HISTORY 575 RECOMMENDED READINGS
Chris Endy
Fall 2009
Note: There is considerable overlap in the categories below, so be sure to look through the
whole list to see what books most interest you.
Week 2 (1 October): Explaining and Remembering U.S. Empire
Louis A. Pérez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
Recommended on U.S. Imperialism circa 1898:
Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 (1968)
Julian Go and Anne L Foster, eds., The American Colonial State in the Philippines (2003)
Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at
Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913, vol. 2 in the Cambridge
History of American Foreign Relations (1993)
Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1960)
John Offner, An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States over Cuba, 1895-1898
(1992)
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
David J. Silbey, A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
(2007)
**See also Week 3 recommendations
Recommended on U.S.-Latin American Relations before the Cold War
Marcelo Bucheli, Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
(2005)
Max Paul Friedman, “Retiring the Puppets, Bringing Latin America Back In: Recent Scholarship
on United States–Latin American Relations,” Diplomatic History 27 (November 2003):
621-36.
John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War (2002)
Aims McGuinness, Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush (2008)
Julio Moreno, Yankee Don’t Go Home! Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and
the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 (2003)
Gretchen Murphy, Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S.
Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005)
Thomas F. O’Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 19001945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Louis A. Pérez, Cuba between Empires, 1878-1902 (1983)
Eric Paul Roorda, The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime
in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945 (1998)
Week 3 (8 October): Imperialism and Race
Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Recommended on Race and Imperial Culture:
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the
United States, 1880-1917 (1995)
Fredrick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World (1997)
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora : Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black
Internationalism (2003)
Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial AngloSaxonism (1981)
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race Labor and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2007)
Yukiko Koshiro, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan (1999)
Eric T. L. Love, Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (2004)
Fredrick B. Pike, The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization
and Nature (1992)
Vicente Rafael, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000)
Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti, Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 19151940 (2001)
Emily Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar
Diplomacy, 1900-1930 (1999)
Robert W. Rydell, All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International
Expositions, 1876-1916 (1984)
Allison L. Sneider. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question,
1870–1929 (2008)
Michelle A. Stephens, Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean
Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (2005)
Ann Laura Stoler, “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American
History and (Post) Colonial Studies, Journal of American History 88 (December 2001):
829-65
**See also Week 2 recommendations
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Week 4 (15 October): Synthesis and the Cultural Approach
Walter L. Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Recommended Overviews on U.S. Foreign Policy Before 1945
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at
Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)
Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire (2002)
Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial Nationalism (2007)
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing
Dictatorships, 1921–1965 (1999).
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959)
**See also Week 2 and Week 3 recommendations
Recommended on the Cold War:
James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988)
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global
Arena (2001)
Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an
Enduring Cold War Strategy (1998)
Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam,
1919-1950 (2000)
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins
of the Post-Cold War Era (2002)
Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
(2002)
Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (2001)
Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser, eds., In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter
with the Cold War (2008)
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
(1991)
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1983)
Melvyn P. Leffler, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold
War, 1917-1953 (1994)
William M. LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
(1998)
Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (2003)
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in
Vietnam (1999)
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Alan McPherson, Yankee No!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations (2003)
Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
(2006)
Stephen G. Rabe, The Most Dangerous Place in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts
Communist Revolution in Latin America (1999)
David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing
Dictatorships, 1921-1965 (1999)
David F. Schmitz, The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989 (2006)
Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (1995)
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
Times (2005)
Marilyn B. Young, Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (1991)
Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to
Gorbachev (2007)
Week 5 (22 October): Internationalism and U.S. Superpower
Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)
Recommended on Progressives Before 1945:
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
Dorothy V. Jones, Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International
Justice (2002)
James T. Kloppenberg; Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European
and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986)
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in
America, 1870-1920 (2003)
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)
Leila Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997)
Ian Tyrell, Woman’s World/Woman’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998)
Recommended on the New Deal
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1991)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order: 1930-1980
(1989)
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2005)
Gary Gerstle, “The Protean Character of American Liberalism,” American Historical Review
(1994)
Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1994)
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Recommended on World War II U.S. Homefront:
Beth Bailey and David Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World
War II Hawaii (1992)
Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
(1990)
Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and
Consciousness During World War II (1996)
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 19291945 (1999)
Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps during
World War II (1996)
Ronald Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of the United States in World War II
(2000)
Recommended on Human Rights
Carol Anderson, Eyes on the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for
Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003)
Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro, eds., Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights
(2001).
