These works have been used at some point in the construction of this web-site and of the course that the web-site is intended to complement.
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Branham, Robert J, and Stephen J Hartnett. Sweet Freedom's Song : "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and Democracy in America. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Discusses the circumstances in which "My Country 'tis of Thee" was composed, and ways in which it has been used in American political life, to promote both conservative and liberal causes.
Carter, Ian. Positive and Negative Liberty. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/. Accessed January 8, 2007.
Discusses Isaiah Berlin’s concepts of positive and negative liberty,
Crawford, Richard. America's Musical Life : A History. New York: Norton, 2001.
Erudition at its best; a very complete history of American music, that includes some of the author's "eccentric" favorites as well as all the classics, and which sets musical history against general history in a most satisfying manner.
Dahl, Robert Alan. How Democratic is the American Constitution. New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale Nota Bene, 2003.
Fischer, David Hackett. Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Fogel, Robert William. Without Consent Or Contract : The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York ; London: Norton, 1994.
Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L Engerman. Time on the Cross : The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction : America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
The main drawback to this work is that it comes to an end. Much has happened in the domain of freedom since 1998.
Jones, Maldwyn Allen. The Limits of Liberty : American History, 1607-1992. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Liell, Scott. 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence. Philadelphia: Running Press. 2003
Students & Staff of Brown University and South Kingstown High School. The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968. 2002. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/. Accessed January 8, 2007.
A very elaborate project designed to put into practice some of the scholarly techniques of historians, using modern information technology.
Students & Staff of Brown University and Tougaloo College. Freedom Now!: The Mississippi Freedom Movement. 2002. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/freemvnt.html. Accessed January 8, 2007.
This site is a cooperative effort between Brown University and Tougaloo College, using documents from the archives of both.
van Mill, David. Freedom of Speech. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/. Accessed January 8, 2007.
Discusses several ways of approaching the issue of freedom of speech and possible arguments in favor of restricting it or not.
Wills, Garry. A Necessary Evil : A History of American Distrust of Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.