The following titles from Annie (selected from 300-odd found by a keyword search for 'technology american') are examples of works that might serve as springboards for specific projects, and are included to suggest something the breadth of materials and approaches contemplated for the course (arranged by Library of Congress call number, to group by approximate subject area. Some general works are also included).

E161 .A388 1997Martin, Ann S.American material culture: the shape of the fieldWnterthur, Del. : Winterthur Museum,1997.
E161 .M35 1985. Material culture : a research guide / edited by Thomas J. Schlereth.Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1985.
E161 .M354 1997. The material culture of gender, the gender of material culture / edited by Katharine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames.Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England,c1997.
E169.1 .L88 1991Lutz, TomAmerican nervousness, 1903: an anecdotal historyIthaca : Cornell University Press,1991.
E741 .A734 1990. American dreams : one hundred years of business ideas and innovation from the Wall Street Journal / [edited by] Kenneth Morris, Marc Robinson, Richard Kroll.New York, NY : Lightbulb Press : distributed by H.N. Abrams,1990.
HB87 .A44.Akin, William E. Technocracy and the American dream : the technocrat movement, 1900-1941 / William E. Akin.Berkeley : University of California Press, c1977.
HD205 .P54 1991.Piller, Charles. The fail-safe society : community defiance and the end of American technological optimism / Charles Piller.[New York] : BasicBooks, c1991.
HD6073.F32 U65 1993.Jellison, Katherine. Entitled to power : farm women and technology, 1913-1963 / Katherine Jellison.Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c1993.
HD8119.M49 P46 1997.Pena, Devon Gerardo. The terror of the machine : technology, work, gender, and ecologyon the U.S.-Mexico border / Devon G. Pena.Austin, Tex. : Center for Mexican American Studies, University ofTexas at Austin, 1997.
HD8728.5.A5 F84 1994.Fujita, Fumiko, 1944- American pioneers and the Japanese frontier : American experts innineteenth-century Japan / Fumiko Fujita.Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
HD9685.U5 H57 1989.Hirsh, Richard F. Technology and transformation in the American electric utility industry / Richard F. Hirsh.Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,1989.
HD9685.U5 T63 1996.Tobey, Ronald C. Technology as freedom : the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home / Ronald C. Tobey.Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
HD9999.P53 U52.Jenkins, Reese. Images and enterprise : technology and the American photographic industry, 1839 to 1925 / Reese V. Jenkins.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1975.
HE8698 .D685 1987.Douglas, Susan J. (Susan Jeanne), 1950- Inventing American broadcasting, 1899-1922 / Susan J. Douglas.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.
HE8846.A55 F38 1987.Faulhaber, Gerald R. Telecommunications in turmoil : technology and public policy / Gerald R. Faulhaber.Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Pub. Co., c1987.
HM221 .V3. Values and the future; the impact of technological change on American values. Edited by Kurt Baier and Nicholas Rescher.New York, Free Press [1969]
HT167 .S284 1988.Schultz, Stanley K. Constructing urban culture : American cities and city planning, 1800-1920 / Stanley K. Schultz.Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988 [i.e., 1989]
L 1.2:IN 8/5.Ralls, Scott. Integrating technology with workers in the new American workplace/ researched and written by Scott Ralls.Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Office of the American Workplace : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1994.
L 2.3:2033.United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Technology and labor in five industries : bakery products, concrete, air transportation, telephone communication, insurance.[Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1979.
N8237.8 .R3 R34 1988Danly, Susan and Leo MarxThe railroad in American artCambridge : MIT Press,1988.
P91 .L313 1996.Lacy, Dan Mabry, 1914- From grunts to gigabytes : communications and society / Dan Lacy.Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
PN3448.S45 C36.Carter, Paul Allen, 1926- The creation of tomorrow : fifty years of magazine science fiction / Paul A. Carter.New York : Columbia University Press, 1977.
PS121 .M28 1987.Marx, Leo, 1919- The pilot and the passenger : essays on literature, technology, and culture in the United States / by Leo Marx.New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
PS169.T4 W4.West, Thomas R. (Thomas Reed), 1936- Flesh of steel; literature and the machine in American culture.[Nashville] Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.
PS228.T42 T33 1995.Tabbi, Joseph, 1960- Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk / Joseph Tabbi.Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
PS228.T42 T5 1987.Tichi, Cecelia, 1942- Shifting gears : technology, literature, culture in modernist America / Cecelia Tichi.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1987.
PS261 .F65 1993.Folks, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey Jay), 1948- Southern writers and the machine : Faulkner to Percy / Jeffrey J.Folks.New York : P. Lang, c1993.
PS324 .S67 1987.Steinman, Lisa Malinowski, 1950- Made in America : science, technology, and American modernist poets / Lisa M. Steinman.New Haven : Yale University Press, c1987.
PS3507.R55 A16 1985.Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Essays. Selections.Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985-87.
PS374.S35 B38 1995.Ben-Tov, S. (Sharona) The artificial paradise : science fiction and American reality / Sharona Ben-Tov.Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1995.
PS374.S35 W43 1996.Westfahl, Gary. Cosmic engineers : a study of hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl.Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Q127.U6 T37 1996. Technical knowledge in American culture : science, technology, and medicine since the early 1800s / edited by HamiltonCravens, Alan I. Marcus, and David M. Katzman.Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1996.
Q127.U6 T384 1994.Teitelman, Robert. Profits of science : the American marriage of business and technology / Robert Teitelman.New York, N.Y. : BasicBooks, c1994.
