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Freshman level

African American History from 1865 AMST 1595

  • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction & Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 by Manning Marable

U.S. History through Literature AMST 1770

  • Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  • ✔️ Hiroshima by John Hersey
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
  • The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

American History from 1500 to 1800 AMST 1985

  • American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor

Sophomore level

From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan AMST 2220

  • The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 by Story & Laurie
  • Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
  • The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics by Jefferson Cowie
  • My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South by Howell Raines
  • Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
  • Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism by Bruce Schulman
  • Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right by Lisa McGirr

Controversies About Inequality AMST 2225

  • The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich by Cristobal Young
  • How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
  • The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America by Oren Cass
  • Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity by Joseph Fishkin
  • Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America by Cornwell et al.

From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps AMST 2391

  • Mapping the Nation: History & Cartography in 19th-Century America by Susan Schulten
  • How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier

The American Revolutionary Era AMST 2665

  • American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

American Political Thought AMST 2669

  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  • The Federalist by Hamilton et al.
  • American Political Thought by Kramnick & Lowi
  • Lincoln: Political Writings & Speeches

Sex, Drugs & Experimenting with Democracy in 1960s & 1970s America AMST 2682

  • America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Isserman & Kazin

Junior level

American Theatre Stage & Screen I AMST 3360

  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • Waiting for Lefty & Other Plays by Clifford Odets
  • Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
  • The American Dream, The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, FAM and YAM by Edward Albee
  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • A Raisin in the Sun & The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry
  • At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee

Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes AMST 3503

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
  • Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
  • Mule Bone by Hurston & Hughes
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen

Diasporas, Disasters & Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th & 21st Centuries AMST 3679

  • Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
  • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Senior level

Contesting Votes: Democracy & Citizenship Throughout U.S. History AMST 4203

  • The Second Founding: How the Civil War & Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

Environmental Justice: Past, Present, Future AMST 4262

  • Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
  • The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  • Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors & the Legacy of DES by Nancy Langston
  • As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
  • The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict & Ecology by Derek Wall
  • The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water & the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
  • Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice by Bhavnani et al.

The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937 AMST 4506

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Passing by Nella Larsen
  • The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke
  • The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
  • Cane by Jean Toomer
  • Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
  • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessi Redmon Fauset
  • Black No More by George S. Schuyler
  • Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

Funny Business: Stand Up Comedy & Its Social, Political & Cultural Importance AMST 4692

  • The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle by Wayne Federman
  • Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
  • Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble by Judy Gold

Queer Archives & Archiving Queerness AMST 4695/6695

  • ✔️ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women & Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
  • Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
  • My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties & Beyond by Hugh Ryan
  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

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