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1. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
by Professor Kai T Erikson
This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. ... More
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2. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
by Robert Lynd, Helen M Lynd
The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality, Muncie, Indiana-in the mid-1920s, using ... More
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4. Puritan Family
by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor)
The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be ... More
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5. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
In America, in contrast to almost anywhere else in the world, the good life means traveling a long distance to get to work. How and why this came to ... More
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7. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Encyclopedia of
by Alex Haley (Foreword by), Charles Reagan Wilson (Editor), Ann J Abadie (Editor)
This encyclopedia, a ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers, offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's richest ... More
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10. Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914
by Moses Rischin
Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the ... More
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12. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920
by Olivier Zunz
Originally published in 1983, "The Changing Face of Inequality" is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing ... More
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13. Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era
by Kevin Starr
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the ... More
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15. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
by Eugene D. Genovese
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17. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
by Michael P Johnson, James L Roark
"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books
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18. Anti-intellectualism in American life.
by Richard Hofstadter
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19. Imagineering Atlanta
by Charles Rutheiser
There is little boosterism in this excellent, accessible, well-researched and highly critical study of the history of Atlanta's image and its reality.
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20. Western Futures: Perspectives on the Humanities at the Millennium
by Stephen Tchudi (Editor), Susan A Bentley (Editor), Brad Lucas (Editor)
What does the future hold for the American West? In this collection, seventeen humanities scholars from a range of fields and disciplines examine the ... More
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21. Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboys & the West
by William A. Allard
Thomas McGuane writes the introduction to this fine collection of photographs evoking the traditional world of the American West.
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22. Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America
by Thomas Bender
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25. Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest 1895-1943
by James R Green
In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes information about the party's propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers ... More
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