HIST 1483                    This is a brief list of books from which you can write a book review for extra credit.   Please see me after class if you need any information about them.   Reviews should be three or four double-spaced pages, typed, and provide BOTH a nice synopsis of the book and a general critique.   Students will receive up to 50 points for each book review they complete.  Colonial Era  Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World, a             New History Alberto Galindo, In Search of the Inca: Destiny and Utopia in the Andes Alison Games, Witchcraft in Early North America Robert Goodwin, Crossing the Continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-            American Explorer of the American South Ramon Gutierrez, ‘When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away’: Marriage,             Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 David Hall, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in             New England James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of             Roanoke Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados Daniel Mandell, King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End             of Indian Sovereignty Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious             Revolution Harry Stout, The New England Soul Barry Levy, Quakers and the American FamilyRevolutionary America Catherine Adams, Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary             America John Alexander, Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Edwin Burrows, Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the             Revolutionary War Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Julie Flavell, When London was Capital of America Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America Susan Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in             America, 1760-1820 Pauline Maier, Ratification: the People Debate the Constitution, 1787-88 Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters:  Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the America Revolution  Jeffersonian Era Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage Joseph Ellis, After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture Edward Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800,             America’s First Presidential Campaign John C. Miller, The Federalist Era Robert M. Owens, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of             American Indian Policy Ben Rose, Mother of Freedom: Mum Bett and the Roots of Abolition Robert Tucker, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson  Early National and Jacksonian Periods  Will Bagley, Overland West: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 Paul Johnson, A Shopkeepers’ Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York,             1815-1837 Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation             in 19th-Century America Lawrence Kohl, The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the             Jacksonian Era Peter Kolchin, American Slavery Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion James Parins, Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border Michael Paul Rogin, Fathers and Children Jay Sexton, The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution  Mid-19th Century Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American             City, 1760-1900 Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Honor and Violence in the Old South Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand Carol Faulkner, Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s rights in 19th century             America Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party             Before the Civil War Lori Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Robert McGlone, John Brown’s War Against Slavery Sally McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement William Moran, The Belles of New England James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Robert Remini, At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 Edgar Thompson, The Plantation Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the             Stono Rebellion Civil War and Reconstruction Michael Les Benedict, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Edward Bonekemper, Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian Victoria Bynum, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies David Eicher, Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Eric Foner, Reconstruction, 1863-1877: America’s Unfinished Revolution Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Michael Green, Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War James McPherson, Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era Phillip Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln Joan Waugh, U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth  C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction