BOOK LIST FOR CCIU TEACHER INSERVICE COURSE
June 22, 23, -- 26, 27, 28
Due Wednesday, June 28: Read one book (or the designated chapter in “Albion’s Seed”). In response to the book you read, write a one- page, double-spaced summary. We will be discussing these works throughout the week.
The Best Poor Man’s Country, Early Southeastern Pennsylvania, by James T. Lemon, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972, 2002
Rockdale, The growth of an American village in the early Industrial Revolution, by Anthony F.C. Wallace W.W. Norton and Co. 1972
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz Doubleday, 1977.
New: $10.40 used: from $5.40
As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth Century Americans by Stephanie G. Wolf Harper Perennial, 1994 out of print
Used only: from $6.00
Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women 1750-1850 by Joan M. Jensen
Yale University Press, 1986
This book focuses on farmwomen in the Brandywine Valley section of Chester County.
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David H. Fischer, March 1991 Paperback – new $19.25 used: from $12.75 Chapter: “North Midlands to the Delaware, The Friends Migration” pages 419 – 603
Battle of Paoli, by Thomas J. McGuire 2000 McGuire currently teaches history at Malvern Prep
The Philadelphia Campaign June 1777 – July 1778 by David G. Martin Da Capo Press
September 11, 1777, Washington’s Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia by Bruce E. Mowday White Mane Books, Shippensburg, PA 2002
The Peopling of British North America, An Introduction, by Bernard Bailyn, Vintage Books, 1986
Ellen Cronin, instructor, emjjcronin@aol.com with questions or concerns