Resources & Links

ONLINE Resources

Appleby, Joyce Oldham. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2001.
Bartlett, Virginia K. Keeping House: Women’s Lives in Western Pennsylvania 1790-1850. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
Bickham, Troy. The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire and the War of 1812. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Freeman, Joanne. Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Stagecoach East: Stagecoach Days in the East from Colonial Period to the Civil War. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1983.
McNamara, Brooks. Step Right Up. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. (history of the rise and fall of the American medicine show)
Mitchell, Sarah E. Ladies’ Clothing in the 1830’s. Chatham, VA: Sarah E. Mitchell, 2010.
Rorabaugh, William J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. (about the economic, social and political influences of American drinking culture from 1790-1830s)
Sexton, Jay. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011.

Problems of a New Nation: 1800-1830. Costa Mesa, CA: Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2008. https://www.amazon.com/Problems-New-Nation-1800-1830-Saddleback/dp/1599053594
Americans Move Westward: 1800-1850. Costa Mesa, CA: Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Americans-Move-West-1800-1850-Graphic/dp/1599053608