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The Rise of Modern America

    BIBLIOGRAPHY   

 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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Labor 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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