HIST 203: The Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1789-1850 (HC)

Currently offers over 500 substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated essays concerning American history. New essays are added regularly. Especially useful for analysis and discussion of recent scholarship. Note the bibliographies and references to related articles at the ends of entries. Use the Browse by Subject link to see listings by topic area.

Scholarly dictionary of American biography. Useful not only for the up-to-date sketches of peoples' lives but also for the references to further sources.

The essays in this collection explore how socioeconomic inequality is indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. They examine the cultural development of a new and aspirational middle class and its relationship to changing economic conditions and the articulation of corporate and industrial ideologies in the era of the American Revolution and beyond. A final section shifts the focus to the poor and vulnerable--tenant farmers, infant paupers, and the victims of capital punishment.

A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. 30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture

This collection incorporates the influential and groundbreaking scholarship, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics for women's history. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. I

Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Features articles by top scholars in the field, images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, maps, charts and tables, and biographies.

Offers a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The essays, written by experts in the field, provide a long-overdue assessment of the state of the genre and the vital scholarship that continues to grow around it, work that is offering some of the most provocative analysis emerging out of recent studies.

"Everything you know about Indians is wrong." As the title of a recent book proclaims, most of what is generally known is the fruit of stereotypes and vague images. This book presents an accurate and comprehensive history of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States.

Twenty-nine essays illustrate how women's and gender history can shape how we view the past.