Graduate Readings in History:
Violence in 19th-Century American History

Course Design and Planning

Gorn, Elliott J.  The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.  Updated ed.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010 (originally 1986).

Freeman, Joanne B.  The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Hadden, Sally E.  Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

McLean, Nancy.  Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Carrigan, William D., and Webb, Clive.  Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Guardino, Peter.  The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Hamalainen, Pekka.  The Comanche Empire.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Kramer, Paul A.  The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2006.

Rothman, Joshua D.  Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Gordon, Linda.  The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Berry, Daina Ramey.  The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.

Baptist, Edward E.  The Half Has Never Been told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.  New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al.  “The 1619 Project.”  New York Times Sunday Magazine  Special Issue, August 14, 2019.

“The 1619 Project: Pulitzer Center Education Programming.”