Education History

American Identity/Education as an Instrument of “Citizenship”

1. Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
2. Beadie, Nancy. Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic. Illustrated edition. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
3. Hartman, A. Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
4. Kaestle, Carl. Pillars Of Republic. 1st edition. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
5. Jackson, Stephen. “‘The Triumph of the West’: American Education and the Narrative of Decolonization, 1930–1965.” History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 4 (November 2018): 567–94. 
6. Mirel, Jeffrey E. Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants. Illustrated edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010.
7. Steffes, Tracy Lynn. School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
8. Stratton, Clif. Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2016.

 

History of Children and Youth

1. Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: NYU Press, 2011.
2. Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At Home: The American Family 1750-1870. First Edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
3. Fass, Paula S. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.
4. Hunter, Jane H. How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood. Illustrated edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
5. May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. 4th edition. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
6. Mintz, Steven. Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2006.

 

Race and Segregation

1. Baumgartner, Kabria. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America. New York: NYU Press, 2019.
2. Burkholder, Zoe. Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954. Reprint edition. Oxford University Press, 2011.
3. Erickson, Ansley T. Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits. Illustrated edition. Chicago London: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
4. Fass, Paula S. Outside in: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
5. Fairclough, Adam. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
6. Fairclough, Adam. A Class of Their Own Black Teachers in the Segregated South. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
7. Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. 1st edition. Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
8. Hale, Jon. The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Columbia University Press, 2018.
9. Mirel, Jeffrey. The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81, Second Edition. 2nd Revised ed. edition. Ann Arbor: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL, 1999.
10. Moss, Hilary J. Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America. Illustrated edition. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
11. Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education a Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
12. Ramsey, S. “Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equality.” The Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.) 100, no. 3 (2013): 903–904.
13. Theoharis, Jeanne, and Komozi Woodard. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

 

Reform

1. Callahan, Raymond E. Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
2. Evans, Ronald W. Schooling Corporate Citizens: How Accountability Reform Has Damaged Civic Education and Undermined Democracy. 1st edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.
3. Katz, M. B. The Irony of Early School Reform; Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.
4. Laats, Adam. The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
5. Mehta, Jal. The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, 2015.
6. Perlstein, Daniel H. Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism. New York: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2004.
7. Reese, William J. The Origins of the American High School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
8. Tyack. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Unknown edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
9. Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Revised edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.

 

Curricula, Classrooms, & Textbooks

1. Cuban, Larry. Teaching History Then and Now: A Story of Stability and Change in Schools. Illustrated edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press, 2016.
2. Dorn, Charles. “‘Treason in the Textbooks’: Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Wartime Schooling.” Paedagogica Historica 44, no. 4 (August 2008): 457–79. 
3. Fyfe, Aileen. “Copyrights and Competition: Producing and Protecting Children’s Books in the Nineteenth Century,” Publishing History. 45: 1999, pp. 35-59.
4. Kliebard, Herbert M. The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958. 3rd edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
5. Moreau, Joseph. Schoolbook Nation Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present. Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 
6. Ognjenović, Gorana, and Jasna Jozelić. Nationhood and Politicization of History in School Textbooks: Identity, the Curriculum and Educational Media. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
7. Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman. Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
8. Reese, William J. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013.
9. Rudolph, John L. Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
10. Shapiro, Adam R. Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools. Illustrated edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
11. Williams, James H. editor. (Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2014.

 

Spaces and places of education

1. Cain, Victoria. “‘Attraction, Attention, and Desire’: Consumer Culture as Pedagogical Paradigm in Museums in the United States, 1900 – 1930.” Paedagogica Historica 48, no. 5 (2012): 745–69.
2. Rader, Karen A., and Victoria E. M. Cain. Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. Reprint edition. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
3. Ferguson, John, “The Architecture of Education: The Public School Buildings in New Orleans,” in Donald Devore and Joseph Logsdon, Crescent City Schools: Public Education in New Orleans 1841-1991, Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies, 1991, 308-49
4. Gamson, David A. The Importance of Being Urban: Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940. First edition. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
5. Gyure, Dale Allen, The Chicago Schoolhouse: High School Architecture and Educational Reform, 1856-2000, Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, Chicago, 2011
6. Hille, R. Thomas, Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education, New York: John Wiley& Sons, 2011
7. Ogata, Amy F., “Building for Learning in Postwar Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67 (December 2008): 562-91
8. ______. Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. 1st edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013.Opager Baughn, Jennifer V., “Education, Segregation, and Modernization: Mississippi School Equalization Building Programs, 1946-1961,” Arris 16 (2005): 37-55
9. Slyck, Abigail A. Van. A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890–1960. First edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006.
10. Weisser, Amy S., “’Little Red School House, What Now?’ Two centuries of American Public School Architecture,” Journal of Planning History 5 (August 2006): 196-217

