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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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Ordinary Americans and the Constitution
You may want to start by reading some of Professor Nash's
books on some of the "ordinary Americans"
of the eighteenth century:
Class and Society in Early America. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1970.
Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's
Black Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1988.
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age
of Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2006.
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North
America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
2000.
The Unknown American Revolution the Unruly Birth
of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America.
New York: Viking, 2005.
My resource pages for James Horton's essay in this
issue should provide you the information you need for
African Americans in the era:
http://www.historynow.org/09_2007/ask2f.html
These recent studies of the skilled workers of the
new republic -- artisans and mechanics -- are well worth
reading:
Quimby, Ian M.G., ed. The Craftsman in Early America.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Rock, Howard B., et al., eds. American Artisans:
Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
_____. Artisans of the New Republic: The Tradesmen
of New York City in the Age of Jefferson. New York:
New York University Press, 1979. This is an older book,
but not dated.
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