US Intellectual History - University of Rochester

Reading List: US Intellectual History 

Daniel Borus 

This is my reading list for the US intellectual history research field for the PhD. The field is a 

vast one (especially the twentieth century) and preparation for the examination will acquaint 

students with only a small portion of the work relevant to their teaching and research careers. 

Students should think of this list as preliminary suggestions from which they will fashion a list 

tailored to their own research interests. The examination list that students compile and which I 

approve will consist of fifty books, divided among the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth 

Centuries. Normally, students will do twenty books in the century in which they will 

specialize and fifteen in the other two. 

In addition, the list should broadly be distributed among the various subfields that constitute the 

concern of American intellectual historians -- art, social thought and theory, political ideology, 

philosophy and psychology, and religion. 

No text is required but students would be well advised to consult one of the following: 

Paul A. Carter, Revolt Against Destiny : An Intellectual History of the United States (New York: 

Columbia University Press, 1989). 

Lewis Perry, Intellectual Life in America : A History, University of Chicago Press ed., (Chicago: 

University of Chicago Press, 1989). 

A better approach would be to read the soon-to-be-completed American Thought and Culture 

series, published by Twayne and Rowman and Littlefield. 

E. Brooks Holifield, Era of Persuasion: American thought and culture, 1521-1680 Twayne, 

1989. 

Ned C. Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680-1760, 

Twayne, 1997. 

Robert E. Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760-1800, 

Twayne 1990. 

Jean V. Matthews, Toward a New Society: American Thought and Culture, 1800-1830, Twayne, 

1991. 

Anne C. Rose, Voices of the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860, Twayne, 

1994. 

Louise Stevenson, The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1800, 

Twayne 1991.

George Cotkin, Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, Twayne 

1992. 

Daniel H. Borus, Twentieth-Century Multiplicity: American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920, 

Rowman & Littlefield. 

Paul V. Murphy, The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s, Rowman & 

Littlfield, 2011 

Terry A. Cooney, Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930s, Twayne, 1995. 

William Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s, Twayne, 

1991. 

Casey N. Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick, At the Center: American Thought and 

Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1948-1963 (forthcoming) 

Howard Brick, Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, Twayne, 

1998. 

J. David Hoeveler, The Postmodern Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s, Twayne, 

1996. 

James Livingston, The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of 

the Twentieth Century, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 

Primary Sources: Acquaintance with key primary sources is especially crucial to the mastery of 

the field. Students are strongly, strongly encouraged to begin with David Hollinger and Charles 

Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition, sixth edition. With my permission, students 

may substitute primary sources for secondary ones.

17th and 18th centuries 

Jean-Christophe. Agnew, Worlds Apart : The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American 

Thought, 1550-1750 (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University 

Press, 1986). 

Joyce Oldham. Appleby, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination 

(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992). 

Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of 

Harvard University Press, 1974). 

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Enl. ed., (Cambridge, 

Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992). 

Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew : The Genius and Ambiguities of the American 

Founders, 1st ed., (New York: Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 2003). 

Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party Ideology (Ithaca, N.Y.: 

Cornell University Press, 1978). 

Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty : James Madison and the Founding of the Federal 

Republic (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995). 

Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978). 

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson : With a New Preface, Phoenix ed., 

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). 

Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith : Christianizing the American People, vol. Studies in cultural 

history (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990). 

Jon Butler, Becoming America : The Revolution Before 1776 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 

University Press, 2000). 

James W. Ceaser, et al., Nature and History in American Political Development : A Debate, vol. 

The Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard 


Saul Cornell, The Other Founders : Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 

1788-1828 (Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History 

and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999). 

Andrew Delbanco, The Puritan Ordeal (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989). 

Norman Fiering, Moral Philosophy At Seventeenth-Century Harvard : A Discipline in Transition 

(Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 

Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1981). 

Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims : The American Revolution Against Patriarchal 

Authority, 1750-1800 (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Jay Fliegelman, Declaring Independence Jefferson, Natural Language & the Culture of 

Performance (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993). 

Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976). 

Stephen Foster, The Long Argument : English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England 

Culture, 1570-1700 (Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and 

Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1991). 

Nathan O. Hatch, and Mark A. Noll, The Bible in America : Essays in Cultural History (New 

York: Oxford University Press, 1982). 

Alan Heimert, Religion and the American Mind, From the Great Awakening to the Revolution 

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966). 

Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic : Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (New 

York: Norton, 1986). 

Sarah Knott, Sensibility and the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: Published for the 

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by 

the University of North Carolina Press, 2009). 

Isaac Kramnick, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism : Political Ideology in Late 

Eighteenth-Century England and America (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990). 

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards : A Life (New Haven [Conn.] ; London: Yale University 

Press, 2003). 

George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford 


Henry Farnham May, The Enlightenment in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 

1976). 

Drew R. McCoy, The Elusive Republic : Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (New York: 

Norton, 1982). 

Robert Middlekauff, The Mathers Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 

Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. (Cambridge: Harvard University 

Press, 1954). 

Perry Miller, Errand Into the Wilderness. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University 

Press, 1956). 

Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop., [1st ed.], vol. The 

Library of American biography (Boston: Little, Brown, 1958). 

Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints : The History of a Puritan Idea (Ithaca: Cornell University 

Press, 1968). 

Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People : The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and

America (New York: Norton, 1988). 

J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic 

Republican Tradition, 2nd paperback ed. with a new afterword, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton 


J. G. A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History : Essays on Political Thought and History, 

Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century, vol. Ideas in context (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; 

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). 

Edward A. Purcell, Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise : A 

Historical Inquiry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). 

Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, vol. The Library of 

American biography (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 

1990). 

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, 1st 

ed., (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996). 

Michal Rozbicki, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution (Charlottesville: 

University of Virginia Press, 2011). 

Kenneth Silverman, A Cultural History of the American Revolution : Painting, Music, Literature, 

and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States From the Treaty of Paris to the 

Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789 (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1976). 

Eric Thomas Slauter, The State as a Work of Art : The Cultural Origins of the Constitution 


Darren Staloff, The Making of an American Thinking Class : Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in 

Puritan Massachusetts (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 

Darren Staloff, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson : The Politics of Enlightenment and the American 

Founding, 1st ed., (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005). 

Michael Warner, The Letters of the Republic : Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth- 

Century America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990). 

Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: Published for 

the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University 

of North Carolina Press, 1969). 

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 1st Vintage Books ed., (New 

York: Vintage Books, 1993). 

Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Penguin Press, 2004). 

Larzer Ziff, Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New World. (New York: Viking Press, 

1973).

19th Century 

Gregory S. Alexander, Commodity & Propriety : Competing Visions of Property in American 

Legal Thought, 1776-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). 

Quentin Anderson, The Imperial Self; an Essay in American Literary and Cultural History., [1st 

ed.], (New York: Knopf, 1971). 

Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism : Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought, 

vol. American civilization (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979). 

Gail. Bederman, Manliness & Civilization : A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United 

States, 1880-1917, vol. Women in culture and society (Chicago: University of Chicago 

Press, 1995). 

Thomas. Bender, The Antislavery Debate : Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in 

Historical Interpretation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). 

Sacvan. Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent : Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of 

America (New York: Routledge, 1993). 

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass' Civil War : Keeping Faith in Jubilee (Baton Rouge: 

Louisiana State University Press, 1989). 

David W. Blight, Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA: 

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001). 

Geoffrey. Blodgett, and Daniel Walker. Howe, Victorian America ([Philadelphia]: University of 

Pennsylvania Press, 1976). 

Theodore Dwight Bozeman, Protestants in an Age of Science : The Baconian Ideal and Ante- 

Bellum American Religious Thought (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 

1977). 

Gillian. Brown, Domestic Individualism : Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America, vol. 

The New historicism ; 14 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990). 

Gillian. Brown, The Consent of the Governed : The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture 

(Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press, 2001). 

