United States History
1890-present
Comprehensive Examination Bibliography
Overviews
Classic Works
Hartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political
Thought Since the Revolution (1955)
Kennedy, David. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1980.
Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present (1995)
Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product
that Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom (1998)
Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, Eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a
Democracy (2005)
Jacobs, Meg, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, Eds., The Democratic Experiment: New
Directions in American Political History (2003)
Johnston, Robert and Burton Bledstein, eds., The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of
the American Middle Class.
Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1998)
Kerber, Linda. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
(1998)
Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic
Citizenship in 20th-Century America (2001)
Lichtenstein, Nelson, and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, eds. The Right and Labor in America:
Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
Preston, Andrew, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
(2012)
Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War
(1986)
1890-1932
Political Economy/Labor
Classic Works
Goodwyn, Lawrence. Populist Moment: Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in
America (1978)
Gutman, Herbert G. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (1966)
Hofstader, Richard. Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955)
Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
Barber, William J. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, Economists, and
American Foreign Policy, 1921-1933 (1989)
Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in
American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1988)
Buhle, Paul. Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left (1987)
Greene, Julie. Pure and Simple Politics: American Federation of Labor and Politial Activism,
1881-1917 (1998)
Montgomery, David. Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor
Activism, 1865-1925 (1987)
Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982)
Sklar, Martin. Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The
Market, the Law, and Politics (1988)
Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990)
Politics/Law
Classic Works
Davis, Alan F. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive
Movement, 1890-1914 (1967)
Rodgers, Daniel T. “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982)
Alchon, Guy. Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science and the State in the 1920s
(1985)
Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
Eisenach, Eldon J. Lost Promise of Progressivism (1994)
Gordon, Linda. Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935
(1994)
Horwitz, Morton J. Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of
Legal Orthodoxy (1992)
Johnston, Robert D. Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of
Capitalism in Progressive-Era Portland, Oregon (2003)
Reagan, Patrick. Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 18901943 (2000)
Rodgers, Daniel T. “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982)
Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing “the People”: The Progressive Movement and the Problem of
Class. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005
Tomlins, Christopher. “How Who Rides Whom. Recent ‘New’ Histories of American
Labour Law and What They May Signify,” Social History (1995)
Ideas/Culture
Classic Works
Lasch, Christopher. New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: Intellectual as a
Social Type (1965)
Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
(1980)
Leuchtenburg, William E. Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (1958)
Carson, Mina. Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 18851930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Donohue, Kathleen. G. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the
Consumer (2003)
Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995)
Dumenil, Lynn. Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
Goldstein, Warren, and Elliott J. Gorn, eds. A Brief History of American Sports, co-authored
with Warren Goldstein. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, new edition, University of
Illinois Press, 2013
Gorn, Elliott J. Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year that Made America’s Public Enemy Number
One. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Gorn, Elliott J., ed. Sports in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and
Wang, 2001.
Kloppenberg, James T. Virtues of Liberalism (1998)
Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American
Culture (1993)
Lears, Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and The Transformation of American
Culture, 1880-1920 (1981)
Mattson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy
during the Progressive Era (1998)
Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991)
Peiss, Cathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century
New York (1986)
Rosen, Ruth. Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (1983)
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: The Intellectual Roots of Modern
Feminism (1982)
Ross, Dorothy. Origins of American Social Science (1991)
Thomas, John L. A country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the
American Land. (2000)
Wiebe, Robert H. Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy (1995)
Gender/Race
Classic Works
Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
(1980)
C. Vann Woodward, Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)
Almaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in
California (1994)
Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United
States (1994)
Boris, Eileen, and S.J. Kleinberg, “(Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State,”
Journal of Women’s History (2003)
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay
Male World, 1890-1940 (1994)
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in
Modern America (2004)
Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on the American-Hispanic
Frontier in the Ameridan Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its
Mexican Past (2004)
Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil
War to the Progressive Era (1997)
Flanagan, Maureen. Seeing with their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City,
1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American
Citizenship and Labor (2002)
Gordon, Linda. Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935.
New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994
Grossman, James. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Guglielmo, Thomas. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
Hewitt, Nancy A. Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s1920s (2001)
Keene, Jennifer, D. Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese immigration During the Exclusion Era, 18821943 (2003)
MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Muncy, Robin. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991)
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Origins of Modern Feminism
(1982)
Shah, Nayan. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown
(2001)
Williamson, Joel. Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South
Since Emancipation (1984)
Foreign Policy
Classic Works
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1979.
Hofstadter, Richard. “Cuba, the Philippines and Manifest Destiny,” in Paranoid Style
in American Politics, and Other Essays (1965)
Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988.
Frank, Dana. Buy American: Untold Story of American Nationalism (1999)
Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Kennedy, Paul “Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’:
Part One, 1885-1918,” in Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1988)
Rosenberg, Emily. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
1930-1979
Political Economy/Labor
Classic Works
Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Brinkley, Alan. Voice of Protest of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great
Depression. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Kelly, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1982
Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper &
Row, 1963.
Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: the Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Anderson, Terry H. Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action (2004)
Bernstein, Michael. Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America,
1929-1939 (1987)
Buhle, Paul. Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland,
and the Tragedy of American Labor (1999)
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990)
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar
America (2003)
Collins, Robert M. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (2000)
Cowie, Jefferson. Capital Moves: RCA’s 702-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (1999)
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010)
Fraser, Steven. Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (1991)
Freeman, Joshua B. Working Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II
(2000)
Gerstle, Gary. Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960
(1989)
Isserman, Maurice. If I Had A Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the
New Left (1993)
Jacoby, Sanford M. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal (1997)
Kazin, Michael. “The Agony and Romance of the American Left,” American Historical
Review 100:5 (December 1995): 1488-1512
Lichtenstein, Nelson. Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1995)
Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002)
Lipsitz, George. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s (1994)
Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990
O’Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Knowledge, and the Poor in
Twentieth-Century U.S. History (2001)
Rosenof, Theodore. Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 19331993 (1997)
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American
Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Simon, Bryant. Fabric of Defeat: Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (1998)
Skocpol, Theda. “Bringing the State Back In,” in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschmeyer, and Theda
Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (1985)
Stein, Judith. Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of
Liberalism (1998)
Stein, Judith. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance (2011)
Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit
and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (1993)
Weigand, Kate. Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s
Liberation (2001)
Politics/Law
Classic Works
Brinkley, Alan. Voice of Protest of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great
Depression. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper &
Row, 1963.
Brinkley, Alan. End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and
the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995
Chafe, William. Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save
American Liberalism (1998)
Edsall, Byrne, and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Rights, Race, and Taxes on
American Politics (1992)
Farber, David. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang,
1994.
Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 19301980 (1989)
Gordon, Colin. New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1994)
Gordon, Linda, ed. Women, the State, and Welfare (1990).
Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2007)
Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s
Public-Private Welfare State (2003)
Matusow, Alan J. Unraveling of America: A History of America in the 1960s (1984)
Mink, Gwendolyn. Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State (1995)
Nickerson, Michelle and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and
Region (2011)
Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (2010)
Phillips-Fein, Kim and Julian Zelizer (eds.), What’s Good for Business: Business and American
Politics since World War II
Plotke, David. Building a Democratic Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the
1930s and 1940s (1996)
Rome, Adam. Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of
American Environmentalism (2001)
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)
Schulman, Bruce. Seventies: Great Shift in American Culture, Society, & Politics (2001)
Schulman, Bruce and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making American Conservative in
the 1970s (2008)
Schwarz, Jordan. New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (1993)
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, ed. Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political
Landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013
Skocpol, Theda. “The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary
Welfare Dilemmas,” in Politics of Social Policy in the United States, Eds.
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Tomlins, Christopher. State and the Unions (1985)
Weiss, Nancy. Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1983
Ideas/Culture
Classic Works
Denning, Michael. Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the
Twentieth Century (1997)
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1985.
James, C.L.R. American Civilization (1950)
Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing
Expectations (1979)
Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the
Depression Years. 1973.
Amadae, S.M. Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice
Liberalism (2003)
Berkowitz, Edward D. Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the
Atomic Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994
Braunstein, Peter, and Doyle, Michael William, eds. Imagine Nation: The American
Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s. New York: Routledge, 2002
Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American
Thought (2006)
Burgin, Angus. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (2012)
Diggins, John Patrick. The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1988
Erenberg, Lewis and Susan Hirsch. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness
During World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1992
Foreman, Joel, ed. The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1997
Gilman, Nils. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America
(2003)
Gosse, Van, and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in
Recent America (2003)
Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in
California (1989)
Haddow, Robert H. Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997
Hollinger, David A. “How Wide the Circle of the ‘We’? American Intellectuals and the
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Horne, Gerald. Class Struggle in Hollywood: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade
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Horowitz, Daniel. Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture,
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Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
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Kazin, Michael. American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2011)
Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994
May, Larry. Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of the Cold War (1989)
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: Origins of the New American Right (2001)
Moore, R. Lawrence. Touchdown Jesus: Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American
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Nash, George H. Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1845 (1976)
Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Live and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los
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Rodgers, Daniel. Age of Fracture (2011)
Wald, Alan. New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left,
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Gender/Race
Classic Works
Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement and the New Left (1979)
Hirsch, Arnold. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
(1983)
Bailey, Beth. Sex in the Heartland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon
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Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights
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Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
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Escobar, Edward J. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican
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Gerstle, Gary. “Race and the Myth of the Liberal Consensus,” Journal of American
History (1995)
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,
2009
Graham, Hugh. Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics,
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Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in
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Levenstein, Lisa. Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of
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MacLean, Nancy. Freedom is not Enough: Opening of the American Workplace (2006)
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York:
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McGreevy, John. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth
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McMillen, Neil. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Urbana:
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Mettler, Susan. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy
(1998)
Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
(2004)
Nickerson, Michelle. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012
Pagan, Eduardo Obregon. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zuit Suits, Race, and Riot in
Wartime Los Angeles (2003)
Schneider, Eric C. Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of
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Self, Robert. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s (2013)
Self, Robert. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)
Sugrue, Thomas J. Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar
Detroit (1996)
Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
(2008)
Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996)
Foreign Policy
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LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1966. New York: Wiley, 1967.
Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988.
Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993)
Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the
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Borgwardt, Elizabeth. New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
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DeBenedetti, Charles. An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era.
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de Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe
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Leffler, Melvyn P. The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold
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Logevall, Fredrik. The Origins of the Vietnam War (2001)
McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle
East, 1945-2000 (2001)
McCormick, Thomas. America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War.
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McDougall, Walter. . . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. New
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Smith, Gaddis. American Diplomacy during the Second World War, 1941-45
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Brecher, Jeremy, and Tim Costello, Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic
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Chomsky, Noam, and Edward S. Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the
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Clawson, Dan. Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements (2003)
Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998)
Fields, Gary. Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development, and the
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Frank, Thomas. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of
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Harvey, David. The New Imperialism (2003)
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Herrnstein, Richard J., and Charles Murray. Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class
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Katz, Michael B. Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (2001)
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Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism? (2005)
Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2007)
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Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the
United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1994
Wilentz, Sean. Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008