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The 1870s to the 1920s
OVERVIEWS
Ayers, Edward. Southern Crossing: A History of the American South 1877-1906. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Trachtenburg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955.
Hunter, Tera. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Kraut, Alan M. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921.
Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1985.
Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
Weeks, Philip. Farewell, My Nation: The American Indian and the United States, 1829-1890. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1990.
WOMEN/GENDER
Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Florence Kelly and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.
URBANIZATION/INDUSTRIALIZATION/LABOR
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Dubofsky, Melvin. Industrialism and the American Worker. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1996.
Mohl, Raymond. The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1985.
Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Porter, Glenn. The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920. 2nd ed. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1992.
Voss, Kim. The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
POPULISM/PROGRESSIVISM
Chambers, John W. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Gilmore, Glenda. Who Were the Progressives? Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2002.
Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
Link, Arthur, and Richard McCormick, eds. Progressivism. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1983.
McMath, Robert C., Jr. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
FOREIGN POLICY
LaFeber, Walter. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913. Vol. II of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Warren I Cohen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Beisner, Robert. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900. 2nd ed.Wheeling, Ill,: Harlan Davidson, 1986.
(Choose 2-3 books for each Topic)
World War I
D. Clayton James and Ann Sharp Wells, America and the Great War, 1914-1920
Dawley, Alan. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution.
David Kennedy, Over Here
Ronald Schaeffer, America in the Great War
Robert Zieger, America’s Great War
1920s
Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday
Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper
David J. Goldberg, Discontented America
Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order
Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods
Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle
1920s and 1930s
(May be substituted in either of these categories.)
Lizbeth Cohen, Making a New Deal
Colin Gordon, New Deals
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream
Douglas Monroy, Rebirth
Great Depression and New Deal
New Deal
(Must read at least one)
Anthony Badger, The New Deal
Alan Brinkley,
The End of Reform
David Kennedy, The American
People in the Great Depression
William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Robert McElvaine, The Great Depression
Other Great Depression
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest
Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and America’s Foreign Policy, 1932-45
James Goodman, Stories
of Scottsboro
James Gregory, American Exodus
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White
Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens
Harvard Sitkoff, A New Deal for Blacks
World War II
John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory
Michael C.C. Adams, The Best War Ever
John Dower, War Without Mercy
John Jefferies, Wartime America
David Kennedy, The American People in World War II
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War At Home
Studs Terkel, The Good War
General Works
Michael Hunt, The World Transformed, 1945 to the Present
James Patterson, Grand Expectations, The US, 1945-1974
James Patterson, Restless Giant, The US from Watergate to 9/11
William Leuchtenberg, In the Shadow of FDR, 3rd edition
Robert Griffith & Paula Baker, Major Problems in US History since 1945
Foreign Policy
Walter Lafeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 9th edition
John Gaddis, We Now Know
Robert Schulzinger, A Time for War
Andrew Bacevich, American Empire
Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire
Society, Culture, Politics
William Issel, Social Change in the United States
Kenneth Fox, Metropolitan America
Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open
Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War
Richard Gid Powers, Not Without Honor
Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity
Mary Brennan, Turning Right in the Sixties
Lucas Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics
James Davidson Hunter, Culture Wars
John Kenneth White, The Values Divide
David Hollinger, Beyond Multiculturalism, 2nd edition
Alonzo Hamby, Liberalism and its Challengers, 2nd edition
William Chafe, The Achievements of American Liberalism
Jeffrey Berry, The New Liberalism
Lee Edwards, The Conservative Revolution
Gregory Schneider, Conservatism in America Since 1930
Gary Dorrien, Imperial Design: NeoConservatism and the New Pax America
Jack Adams, Damming the Colorado
Jack August Jr., Vision in the Desert
Paul Carlson, The Plains Indians
Peter Carrels, Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War
Sucheng Chan, This Bittersweet Soil
Richard Etulain & Ferenc Szasz, The American West in 2000
Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden
Norris Hundley Jr., The Great Thirst
Albert Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California
David Igler, Industrial Cowboys
Elizabeth Jameson, All That Glitters
Elizabeth Jameson & Susan Armitage, Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West
William Kahrl, Water and Power
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Desert Passages: Encounter with the American Desert
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Trails: Toward a New Western History
Valerie Matsumoto, Farming The Home Place
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field
Char Miller, Fluid Arguments
Char Miller, On The Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio
Gerald Nash, Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890-1990
Gerald Nash, The American West in the Twentieth Century: A Short History of an Urban Oasis
Donald Pisani, From Family Farm to Agribusiness
Forrest Robinson, The New Western History: The Territory Ahead
William G. Robbins, Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940
Elmer Sandmeyer, The Anti-Chinese Movement in California
Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides
Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams
Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Wallace Stegner, The Gathering of Zion
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History
Richard Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West
Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains
David Weber, Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest
Elliott West, Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado
Richard White, The Middle Ground
Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire
Donald Worster, Under Western Skies
Mark Wyman, Hard Rock Epic
Judy Yung, Unbound Feet