History 361 Reading List: Possible Texts

Adams, Henry.� The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Adams, Henry.� Mont St. Michel and Chartres (1904)

Adams, John.� A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787)

Adams, John.� A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)

Addams, Jane.� Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)

Agee, James and Walker Evans.� Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)

Alcott, Bronson.� Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836-7)

Alcott, Louisa May.� Little Women (1869)

Allen, Ethan.� Reason the Only Oracle of Man (1784)

Barlow, Joel.� Advice to the Privileged Orders (1792)

Barlow, Joel.� The Columbiad (1807)

Barton, Bruce.� The Man Nobody Knows (1925)

Beard, Charles.� An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913)

Beecher, Catherine.� A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)

Beecher, Lyman.� The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints (1823)

Beecher, Lyman.� The Necessity of Revivals to the Perpetuity of Our Civil and Religious Institutions (1831)

Benedict, Ruth.� Patterns of Culture (1934)

Bigelow, Jacob.� Elements of Technology (1829)

Bourne, Randolph S.� The History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays (1920)

Bourne, Randolph S.� War and the Intellectuals: Collected Essays, 1915-1919 (1919)

Brandeis, Louis.� Other People�s Money�And How Bankers Use It (1914)

Brisbane, Albert.� Social Destiny of Man (1840)

Brown, Charles Brockden.� Wieland (1798)

Brownson, Orestes A.� New Views of Christianity, Society and the Church (1836)

Bushnell, Horace.� God in Christ (1849)

Bushnell, Horace.� Nature and the Supernatural (1858)

Bushnell, Horace.� Views of Christian Nurture (1847)

Byllesby, Langdon.� Observations on the Sources and Effects of Unequal Wealth (1826)

Carey, Henry C.� Principles of Political Economy (1837-40)

Carey, Henry C.� Principles of Social Science (1858-9)

Carnegie, Andrew.� Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (1920)

Cash, W. J.� The Mind of the South (1941)

Channing, William Ellery.� Self-Culture (1838)

Channing, William Ellery.� Slavery (1835)

Child, Lydia Maria.� An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

Chopin, Kate.� The Awakening (1899)

Cohen, Morris R.� Law and the Social Order (1933)

Cooper, James Fenimore.� The American Democrat (1838)

Cooper, James Fenimore.� The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Cooper, James Fenimore.� The Pioneers (1823)

Crafts, Hannah.� The Bondwoman�s Narrative (c. 1855-9)

Cr�vecoeur, J. Hector St. John de.� Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

Crummell, Alexander.� Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898 (1898)

Dana, Richard Henry.� Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Day, Jeremiah and James L. Kingsley.� Reports on the Course of Instruction in Yale College (1830)

Delany, Martin.� The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored Peoples of the United States (1852)

Dewey, John.� A Common Faith (1934)

Dewey, John.� Democracy and Education (1916)

Dewey, John.� Human Nature and Conduct (1922)

Dickinson, John.� Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)

Dixon, Thomas.� The Clansman (1905)

Donnelly, Ignatius.� Caesar�s Column (1889)

Dos Passos, John.� USA (1936)

Douglass, Frederick.� Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

Dreiser, Theodore.� Sister Carrie (1900)

Du Bois, W. E. B.� The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899)

Dwight, Timothy.� The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis (1798)

Dwight, Timothy.� Theology, Explained and Defended (1818-9)

Edwards, Jonathan.� The Nature of True Virtue (1765)

Edwards, Jonathan.� Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England (1742)

Edwards, Jonathan.� A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.� Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.� Representative Men (1850)

Faulkner, William.� Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Finney, Charles Grandison.� Lectures on Systematic Theology (1846)

Fiske, John.� Darwinism, and Other Essays (1879)

Fiske, John.� The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of His Origin (1884)

Fiske, John.� Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Based on the Doctrine of Evolution (1874)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.� This Side of Paradise (1920)

Fitzhugh, George.� Cannibals All! (1857)

Ford, Henry.� My Life and Work (1922)

Ford, Henry.� Today and Tomorrow (1926)

Franklin, Benjamin.� Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751-2)

Fuller, Margaret.� Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Garrison, William Lloyd.� Thoughts on African Colonization (1832)

Garvey, Marcus.� Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1940)

George, Henry.� Progress and Poverty (1879)

Gilbreth, Frank B.� Bricklaying System (1909)

Gilbreth, Frank. B.� Cheaper by the Dozen (1948)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.� Women and Economics (1898)

Goodell, William.� The Democracy of Christianity (1849-52)

Gray, Thomas R.� The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)

Griffith, D. W.� Birth of a Nation (???) - film

Griffith, D. W.� Intolerance (???) � film

Hamilton, Alexander.� Report on Manufactures (1791)

Hamilton, Alexander, John Jay, and James Madison.� The Federalist Papers (1787-8)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.� Twice-Told Tales (1837)

Helper, Hinton R.� The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)

Hodge, Charles.� The Way of Life (1841)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.� The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.� The Common Law (1881)

Hopkins, Samuel.� The System of Doctrines (1793)

Howells, William Dean.� ???