Kenneth Cmiel, “The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States,” Journal of
American History 86 (December 1999): 1231-50
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (2007)
Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights (1998)
Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards
Policy (2001)
Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (2002)
Week 6 (29 October): Closing Doors and Controlling Citizenship
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Recommended on Immigration:
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
(2003)
Timothy P. Fong, The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
(1994)
David Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics
of Ethnicity (1995)
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migration That Made the American
People (1951, rev. ed. 1973)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy
of Race (1998)
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Erika Lee, At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
(2003)
Adam McKeown. Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii,
1900–1936 (2001)
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North
American West, 1880-1930 (2000)
Lucy E. Salyer, Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern
Immigration Law (1995)
George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993)
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1998)
Week 7 (5 November): Labor, Business, and Globalization
Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global
Working Class (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
Recommended on the Transnational Turn
Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996)
Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002)
Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)
Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas Zeiler, Globalization and the American Century (2003)
Recommended on Economic Globalization before 1945
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global
Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (1999)
A.G. Hopkins, ed., Globalization in World History (2002)
Patrick Karl O’Brien and Armand Clesse, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the
United States 1941-2001 (2002)
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a
Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (1999)
Eric Rauchway: Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (2006)
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural
Expansion, 1890-1945 (1982)
Recommended on Workers, Economics, and Global Trade:
Susan Ariel Aaronson, Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape
Globalization (2001)
Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
(1995)
Daniel E. Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of
Labor (2004)
Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (2000)
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Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (2001)
Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., Opening America’s Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776 (1995)
Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999)
Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards
Policy (2001)
Ellen Rosen, Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry (2002)
Andrew Ross, Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor (2004)
Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of
Liberalism (1998)
Landon R.Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s
Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000).
Recommended on Workers in the United States:
Daniel E. Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of
Labor (2004)
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1991)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America
(2003)
Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003)
Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship
in Twentieth Century America (2001)
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
(1997)
Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Marketplace (2006)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American
Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987)
Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987).
Week 8 (12 November): Development and Transnational Activism
Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)
Recommended on Non-Governmental Organizations
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the
Contemporary World (2002)
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics (1998)
Ian R. Tyrrell, Women’s World/Women’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Recommended on Gender and International/Transnational Issues:
Harriet Hyman Alonso, Peace as a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World
Peace and Women’s Rights (1993)
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Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
(2002)
Fredrick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a
Bourgeois World (1997)
Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier
in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987)
Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
(1990)
Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico,
1870-1920 (1999)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign
Policy, 1917-1944 (1996)
Petra Goedde, GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (2003)
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and
Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991)
Kristin L. Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity,
1865-1920 (2007)
Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds., Cultures of U.S. Imperialism (1993)
Louise Michelle Newman, White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United
States (1999)
Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997)
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)
Ian R. Tyrrell, Women’s World/Women’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in
International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991)
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (2000)
Mari Yoshihara, Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism (2003)
Recommended on Twentieth-Century U.S. Gender and Sexuality:
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the
United States, 1880-1917 (1995)
Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland (1999)
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay May
World, 1890-1940 (1994)
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992)
K.A. Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (2005)
John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics. Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in
the United States. 1940-1970 (1983, 1998)
Ruth Feldstein, Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 19301965 (2000)
David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the
Federal Government (2004)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988, 1999)
Joanne Meyerowitz, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960
(1994)
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture (1998)
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Recommended on Modernization and Development Programs:
Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing
Mission (2005)
Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard, eds., International Development and the Social Sciences:
Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge (1997)
Nick Cullather, Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines
Relations, 1942-1960 (1994)
David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, Michael E. Latham, eds., Staging Growth:
Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (2003)
Michael Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building” in
the Kennedy Era (2000)
Dennis Merrill, Bread and the Ballot: The United States and India’s Economic Development,
1947-1963 (1990)
Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (2002)
Recommended on Poverty and Anti-Poverty in U.S. History
Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great
Society Liberalism (1996)
Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (1998)
Jennifer Mittelstadt, From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal
Reform, 1945-1965 (2005)
Alice O’Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in TwentiethCentury U.S. History (2001)
Annelise Orlick, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on
Poverty (2005)
Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (2005)
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)
Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (1992)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
(1996)
Week 9 (19 November): Cultural Exchange and Globalization
Vanessa R. Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film
Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Recommended on Americanization and Cultural Transfer:
Richard Abel, The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910 (1999)
Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th-Century Europe (2005)
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (2000)
Christopher Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France (2004)
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, “Shame on US? Academics, Cultural Transfer, and the Cold War—A
Critical Review,” Diplomatic History 24 (Summer 2000), 465-94
Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (1993)
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Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American
Culture Since World War II (1997)
Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided
Germany (2000)
Tony Shaw, Hollywood's Cold War (2007)
Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World,
1869-1922 (2005)
Michelle A. Stephens, Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean
Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (2005).
**See also Week 10 recommendations.
Week 10 (3 December): Americanization, Modernization, and Unofficial Ambassadors
Jonathan Zimmerman, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Recommended on Unofficial Ambassadors and Cultural Exchange
Donna Alvah, Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War,
1946–1965 (2007)
Fritz Fischer, Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s (1998)
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, “Shame on US? Academics, Cultural Transfer, and the Cold War—A
Critical Review” Diplomatic History 24 (Summer 2000), 465-94
Walter L. Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961
(1997)
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s
(1998)
Barbara Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
(2006)
Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (2003)
Penny M. Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
(2004)
**See also Week 9 recommendations.
Recommended on the History of Education
Liping Bu, Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American
Century (2004)
Janice M. Irvine. Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States (2002)
Michael Katz, ed., The "Underclass" Debate: Views From History (1993)
Lawrence J. McAndrews. The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools, 1965–2001
(2006)
Jeffrey P. Moran, Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century (2000)
Christopher Simpson, eds., Universities and Empire: Money, Politics and the Social Sciences
during the Cold War (1998)
David B. Tyack, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974)
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David B. Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot, Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in the
United States (1991)
Heather Andrea Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
(2005)
Jonathan Zimmerman, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (2002).
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