U.S. History

Colonial Period

ENCOUNTERS

1. Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War. Reprint edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
2. DeLucia, Christine M. Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. Reprint edition. Yale University Press, 2019.
3. Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York, NY: Vintage, 1999.
4. Taylor, Alan, and Eric Foner. American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1. Revised ed. edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

 

SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY

5. Levesque, George A. Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860. 1st edition. Routledge, 2018.
6. Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom. Reissue edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
7. Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. 1st edition. Liveright, 2017.

 

BELIEFS, COMMODITIES, MATERIAL CULTURE

8. Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Reprint edition. Harvard University Press, 2015.
9. Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. Illustrated edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
10. Bushman, Richard Lyman. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Edition Unstated. New York: Vintage, 1993.
11. Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England. First Edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1990.

 

WOMEN, GENDER, FAMILIES

12. Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.
13. Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. 1st edition. New York: Knopf, 1996.
14. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. Illustrated edition. New York: Vintage, 1991.

 

NATION-BUILDING, REVOLUTION, EMPIRE

15. Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
16. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1993.
17. Peterson, Mark. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

 

19th Century

SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION

1. Berlin, Ira. The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States. First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.
2. Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Revised ed. edition. Cambridge, Mass. London: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002.
3. Foner, Eric. Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Revised ed. edition. New York, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2014.
4. Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage, 1976.

 

RACE, IMMIGRATION, EMPIRE

5. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917. 1st edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
6. O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. 1st edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010.
7. Snyder, Christina. Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson. Illustrated edition. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.

 

ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL CHANGE, LABOR

8. Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
9. Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
10. Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. Reprint edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
11. Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
12. Saxton, Alexander, and David Roediger. The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America, New Edition. London ; New York: Verso, 2003.
13. Wilentz, Sean. Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition. 20th Anniversary edition. Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

WOMEN, GENDER, FAMILIES

14. Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
15. Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940. New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2002.
16. Gordon, Wendy M. Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women’s Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
17. Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

 

TRANSPORTATION, URBANIZATION, ENVIRONMENT

18. Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. Revised ed. edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
19. White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. 1st edition. New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.

 

20th Century

RACE AND IMMIGRATION

1. Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. Revised edition. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
2. Gerstle, Professor Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Reprint edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017.
3. Molina, Natalia. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. First edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
4. Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America – Updated Edition. Revised edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014.

 

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CHANGE

5. Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. First edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2004.
6. Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. 1st edition. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2003.

 

GENDER

7. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave. 2nd edition. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

 

TRANSPORTATION, URBANIZATION, ENVIRONMENT

8. Bender, Thomas. The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. New York: New Press, The, 2002.
9. Zukin, Sharon. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

 

20th Century – Progressive Era

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CHANGE

1. Gage, Beverly. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. 1st edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
2. McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. Oxford Univ. Press: Oxford University Press, 2005.
3. Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, Mass London: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1998.
4. Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. 1st edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

 

GENDER

5. Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Women in Culture and Society edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
6. Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Illustrated edition. Basic Books, 2019.

 

TRANSPORTATION, URBANIZATION, ENVIRONMENT

7. Connolly, James J. The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.
8. Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. Reprint edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
9. Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880. 4th edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
10. Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Revised ed. edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

 

20th Century – Great Depression to WWII

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CHANGE

1. Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
2. Cooper, Michael L. The Double V Campaign: African-Americans in World War II. 1st edition. New York: Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1998.
3. Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New Edition. London: Verso, 2011.
4. Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. Illustrated edition. New York: Liveright, 2013.
5. Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Illustrated edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.
6. Leach, William R. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. Illustrated edition. New York: Vintage, 1994.

 

GENDER

7. Escobedo, Elizabeth R. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front. Illustrated edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
8. Rutherford, Alexandra. “‘Making Better Use of U.S. Women’ Psychology, Sex Roles, and Womanpower in Post‐WWII America.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 53, no. 3 (2017): 228–45.
9. Serlin, David. “CRIPPLING MASCULINITY: Queerness and Disability in U.S. Military Culture, 1800-1945.” GLQ 9, no. 1–2 (2003): 149–79.

