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HIUS 510
BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
You will write 2 book reviews (see list of books to choose from). For Book Review: First
Assignment, choose from the list designated Book Review: First Assignment. For Book Review:
Second Assignment, choose from the list designated Book Review: Second Assignment.
Requests for books not on this list will not be accepted. Important note: you should choose a
book you have not already read and/or written a review on. It is fine to give a short summary of
the book, but the crux of the Book Review must be a critique or analysis of the book’s main
argument or theme. Also, your thesis statement must show the reader the direction you are going
in your review. You are expected on some level to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the
book within the review.
INSTRUCTIONS
Each Book Review should contain the following:
• 2-3 pages of text.
• A bibliographic entry at top of first page (no title page needed)
• An identification of the main argument or theme (last sentence of the first paragraph.
This will serve as your thesis);
• An organized and detailed analysis of the book’s primary argument or theme (body of the
paper.
• A conclusion (last paragraph).
• 12 point Times New Roman font and have 1-inch margins, double space.
• Use parenthetical citations for the book under review (not footnotes).
Book Lists for Book Reviews:
Book Review: First Assignment (Choose one book from this list below and write a 2-3 page
review).
James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
Warren Billings, Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
Patricia Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial
America
Francis Bremer, John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founder
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Verner W. Crane, The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732
Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783
Alfred W. Crosby Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences
of 1492
John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
David Dobson, Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785
David Hackett Fischer, Champlain’s Dream: The European Founding of North America
David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early
New England
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James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of
Roanoke
James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America
William Kelso, Jamestown, the Buried Truth
William Kelso, Jamestown, the Truth Revealed
Karen Kupperman, The Jamestown Project
Robert Middlekauff, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 15961728
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692
Harry S. Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial
New England
Michael Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in
Massachusetts, 1636-1641
Peter Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the
Stono Rebellion
Book Review: Second Assignment (Choose one book from this list below and write a 2-3
page review).
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Year’s War and the Fate of Empire in British
North America, 1754-1766.
Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
Timothy Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped
American Independence
Catherine A. Brekus, Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in
Early America
Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender,
Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
Joanna Bowen Gillespie, The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811
Jack P. Greene, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British
Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended
Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788
Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia
Plantation
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia: 1740-1790
Thomas Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial
America
Thomas Kidd, George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father
Thomas Kidd, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Frank Lambert, Inventing the Great Awakening
Thomas J. Little, The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the
South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760
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Brendan McConville, The Kings Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America,
1688-1776
George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Henry May, The Enlightenment in America
Samuel C. Smith, A Cautious Enthusiasm: Mystical Piety and Evangelicalism in Colonial
South Carolina
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the University’s plagiarism tool.
Book Review Grading Rubric | HIUS510_D01_202340
Criteria
Content &
Analysis
Ratings
Points
35 to >32 pts
32 to >29 pts
29 to >0 pts
0 pts
Advanced
Proficient
Developing
Not
Present
Review is
professional in
its coverage of
the book. The
content and
analysis of the
book’s
argument meet
graduate
expectations.
Overall good coverage of the
book. The content and analysis
of the book’s argument generally
meet graduate expectations, but
may display some weaknesses
such as a lack of breadth and/or
in-depth treatment. Papers in
this category may also be more
of a summary description than a
critical review.
Fair to weak coverage of the
book. The content and analysis
of the book’s argument struggle
to meet graduate expectations.
Essay may display significant
weaknesses such as a lack of
breadth and/or in-depth
treatment. Papers in this
category may also be more of a
summary description than a
critical review.
13 to >12 pts
12 to >0 pts
0 pts
Advanced
Proficient
Developing
Not
Present
Review is
professional in
its mechanics
and structure
meeting the
expectations of
graduate
writing. Length
requirement is
met, and the
pages are
numbered.
Review is proficient in its
mechanics and structure
meeting most of the
expectations of doctoral writing.
Length requirement may be met
but pages not numbered. Paper
may fall slightly short of the
length requirement. Paper may
also be notably long.
Review does not meet doctoral
writing expectations with regard
to mechanics and structure.
Paper does not meet length
requirement. Paper may also lack
page numbering. Note: if the
paper sufficiently falls below the
length requirement, points may
be deducted from the content
area as well.
Mechanics 15 to >13 pts
35 pts
15 pts
Total Points: 50
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