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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George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22020-4444
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