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)

Crèvecoeur, 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)