Dear MA and PhD Students in History,

One of our recent MA graduates, Don Fields, has very generously 
decided to donate all of the textbooks he used in all his graduate 
history classes to anyone who would like them. He has even drawn up a 
detailed list, organized by course (see below and enclosed 
attachment), and has boxed them by course as well. The books current 
reside at the "free book table" just outside the main department 
office (Robinson B 359). So please feel free to peruse them and take 
away what you want.

On behalf of the rest of the department, let me thank Don once again 
for his generosity and also for drawing up a detailed list and 
organizing them by course to make it easier for you to select.

Mack Holt


601 Themes in American History

Stephen B. Oates and Charles J. Errico eds. , Portrait of America
Walter Isaacson ed. , A Benjamin Franklin Reader
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Gary Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg
David McCullough, John Adams
Jay Winik, April 1865
Thomas Fleming, Duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and the 
Future of America
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle eds. , After the Fact
David McCullough, 1776

HIST 602 Themes in American History II

Eric Foner. A Short History of Reconstruction.
  Gail Bederman. Manliness and Civilization. A Cultural History of 
Gender and Race in the United States, 1870-1917 (1995).
George Sanchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and 
Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945(1993).
Daniel T. Rogers. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a 
Progressive Age (2000).
  George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making 
of a Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1995)
  Elanie Tyler May. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War 
Era (1990).
Michael Denning. Cultural Front: The Laboring ofAmerican Culture in 
the Twentieth Century (1998).
Robin D.G. Kelley. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the 
Great Depression(1990).
Lizabeth Cohen. A Consumer 's Republic: The Politics of Mass 
Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
Kevin Kruse. White Flight. Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservativism
(2005).
Thomas Frank. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, 
and the Rise of Hip Consumerism (1998).
Bruce Schulman. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society




HIST 605, Themes in European History I  (ca. 1400-1800)

1. Charles Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance, 2nd ed.
	Cambridge Univ. Press: 978-0521547814
2. Sebastian De Grazia, Machiavelli in Hell
	Vintage Books: 978-0679743421
3. John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700
	Oxford University Press: 978-0192891626
4. Edward Muir, Ritual in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed.
	Cambridge Univ. Press: 978-0521602408
5. Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France
	Stanford Univ. Press: 978-0804709726
6. Barbara Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross
	Oxford Univ. Press: 978-0195070135
7. Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, 3rd ed.
	Pearson-Longman: 978-0582419018
8. Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier
	Univ. of Chicago Press: 978-0226045609
9. William Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
	Cambridge Univ. Press: 978-0521367824
10. Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery
	Verso: 978-1859841953
11. Dena Goodman, The Republic of Letters
	Cornell Univ. Press: 978-0801481740
12. Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment
Oxford Univ. Press: 978-0195158939
13. David Andress, The Terror
	Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: 978-0374530730


History 606  Themes in European History  History of Modernity

Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis. The Hidden Agenda of Modernity.
Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. 
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. The Experience of Modernity.
Peter Fritzsche, Modern Time and the Melancholy of History.
Edward Said, Orientalism.
Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor. Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of 
Modernity.
Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna. Politics and Culture.
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.
Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust.
Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, 
Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism.
Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under 
Mussolini and Hitler.

History 610.002: The Study and Writing of History

William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the 
Age of Philip II, Vol. I,
E.P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture, Black Consciousness
William Cronon, Changes in the Land
Natalie Zemon Davis, Return of Martin Guerre
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream
Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
Lynn Hunt, Family Romance of the French Revolution
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
Steve J. Stern, Secret History of Gender
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Many Headed Hydra

History 615/635 Science and Modern Life from Frankenstein to Google

Evolution by Peter Bowler (0520236939)
By the Bomb's Early Light by Paul Boyer (0807844802)
Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson (0465075102)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (0393964582)
Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (0375760969)
Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (Chicago, 3rd ed., 
1996) (0226458083)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (0441569595)

History 615-B02: House Divided: The Civil War Era, 1860-1865
Steven A. Channing, Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina, 
ISBN-10: 0393007308.
James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the 
Civil War, ISBN-10:0195124995
Thomas P. Lowry, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the 
Civil War. ISBN:978081715157.
Alan T. Nolan, Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War 
History, ISBN-10: 0807845876
Steven E. Woodworth, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of 
Confederate Command in the West, ISBN-10: 0700605673
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and 
the Civil War
William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot..
Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the 
Occupied South, 1861-1865..
Howard Jones, Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and 
Confederate Foreign Relations..
Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, 
Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans.
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
J. Matthew Gallman The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front.

History 615: History and Film
1) John Bodnar, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and 
Working People in American Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 
2006).
2) David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Harvard University 
Press, 1998).
3) Natalie Zemon Davis, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision 
(Harvard University Press, 2002).
4) James Gilbert, A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the 
Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s (Oxford University Press, 1988).
5) Lee Grieveson, Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in 
Early-Twentieth-Century America (University of California Press, 
2004).
6) William Guynn, Writing History in Film (Routledge, 2006).
7) C. S. Tashiro, Pretty Pictures: Production Design and the History 
Film (University of Texas Press, 1998).
8) Vanessa R. Schwartz, It's So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the 
Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 
2008).
9) Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American 
Movies (Vintage, 1994).
10) J.E. Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From 
Cimarron to Citizen Kane (University Press of Kentucky, 2006).
11) Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and 
White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson (Princeton University Press, 
2002).

History 615 Protests and Disorder
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 2007. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New 
York, and Los Angeles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Capozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus. 2008. Uncle Sam Wants You: 
World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. Oxford: 
Oxford University Press.
Chafe, William Henry. 1980. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, 
North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford 
University Press.
Feldman, Glenn. 1999. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 
1915-1949. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Flamm, Michael W. 2005. Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, 
and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. Columbia studies in 
contemporary American history. New York: Columbia University Press. 
Gage, Beverly. 2009. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America 
in Its First Age of Terror. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keller, Lisa. 2008. Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in 
New York and London. Columbia University Press. 
Smith, Carl S. 1995. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The 
Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of 
Pullman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stowell, David O. 1999. Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 
1877. Historical studies of Urban America. Chicago: University of 
Chicago Press.


History 618: THE AGE OF JACKSON, 1815 1854


Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of
	America, 1815-1848.
Carol Sheriff.  The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox 
of Progress, 1817-1862
Robert V.  Remini. Andrew Jackson and the Bank War.
Jonathan Earle, Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-
	1854
William Dusinberre, Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk
Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print
	Culture
Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett
Karen V. Hansen.  A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New
	England
Lori Ginzberg, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum
	New York
Mark Noll, Ed. God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market,
	1790-1860
Kerry Trask,  Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America


HIST-631 Era of the American Revolution

T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution
Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution.
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Jean B. Lee, The Price of Nationhood
Judith Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies
James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender, A Respectable Army: The 
Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789;
Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: the Great Small Pox Epidemic of 1775-178\
Sylvia R. Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age,
Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in 
Revolutionary America
Edward Countryman, ed., What Did the Constitution Mean to Early Americans?,
Cynthia A. Kierner, ed., The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority 
in the Early American Republic
Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

711 Cuban Missile Crises

Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days
Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of  a Gamble
Robert E. Powski, March to Armegeddon
Sheldon M. Stern, Averting the "Final Failure".
Philip Nash, The Other Missiles of October.
James G. Blight and David A. Welch, On the Brink

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Mack P. Holt
Professor of History, Director of MA Program
Dept. of History and Art History
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