LATE AMERICAN HISTORY
Immigration; Migration
Ronald Bayor. Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New
York City, 1929–1941.
Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
James R. Grossman. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great
Migration.
Matthew Frye Jacobson. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the
Alchemy of Race.
Mae N. Ngai. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
George J. Sánchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945.
Labor; Race
Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939.
Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland.
Thomas J. Sugrue. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
Civil Rights
Mary L. Dudziak. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in NC, 1896–1920.
Robin D.G. Kelley. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class.
Charles M. Payne. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi
Freedom Struggle.
Populism; Progressivism; New Deal
Daniel T. Rodgers. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age.
Jonathan M. Hansen. The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920.
Alan Dawley. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution.
Michael Kazin. The Populist Persuasion: An American History.
Alan Brinkley. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression.
Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980.
Gender; Domesticity
George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male
World, 1890–1940.
Nancy F. Cott. The Grounding of Modern Feminism.
Elaine Tyler May. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era.
Jessica Weiss. To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change.
Popular Culture
Benjamin L. Alpers. Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning
the Totalitarian Enemy.
Lizabeth Cohen. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar
America.
Michael Denning. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the
Twentieth Century.
Richard H. Pells. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in
the Depression Years.
Bruce J. Schulman. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and
Politics.
Jeremi Suri. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.
Stephen J. Whitfield. The Culture of the Cold War.
Modern Conservatism
Sara Diamond. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United
States.
Glen Jeansonne. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’ Movement and World War II.
Lisa McGirr. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right.
Kevin Phillips. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich.
Jonathan M. Schoenwald. A Time For Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism.
Environment
Patricia Nelson Limerick. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
Kenneth T. Jackson. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
Ted Steinberg. Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History.
War & Society
Christian G. Appy. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam.
David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
David Reynolds. Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942–1945.
Marilyn B. Young. The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990.