All students in this course are expected to purchase and read the following books:
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: TheFirst Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)
Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2000)
Frances G. Couvares, Martha Saxton, Gerald N. Grob, & George Athan Billias, eds., Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives, Volume Two, Seventh Edition (2000)
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Peter Novick. That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity' Question
and the American Historical Profession. (1988)
Due dates for these readings can be found in the online class schedule.