Talk:Oxford History of the United States

Why is one guy's opinion in the Atlantic Monthly given so much attention? Surely he's not the only person ever to write a review of the books in this series. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.216.30 (talk) 17:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Forthcoming volumes
Apparently, Volume 2 has been canceled, as it was unfinished at the time of Andrew Cayton's death and Fred Anderson chose not to finish it on his own. But Volume 7 will be published in 2017. No word on others, I suppose. Problem is, this is the only source. Could not find any official confirmations anywhere. Jmj713 (talk) 00:34, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * And now someone has added Fred Anderson back as the author of volume 2, when the word had been that it was cancelled. Is there a source? MrArticleOne (talk) 22:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Bruce Schulman’s volume, “Are We a Nation?” is now scheduled for publication on December 15, 2020 according to Google Books. It will contain 736 pages. https://books.google.com/books?id=eTdJAAAACAAJ&dq=Are+we+a+nation+schulman&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY-KCUg6PdAhUM3lQKHaqIDyQQ6AEIKTAB — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jroger1 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The page is fine with TBA no change needed.  Rjensen (talk) 16:55, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

According to this Volume 2 is "basically cancelled" though of course this is not a source we can cite. OUP's site is no help. Jmj713 (talk) 21:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Superseded Volumes
Volume 12, George C. Herring's "From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776", has been updated and reprinted as a two-volume set:
 * Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 (ISBN 978-0190212469)
 * The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014 (ISBN 978-0190212476) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.102.150.67 (talk) 19:50, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Nominated for Pulitzer Prize
I removed the "nominated" for Pulitzer Prize on two of the entries on this list. The Pulitzer Prize has an open nomination system (see https://www.pulitzer.org/page/books-submission-guidelines-and-requirements). Anybody can nominate a book that qualifies for the award. And while I know this is not a reliable source for citations in a book, this column in Publisher's Weekly explains why it shouldn't be included and is actively discouraged by the Cambridge (see https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/41621-soapbox-false-advertising.html). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.124.47.10 (talk) 17:07, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

American Origins coming October 2024?
Is this a legitimate source? The ISBN isn't pulling up on Amazon, however. Jmj713 (talk) 23:22, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * no it's not reliable for US books (It's a small new Zealand operation) Rjensen (talk) 16:56, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Dropped volumes
Is there a thorough list of books that were originally meant to be for this series, got dropped for one reason or another, but got published anyway? The article references a few (e.g., The Age of Federalism) but I was wondering if anyone has a complete list. MrArticleOne (talk) 00:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Christopher Shea's Boston Globe article is the most comprehensive on the matter. Shea names three books:
 * Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth-century America by Morton Keller (Harvard University Press, 1977)
 * The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 by Charles Grier Sellers (Oxford University Press, 1991)
 * The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick (Oxford University Press, 1993)
 * James Cobb's C. Vann Woodward: America's Historian (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) verifies Shea's claims on all three in the seventeenth chapter and the endnotes. All three of these are mentioned in the publication history section of this article as it currently exists.
 * An earlier version of this article claimed that H. W. Brands's American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 (Doubleday, 2010) was originally Leviathan: America Comes of Age, 1865–1900, the manuscript that David Kennedy rejected around 2006 according to Shea. That seems plausible, but I found no secondary verification of the claim and so removed the claim from the article. There is likewise no secondary verification for what became of Stuart Bruchey's manuscript about American economy, the only other manuscript that secondary sources verify was submitted and rejected (my suspicion is that it became his Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People, but as with Brands there's no secondary verification to make one sure of the possibility). Hydrangeans (she/her &#124; talk &#124; edits) 01:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Appreciate this, thanks. MrArticleOne (talk) 23:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)