Below are the required texts for my courses for the upcoming semester. For students, please note that these texts will be on reserve at Whittemore Library, and that I do not permit the use of electronic editions.
HIST 120 American Lives
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015). ISBN: 978-0-812-99354-7
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 2nd edition, ed. David W. Blight (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002). ISBN: 978-0-312-25737-8
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 3rd edition, ed. Louis P. Masur (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016). ISBN: 978-1-319-04899-0
- Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, ed. Neal Salisbury (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997). ISBN: 978-0-312-11151-9
HSTA 321 Media and Communications in American History
Required:
- Hannah W. Foster, The Coquette, introduction by Cathy N. Davidson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), ISBN: 978-0-195-04239-9
- David M. Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). ISBN: 978-0-226-32721-1
- Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications (New York: Basic Books, 2005), ISBN: 978-0-465-08194-3
Recommended (Students will each read one of the following):
- Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do? (New York: HarperCollins, 2009). ISBN: 978-0-061-70969-2
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012). ISBN: 978-0-520-27289-7
Joseph M. Adelman 