Secondary Sources
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Introduction
The best site for exploring secondary literature in American History is America: History and Life. This will be invaluable as you compile reading lists for essays and research, but you will need to log in using your MUSE user name and password.
Major Resources
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience - Lots of excerpts from secondary works on black life, 17th to 20th century.
Classic Texts
[William Archibald Dunning - Reconstruction, Political and Economic] - Important but rather racist take on the Reconstruction era.
[Barbara Fields - Ideology and Race in American History] - Influential essay by a historian of Marxist inflection on the construction of race and its relationship to class.
Leon Litwack - North of Slavery (1951) - Influential study of African-American life in the antebellum North.
Frederick Jackson Turner - The Frontier In American History - Turner's famous 'Frontier Thesis'.
'The Origin of the American Civil War' by Gerald Gunderson - An economic explanation for outbreak of the American Civil War - http://www.jstor.org.eresources.shef.ac.uk/stable/2116615?&Search=yes&searchText=american&searchText=origin&searchText=gunderson&searchText=civil&searchText=war&list=hide&searchUri=/action/doBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dthe%2Borigin%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bamerican%2Bcivil%2Bwar%2Bgunderson%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=246&returnArticleService=showFullText - http://www.history.dept.shef.ac.uk/wikiamerica/index.php/The_origin_of_the_american_civil_war_by_gerald_gunderson
Reconstruction
[1] - Freedmen and Southern Society Project's detailed chronology of emancipation.
Vietnam War
Edwin Moise's Vietnam War Bibliography - Extensive bibliography of both secondary and primary sources.
