GETTING STARTED

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Carter, Thomas, and Elizabeth C. Cromley. Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.

Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. Revised ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Glassie, Henry H. Vernacular Architecture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Lanier, Gabrielle M., and Bernard L. Herman. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Lewis, Peirce. “Learning from Looking: Geographic and Other Writing about the American Cultural Landscape.” American Quarterly 35, no. 3 (1983): 242-261.

Schlereth, Thomas J., ed. Material Culture: A Research Guide. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.

St. George, Robert Blair, ed. Material Life in America, 1600-1860. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.

Upton, Dell, ed. America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America. New York: John Wiley, 1995.

Upton, Dell. Architecture in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Upton, Dell, and John Michael Vlach, eds. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Upton, Dell, and John Michael Vlach. “Introduction.” In Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture, edited by Dell Upton and John Michael Vlach, xv-xvii. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Wells, Camille. “Old Claims and New Demands: Vernacular Architecture Studies Today.” In Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture II, edited by Camille Wells, 1-11. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986.

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