 

TRANSPORTATION, URBANIZATION, ENVIRONMENT

10. Holleman, Hannah. Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
11. Lookingbill, Brad. Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.

 

20th Century – Postwar Period

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL CHANGE

1. May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
2. Heefner, Gretchen. The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland. Illustrated edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2012.
3. Leffler, Melvyn P. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. 1st edition. New York; Godalming: Hill and Wang, 2008.
4. Milam, Erika Lorraine. Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

 

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

5. Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Revised edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
6. Kelland, Lara. Clio’s Foot Soldiers: Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory. First edition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
7. Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton University Press, 2007.
8. Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America, Revised Edition. Revised edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
9. Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. Illustrated edition. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009.

 

CULTURE AND CONSUMERISM

10. Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. 1st edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
11. Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. First Paperback Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003.
12. Cross, Gary. An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America. New York Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2002.
13. Hartman, Andrew. A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars. Second edition. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
14. Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. 2010 edition. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2010.
15. Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press, 2002.

 

TRANSPORTATION, URBANIZATION, ENVIRONMENT

16. Crockett, Karilyn. People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making. First edition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
17. Davis, Mike, and Robert Morrow. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Illustrated edition. London ; New York: Verso, 2018.
18. Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. First Edition. Berkeley Los Angeles London: University of California Press, 1993.
19. Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. 1st edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.
20. Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit – Updated Edition. Revised edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
21. Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Illustrated edition. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
22. Tissot, Sylvie. Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston’s South End. Translated by David Broder and Catherine Romatowski. London ; Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2015.

Culture History

METHODS

1. Berger, John. About Looking. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1992.
2. Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) Structures and the Habitus. Chapter 2 in Outline of a Theory of Practice, pp. 72-95. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. Boylan, Alexis L. Visual Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020.
4. Burke, Peter. What Is Cultural History? 3rd edition. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA: Polity, 2019.
5. Byrne, Sarah, Anne Clarke, Rodney Harrison, and Robin Torrence (2011) Networks, Agents, and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections. In Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency at the Museum, edited by Sarah Byrne et al., pp. 3-28. Springer, New York.
6. Cook, James W., Lawrence B. Glickman, and Michael O’Malley, eds. The Cultural Turn in U. S. History: Past, Present, and Future. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
7. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More. Illustrated edition. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
8. Mitchell, W. J. T. Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. 1st edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
9. Prown, Jules David. “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method.” Winterthur Portfolio 17, no. 1 (1982): 1–19.
10. Tilley, Christopher, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler-Fogden, Mike Rowlands, and Patricia Spyer, eds. Handbook of Material Culture. First edition. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013.
11. Yonan, Michael. “Toward a Fusion of Art History and Material Culture Studies.” West 86th 18, no. 2 (2011): 232–248.

 

PRINT CULTURE

1. Baron, Sabrina, Eric Lindquist, and Eleanor Shevlin, eds. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. First edition. Amherst : Washington, D.C: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
2. Benjamin, Walter. “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting,”  in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
3. Brown, Richard D. Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
4. Darnton, Robert. “What is the History of Books” Daedalus 111:3 (1982), 65-83.
5. Duguid, Paul. “Material Matters: Aspects of the Past and Futurology of the Book” (1996)
6. Eliot, Simon. “Circulating Libraries in the Victorian Age and After.” In The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, edited by Peter Hoare, E. S. Leedham-Green, Teresa Webber and Giles Mandelbrote. 125-46.
7. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
8. Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book. 1st edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
9. Frasca-Spada, Marina, and Nick Jardine, eds. Books and the Sciences in History. 1st edition. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
10. Gerritsen, Johan. “Printing at Froben’s: an Eye Witness Account,” Studies in Bibliography (Virginia) 44 (1991): 144-63
11. Gitelman, Lisa. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents. Durham ; London: Duke University Press Books, 2014.
12. Graff, Harvey J. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
13. Grafton, Anthony. “The Importance of Being Printed” (Review of Eisenstein’s 1980 The Printing Press as an Agent of Change) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (1980): 265-286 
14. Hall, David D., ed. A History of the Book in America, 5-Volume Omnibus E-Book. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.  [ESSAYS TBD]
15. Harris, Neil. Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. 1st edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
16. Hayles, N. Katherine, and Jessica Pressman, eds. Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era. 1st edition. Minneapolis ; London: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013.
17. Heesen, Anke te. The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel. 1st edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
18. Henkin, David. City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York. Columbia University Press, 1998.
19. Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. 1st edition. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
20. Maruca, Lisa M. The Work of Print: Authorship and the EnglishText Trades, 1660-1760. Illustrated edition. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
21. Miller, Laura J. Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
22. Nunberg, Geoffrey. The Future of the Book. Edited by Geoffrey Nunberg. First edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
23. Raven, James. London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811. Annotated edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.

