Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s painting of Margaret Garner (the Modern Medea), cornered fugitive slave mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note to Students:

Books for Fall 2008 Courses:

Hist 302—Colonial America

-_Red, White and Black: Peoples of Early No. America_ by Nash, 2006, Pearson, isbn:978-0131-93550X.

-_The Puritan Experiment_ Rev. ed., by Bremer, 1995, Univ. of New England Press, isbn:978-0874-517286.

-_Changes in the Land_ Rev. ed., by Cronon, isbn:978-0809-016346.

-_Tobacco Culture_ by Breen, 1985, isbn: 978-0691-089140.

-_In the Devil’s Snare_ by Norton, Random House, 2002, isbn:978-0375-706905.

-_Under the Cope of Heaven--Updated_ Rev. ed., by Bonomi, Oxford Press, 2003, isbn: 978-0195-162189.

-_Colonial Era: a Documentary Reader by Clemens, Wiley Press, 2008, isbn: 978-1405-156627.**Note: this book will be on Reserve; or, you can buddy-up with someone on buying and using this book.

 

Books for Fall 2008 Courses:

Hist 498—History of Women & Gender in America to 1920

-_Born for Liberty_ by Evans, 1997, isbn:9780684834986

-_Women’s America: Refocusing the Past_ by Kerber, 6th ed., 2004, isbn: 9780195159820

-_Loosening the Bonds_ by Jensen, 1986, isbn: 9780300042658

-_Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform_, by Schechter, 2001, isbn: 9780807849651

 

 

 

Books for Spring 2008 Courses (304 & 398):

Hist 304—the Early Republic

-_Liberty and Power_ by Harry L. Watson, 2006, Hill & Wang, isbn:0-8090-6547-9

-_Reshaping of Everyday Life_ by Jack Larkin, 1989, Harper, isbn:0-06-091606-0

-_The Elusive Republic_ by Drew McCoy, 1996, UNC Press, isbn: 0-8078-4616-2

-_American Reformers_ by Ronald Walters, 1997, Hill & Wang, isbn: 0-8090-1588-9

-_Slavery and the American West_ by Michael A. Morrison, 1999, UNC Press, 0-8078-4796-8

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Hist 398—Readings: Jeffersonian Era

-_Notes on the State of Virginia_ by Thomas Jefferson.  try to get the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition, isbn: 0-312-25713-9

-_The Wolf by the Ears_ by John Chester Miller, 1991, Univ. Press of VA, isbn: 0-8139-1365-9

-_Jefferson and the Indians_ by Anthony F. C. Wallace, 2001, Harvard Univ. Press, isbn: 0-674-00548-1

-_Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America_ by Cynthia Kierner, 2006, Univ. Press of VA, isbn: 0-8139-2616-5

-_The Jeffersonian Persuasion_ by Lance Banning, 1980, Cornell, isbn: 0-8014-9200-9

 

Link to Introductory Bibliography for the history of Native-White relations.

 

 

Ginette Aley, Ph. D. ,Assistant Professor

Early America Specialist

University of Southern Indiana

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

 

Winslow Homer’s post Civil War painting, “The Veteran in a New Field.”

 

Contact Information

History Dept.

3021 Lib. Arts. Bldg.

University of Southern Indiana

Evansville, IN  47712

 

ph: (812) 465-7089

email: galey@usi.edu

 

Courses:

Hist 101

U.S. History to 1865

 

Hist 302

Colonial America

 

Hist 303

American Revolutionary War Era

 

Hist 304

Early Republic

 

Hist 305

Civil War & Reconstruction

 

Hist 311

Women and Gender in America

 

Hist 432

American West

 

Hist 398 (Readings)

Jacksonian Era

 

Jeffersonian Era