Social History Resources

On The Bookshelf

• Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History by Katherine Scott Sturdevant (Betterway Books)

• Generations: Your Family in Modern American History by Jim Watts and Allen F. Davis (McGraw-Hill)

• Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You by David E. Kyvig and Myron Marty (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

• Your Family History: A Handbook for Research and Writing by David E. Kyvig and Myron Marty (Harlan Davidson)

General Social Histories

• Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)

• As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans by Stephanie Grauman Wolf (University of Arkansas Press)

• Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg (Free Press)

• Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (HarperCollins)

• The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876 by Daniel E. Sutherland (University of Arkansas Press)

• Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May (Basic Books)

• The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 by Jack Larkin (HarperCollins)

• The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 by Harvey Green (University of Arkansas Press)

• Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 by Thomas Schlereth (HarperPerennial)

Model Family History Narratives

• Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War by Margaretta Barton Colt (Oxford University Press)

• The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek (Griffin, $14.95)

• Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 by Adele Logan Alexander (Vintage)

• A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West by Gerald McFarland (Ivan R. Dee)

• Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball (Random House)

• Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler (Dutton/Plume)

Websites

• The Making of America
moa.umdl.umich.edu
Collection of primary documents in American social history from before the Civil War through Reconstruction.

• American Social History Project
www.ashp.cuny.edu
Presents “Who Built America?,” both an excellent textbook of American social history and a collection of documentary films with a social history perspective.

• American Memory Project
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem
Digitized collection of American history documents from the Library of Congress.