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- 21:33, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+7,929) . . N Freedom Is Not Enough (Created page with " The 1964 Civil Rights Act altered not only the political landscape of America but also its social and economic underpinnings. Though viewed as a government intervention on the ...")
- 21:33, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,744) . . N American Apartheid (Created page with " For many, the word segregation conjures up visions of 1950’s civil rights protesters braving hostile white crowds and authorities as they demanded equality in American societ...")
- 21:32, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+38,003) . . N Suburban Warriors (Created page with " “If ‘the problem of the color line’ represented the fundamental crisis of the twentieth century, the foremost challenge of the twenty-first has evolved into the suburban ...")
- 21:30, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,383) . . N Flowers in the Dustbin (Created page with " As a chronicle of rock and roll, Flowers in the Dustbin wears its cynicism on its sleeve. The bleak title harks back to what the author, James Miller, considers the days of roc...")
- 21:28, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+17,276) . . N The First Strange Place (Created page with " The effects of World War II on America have been widely explored. Historians such as Roger Lochin and Gary Nash havefocused on Western expansion and the demographic shifts that...")
- 21:28, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+13,192) . . N Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight (Created page with " If as Lizabeth Cohen argues in ''A Consumer Republic'' that postwar government policies as represented by the G.I. Bill, VA/FHA home loans, and new tax polices sought to create...")
- 21:27, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+17,908) . . N Wartime Women (Created page with " Publishing in the same era as contemporary women’s historians such as Joanne Meyerowitz, Ruth Rosen, and Kathy Peiss, Karen Anderson helped to realign the traditionally mascu...")
- 21:27, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,694) . . N The Power of the Zoot (Created page with " Where does resistance take place? What are the meanings attached to it? By what means does opposition express itself? Luis Alvarez asks similar questions in ''The Power of the ...")
- 21:18, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,135) . . N The Middle Ground (Created page with " Subjects: Native Americans, New France. Examining the lives of Native Americans and their interactions with Europeans in the pays d'en haut from the Iroquois assaults of the 1...")
- 21:18, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,563) . . N Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy (Created page with " FILE UNDER: borderlands, precapitalism, race relations alternatives, networks, Souths The idea of the Old South obscures historians' view of both postwar and colonial southern...")
- 21:17, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,317) . . N The Alcoholic Republic (Created page with " Subjects: Colonial Life, Taverns, Revolution, Temperance, Prohibition. "The tavern has ever played an important part in social, political, and military life, has helped to mak...")
- 21:17, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,218) . . N Palatines, Liberty, and Property (Created page with " Subjects: Immigration, Religion, Revolution. Using a number of German-language (and thus oft-overlooked) primary sources, A.G. Roeber here successfully portrays how German imm...")
- 21:17, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,835) . . N Epic Journeys of Freedom (Created page with " The 1776 American Revolution remains central to America’s image as a nation that fought for and achieved its independence and liberty from a jaundiced English imperial power....")
- 21:16, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,035) . . N Slave Counterpoint (Created page with " Subjects: Agriculture, Slavery. Philip Morgan's extensively researched and exhaustively detailed tome aims to compare and contrast the formation and social structure of the tw...")
- 21:16, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . American Slavery, American Freedom
- 21:16, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,478) . . N American Slavery, American Freedom (Created page with " Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom explores the dynamics of pre-Revolutionary Virginia from its failed Roanoke colony to the eve of revolution. Morgan reveals...")
- 21:14, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-14) . . Early America/Colonial History (→Book Summaries)
- 21:13, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,464) . . N From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (Created page with " Allan Kulikoff's book holds forth upon the subject of American's much-heralded independent yeoman farmer - why he chose to leave the Old World, what he found when he came to th...")
- 21:12, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,793) . . N Women of the Republic (Created page with " Linda Kerber’s ''Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America'' explores the ideological shifts through which women’s political roles expanded. Th...")
- 21:12, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,145) . . N The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790 (Created page with " Subjects: Chesapeake Colonies, Individualism, Revolution, Social Life. Employing the tools and techniques of Geertzian ethnography and dramaturgy to full effect, Rhys Isaac's ...")
- 21:11, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,939) . . N Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland (Created page with " Subjects: Immigration, Religion, Chesapeake Colonies. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland is a biography of three generations of Irish Catholic Charles Carrolls, the comp...")
- 21:11, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,005) . . N Citizens of the World (Created page with " Subjects: Trade, Atlantic History. Citizens of the World examines the financial and social milieu of four loosely related groups of London merchants, centered around Augustus ...")
- 21:10, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,276) . . N France in America (Created page with " France in America is a comprehensive history of the French colonies in North America between 1500 and 1783, dealing with Canada, Louisiana and the West Indies. He tackles a gre...")
- 21:10, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,714) . . N Avengers of the New World (Created page with " The ideals embedded within the French Revolution – liberty, fraternity, equality – spread easily to other parts of the world. France’s Haitian colony, then known as Saint...")
