Chapter 1: The politics of the Constitution, 1787–89
Berkin, Carol. A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution. New York: Mariner Books, 2003.
Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition, 1788–1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas of the Making of the Constitution. New York: Vintage, 1997.
Robertson, David Brian. The Original Compromise: What the Constitution’s Framers Were Really Thinking. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Chapter 2: Contentious people and factious parties in the Early Republic, 1789–1824
Brookhiser, Richard. James Madison. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
McCoy, Drew R. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Rakove, Jack N. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2007.
Risjord, Norman K. Jefferson’s America, 1760–1815. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, 1991.
Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Chapter 3: The age of Democracy, 1816–44
Brooke, John L. Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Earle, Jonathan H. Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824–1854. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Ellis, Richard E. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’ Rights, and the Nullification Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Leonard, Gerald The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998.
Remini, Robert V. John Quincy Adams. New York: Times Books, 2002.
Sellers, Charles. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Silbey, Joel H. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Varon, Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Chapter 4: The politics of slavery: prelude to the Civil War, 1844–60
Ashworth, John. The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Childers, Christopher. The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party 1852–1856. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Greenberg, Amy. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico. New York: Vintage, 2012.
Holt, Michael. The Fate of Their Country: Politics, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
Holt, Michael. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Lambert, Oscar. Presidential Politics in the United States, 1841–1844. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1936.
Quitt, Martin H. Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Silbey, Joel H. Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Silbey, Joel H. Storm Over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Chapter 5: Politics in war and Reconstruction, 1861–76
Downs, Gregory. Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861–1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: HarperCollins, 1988.
Lane, Charles. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
Lemann, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Neely, Mark E. The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865–1901. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Simpson, Brooks. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Chapter 6: Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918
Altschuler, Glenn C., and Stuart M. Blumin. Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Calhoun, Charles W. The Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.
Hollingsworth, J. Rogers. The Whirligig of Politics: The Democracy of Cleveland and Bryan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Keller, Morton. America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
McGerr, Michael E. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865–1928. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Summers, Mark W. Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Williams, R. Hal. Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010.
Chapter 7: Affluence, depression, and world war, 1920–45
Allswang, John M. The New Deal and American Politics: A Study in Political Change. New York: John Wiley, 1978.
Andersen, Kristi. After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York: Mariner Books, 1977.
Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Vintage, 1996.
Dunn, Susan. Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Fausold, Martin L. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge: American Presidency. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Jeffries, John W. Testing the Roosevelt Coalition: Connecticut Society and Politics in the Era of World War II. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.
Patterson, James T. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933–1939. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967.
Richie, Donald. Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Smith, Richard Norton. The Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Ware, Susan. Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1987.
Winkler, Alan. Home Front U.S.A.: American during World War II. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2000.
Chapter 8: Early Cold War politics, 1945–74
Bowen, Michael. The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Chesler, Lewis, Godfrey Hodgson, and Bruce Page. American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968. New York: Viking, 1969.
Devine, Thomas W. Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Diggins, John P. The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941–1960. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Donovan, Robert. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945–1948. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam, 1993.
Gould, Lewis. 1968: The Election that Changed America. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
Hamby, Alonzo. The Imperial Years. New York: Longman, 1978.
Hamby, Alonzo. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Karabell, Zachary. The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election. New York: Vintage, 2001.
Matusow, Allen. The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Miroff, Bruce. The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Oshinsky, Michael. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Easton Press, 1983.
Rorabaugh, W. J. The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
Chapter 9: Tumultuous politics continued, 1974–present
Collins, Robert M. Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2001.
Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. New York: Harper, 2003.