Hurston, Zora Neale.� Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Ingersoll, Charles J.� The Influence of America on the Mind (1823)

Irving, Washington.� A History of New York (1809)

Irving, Washington.� The Sketch Book (1819-20)

Jacobs, Harriet.� Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

James, William.� The Will to Believe (1897)

James, William.� Pragmatism and Other Essays (1907)

James, William.� Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Jefferson, Thomas.� Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)

Johnson, James Weldon.� The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Kent, James.� Commentaries on American Law (1826-30)

Lewis, Sinclair.� Arrowsmith (1925)

Lewis, Sinclair.� Babbitt (1922)

Lewis, Sinclair.� Main Street (1920)

Lilienthal, David.� TVA: Democracy on the March (1944)

Lippmann, Walter.� Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (1914)

Lippmann, Walter.� Public Opinion (1922)

Locke, Alain.� The New Negro (1925)

London, Jack.� Call of the Wild (1903)

Lynd, Robert and Helen.� Middletown (1929)

Mahan, Alfred Thayer.� The Influence of Sea Power on History (1890)

Mann, Horace.� Lectures on Education (1845)

McCosh, James.� The Intuitions of the Mind (1860)

Melville, Herman.� The Confidence-Man (1857)

Melville, Herman.� Typee (1846)

Mencken, H. L.� The American Language (1919)

Mencken, H. L.� Notes on Democracy (1926)

Miller, Samuel.� A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century (1803)

Mumford, Lewis.� The Culture of Cities (1938)

Mumford, Lewis.� Technics and Civilization (1934)

Myrdal, Gunnar.� An American Dilemma (1944)

Niebuhr, Reinhold.� The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)

Niebuhr, Reinhold.� The Nature and Destiny of Man (1943)

Norris, Frank.� The Octopus (1901)

Noyes, John Humphrey.� The Berean (1847)

Olmstead, Frederick Law.� The Cotton Kingdom (1862)

O�Neill, Eugene.� The Emperor Jones (1921)

O�Neill, Eugene.� Long Day�s Journey into Night (1940)

Otis, James.� The Rights of the British Colonies (1764)

Paine, Thomas.� The Age of Reason (1794-5)

Paine, Thomas.� The Rights of Man (1791-2)

Parkman, Francis.� The Oregon Trail (1849)

Parsons, Elsie Clews.� Social Rule (1917)

Parsons, Talcott.� The Structure of Social Action (1937)

Ramsay, David.� History of the American Revolution (1789)

Rand, Ayn.� The Fountainhead (1945)

Rauschenbusch, Walter.� Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

Rauschenbusch, Walter.� A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917)

Raymond, Daniel.� The Elements of Political Economy (1823)

Reed, John.� Ten Days that Shook the World (1919)

Riis, Jacob.� How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890)

Roosevelt, Theodore.� American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political (1897)

Roosevelt, Theodore.� Autobiography (1920)

Roosevelt, Theodore.� Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1899)

Roosevelt, Theodore.� The Strenuous Life; Essays and Addresses (1901)

Rush, Benjamin.� Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812)

Schaff, Philip.� The Principle of Protestantism (1845)

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.� Hope Leslie (1827)

Sinclair, Upton. �The Jungle (1906)

Skidmore, Thomas.� The Rights of Man to Property! (1829)

Skinner, B. F.� Behavior of Organisms (1938)

Smith, Samuel Stanhope.� An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species (1810)

Steffens, Lincoln. �The Shame of the Cities (1905)

Steinbeck, John.� The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Steinbeck, John.� In Dubious Battle (1936)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.� The Minister�s Wooing (1859)

Sumner, William Graham.� What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)

Taylor, John.� An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

Taylor, Nathaniel William.� Lectures on the Moral Government of God (1859)

Toomer, Jean.� Cane (1923)

Truth, Sojourner.� Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)

Twain, Mark.� The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Twain, Mark.� A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur�s Court (1889)

Twain, Mark and C. D. Warner.� The Gilded Age (1873)

Tyler, Samuel.� Discourse on the Baconian Philosophy (1844)

Veblen, Thorstein.� Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)

Veblen, Thorstein.� Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Walker, David.� An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)

Ward, Lester Frank.� Dynamic Sociology (1883)

Ward, Lester Frank.� Pure Sociology (1903)

Warren, Mercy Otis.� History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (1805)

Washington, Booker T.� Up from Slavery (1901)

Watson, John B.� Behaviorism (1914)

Wayland, Francis.� The Elements of Moral Science (1835)

Wayland, Francis.� The Elements of Political Economy (1837)

Weld, Theodore Dwight.� American Slavery as It Is (1839)

Wells, Orson.� Citizen Kane (???) - film

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.� On Lynchings (1900)

White, Andrew Dickson.� The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom (1896)

Whitehead, Alfred North.� Science and the Modern World (1925)

Whiman, Walt.� Democratic Vistas (1871)

Whitman, Walt.� Leaves of Grass (1856-92)

Wilson, Edmund.� To the Finland Station (1940)

Wilson, Harriet E.� Our Nig (1859)

Wilson, James.� Public Discourses Upon Jurisprudence and the Political Science (1790-92)

Wilson, Woodrow.� The New Freedom (1913)

Wright, Richard.� Native Son (1940)

Youmans, Edward L.� The Culture Demanded by Modern Life (1867)