A Short History of the United States

338 Reading List

Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
( 1958 ).
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
( 1990 ).

ch a p t er 2: Independence and Nation Building

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of
Democracy ( 2005 ).
Edmund Morgan and Helen Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis ( 1953 ).
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
( 1967 ).
David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride ( 1994 ).
John Ferling, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Inde-
pen dence ( 2007 ).
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic ( 1969 ).
Garry Wills, Inventing America ( 1978 ).
Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the
Constitution ( 1996 ).
James Roger Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic ( 1993 ).
Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ( 2000 ).
Ralph Ketchum, Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency,
1789–1829 ( 1984 ).
R. Kent Newmyer, The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney ( 1968 ).

ch a p t er 3: An Emerging Identity

Rowland Berthoff, An Unsettled People: Social Order and Disorder in
American History ( 1971 ).
George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution ( 1951 ).
Douglas C. North, The Economic Growth of the United States ( 1961 ).
Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People
( 1990 ).
Russell B. Nye, The Cultural Life of the New Nation ( 1976 ).
Marcus Cunliffe, The Nation Takes Shape, 1789–1837 ( 1959 ).
Ray Billington, West ward Expansion ( 1967 ).
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton ( 2004 ).