Alexander Noonan
U.S. History, 1877-Present (Gelfand)
Fall 2010: Final (105)
SURVEY WORKS:
1. Nell I. Painter, Standing at Armageddon: United States, 1877-1919
2. John M. Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920
3. David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War,
1929-1945
4. James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
5. Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth
Century
6. Richard Bensel, The Political Economy of Industrializing America
GILDED AGE POLITICS AND CULTURE:
7. Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
8. Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1870-1920
9. Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the
American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
10. Eric Rauchway, Murdering McKinley: the Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America
11. Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism (1983)
12. Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of US Imperialism (2000)
13. John D. Hicks, The Populist Revolt: a History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's
Party (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1931).
PROGRESSIVEISM AND RELATED SUBJECTS:
14. David Kennedy, ed., Progressivism: The Critical Issues
15. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
16. James Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in
European and American Thought, 1870-1920
17. Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
18. David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society
19. Ronald Schaffer, America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State
20. Thomas J. Knock. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
21. Richard Hofstadter. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Vintage
Books, 1955.
22. Richard Hofstadter, ed., The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963).
23. Gabriel Kolko. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History,
1900-1916. New York: The Free Press, 1963.
24. Robert H. Wiebe. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
25. John Whiteclay Chambers, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era,
1890-1920 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000 [1992]).
CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY:
26. Daniel Singal ed., Modernist Culture in America
27. Erez Manela. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins
of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
28. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: a Cultural History of Gender and Race in
the United States, 1880-1917
29. Richard Pells, Radical Visions, American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the
Depression Years
30. Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century
New York
31. Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009)
32. Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
33. George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay
Male World, 1890-1940 (1994)
ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
34. Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
35. Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the
Civil War
36. Patricia Limerick, Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
37. Edward Ayers, Patricia Limerick et al. All Over The Map: Rethinking American Regions
RACE AND IMMIGRATION:
38. David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White:
The Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2006)
39. George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture, and identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
40. Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2005)
41. Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black
Urban Life
42. Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 18901940
43. John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
44. Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
45. John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
46. Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the
Alchemy of Race
LABOR AND POLITICS IN THE 1920S AND 1930S:
47. Lisabeth Cohen, Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
48. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the
Twentieth Century
49. Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours For What We Will.
50. David Burner. The Politics of Provincialism: The Democratic Party in Transition, 19181932. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986 [1968].
51. John Milton Cooper. The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt. Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1983.
52. William E. Leuchtenburg. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New
York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.
53. Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded (2010)
THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR II:
54. Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
55. John M. Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II
56. William Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
57. Kathy Newman, Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947 (2004)
58. William O’Neill, A Democracy at War: America’s Fight At Home and Abroad in World
War II (1993)
COLD WAR:
59. Warren I. Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991
60. Robert Schulzinger, A Time for War: the United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
61. George Herring, America’s Longest War
62. Ernest May, American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC-68
63. "The Vietnam War--25 Years Later: A Retrospective," New England Journal of History
54 (Spring 98), includes articles by McMahon, Schulzinger, Herring, Immerman, etc.
POSTWAR POLITICAL CULTURE:
64. Elaine May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
65. Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War
66. Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American
Culture
67. Fred Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader
68. Bruce Schulman, Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography With
Documents
69. Bruce Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development,
and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980
70. John Bodnar, Remaking America
71. Eric Avilla, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight (2004)
72. Michael Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s (1995)
CIVIL RIGHTS:
73. Aldon Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
74. James J. Rawls, Chief Red Fox is Dead: A History of Native Americans, Since 1945
75. Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the
Mississippi Freedom Struggle
76. Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
77. Anderson, Carol. Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-­1955 (2003)
78. Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (1998)
79. Barber, David. A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed (2008)
80. Strain, Christopher B. Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.
THE SIXTIES: LIBERALISM, RADICALISM, ETC.:
81. David Farber, Chicago ’68
82. David Farber, ed., The Sixties
83. Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity
84. Robert Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State
85. Michael Latham, Modernization as Ideology (2000)
86. Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement and the New Left
87. Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75
88. John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
CONSERVATISM:
89. John A. Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties
90. Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
91. Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right
92. Jonathan Schoenweld, A Time for Choosing
CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, 1968-PRESENT:
93. Stanley Kutler, Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon
94. Joan Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered
95. Michael Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s
96. Bruce Schulman, The Seventies
97. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone
98. Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
99. Joseph Nocera, A Piece of the Action
100. Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (1994)
Books Relevant to Other Lists:
101. Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History.
102. Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American
Historical Profession.
103. John L. Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American
National Security Policy
104. John L. Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
105. H.W. Brands, What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign
Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).