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History 715: Proseminar in Early
American History
For individual reading assignments, click on the student's photograph.
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Week 1: Breen, Tobacco Culture
Week 2: Greven, Four Generations
Week 3: Ekirch, "Poor Carolina"
Week 4: Lemon, "Best Poor Man's Country"
Week 5: Morgan, Slave Counterpoint
Week 6: Breen, Marketplace of Revolution
Week 7: Isaac, Transformation of Virginia
Week 8: Mitchell, Commercialism and Frontier
Week 9: Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
Week 10: Aron, How the West Was Lost
Week 1- Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs . (1996)
Week 2- Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736. (1970)
Week 3- Rachael Klein. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry. (1990)
Week 4- Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. (1988)
Week 5- Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. (1974)
Week 6- Cary Carson, et al, eds. Of Consuming Interest: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. (1994)
Week 7- Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. (1982)
Week 8- Richard Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry. (1984)
Week 9- Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier. (1990)
Week 10- Richard White, The Middle Ground:
Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. (1991)
Week 1: James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake.
Week 2: Phillip Greven, Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts.
Week 3: Rachael Klein, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry.
Week4: James Lemon, "Best Poor Man's Country": A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Week 5: Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion.
Week 6: Richard L Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities.
Week 7: Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790.
Week 8: Daniel Thorpe, The Moravian Community in Colonial North Carolina: Pluralism on the Southern Frontier.
Week 9: Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier.
Week 10: Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers, and
Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before
1783.
Week 1: Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs
Week 2: Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
Week 3: Klein, Unification of a Slave State
Week 4: Levy, Quakers and the American Family
Week 5: Berlin, Many Thousands Gone
Week 6: Bushman, The Refinement of America
Week 7: Gross, The Minutemen and Their World
Week 8: Tillson, Gentry and Common Folk
Week 9: Szatmary, Shay's Rebellion
Week 10: Faragher, Sugar Creek
Week 1: Horn, Adapting to a New World
Week 2: Lockridge, A New England Town
Week 3: Silver, A New Face on the Countryside
Week 4: Levy, Quakers and the American Family
Week 5: Wood, Black Majority
Week 6: Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution
Week 7: Gross, The Minutemen and Their World
Week 8: Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry
Week 9: Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion
Week 10: Faragher, Sugar Creek
Week 1: Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Week2 : Lockridge, A New England Town
Week 3: Merrell, The Indians' New World
Week4: Lemon, "The Best Poor Man's Country"
Week 5: Sobal, The World They Made Together
Week 6: Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism
Week 7: Gross, The Minutemen and Their Word
Week 8: Thorpe, The Moravian Community in Colonial North Carolina
Week 9: Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale
Week 10: White, The Middle Ground
Week 1: T.H. Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (1985)
Week 2: William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. (1983)
Week 3: Rachael Klein, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry. (1990)
Week 4: Billy G. Smith, The “Lower
Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800
(1990)
Week 5: Philip Morgan. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. (1998)
Week 6: Cary Carson, et al, eds. Of Consuming Interest: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. (1994)
Week 7: Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. (1967)
Week 8: Robert Mitchell, Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley. (1977).
Week 9: Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and
Great Proprietors, The Revolutionary Settlement on the
Maine Frontier. (1990)
Week 10: Richard White, The Middle Ground:
Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great
Lakes Region, 1650-1815. (1991).
Week 1- Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches & Anxious Patriarchs . (1996)
Week 2- Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736. (1970)
Week 3- Rachael Klein. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry. (1990)
Week 4- Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. (1988)
Week 5- Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. (1974)
Week 6- Cary Carson, et al, eds. Of Consuming Interest: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. (1994)
Week 7- Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. (1982)
Week 8- Richard Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry. (1984)
Week 9- Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier. (1990)
Week 10- Richard White, The Middle Ground:
Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. (1991)
Week 1: Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Week 2: Perry Miller, The New England Mind
Week 3: James Merrell, The Indian's New World
Week 4: Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic
Week 5: Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together
Week 6: Cary Carson, et al, Of Consuming Interest
Week 7: Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the Am. Revolution
Week 8: Richard Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry
Week 9: David Szatmary, Shay's Rebellion
Week 10: John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek
Week 1: James Horn, Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.
Week 2: William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
Week 3: James Merrell, The Indian’s New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal.
Week 4: Billy G. Smith, The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800.
Week 5: Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion.
Week 6: Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities.
Week 7: Gary Nash, The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution.
Week 8: Albert Tillson, Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1750-1789.
Week 9: Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
Week 10: Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers,
and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi
Valley before 1783.