William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (revised ed.) (2003)
Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004)
Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (2004)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2007)
David Eltis, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson, “Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas” (2007)
Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (2010)
Jeffrey Bolster, The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (2012)
Women, Gender, and Families
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: ‘Woman’s Sphere’ in New England, 1780-1835 (1977)
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, “The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland,” WMQ (1977)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990)
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996)
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996)
Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation
Jill Lepore, The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (2005)
Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007)
Jane Kamensky, ed., “Forum: Salem Repossessed,” WMQ (2008)