24. Rose, Jonathan. “How Historians Study Reader Response: Or What did Jo think of Bleak House?” in Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Century British Publishing and Reading Practices, eds. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. 1995.
25. Rubin, Joan. “What is the History of the History of Books?” Journal of American History2 (2003): 555-75
26. Thomas, Keith. “The meaning of literacy in early modern England,” in The Written Word: Literacy in Transition, ed. Gerd Baumann (1986)
27. Sherman, William. “What Renaissance readers wrote in their books,” in Books and Readers in Early Modern England (2002)

 

VISUAL CULTURE

1. Azoulay, Ariella. The Civil Contract of Photography. Translated by Rela Mazali and Ruvik Danieli. New York : Cambridge, Mass: Zone Books, 2012.
2. Blake, Casey Nelson, ed. The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State. Y First edition. Washington, D.C. : Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
3. Carter, Ennis, and Christopher DeNoon. Posters for the People: Art of the WPA. Illustrated edition. Philadelphia, PA: Quirk Books, 2008.
4. Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001.
5. Edwards, Elizabeth, and Christopher Morton, eds. Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information. Illustrated edition. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
6. Elizabeth Edwards, “Photographs as Objects of Memory,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
7. Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Annotated edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
8. Kaplan, Louis. American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005.
9. Lears, Jackson. Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1995.
10. Sandweiss, Martha A. Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.
11. Schwartz, Joan, and James Ryan, eds. Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003.
12. Smith, Shawn Michelle. Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Illustrated edition. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2004.
13. Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. 2005. Offending images. In What Do Pictures Want?, pp. 125-144. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
14. Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. Reprint edition. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1990.
15. Turner, Fred. The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. Reprint edition. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

 

MATERIAL CULTURE/NEW MATERIALISM

1. Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta, and Luca Molà, “The Global Renaissance: Cross-Cultural Objects in the Early Modern Period,” in Global Design History, Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, and Sarah Teasley, eds. (London: Routledge, 2011), 11-20.
2. Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. [Introduction]
3. Baudrillard, Jean. “Subjective Discourse or The Nonfunctional System of Objects,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
4. Jane Bennett, “A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism,” in New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 47-69.
5. Bleecker, Julian. “Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for Networked Objects – Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids, Aibos in the Internet of Things,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
6. Boivin, Nicole (2008) Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thoughts, Society, and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
7. Bowden, R. 2004. A critique of Alfred Gell on Art and Agency. Oceania 74(4):309-324.
8. Brown, Bill. “Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things).” Critical Inquiry 36, no. 2 (2010): 183–217. 
9. Brown, Bill.  “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1 (2001): 1 -22.
10. Brown, Bill. 2002. The tyranny of things (trivia in Karl Marx and Mark Twain). Critical Inquiry 28(2):442-69.
11. Candlin, Fiona and Raiford Guins, “Introducing Objects,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
12. Coole, Diana, and Samantha Frost, “Introducing the New Materialisms,” in New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 1-46.
13. Daston, Lorraine. “Things that Talk” and “Speechless,” the preface and introduction to her edited volume, Things that Talk. Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2004.
14. Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. Revised ed. edition. New York: Anchor, 1996.
15. Foy, Jessica H., and Thomas J. Schlereth, eds. American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services. 1st edition. Univ Tennessee Press, 1994.
16. Fried, Michael. “Art and Objecthood,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
17. Fromont, Cecile. Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. [Introduction]
18. Geismar, Haidy. Treasured Possessions: Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2013.
19. Gell, Alfred.  “The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
20. Glassie, Henry. Material Culture. First edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
21. Gosden, Chris (2005) What Do Objects Want? Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12(3):193-211.
22. Grosz, Elizabeth. “The Thing,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
23. Heidegger, Martin. “The Thing,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
24. Helms, Mary W.  “Essay on Objects: Interpretations of Distance Made Tangible,” in Stuart B. Schwartz ed., Implicit Understandings. Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 355 – 377
25. Horn, Jennifer Van. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America. Reprint edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
26. Ingold, Tim et al. (2008) Materials against Materiality. Archaeological Dialogues 14 (1):1-38.
27. Keane, Webb (2005) Signs are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things. In Materiality, edited by Daniel Miller, pp. 182-205. Duke University Press, Durham and London.
28. Kuchler, Suzanne Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things. In Materiality, edited
    by Daniel Miller, pp. 206-230. Duke University Press, Durham and London.
29. Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
30. Mauss, Marcel.  “Gifts and the Obligation to Return Gifts,” in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2009.
31. Miller, Daniel, ed. Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter. 1st edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
32. Miller, Daniel. “Materiality: An Introduction,” in Materiality, Daniel Miller, ed. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), 1- 50.
33. Myers, Fred R., ed. The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Paper edition. Santa Fe, N.M: School for Advanced Research Press, 2002.
34. Rathbone, Richard Adams. Death in the Drawing Room. Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012.
35. Rowlands, Michael (2005) A Materialist Approach to Materiality. In Materiality, edited by Daniel
    Miller, pp. 72-87. Duke University Press, Durham and London.
36. Stewart, Susan. The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. First edition. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
37. Stewart, Susan. 1993. Objects of desire. In On Longing: Narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection, pp. 132-170. Duke University Press.
38. Taylor, Timothy (2008) “Materiality.” In Handbook of Archaeological Theories, R. A. Bentley, H.D.G. Maschner and C. Chippindale (eds.), pp. 297-320. Lanham: Altamira.
39. Thomas, Julian (2007) The Trouble with Material Culture. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10:11-23.
40. Trentmann, Frank. “Materiality in the Future of History: Things, Practices, and Politics.” The Journal of British Studies 48, no. 2 (2009): 283–307. 

