Books for Fall 2019

History of U.S. I (To 1877)

Mark R. Cheathem, Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic Party. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018. ISBN 9781621904533

John Fea, Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2013. ISBN 9780801039652

Betty Wood, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies (Hill & Wang, 1997) 9780809074563

Introduction to Historical Methods

Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, 4th ed. (Wiley Blackwell, 2015) ISBN 9781118745441

Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011) ISBN 9780691153001

Sarah Maza, Thinking About History (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017) ISBN 9780226109336

Kate L. Turabian, Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, 5th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2019) ISBN 9780226430263

Conspiracy Theories

Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Univ. of California Press, 2013) ISBN 9780520276826

Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard Univ. Press) ISBN 9780674286078

Felix Harcourt, Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019) ISBN 9780226376158

Kathryn Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) ISBN 9780199753956