Harvard History Graduate Student Association



General Exam Field List

Professor Walter Johnson

History of Colonial and Early America

Indigenous and Settler Histories of North American Colonization

1. Armitage, David. “Three Concepts of Atlantic History.” In The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, edited by David Armitage and M. J. Braddick (2002)

2. Bailyn, Bernard. The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1987)

3. Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. The Jamestown Project (2009)

4. Merrell, James. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (1989)

5. Merrell, James. “Second Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians,” WMQ 69 (July 2012): 451-512, with comments by other historians following

6. Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998

7. Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001)

8. Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992)

9. Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1 (2002)

Violence, Property, and the Environment on White/Indian Frontiers

10. Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007)

11. Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006)

12. Chaplin, Joyce E. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2003)

13. Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1982; 2003)

14. Crosby, Alfred W. “Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America,” William and Mary Quarterly 33, no. 2 (1976): 289-299

15. Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994)

16. Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998)

17. Taylor, Alan. “The Divided Ground: Upper Canada, New York, and the Iroquois Six Nations, 1783-1815,” Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 55-75

18. Turner, Frederick Jackson. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)

19. Usner, Daniel H., Jr. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy (1992)

20. White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991)

Religion and Politics in British North America

21. Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990)

22. Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989)

23. Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism (1994)

24. Pestana, Carla. Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009)

25. Sensbach, Jon F. Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2006)

Atlantic Economies and Global Capitalism

26. Eltis, David and Stanley L. Engerman. “The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain,” Journal of Economic History 60, no. 1: 123-144 (2000)

27. Johnson, Walter. “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question,” Journal of the Early Republic (2004)

28. Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985)

29. Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (2010)

30. Rediker, Marcus and Peter Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)

31. Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800, 2d ed. (1992; 1998)

32. Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery (1944)

Colonial Slavery I: Labor, Violence, and Rebellion

33. Diouf, Sylviane. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (2013)

34. Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004)

35. James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1963)

36. Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005)

37. Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975)

38. Sidbury, James. Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel’s Virginia, 1730-1810 (1997)

39. Smallwood, Stephanie. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (2007)

40. Wood, Peter H. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974)

Colonial Slavery II: Gender, Racial Formation, and Community Survival

41. Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998)

42. Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996)

43. Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008)

44. Gomez, Michael. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998)

45. Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008)

46. Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005)

47. Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)

Colonial Slavery III: Ideologies of Race and Anti-Slavery

48. Brown, Christopher. Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006)

49. Dain, Bruce. A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (2002)

50. Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1999)

51. Fields, Barbara Jeanne. “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America,” New Left Review 181 (1990)

52. Goetz, Rebecca Anne. The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (2012)

53. Jordan, Winthrop. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (1967)

The Politics of the American Revolution and the New Nation

54. Bloch, Ruth. “The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America,” Signs 13:1 (1987)

55. Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004)

56. Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999)

57. Kloppenberg, James T. “The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse,” Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 1 (1987)

58. Maier, Pauline. Ratification (2010)

59. Pybus, Cassandra. Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty (2006)

60. Taylor, Alan. The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (2013)

61. Waldstreicher, David. Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009)

62. Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969)

63. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991)

64. Zagarri, Rosemarie. Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early Republic (2007)

Gender, Race, and Work in the Early Republic

65. Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).

66. Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: ‘Woman’s Sphere’ in New England, 1780-1835 (1977)

67. Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009)

68. Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1982)

69. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)

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