What to Read After The Age of Reform
Readers who loved The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Age of Reform is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Age of Reform
The radicalism of the American Revolution
The ideological origins of the American Revolution
Freedom from Fear
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Original Meanings
Been in the storm so long
The legacy of conquest
The strange career of Jim Crow
A nation under our feet
The impending crisis
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Roll, Jordan, Roll
American slavery, American freedom
The Americans, the democratic experience
Hard times
The American political tradition.
Reconstruction
Crabgrass Frontier
Nature's metropolis
Many thousands gone
Soul by Soul
What Hath God Wrought
Race and Reunion
Voyagersto the West