You might also try the reader on historical archaeology that we did a few years back.

Charles Orser, Images of the Recent Past: Readings in Historical Archaeology. AltaMira Press, 1996.

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mitch allen

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> This fall I'll be teaching a course called "The Anthropology of American
> History," and I'm looking for suggestions to complete my reading list.
>
> The course is designed to show students how it is possible - through
> archaeology, architectural history, the study of documents and other means -
> to address issues about historic communities that ethnographers often
> investigate among living groups, including cultural values, social structures,
> and gender roles.
>
> I'd like to use reader-friendly, humanistically oriented studies focusing on a
> range of peoples, places and times. I'd especially appreciate recommendations
> for studies of nineteenth-century communities, of non-European people in the
> U.S., and of places other than the east coast (missions? mining towns?).

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