, Slavery , capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic, Vol.1, commerce and compromise, 1820-1850(New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996)
John Ashworth, Slavery , capitalism, and politics in the antebellum republic, Vol.2, the coming of the civil war, 1850-1861(New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007)
JosephP.Ferrie, Yankeys now:immigrantsin theantebellum United States, 1840-1860(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1999)
Marshall Foletta, Coming to terms with democracy:federalist intellectuals and the shaping of an American culture(Charlottesville and London:University Press of Virginia, 2001)
Eric Foner, Free soil, free labor, free men:the ideology of the Republican Party before the civilwar(New York:Oxford University Press, 1970)
Susan-Mary Grant, North over south:northern nationalism and American identity in the antebellum era(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 2000)
John Higham, Strangers in the land :patterns of American nativism(New York:Athaneum Press, 1971)
Reginald Horsman, Race and manifest destiny:the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1981)
Winthrop D.Jordan, White over black:American attitudes toward the Negro 1550-1812(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1968)
John Lauritz Larson, The market revolution in America:liberty, ambition, and the eclipse of the common good(New York:Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Simon P.Newman, Parades and the politics of the street:festive culture in the early American republic(Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
Leonard L.Richards, The slave power:the free north and southern domination, 1780-1860(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
Charles G.Sellers, The marketrevolution:Jacksonian America, 1815-1846(New York:Oxford University Press, 1991)
Jay Sexton, The Monroedoctrine:empire and nation in nineteenth centuryAmerica(New York:Hill and Wang, 2011)
David Waldstreicher, In the midst of perpetual fetes:the making of American nationalism, 1776-1820(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
Gordon S.Wood, Empire of liberty:a history of the early republic, 1789-1815(New York:Oxford University Press, 2010)
<h4>Slavery and the South</h4>
Robert E.Bonner, Mastering America:southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood(New Yorkand Cambridge:Cambridge UniversityPress, 2009)
Catherine Clinton, Theplantation mistress:woman's worldin the oldSouth(New York:Pantheon Books, 1982)
Carl N.Degler, The other South:southern dissenters in the nineteenth century(1974.Paperback Reprint.New York:Harper and Row, 1975)
William Dusinberre, Them dark days:slavery in the American rice swamps(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1996)
William W.Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol.I, secessionists at bay, 1776-1854(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1990)
William W.Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol.II, secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2007)
J.Matthew Gallman, Northerners at war:reflections on the civilwarhomefront(Kent, OH:Kent State University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D.Genovese, The mind of the master class:history and faith in the southern slaveholders'worldview(New York:Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Thavolia Glymph, Out of the house of bondage:the transformation of the plantation household(New York:Cambridge University Press, 2008)
MichaelA.Gomez, Exchanging our country marks:the transformation of African identities in the colonialand antebellum South(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
John McCardell, The idea of a southern nation:southern nationalists and southern nationalism, 1830-1860(New Yorkand London:W.W.Norton and Company, 1979)
William Lee Miller, Arguing about slavery :the great battle in the United States congress(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 1996)
Franny Nudelman, John Brown's body:slavery , violence, and the culture of war(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Manisha Sinha, The counterrevolution of slavery :politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina(Chapel Hill and London:The University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Larry E.Tise, Proslavery :a history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840(Athens and London:The University of Georgia Press, 1987)
<h4>The Civil War Era</h4>
Melinda Lawson, Patriotfires:forging a new American nationalism in the civil war North(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 2002)
StephenV.Ash, When the Yankees came:conflictand chaosin the occupiedSouth, 1861-1865(1995.Reprint.Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
RichardFranklin Bensel, Yankeeleviathan:the origins of centralstateauthorityin America, 1859-1877(New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1990)
David W.Blight, Race and reunion:the civil war in American memory(Cambridge, MA and London:The Belknap Press of HarvardUniversityPress, 2001)
Gabor Boritt, The Gettysburg gospel:the Lincoln speech that nobody knows(New York:Simon and Schuster, 2006)
Michael Burlingame, The inner worldof Abraham Lincoln(Champaign:University of Illinois Press, 1994)
Orville Vernon Burton, The age of Lincoln(New York:Hill and Wang, 2007)
William L.Burton, Melting pot soldiers:the Union ethnic regiments.2nd ed.(New York:Fordham University Press, 1998)
Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman marched north from the sea:resistance on the Confederate home front(Chapel Hill and London:The University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
Richard Carwardine, Lincoln:a life of purpose and power(New York:Knopf Publishing Group, 2006)
Christopher Clark, Social change in America:from the revolution through the civilwar(London:Ivan Dee, 2006)
Robert Cook, Civil War America:making a nation, 1848-1877(London:Pearson/Longman, 2003)
Laura F.Edwards, Scarlettdoesn'tlivehere anymore:southern womenin the civil war era(Champaign:University of Illinois Press, 2000)
Drew Gilpin Faust, This republic of suffering:death and the American civil war(New York:Alfred A.Knopf, 2008)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction:America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877(New York:Harper and Row, 1988)
Eugene D.Genovese, A consumingfire:the fall of the Confederacy in the mind of the white Christian South(Athens and London:The University of Georgia Press, 1998)
William E.Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and civil war America:a biography(Oxford University Press, 2002)
Joseph T.Glatthaar, Forgedin battle:the civilwar alliance of black soldiers and white of ficers(New York:Meridian, 1991)
Susan-Mary Grant, The war for a nation:the American civil war(New York:Routledge, 2006)
Daniel Walker Howe, Whathath God wrought:the transformation of America, 1815-1848(New York:Oxford University Press, 2008)
Robert Hunt, The good men who won the war:Army of the Cumberland veterans and emancipation memory(Tuscaloosa:The University of Alabama Press, 2010)
Caroline E.Janney, Burying the dead but not the past:ladies memorial associations and the lost cause(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Robert Walter Johannsen, The frontier, the Union, and Stephen A.Douglass(Urbana:University of Illinois Press, 1989)
Bruce Levine, Confederate emancipation:southern plans to free and arm slaves during the civilwar(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2006)
Chand ra Manning, What this cruelwar was over:soldiers, slavery , and the civil war(New York:Vintage Books, 2007)
Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the decision for war:the northern response to secession(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Stephanie McCurry, Confederate reckoning:power and politics in the civil war South(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2010)
James M.McPherson, Battle cry of freedom:the civil war era(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1988)
James M.McPherson, Whattheyfoughtfor, 1861-1865(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 1994)
James M.McPherson, For cause and comrades:why men foughtin the civilwar(Oxford and New York:Oxford University Press, 1997)
Michael A.Morrison, Slavery and the American west:the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the civil war(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
John R.Neff, Honoring the civilwar dead:commemoration and the problem of reconciliation(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 2005)
PeterJ.Parish, The American civilwar(New York:Holmes and Meier, 1975)
W.Scott Poole, Never surrender:Confederate memory and conservatism in the South Carolina upcountry(Athens and London:The University of Georgia Press, 2004)