Lawrence. Buell, New England Literary Culture From Revolution Through Renaissance, vol. 

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New 

York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 

Lawrence. Buell, The Environmental Imagination : Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation 

of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995). 

Lawrence. Buell, The American Transcendentalists : Essential Writings, Modern Library pbk. 

ed., vol. The Modern Library classics (New York: Modern Library, 2006). 

Leslie Butler, Critical Americans : Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). 

Charles D. Cashdollar, The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890 : Positivism and Protestant 

Thought in Britain and America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989). 

Mary Kupiec. Cayton, Emerson's Emergence : Self and Society in the Transformation of New 

England, 1800-1845 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). 

Kenneth. Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence : The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century 

America, 1st ed., (New York: W. Morrow, 1990). 

Nancy Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (Chapel Hill: University 


Paul Keith. Conkin, Prophets of Prosperity : America's First Political Economists (Bloomington: 

Indiana University Press, 1980). 

George Cotkin, William James, Public Philosopher, vol. New studies in American intellectual 

and cultural history (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). 

Paul Jerome. Croce, Science and Religion in the Era of William James (Chapel Hill: University 


David Brion. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell 


David Brion. Davis, Slavery and Human Progress (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984). 

David Brion. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (New York: 

Oxford Universtiy Press, 1999). 

Sue Davis, The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton : Women's Rights and the American 

Political Traditions (New York: New York University Press, 2008). 

Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus 

and Giroux, 1998). 

Alice. Fahs, The Imagined Civil War : Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865, vol. 

Civil War America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). 

Drew Gilpin. Faust, A Sacred Circle : The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 

1840-1860 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). 

Drew Gilpin. Faust, This Republic of Suffering : Death and the American Civil War, 1st ed., 

(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008). 

Eric. Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the 

Civil War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970). 

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class : History and 

Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge 


Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome : The Antebellum Protestant Encounter With Catholicism


George M. Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War; Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union, 

[1st ed.], (New York: Harper & Row, 1965). 

George M. Fredrickson, The Black Image in the White Mind; the Debate on Afro-American 

Character and Destiny, 1817-1914, [1st ed.], (New York: Harper & Row, 1971). 

George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy : A Comparative Study in American and South African 

History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). 

Tony Allan. Freyer, Producers Versus Capitalists : Constitutional Conflict in Antebellum 

America, vol. Constitutionalism and democracy (Charlottesville: University Press of 

Virginia, 1994). 

Mary O. Furner, Advocacy & Objectivity : A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social 

Science, 1865-1905 (Lexington: Published for the Organization of American Historians 

[by] The University Press of Kentucky, 1975). 

Eugene D. Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made : Two Essays in Interpretation (New 

York: Vintage Books, 1971). 

Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll; the World the Slaves Made, [1st ed.], (New York: 

Pantheon Books, 1974). 

Louis S. Gerteis, Morality & Utility in American Antislavery Reform (Chapel Hill: University of 

North Carolina Press, 1987). 

Eddie S. Glaude, Exodus! : Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black 

America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). 

Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America, vol. Yale historical 

publications (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991). 

Carl Guarneri, The Utopian Alternative : Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America (Ithaca, 

N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991). 

Philip F. Gura, American Transcendentalism : A History, 1st ed., (New York: Hill and Wang, 

2007). 

Allen. Guttmann, The Conservative Tradition in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 

1967). 

Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America; an Interpretation of American Political Thought 

Since the Revolution., [1st ed.], (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955). 

Thomas L. Haskell, The Emergence of Professional Social Science : The American Social 

Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority (Urbana: University of 

Illinois Press, 1977). 

Thomas L. Haskell, and Richard F. Teichgraeber, The Culture of the Market : Historical Essays, 

vol. Murphy Institute studies in political economy (Cambridge [England] ; New York:

Cambridge University Press, 1993). 

Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven: Yale University 

Press, 1989). 

J. David Hoeveler, The Evolutionists : American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860-1920, 

vol. Critical issues in history (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). 

Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought., Rev. ed., (Boston: Beacon Press, 

1955). 

Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life., [1st ed.], (New York: Knopf, 1963). 

Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington., [1st ed.], (New 

York: Knopf, 1968). 

Daniel Walker. Howe, The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861. 


Daniel Walker. Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (Chicago: University of 

Chicago Press, 1979). 

Daniel Walker. Howe, Making the American Self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, vol. 

Studies in cultural history (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). 

James L. Huston, Securing the Fruits of Labor : The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 

1765-1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998). 

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University 


George. Kateb, Emerson and Self-Reliance (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995). 

Mary Kelley, Private Woman, Public Stage : Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century 

America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984). 

John Owen. King, The Iron of Melancholy : Structures of Spiritual Conversion in America From 

the Puritan Conscience to Victorian Neurosis, 1st ed., (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan 


Larry Kramer, The People Themselves : Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review 

(Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 

Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (New 

Haven: Yale University Press, 1977). 

Bruce Kuklick, Josiah Royce : An Intellectual Biography (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 

1985). 

William Leach, True Love and Perfect Union : The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (New 

York: Basic Books, 1980). 

T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace : Antimoderism and the Transformation of American 

Culture, 1880-1920, 1st ed., (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981).

T. J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance : A Cultural History of Advertising in America ([New 

York]: Basic Books, 1994). 

Robert S. Levine, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity 


R. W. B. Lewis, The American Adam; Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth 

Century. ([Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, 1955). 

James Livingston, Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940, 

vol. Cultural studies of the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 

1994). 



F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance; Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and 

Whitman (London, New York [etc.]: Oxford U.P., 1968). 

Louis. Menand, The Metaphysical Club, 1st ed., (New York [N.Y.]: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 

2001). 

Donald B. Meyer, The Positive Thinkers, a Study of the American Quest for Health, Wealth and 

Personal Power From Mary Baker Eddy to Norman Vincent Peale, [1st ed.], (Garden City, 

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965). 

Donald H. Meyer, The Instructed Conscience; the Shaping of the American National Ethic 

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972). 

Walter Benn. Michaels, The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism (Berkeley: University of 

California Press, 1987). 

Walter Benn. Michaels, Our America : Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism, vol. Postcontemporary 

interventions (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995). 

Susan L. Mizruchi, The Science of Sacrifice : American Literature and Modern Social Theory 

(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998). 

Susan L. Mizruchi, The Rise of Multicultural America : Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 


James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies : A Study of the Protestant Struggle to 

Come to Terms With Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900 (Cambridge ; New 

York: Cambridge University Press, 1979). 

R. Laurence Moore, European Socialists and the American Promised Land (New York: Oxford 


R. Laurence Moore, In Search of White Crows : Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American 

Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). 

Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 (Hamden, Conn.:

Archon Books, 1978). 

Carol. Nackenoff, The Fictional Republic : Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse 

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). 

John R. Nelson, Liberty and Property : Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, 

1789-1812, vol. The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 

105th ser., 2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). 

Louise Michele. Newman, White Women's Rights : The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United 

States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). 

Mark A. Noll, America's God : From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford ; New 


Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, vol. The Steven and Janice Brose lectures 

in the Civil War era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). 

Michael O'Brien, Rethinking the South : Essays in Intellectual History (Baltimore: Johns 

Hopkins University Press, 1988). 

Michael O'Brien, Placing the South, 1st ed., (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007). 

Michael O'Brien, and David. Moltke-Hansen, Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston, 1st ed., 

(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986). 

John M. O'Donnell, The Origins of Behaviorism : American Psychology, 1870-1920, vol. The 

American social experience series ; 3 (New York: New York University Press, 1985). 

Barbara L. Packer, The Transcendentalists (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007). 

Bruce Palmer, "Man Over Money" : The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism 


Lewis Perry, Radical Abolitionism; Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought. 

(Ithaca [N.Y.]: Cornell University Press, 1973). 

Lewis Perry, Intellectual Life in America : A History (New York: F. Watts, 1984). 

