Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-18002 reviews Mary Beth Norton Cornell University Press, 1996 Liberty's Daughters Liberty's Daughters is really the combined collection of two books. Part I: The Constant Patterns of Women's Lives, sets the reader up for Part II: The Changing Patterns of Women's Lives. In a way, Part I explains the life of the prewar colonial woman. Part II discusses the changes that would ...             An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States11 reviews Charles A. Beard Dover Publications, 2004 A Good Place to Begin Thinking About What it Means to be an American + have to read + Just because you're paranoid.... Jumping to the end of Charles Beard's book, his conclusions state the following: i) The US constitution was enacted to protect the interests of: a) the moneyed classes (the rich), b) the bond and stock holding classes (the rich speculators), c) the manufacturing interests (rich capitalists), and ...             The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-17907 reviews Rhys Isaac The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 Tremendous + A riveting account of a double revolution in early America + Excellent Book As you would expect from a book that captured the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is an outstanding book. The writing is clear and cogent. As the other reviewers stated, it brings Colonial Virginia to life for the reader. It's going a bit far to suggest that it explains Colonial "America," ...             The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American ...15 reviews Gordon S. Wood The University of North Carolina Press, 1998 "a true, enduring classic" + Extremely Enlightening + A bit of a slow read.... + Thorough description of the events and times             Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England2 reviews David D. Hall Harvard University Press, 1990 Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement + Social history of Early New England popular religion Hall uses the popular religion of early New England to argue that for clergy and lay people alike religion was a part of everyday life, and although the clergy and lay people's religious interpretations of events could differ their choices of interpretation were limited by their shared culture. ...             The Blessings of Liberty: A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States4 reviews Michael Benedict Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 Solid Book with Excellent Bibliography + Solid Introduction, with Fine Bibliography + A Complete and Concise Account I am a lawyer who has argued in the Supreme Court, and in my view this book provides a solid introduction to constitutional history. The book seems to have been intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduate courses, but despite its textbook feel I think it can be of interest to a wider ...             The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution27 reviews Bernard Bailyn Belknap Press, 1992 A spark in the study of the Revolution + The great conspiracy + The Story of America Begins With Bernard Bailyn + Brilliant - for its time + Still a standard!             Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America4 reviews Harry L. Watson Hill and Wang, 2006 Very comprehensive + IN THE AGE OF JACKSON + Good overview of period and its implications for US history + AP US History Student             The Democratization of American Christianity10 reviews Nathan O. Hatch Yale University Press, 1991 Worthy of the Honor Received + "We the people" religion + "Religious Populism" in the Early Republic + The Democratization of American Christianity + A Christian perspective.             Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)3 reviews Elizabeth Fox-Genovese The University of North Carolina Press, 1988 An interesting and very good attempt + Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women on the Old South (Gender and American Culture) + Scholarly and Enlightening This is an impressive and large-scale achievement. I would have appreciated more acknowledgment of the role that white male eurocentric paradigms played (and continue to play) in the south and oppresion of Women of Color. Overall, a good starting place.             The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America10 reviews Drew R. McCoy The University of North Carolina Press, 1996 Where have all the political economists gone? + The founding fathers lived in a very different world. + This is a book to hang on to. + Bringing Jefferson to life + Good and Easy read--Religio-Philosophial gloss on US history             Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-18506 reviews Sean Wilentz Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Not for the Uninitiated + The mind of the urban proletariat + labor history in nyc + Excellent Service             Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves3 reviews Ira Berlin Belknap Press, 2004 Lively, well-written overview of US slavery I have not yet read Berlin's other book, so I can not compare the two, as some reviewers have done. I thought that the book was quite good. It has a rather peculiar point of view, which was very helpful to me, although it might be hard to follow for someone not familiar with general American ...             The Confederate War20 reviews Gary W. Gallagher Harvard University Press, 1999 The South was resolute + Causes of the Civil War + A bold challenge to Civil War conventional wisdom + Vital for a Civil War Collection             American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia5 reviews Edmund S. Morgan W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 Brilliant + History at its best + Disturbing Questions + Racism + "Interesting, Inquisitive, Insiteful!"             Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made12 reviews Eugene D. Genovese Vintage, 1976 A Tour de Force of American History + History research + The greatest achievement of American historical writing + Roll Jordan Roll             Political Crisis of the 1850s6 reviews Michael F. Holt W. W. Norton & Company, 1983 Beyond rudimentary answers + Graduate Student Review + Overemphasis on political containment, but otherwise good + Right to secede or not?             Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson1 review Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson Oxford University Press, USA, 1992 Empire of Liberty By examining United States foreign policy between 1783 and 1809 in their book "Empire of Liberty," Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson put the myth of Thomas Jefferson under fire. Tucker and Hendrickson's central thesis is that Jefferson's statecraft wavered between two contradictory ...             Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England21 reviews William Cronon Hill and Wang, 2003 A seminal work + The Live it Up Now, Pay for it Later Approach to the Environment in the Colonial Period + Good piece of work + Want to know how ecology can help us to understand history? + A New Perspective             A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-17835 reviews Charles Royster The University of North Carolina Press, 1996 Lock, Stock, and Barrel + A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 + America's True Feelings During the Revolutionary War + What would it take for peaceable citizens to undertake a revolution against their government? + Great read, well researched and presented