QUESTION:	KEY TEXTS (on Special Reserve)
	1. Did the differences in the way that the various European nations who colonized the Americas dealt with Native Americans produce any significant differences in the impact of those encounters on Native Americans?	Primary Sources: David Quinn, New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612 (5 volumes) Texts James Axtell, Natives and newcomers : the cultural origins of North America Colin G. Calloway, New worlds for all : Indians, Europeans, and the remaking of early America George E. Ellis and Justin Winsor, Early Spanish, French, and English encounters with the American Indians Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Karen Kupperman, Indians and English : facing off in early America Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.
	2. What do the Salem Witch Trials reveal about the society and culture of Puritan New England?	Primary Sources: Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project Texts: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem possessed: the social origins of witchcraft. John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: witchcraft and the culture of early New England. Richard Godbeer, The devil's dominion : magic and religion in early New England. Peter Charles Hoffer, The devil's disciples: makers of the Salem witchcraft trials. Carol F. Karlsen, The devil in the shape of a woman: witchcraft in colonial New England Elizabeth Reis, Damned women: sinners and witches in Puritan New England Richard Weisman, Witchcraft, magic, and religion in 17th-century Massachusetts NEW READING: Mary Beth Norton, "The Refugees Revenge," Common Place 2, 3 (April 2002) [on-line journal]
	3. What impact did the expansion of the market in the eighteenth century have on rural Americans?	Daniel Vickers, "Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 47 (1990): 3-29. David Jaffee, "Peddlers of Progress and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1760-1860," Journal of American History, 78 (1991): 511-535. Allan Kulikoff, The agrarian origins of American capitalism Christopher Clark, The roots of rural capitalism: western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 James A. Henretta, The origins of American capitalism: collected essays Winifred Barr Rothenberg, From market-places to a market economy: the transformation of rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850 Charles Sellers, The market revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
	4. Did religious revival make Americans more willing to revolt?	Primary Sources: Richard Bushman, The Great Awakening : documents on the revival of religion, 1740-1745 Alan Heimert and Perry Miller, The Great Awakening: documents illustrating the crisis and its consequences David Rutman, The Great Awakening; event and exegesis Texts Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics in Colonial America Mark A. Noll, ed., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity Frank Lambert, Inventing the "great awakening" Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, Religion in a revolutionary age
	5. How useful is the concept of republicanism for explaining the origins and nature of the Revolution?	Primary Sources Dear Papa, dear Charley : the peregrinations of a revolutionary aristocrat, as told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and his father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with sundry observations on bastardy, child-rearing, romance, matrimony, commerce, tobacco, slavery, and the politics of revolutionary America, Ronald Hoffman, editor [on order] Bernard Bailyn, ed., Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776 [Undergraduate collection] The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive FOUNDER'S LIBRARY: Founding Era Documents Texts Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution Alfred Young ed., The American Revolution Ronald Hoffman and Peter Albert, The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 Woody Holton, Forced founders: Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The many-headed hydra: the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic
	6. Were the tensions that existed in the United States in the years immediately after the Revolution the product of class conflict?	Primary Sources The key of liberty: the life and democratic writings of William Manning, "a laborer," 1747-1814, edited by Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz. The Anti-Federalist papers Texts David P. Szatmary, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection Alfred Young, ed., Beyond the American Revolution. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The many-headed hydra: the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic David Waldstreicher, In the midst of perpetual fetes: the making of American nationalism, 1776-1820. John L. Brooke, "To the Quiet of the People: Revolutionary Settlements and Civil Unrest in Western Massachusetts, 1774-1789," William and Mary Quarterly (1989): 425-462 James Roger Sharp, American politics in the early republic: the new nation in crisis David Thomas Konig, Devising liberty: preserving and creating freedom in the new American Republic Saul Cornell, The other founders : Anti-Federalism and the dissenting tradition in America, 1788-1828 Thomas Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion [on order] [NEW READING ADDED 18/4/02] Robert Gross, In debt to Shays: the bicentennial of an agrarian rebellion
	7. Did the expansion of slavery create a distinctive non-capitalist southern civilization?	Primary Sources Alan Gallay (ed.), Voices of the Old South: eyewitness accounts, 1528-1861 Joan E. Cashin (ed.), Our common affairs : texts from women in the Old South Texts Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Catherine Clinton, The plantation mistress: woman's world in the old South Eugene Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation Eugene D. Genovese, The political economy of slavery : studies in the economy & society of the slave South (2nd ed.) Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860. James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Steven Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century Bertram Wyatt-Brown The shaping of Southern culture: honor, grace, and war, 1760s-1890s
	8. What impact did the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century have on American society and culture?	Primary Sources: How Did Lucretia Mott's Activism between 1840 and 1860 Combine her Commitments to Antislavery and Women's Rights? Texts: Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeepers' Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the work of benevolence: morality, politics, and class in the nineteenth-century United States Mary P Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860. David J. Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, awakenings, and reform: an essay on religion and social change in America, 1607-1977 Ian R. Tyrrell, Sobering up: from temperance to prohibition in antebellum America, 1800-1860 Joseph R. Gusfield, Symbolic crusade: status politics and the American temperance movement Lawrence Foster, Religion and sexuality: three American communal experiments of the nineteenth century Christine Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
	9. Why did slavery come to dominate the American political agenda in the nineteenth century?	Primary Sources: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [Searchable] The Nineteenth Century in Print: Slavery and Abolition Southern Justifications of Slavery [Books from The Nineteenth Century in Print] Texts John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Don E. Fehrenbacher, Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective. Thomas Haskell, "Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility," American Historical Review (1985), 339-361, 547-566 Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852- 1856. Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s. Joel Silbey, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics before the Civil War. William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War. Roger L. Ransom, Conflict and compromise: the political economy of slavery, emancipation, and the American Civil War Michael A. Morrison Slavery and the American West: the eclipse of manifest destiny and the coming of the Civil War
	10. What caused the Civil War?	Primary Sources: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [Searchable] Secession Era Editorials Project Causes of the Civil War: Documents Texts: Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War. David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. David Grimsted, American mobbing, 1828-1861: toward Civil War Gabor S. Boritt (ed.), Why the Civil War came George B. Forgie, Patricide in the house divided: a psychological interpretation of Lincoln and his age Leonard L. Richards, The slave power: the free North and southern domination, 1780-1860 Eugene D. Genovese, The slaveholders' dilemma : freedom and progress in southern conservative thought, 1820-1860