Lewis Perry, Boats Against the Current : American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity, 

1820-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). 

Mark. Pittenger, American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920, vol. History of 

American thought and culture (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993). 

Amanda Porterfield, Conceived in Doubt : Religion and Politics in the New American Nation 


Ross. Posnock, The Trial of Curiosity : Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of 

Modernity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). 

James H. Read, Majority Rule Versus Consensus : The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun 

(Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2009).

David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance : The Subversive Imagination in the Age 

of Emerson and Melville, 1st ed., (New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 

1988). 

Daniel T. Rodgers, Contested Truths : Keywords in American Politics Since Independence (New 

York: Basic Books, 1987). 

Anne C. Rose, Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850 (New Haven: Yale 


Anne C. Rose, Victorian America and the Civil War (Cambridge [England] ; New York: 

Cambridge University Press, 1992). 

Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres the Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (New 

Haven: Yale University Press, 1982). 

Cynthia Eagle. Russett, The Concept of Equilibrium in American Social Thought., vol. Yale 

historical publications. Miscellany ; 84 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966). 

Cynthia Eagle. Russett, Darwin in America : The Intellectual Response, 1865-1912 (San 

Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976). 

Cynthia Eagle. Russett, Sexual Science : The Victorian Construction of Womanhood (Cambridge, 

Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989). 

Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current : Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of 

American Environmentalism (New York: Viking, 2006). 

David E. Shi, The Simple Life : Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture (New York: 

Oxford University Press, 1985). 

David E. Shi, Facing Facts : Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 (New York: 


Jeffrey P. Sklansky, The Soul's Economy : Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 

1820-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). 

Carl S. Smith, Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 (Chicago: University 

of Chicago Press, 1984). 

Carl S. Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief : The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket 

Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 

Henry Nash. Smith, Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge, Mass.: 


Amy Dru. Stanley, From Bondage to Contract : Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the 

Age of Slave Emancipation (New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1998). 

John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men : Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race 


James Brewer. Stewart, Holy Warriors : The Abolitionists and American Slavery, vol. American

century series (New York: Hill and Wang, 1976). 

Fionnghuala. Sweeney, Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (Liverpool [England]: 

Liverpool University Press, 2007). 

Andrew Taylor, Thinking America : New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American 

Identity (Durham, N.H. Hanover [N.H.]: University of New Hampshire Press University 

Press of New England, 2010). 

William Robert Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee; the Old South and American National Character. 

(New York: G. Braziller, 1961). 

Richard F. Teichgraeber, Building Culture : Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing 

America, 1867-1910 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010). 

John L. Thomas, Alternative America : Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd, 

and the Adversary Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1983). 

Laurence R. Veysey, The Emergence of the American University, 1st Phoenix ed., (Chicago: 


Ronald G. Walters, The Antislavery Appeal : American Abolitionism After 1830 (Baltimore: 

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976). 

Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860, 1st ed., vol. American century series (New 

York: Hill and Wang, 1978). 

Ronald G. Walters, Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America, Updated ed., 

Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed., (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). 

Garry Wills, Lincoln At Gettysburg : The Words That Remade America (New York: Simon & 

Schuster, 1992). 

Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore; Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. (New York: 


Raymond Jackson. Wilson, In Quest of Community: Social Philosophy in the United States, 

1860-1920 (New York: Wiley, 1968). 

Raymond Jackson. Wilson, Figures of Speech : American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, 

From Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson (New York: Knopf, 1989).

20th Century 

Daniel Aaron, Writers on the Left (New York: Discus Books, 1969). 

Edward Abrahams, The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of 

Cultural Radicalism in America (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986). 

Nathan. Abrams, Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine : The Rise and Fall of the 

Neocons (New York: Continuum, 2010). 

William E. Akin, Technocracy and the American Dream : The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 


Guy Alchon, The Invisible Hand of Planning : Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 

1920s (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985). 

Patrick. Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985 (Ithaca, 

N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993). 

S. M. Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy : The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice 

Liberalism (Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 2003). 

Stanley. Aronowitz, False Promises; the Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness. 

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