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Reconstruction
De Santis, Vincent P. The Shaping
of Modern America,
1877-1920. Wheeling: Harlan Davidson,
2000.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction:
America’s Unfinished
Revolution, 1863-1877. New York:
HarperCollins, 1989.
Harris, William C. With Charity
for All: Lincoln and the
Restoration of the Union.
Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 1997.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of
Freedom: The Civil War
Era. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.
Rose, Anne C. Victorian America
and the Civil War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of
Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
New
York: Random House, 1967.
Sutherland, Daniel E. The
Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-
1876. New York: Perennial
Library, 1990.
Whites, Leeann. The Civil War As a
Crisis in Gender:
Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890.
Athens: University of
Georgia
Press, 2000.
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Race Issues
Cecelski, David S. and Timothy B.
Tyson, eds. Democracy
Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of
1898 and Its
Legacy. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1998.
Cooley, Thomas. The Ivory Leg in
the Ebony Cabinet:
Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Cover, Robert M. Justice Accused:
Antislavery and the
Judicial Process.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1984.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making
Whiteness: The Culture of
Segregation in the South,
New York: Random House,
1999.
Hays, Robert G., ed. A Race at
Bay: New York Times
Editorials on ‘the Indian Problem,’ 1860-1900.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm
So Long: The Aftermath
Of Slavery. New York: Random House,
1980.
Rael, Patrick. Black Identity and
Black Protest in the
Antebellum North. Chapel
Hill: University of North
Carolina
Press, 2002.
Takaki, Ronald T. Iron Cages: Race
and Culture in 19th-
Century America. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000.
Gender Issues
Carnes, Mark C. Secret Ritual and
Manhood in Victorian
America. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1991.
Dubois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and
Suffrage: The
Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in
America, 1848-1869.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1999.
Dubois, Ellen Carol. Harriot
Stanton Blatch and the Winning
of Woman Suffrage.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1999.
Dubois, Ellen Carol. Woman
Suffrage and Women’s Rights.
New
York: New York University Press, 1998.
Green, Harvey and Mary E. Perry. The
Light of the Home:
An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in
Victorian
America. New York: Random House, 1984.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carrol.
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of
Gender in Victorian America. Oxford: Oxford University
Press,
1986.
Stephens, Autumn. Wild Women:
Crusaders,
Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the
Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era. Berkeley: Conari
Press,
1992.
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Issues
Altman, Linda Jacobs. The Pullman
Strike of 1894: Turning
Point for American Labor.
Brookfield: Millbrook Press,
1994.
Aron, Cindy Sondik. Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Civil
Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian
America.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996.
Bae, Youngsoo. Labor in Retreat:
Class and Community
Among Men’s Clothing Workers of Chicago,
1871-1929.
New
York: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Beckert, Sven. The Monied
Metropolis: New York City and
the Consolidation of the American
Bourgeoisie, 1850-
1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Eisler, Benita. The Lowell
Offering: Writings by New
England Mill Women (1840-1845).
New York: W.W.
Norton
& Company, 1997.
Laurie, Bruce. Artisans into
Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-
Century America.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press,
1997.
Rodrigue, John C. Reconstruction
in the Cane Fields: From
Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s
Sugar Parishes,
1862-1880. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press,
2001.
Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of
Reform: Farmers, Workers,
and the American State, 1877
Chicago, University of
Chicago
Press, 1999.
Steinfeld, Robert J. Coercion,
Contract, and Free Labor in
the Nineteenth Century.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Ware, Norman. The Industrial
Worker, 1840-1860: The
Reaction of American Industrial Society to
the Advance
of the Industrial Revolution.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc.,
1990.
Family Life
Grier, Katherine C. Culture and
Comfort: People, Parlors,
and Upholstery 1850-1930.
Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1989.
McDannell, Colleen. The Christian
Home in Victorian
America, 1840-1900.
Bloomington: Indiana University
Press,
1994.
Schollander, Wendell and Wes
Schollander. Forgotten
Elegance: The Art, Artifacts, and Peculiar History of
Victorian and Edwardian Entertaining in
America.
Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.
Wilson, Laura. Daily Life in a
Victorian House. Washington,
D.C.:
Preservation Press,1993.
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Fiction
Carr, Caleb. The Alienist.
New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
New York: Avon, 1994.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of
Courage. New York: Tor
Books, 1997.
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. New
York: Plume, 1997.
James, Henry. The Portrait of a
Lady. New York: Penguin
Books,
1986.
James, Henry. Turn of the Screw
and Other Short Fiction.
New
York: Bantam Classics,1981.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Blackwater
Spirits. New York:
Berkley
Publishing Group, 1996.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New
York: Plume, 1998.
Tademy, Lalita. Cane River.
New York: Warner Books,
2001.
Twain, Mark. The Adventure of
Huckleberry Finn. New
York:
Penguin USA, 1986.
Twain, Mark. The Gilded Age and
Later Novels. Ed. Hamlin
Lewis
Hill. New York: Library of America, 2002.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1990.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of
Innocence. New York: Modern
Library, 1999.
Wharton, Edith. The House of
Mirth. New York: Signet
Classic, 2000.
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