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Recommended Readings
Weekly seminar readings may include selections from but are not
limited to the following:
- Alexander, Leslie M. African or American? Black
Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2008.
- Ames, Kenneth L.
“Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America.” Journal of Interdisciplinary
History 9 (Summer 1978):
19-46.
- Ballon, Hilary, ed. The Greatest Grid: The Master
Plan of Manhattan. New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2012.
- Beckert, Sven, and
Julia B. Rosenbaun, eds. The
American Bourgeoisie, Distinction, and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010.
- Blackmar, Elizabeth. Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1989.
- Brown, Joshua. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial
Reporting, Everyday Life and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2002.
- Burrows, Edwin G., and
Mike Wallace. Gotham:
A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Cantwell, Anne-Marie
E., and Diana diZerega Wall. Unearthing
Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2001.
- Cook, James W.
“Seeing the Visual in U.S. History.” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008): 432-41.
- Cromley, Elizabeth C. Alone Together: A History of
New York’s Early Apartments. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
- Dolkart, Andrew. Biography of a Tenement House
in New York City. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2006.
- Garrison, J. Ritchie.
“Material Cultures.” In A
Companion to American Cultural History, ed. Karen Halttunen. Malden:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
- Gaskell, Ivan.
“Some Cherokee and Chitimacha Baskets: Problems of Interpretation.”
In Iconographies Without Texts, ed. Paul Taylor.
London and Turin: Warburg
Institute Colloquia 13 (2008): 175-193.
- Grier, Katherine C. Culture and Comfort: Parlor
Making and Middle-class Identity, 1850-1930. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1992.
- Harris, Neil, ed. Cultural Excursions: Marketing
Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1990.
- “Period Rooms and
the American Art Museum.” Winterthur
Portfolio 46, no. 2/3
(Summer/Autumn 2012): 117-137.
- Harvey, Karen, ed. History and Material Culture: A
Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources. London: Routledge,
2009.
- Henkin, David M. City Reading: Written Words and
Public Spaces in Antebellum New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
- Herman, Bernard L. Town House: Architecture and
Material life in the Early American City, 1780-1830. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. 2005.
- Hill, Jason E., and
Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting
the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Hofer, Margaret K.,
and Debra Schmidt Bach. Stories
in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York. New York: New-York
Historical Society, 2011.
- Howe, Katherine, Alice
Frelinghuysen, and Catherine Voorsanger. Herter
Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. New York: Abrams,
1994.
- Lobel, Cindy R. Urban Appetites: Food and
Culture in Nineteenth-century New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- McNeur, Catherine. Taming Manhattan: Environmental
Battles in the Antebellum City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2014.
- Orcutt, Kimberly, ed. John Rogers: American Stories. New York: New-York
Historical Society, 2010.
- Peterson, Carla. Black Gotham: A Family History
of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2012.
- Promey, Sally.
“Situating Visual Culture.” In A
Companion to American Cultural History, ed. Karen Halttunen. Malden:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
- Prown, Jules David,
and Kenneth Haltman, eds. American
Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University
Press, 2000.
- Rosenzweig, Roy, and
Elizabeth Blackmar. The
Park and the People. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
- Schwartz, Vanessa R.,
and Jeannene M. Przyblyski, eds. Nineteenth-Century
Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.
- Scobey, David M. Empire City: The Making and
Meaning of the New York City Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
- Skemer, Don C.
“David Alling’s Chair Manufactory: Craft Industrialization in Newark, New
Jersey, 1801-1854.” Winterthur
Portfolio 22, no. 1 (Spring,
1987): 1-21.
- Tchen, John Kuo Wei. New York Before Chinatown:
Orientalism & the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1999.
- Upton, Dell. Another City: Urban Life and
Urban Spaces in the New American Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008.
- Voorsanger, Catherine
Hoover, and John K. Howat, eds. Art
and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2000.
- Yochelson, Bonnie, and
Daniel Czitrom. Rediscovering
Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. New York: New Press,
2007.
- Zurier, Rebecca, Robert
W. Snyder and Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Metropolitan
Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of
American Art, 1995.
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Humanities.