Suggested Reading

Bank, Rosemarie K. Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860. Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Foner, Eric, and Olivia Mahoney. America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.

Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Kowalewski, Michael, ed. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books and the California Council for the Humanities, 1997.

McConachie, Bruce A. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Scheckel, Susan. The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century American Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.

Yellin, Jean Fagan, and John C. Van Horne, eds. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Heading West/Touring West: Mapmakers, Performing Artists, and the American Frontier is the companion volume to the two complementary exhibitions on view at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Illustrated with 70 black-and-white and full-color images from the exhibitions, the 92-page book, published by The New York Public Library, is no longer in print.