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Bibliography

Note: By no means are all of these books and excerpts to be purchased by the participants. Many are on reserve or multiple copies will be available in the Institute offices; many are the sources for excerpted materials that are reproduced in packets or available on the Internet.

General Texts

Daniel Boorstin, ed., An American Primer. New York: Penguin/Meridian, 1997

Luther Luedtke, ed., Making America. Washington, DC: USIA, 1987.

Henretta, James A. et. al., America's History. New York: Worth Publishing, 1993. This standard textbook has proven valuable as a resource. Very up-to-date, it is full of images, sidebar examples, portions of documents, and its multiple authorship has made it very valuable. We are currently seeking a shorter paperback that we can send ahead as an orientation tool.

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Horowitz, Exporting America: Essays in American Studies Abroad. Garland Publications, 1993.

Colin F. Taylor, The Native Americans:The Indigenous People of North America. New York: Smithmark Publishing, 1996.

American Geography, Landscape and Urbanism

Raymond Gastil, "Cultural Regions of America"; and Pierce Lewis, "America's Natural Landscapes", both from Making America.

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Richard White, It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Mayer and Wade, Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Bob Thall, The Perfect City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Peter Bacon Hales, Silver Cities.... Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Peter Bacon Hales, Constructing the Fair. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives. New York: Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House Publishers, 1972. This replica edition is the source for our excerpts.

Barbara Kelly, Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Manmade Landscape. New York: Free Press, 1994.

John Howard Kunstler, Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century. New York: Free Press, 1998.

Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Anchor Press, 1992.

American Literature and Language

Perry Miller, The Puritans. This remains an inspired source for excerpts.

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation.

Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn.

Owen Wister, The Virginian.

Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick and Mark the Match Boy.

Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel.

Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time.

William Faulkner, The Hamlet.

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Robert Frost, "The Woodpile," others from Collected Poems.

E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime.

Toni Morrison, Beloved.

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine.

American Urbanization

General Histories of American Urbanization

Charles N. Glaab and A. Theodore Brown, A History of Urban America

John Reps, The Making of Urban America

Blake McKelvey, The Urbanization of America

Arthur Schlesinger, The Rise of the City, 1878-1898

Raymond A. Mohle, ed., The Making of Urban America

Zane L. Miller, The Urbanization of Modern America

More Specialized Studies of the American Urban Experience

John Reps, Cities of the American Frontier Bird's Eye Views: Historic Lithographs of North American Cities

Richard Wade, The Urban Frontier

Paul Boyer, The Urban Masses and Moral Order in America

Alan Trachtenberg, Peter Neil and Putter Bunnell, eds., The City: American Experience

Charles N. Glaab, The American City: A Documentary History

Perry Duis, Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

Peter B. Hales, Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization

Camillo Vargara, The New American Ghetto

Richard Wade, The Urban Wilderness

Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Shed Its Stigma and Became the First City of the Twenty-First Century

American Politics and Law

Pat Andrews, ed., Voices of Diversity. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995.

James Madison, et.al., The Federalist Papers. New York: Penguin Press, 1987.

Brian Nelson, ed., Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1995.

Legal Cases (copies drawn from casebooks):

14th Amendment

Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 U.S. (19 HOLU.) 393

Bradwell v. State 83 U.S. 130 (1873)

Plessy v. Fergusson 163 U.S. 537 (1896)

Brown v. Board of Education (I) 347 U.S. 483 (1954)

Brown v. Board of Education (II) 349 U.S. 294 (1955)

Reed v. Reed 404 U.S. 71 (1971)

Regents of University of California v. Bakke 438 U.S. 265 (1978)

Griggs v. Duke Power Company 401 U.S. 424 (1971)

Wards Cove v. Atonio 109 S. Ct. 2115 (1989)--