A Short History of the United States

Reading List 339

George Dangerfi eld, The Awakening of American Nationalism ( 1965 ).
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire,
1767–1821 ( 1977 ).
John R. Howe, From the Revolution through the Age of Jackson ( 1973 ).

ch a p ter 4: The Jacksonian Era

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America ( 1835 ).
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Jackson ( 1945 ).
Richard Hofstadter, The American Politi cal Tradition and the Men Who
Made It ( 1948 ).
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
( 2005 ).
Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America
( 1990 ).
Merrill Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
( 1987 ).
Ronald Walters, American Reformers, 1815–1860 ( 1978 ).
William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform ( 1978 ).
Nathan Hatch, The Demo cratization of American Christianity ( 1987 ).
Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought ( 1951 ).
Peter S. Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 2003 ).

ch a p t er 5: The Dispute over Slavery, Secession,

and the Civil War

Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History ( 1963 ).
Holman Hamilton, Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of
1850 ( 1964 ).
David Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 ( 1976 ).
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of
American Industrial Enterprise ( 1962 ).
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood ( 1977 ).
Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics
of American Negro Slavery ( 1974 ).
Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution ( 1955 ).
Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made ( 1974 ).