HISTORY 5010

 

I. The South

Required:

    Horn, James. Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America

 

Primary:

    Barbour, Philip L. ed. Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter

    Corbitt, David L. ed. Explorations, Descriptions, and Attempted Settlements

    Flaherty, David H., ed. Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall

    Haile, Edward, ed. Jamestown Narratives 1607-1617

    Hakluyt, Richard. Divers Voyages

    Hamor, Ralph. A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia

    Hariot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

    Kingsbury, Susan, ed. The Records of the Virginia Company

    Percy, George. A Discourse on the Plantation

    Purchas, Samuel. Purchas his Pilgrimage

    Quinn, David B., ed. The Roanoke Voyages

    Rolfe, John. True Relation of the State of Virginia

    Smith, John. The General Historie of Virginia

    Strachey, William. Virginia Britania

    Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625

    Williams, Edward. Virgo Triumphans

Secondary:

    Kupperman, Karen. Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony

    Milton, Giles. Big Chief Elizabeth

    Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom

    Price, David. Love and Hate in Jamestown

    Rountree, Helen. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough

 

 

 

II. New England

Required:

    Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Dilemma

Primary:

    Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation

    Calder, Isabel, ed. Letters of John Davenport, Puritan Divine

    Child, John. New England’s Jonas cast up at London

    Higginson, Francis. New-England Plantation

    James, Sydney, ed. Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

    Johnson, Edward. Wonder Working Providence

    Josselyn, John. An Account of Two Voyages to New England

    Lechford, Thomas. Plain Dealing

    Levermore, Charles H., ed. Narratives of Voyages to New England

    Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot War

    Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana

    Morton, Nathaniel. New England’s Memorial

    Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan

    Quinn, David B., ed. The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608

    Williams, Roger. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution

    Winslow, Edward. Good Newes from New England

    Winslow, Edward. Hypocrisie Unmasked

    Winthrop, John. Journal

    Wood, William. New England’s Prospect

Secondary:

    Cronon, William. Changes in the Land

    Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth

    Lindsay, David. Mayflower Bastard

    Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower

 

 

III. Middle Colonies

Required:

    Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World

Secondary:

    Lepore, Jill. New York Burning

    Truscott, Dorothy Hayden. Hell Gate