Suggested Readings

Anderson, Virginia deJohn. New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. 

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

Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800. 

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. 

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. 

Countryman, Edward. Americans: A Collision of Histories. 

Davidson, Basil. West Africa before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850.

Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America.

Gallay, Alan, Indian Slavery in Colonial America.

Herndon, Ruth Wallis, Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America.

Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake. 

Innes, Stephen, ed. Work and Labor in Early America. 

----------. Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth Century Springfield. 

Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. 

Knight, Frederick C., Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850. 

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origin of American Identity. 

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. 

Morgan, Kenneth, Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History.  

Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. 

Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. 

Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. 

Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. 

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

Sundue, Sharon Braslaw, Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720-1810.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. 

Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. 

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. 

Underdown, David. A Freedborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England. 

Vickers, Daniel. Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1830. 

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. 

Wood, Peter H., et al., eds. Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast. 

Wrightson, Keith. English Society, 1580-1680.