 

MUSEUMS & LANDSCAPES

1. Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. 1st edition. London ; New York: Routledge, 1995.
2. Burns, Andrea. From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement. First edition. Amherst ; Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
3. Cain, Victoria. “‘Attraction, Attention, and Desire’: Consumer Culture as Pedagogical Paradigm in Museums in the United States, 1900 – 1930.” Paedagogica Historica 48, no. 5 (2012): 745–69.
4. Classen, Constance. “Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum,” Journal of Social History 40 (2007): 895-914
5. Conn, Steven. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. 1st edition. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
6. Conn, Steven. Do Museums Still Need Objects (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
7. Crane, Susan A., ed. Museums and Memory. 1st edition. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.
8. Curry, Helen Anne, Nicholas Jardine, James Andrew Secord, and Emma C. Spary, eds. Worlds of Natural History. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. [EXCERPTS]
9. Delbourgo, James. Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane (Allen Lane, 2015), chapter 7.
10. Dudley, Sandra H. (2010) Museum Materialities: Objects, Sense, and Feeling. In Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations, edited by Sandra H. Dudley, pp. 1-17. Routledge, New York.
11. Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
12. Greenhill, Eileen Hooper. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. 1st edition. London ; New York: Routledge, 1992.
13. Henare, Amiria. Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Illustrated edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
14. Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye S. Museums & the Making of “Ourselves”: The Role of Objects in National Identity. London: Leicester Univ Pr, 1996.
15. Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven Levine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 1992.
16. Kreamer, Christine Mullen, Cuahtemoc Camarena, and Fath Davis Ruffins. Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. Edited by Gustavo Buntinx, Ciraj Rassool, Corinne Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and Ivan Karp. Illustrated edition. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2006.
17. Lonetree, Amy. Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Illustrated edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
18. McClellan, Andrew.  Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (University of California Press, 1994), introduction and chapter 2.
19. Paine, Crispin, ed. Godly Things: Museums, Objects and Religion. New York: Leicester University Press, 2000.
20. Sandell, Richard, and Eithne Nightingale, eds. Museums, Equality and Social Justice. 1st edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2012.
21. Savenije, Geerte M., and Pieter de Bruijn. “Historical Empathy in a Museum: Uniting Contextualisation and Emotional Engagement.” International Journal of Heritage Studies : IJHS 23, no. 9 (2017): 832–845. 
22. Tilley, Christopher. A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. 1st edition. Oxford, UK ; Providence, R.I: Berg Publishers, 1997.
23. Trask, Jeffrey. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
24. Tucker, Louis. The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791 – 1991 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995), chapters 1 and 2.
25. Walker, William. A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum. First edition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.