- 21:09, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,035) . . N Women Before the Bar (Created page with " Subjects: Gender, Law. Was declension good or bad for colonial women? More specifically, was the deterioration of the Puritan culture in New Haven, Connecticut in the seventee...")
- 21:07, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,372) . . N From Puritan to Yankee (Created page with " Subjects: Religion, Republicanism, Revolution. I enjoyed From Puritan to Yankee, a thoughtful and well-done history of ideas, only slightly less than Refinement of America, ev...")
- 21:06, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,247) . . N The Refinement of America (Created page with " Subjects: Consumerism, Republicanism, Class. Richard Bushman's Refinement of America explores the dynamics and spread of aristocratic gentility in otherwise republican America...")
- 21:06, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,336) . . N One Vast Winter Count (Created page with " Calloway writes a broad narrative of native peoples in the West within a carefully constructed methodological framework. First of all, Calloway insists that the history of the ...")
- 21:05, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,450) . . N The American Revolution in Indian Country (Created page with " Before, during and after the American Revolution, interaction between American colonists and Native Americans were frequent and ubiquitous, however, in many histories of the pe...")
- 21:04, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,412) . . N The Invasion Within (Created page with " James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, 1985 Karin Kupperman, Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultur...")
- 21:04, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-5,292) . . The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- 21:03, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,434) . . N The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Created page with " Axtell and Kupperman James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, 1985 Karin Kupperman, Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of Eng...")
- 21:01, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,077) . . N Crucible of War (Created page with " Subjects: Seven Years War, Stamp Act Crisis. Clocking in at over 700 pages, Fred Anderson's Crucible of War follows in the footsteps of Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac tril...")
- 20:57, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+17,762) . . N Conflicting Missions (Created page with " Piero Gleijeses’s Conflicting Missions details Cuban foreign policy towards Africa and the US response to Cuban intervention from 1959 to 1976. Specifically, Gleijeses examin...")
- 20:54, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . Global History (→Reading Lists)
- 20:54, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,427) . . N The US and the World in the Nineteenth Century - Perl-Rosenthal (Created page with " ==Race, slavery, and abolition: a hemispheric perspective== ''Covers social history of antebellum slavery as well as intellectual history of race (with attention to the partic...") (current)
- 20:49, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,013) . . N Nineteenth Century United States - Cummings (Created page with " == Republicanism to Liberalism == *Appleby, Joyce, Capitalism and New Social Order. *Charles, Joseph, Origins of the American Party System. *Hofstadter, Richard, The American ...") (current)
- 20:47, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+118) . . Nineteenth Century America (current)
- 20:45, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,475) . . N Nineteenth Century America (Created page with " Nineteenth Century America The Market Revolution and Jacksonian Democracy The Market Revolution Johnson, Paul. A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester...")
- 20:43, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+70) . . Nineteeth Century United States (→Reading Lists)
- 20:42, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+83) . . Nineteeth Century United States (→Reading Lists)
- 20:40, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,158) . . N Communication, Technology, and Modernity - Cummings (Created page with " * Attali, Jacques, Noise: The Political Economy of Music * Baes, Jonas, "Towards a Political Economy of the 'Real': Music Piracy and the Phillippine Cultural Imaginary” * Bagi...") (current)
- 20:39, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,117) . . N Twentieth Century United States - Cummings (Created page with " == Progressive Era == * Bernstein, Irving, The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933 * Buhle, Mari Jo, Women and American Socialism * Connelly, Mark Thomas, ...") (current)
- 20:36, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,814) . . N Twentieth Century America (Created page with " == Progressivism(s) and WWI == *Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization. *Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A history of Immigrants in Urban America. *Chauncey, George. Gay N...") (current)
- 20:34, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,925) . . N Transnationalism - Reft (Created page with " == Sub-Field #1 – Theoretical Foundations == * Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1993. * Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of...") (current)
- 20:31, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,442) . . N Theories of International Relations (Created page with " == “Foundational” texts == *c. 400 BC. Thucydides, The Pelopennesian War. *1532. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. *1625. Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis. *1651. Thoma...") (current)
- 20:29, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+3,917) . . N Old Regime and Revolutionary France, ca. 1650-1800 - Perl-Rosenthal (Created page with " Nathan Perl-Rosenthal == Survey == *Bloch, French Rural History *Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution *Doyle, Oxford History of the French Revolution *Woloch, Eighteenth-C...") (current)
- 20:24, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,128) . . N Early America (Created page with " == Culture, Contact, and Diplomacy: Indians and the Columbian Exchange == *Brooks, James F. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. *C...") (current)
- 19:58, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+35) . . Colonial Americas to 1815 - Perl-Rosenthal (→TO THE REVOLUTION…) (current)
- 19:57, 21 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+27) . . Colonial Americas to 1815 - Perl-Rosenthal (→…AND BEYOND)
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