R724 .E52 v.3. Medicine unbound : the human body and the limits of medical intervention / edited by Robert H. Blank, Andrea L. Bonnicksen.New York : Columbia University Press, c1994.
RA1151 .C8 1989.Colaizzi, Janet, 1936- Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985 / by Janet Colaizzi.Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1989.
RC81 .M965 1991.Murphy, Lamar Riley, 1953- Enter the physician : the transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860 / Lamar Riley Murphy.Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1991.
SH383.2 .D38 1997.Davis, Lance Edwin. In pursuit of Leviathan : technology, institutions, productivity,and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906 / Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
T1 .P7715. Fifty years of Popular mechanics, 1902-1952; an album of Americanprogress containing the most fascinating articles, predictions,pictures, and inventions that have appeared since the first issue of Popular mechanics. Edited by Edward L. Throm.New York, Simon and Schuster [1951]
T14.5 .R62.Rochlin, Gene I. Scientific technology and social change; readings from ScientificAmerican, with introductions by Gene I. Rochlin.San Francisco, W. H. Freeman [1974]
T14.5 .S43 1985.Segal, Howard P. Technological utopianism in American culture / Howard P. Segal.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985.
T19 .H23.Habakkuk, H. J. American and British technology in the nineteenth century; the search for labour-saving inventions.Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1962.
T20 .I43 1986. Imagining tomorrow : history, technology, and the American future/ edited by Joseph J. Corn.Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1986.
T21 .E24 1994. Early American technology : making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850 / edited by Judith A. McGaw.Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
T21 .H39 1988.Hawke, David Freeman. Nuts and bolts of the past : a history of American technology, 1776-1860 / David Freeman Hawke.New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
T21 .H82 1989.Hughes, Thomas Parke. American genesis : a century of invention and technological enthusiasm, 1870-1970 / Thomas P. Hughes.New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1989.
T21 .M7.Morison, Elting Elmore. From know-how to nowhere; the development of Americantechnology [by] Elting E. Morison.New York, Basic Books [c1974]
T21 .O45.Oliver, John William, 1886- History of American technology.New York, Ronald Press Co. [1956]
T55 .A38 1997.Aldrich, Mark. Safety first : technology, labor, and business in the building ofAmerican work safety, 1870-1939 / Mark Aldrich.Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
T9 .A63 1852.Antisell, Thomas, 1817-1893. Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture,architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery; manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exposition of their principles and practice and a compend of American and European New-York : G. P. Putnam, 1852.
T9 .C95.Cutbush, James, 1788-1823. The American artist's manual : or, Dictionary of practical knowledge in the application of philosophy to the arts and manufactures / Selected from the most complete Europeansystems, with original improvements and appropriate engravings.Adapted to the usePhiladelphia : Pub. by Johnson & Warner, and R. Fisher, W. Brown,printer, 1814.
TE23 .S44 1987.Seely, Bruce Edsall, 1953- Building the American highway system : engineers as policy makers/ Bruce E. Seely.Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987.
FOLIO TF455 .W45.White, John H. The American railroad passenger car / John H. White, Jr.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1978.
TH1199 .M2.McKee, Harley J. Introduction to early American masonry, stone, brick, mortar, andplaster [by] Harley J. McKee.[Washington] National Trust for Historic Preservation [1973]
TH145 .A6 1908.American School of Correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry and building : a general reference work... / prepared by a staff of architects,builders, and experts of the highest professional standing; illustrated with over three thousand engravings..Chicago : American school of correspondence, 1908, c.1907.
TK1345.H37 T45 1986. The Three Mile Island accident : diagnosis and prognosis / L.M. Toth ... [et al.], editors.Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1986.
TK6018.B4 H5. A history of engineering and science in the Bell System : transmission technology (1925-1975) / prepared by members of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, E.F.O'Neill,ed. --Indianapolis, Ind.: AT&T Bell Laboratories, c1985.
TK6548.U6 A65 1985.Aitken, Hugh G. J. The continuous wave : technology and American radio, 1900-1932 / Hugh G.J. Aitken.Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1985.
TN704.N5 G67 1996.Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929- American iron, 1607-1900 / Robert B. Gordon.Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
TP557 .W69. Wine production technology in the United States : a symposium / sponsored by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the Second Chemical Congress of the North AmericanContinent, 180th ACS National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 26, 19Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1981.
TS149 .H68 1983.Hounshell, David A. From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932 : the development of manufacturing technology in the United States / David A. Hounshell.Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1983.
TS1570.W4 G7.Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- Eli Whitney and the birth of American technology.Boston, Little, Brown [1956]
UF533 .M55 1985. Military enterprise and technological change : perspectives on the American experience / edited by Merritt Roe Smith.Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1985.
Y 3.T 22/2:2 In 3/2. Informational technology and its impact on American education.Washington, D.C. : Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1982]
Z249 .H36.Hattery, Lowell Harold, 1916- Automation and electronics in publishing, edited by Lowell H. Hattery and George P. Bush.Washington, Spartan Books [1965]


Some additional items, via bibliographic serendipity:
HD9855 .J47Jeremy, David J.Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830sCambridge : MIT Press,1981.
T14.5 .N6 1977Noble, David F.America by design: science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalismNew York : Knopf,1977.
T14.5 .P87 1995Pursell, CarrollThe machine in America: a social history of technologyBaltimore : Johns Hopkins,1995.
T14.5 .S64Lewis, W. DavidThe southern mystique: technology and human values in a changing regionUniversity, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,1977