Interpretations of American History - Volume One

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Couvares, Francis G. et. al. Interpretations of American History: Patterns and Perspectives, Seventh ed. New York: Free Press, 2000.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction - 1

Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)

2. The Puritans: Orthodoxy or Diversity? - 22

Filiopietist School of Historians [excessive veneration of ancestors or tradition] - 23

John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881) - 23

Palfrey, John Gorham. History of New England. 5 Vols. United Kingdom: Little, Brown,1859.

Three Progressive Scholars from the Cult of Anti-Puritanism Historians

James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) - 24

Adams, James Truslow. The Founding of New England. Boston: Little Brown, 1949.

Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929) -24

Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800. United Kingdom: University of Oklahoma Press, 1927.

Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1879-1966) - 23

Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. The American People : A History. New York, NY: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

Three Harvard historians in the 1930s Sympathetic to the Puritans - 24

Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - 24

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Builders of the Bay Colony. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press,1930.

Clifford K. Shipton (1902-1973) - 24, 25

Shipton, Clifford K. “A Plea for Puritanism.” The American Historical Review 40, no. 3 (1935): 460–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/1838903.

Perry Miller (1905-1963) - 25

Miller, Perry. Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650 ; a Genetic Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.

Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. (15 editions)

Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Thomas H. Johnson - 39

Philip F. Gura - 50

3. American Indians: Resistance or Accommodation? - 61

Colin G. Calloway - 75

Gregory Evans Dowd - 87

4. The Atlantic World and the Origins of Slavery: Prejudice or Profit? - 100

Timothy Breen and Stephen Innes - 114

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. - 126

5. The American Revolution: Social or Ideological? - 137

Gary B. Nash - 156

T. H. Breen - 164

6. The Constitution: Conflict or Consensus? - 177

Gordon S. Wood - 195

John Howe - 208

7. The Expanding Nation: Pioneers or Planners? - 216

John Mack Faragher - 235

Carol Sheriff - 246

8. Antebellum Reform: Discipline or Liberation? - 257

Michael B. Katz - 273

Lori D. Ginzberg - 286

9. Slave Culture: African or American? - 296

Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood - 314

Albert J. Raboteau - 327

10. The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible? - 339

Allan Nevins - 356

William W. Freehling - 364

11. Reconstruction: Change or Stasis? - 381

Jonathan M. Wiener - 397

Eric Foner - 407

Index - 417