Earlier this year, I randomly came upon Robert A. Gross' new book "The Trancendentalists and Their World" at the library. It was very long and dense, but I found this approach to writing about history completely fascinating. Writing about important large-scale changes in American society but via the lens of reconstructing the experiences of ordinary people. I gather that it is called "social history." Outside of the books by Gross, are there any other Americanist writers out there worth reading that use this approach?
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