Major Field: United States 1877-Present
[Elspeth Brown, May 2010] NB: a major field requires 100 books; a minor field requires 50; lists
are customized to student’s research interests
Overviews:
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001).
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition (1948).
Reconstruction and Populism
WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction (1935) (2)
Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (1976)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).
Robert McMath, American Populism: A Social History (1993).
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1998).
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract (1998)
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet (2003)
The Gilded Age + Progressive Era (GAPE): Overviews and Background
Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction (1990).
Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967)
Steven Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans in the Progressive Era (1998)
Progressive Era
Overview: Glenda Gilmore, ed., Who Were the Progressives? (2002)
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R., 1955.
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservativism, 1963.
Allen Davis, Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive
Movement, 1890-1914, 1967.
Peter Filene, "An Obituary for `The Progressive Movement,"' American Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1
(Spring 1970), 20-34.
David Kennedy, "An Overview: The Progressive Era," The Historian, Vol. 37 (1975), 453-469.
Daniel T. Rodgers, "In Search of Progressivism," Reviews in American History December 1982,
113-132.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985).
James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle (1987).
Cott, Nancy. The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987).
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American
Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1988)
Martin Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism (1988).
Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American
West, 1887-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935
New York (1991).
Pascoe, Peggy. Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American
West, 1874-1939 (1990).
Lasch-Quinn, Elizabeth. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American
Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (UNC Press, 1993).
Ellen Carol DuBois, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (1997)
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920
(1998)
Louise Michele Newman. White Women's Rights: the Racial Origins of Feminism in the United
States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Elizabeth Sanders, The Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
(1999)
Landon R.Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism,
and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (UNCP, 2000).
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Nancy Hewitt, Forging Activist Identities: Latin, African American and Anglo Women in Tampa,
Florida, 1870s-1920s (2001).
Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement (2003)
Kevin P. Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive
Era Reform (Columbia, 2008)
U.S. Foreign Relations and American Empire, 1860-1929
Walter L. Williams, "United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications
for the Origins of American Imperialism," Journal of American History, Vol. 66, No. 4 (March 1980),
810-831.
Robert Rydell, All the World’s a Fair: visions of empire at American international expositions, 1876-1916
(1984)
Walter LaFeber, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 (1993). [Cambridge History of
American Foreign Relations, Vol. II]
Amy Kaplan, "Black and Blue on San Juan Hill" in Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., The
Cultures of US Imperialism (Duke 1993): 219-236. [and look at the rest, fyi]
Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, 1998.
Emily S. Rosenberg, Financial missionaries to the world: the politics and culture of dollar
diplomacy, 1900-1930 (1999).
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Matthew Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The U.S. Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and
Abroad, 1876-1917 (Hill and Wang, 2000).
Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through 20th Century Europe (Harvard
2005).
Mona Domosh, American Commodities in the Age of Empire (Routledge, 2006)
Kristen L. Hoganson Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity,
1865-1920 (UNCP, 2007).
Work, Business, and Industrialization, 1877-1929
Alfred Chandler. The Visible Hand, 1977; skim; read with Phil Scranton Endless Novelty.
Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1977
Alan Trachtenberg, The incorporation of America: culture and society in the gilded age (1982;
reprinted 2007).
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the
family from slavery to the present New York: Basic Books, c1985.
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor, 1987. Skim/check out/browse his other
books, especially Workers’ Control and Citizen Worker.
Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989).
Richard Tedlow, New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America (1990).
Olivier Zunz, Making America Corporate, 1990.
Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring Women of Lawrence Mass. 1860-1912
(1993).
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering business: men and women in the corporate office,
1870-1930 Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
Walter Licht, Industrializing America: the 19th Century (Hopkins, 1995)
Scranton, Philip. Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization 1865-1925.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Kathy Peiss,“’Vital Industry’ and Women’s Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century
Business History,” Business History Review 72 (Summer 1998): 219-241 [also check out the
other essays in this issue; it’s all about gender and business].
Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery
in American big business (1998)
Pamela Laird, Advertising progress: American Business and the rise of consumer marketing (1998)
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Nan Enstad. Ladies of labor, girls of adventure: working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the
turn of the twentieth century (Columbia University Press, 1999.)
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Imagining consumers: design and innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (2000)
Green, Venus. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
Jung, Moon-Ho, Coolies and cane: race, labor, and sugar in the age of emancipation (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2006).
Charles F. McGovern, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Major problems in American business history: documents and essays
(2006) [review this as a snapshot of a normative narrative of the field of business history]
Professional-Managerial and Middle Class Formation (to 1920)
Mary Ryan, Cradle of the middle class: the family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
(Cambridge, 1981)
Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City,
1760-1900 (1989). Read intro and the "Things are in the Saddle" chapters.
Oldenziel, Ruth, Making technology masculine: men, women and modern machines
in America, 1870-1945 Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.
Burton Bledstein and Robert D. Johnston, The middling sorts: explorations in the history of the
American middle class New York: Routledge, 2001.--selected essays. Or, check out
Bledstein's classic discussion of the culture of professionalism in The Culture of
Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America
(NY: Norton 1976): 81-101.
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A cultural history of gender and race in the United
States, 1880-1917 (1995).
Marina Moskowitz Standard of living: the measure of the middle class in modern America
(Hopkins, 2004).
Racial Formation, Ethnicity, and Immigration, 1890s-1945
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted (1951)
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955; second
edition, 1988)
Donna Gabaccia, From the other side: women, gender, and immigrant life in the
U.S., 1820-1990 Indiana University Press, 1994
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore, 1989.
Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990)
James Barrett & David Roediger, “In between Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the ‘New
Immigrant’ Working Class, “ Journal of American Ethnic History, 1997.
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York, 1993).
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993)
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Klu Klux Klan (1994)
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United
States, 1880-1917 (1995).
Glenda E. Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)
Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom (1997).
Vicki Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America, 1998.
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South (1998).
Lee D. Baker, From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 (1998)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color, 1998.
Nyan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (2001).
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship
and Labor (2002).
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Erika Lee, At America's gates: Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 (2003)
Thomas A. Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
(Oxford University Press, 2003)
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton
University Press 2003).
Donna Gabaccia, D. From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 18201990 (Indiana University Press, 2004).
Peggy Pascoe, What comes naturally: miscegenation law and the making of race in America
(Oxford University Press, 2009).
Vicki L. Ruiz, “Nuestra America: Latino History as United States History,” Journal of American
History 93, no. 3 (Dec. 2006): 655-672.
Diana Selig, Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement (2008).
Popular, Mass, and Commercial Culture, 1877-1920
John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, 1978.
T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American
Culture, 1880-1920 (1981)
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920- 1940
(1985)
T. J. Jackson Lears, "The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities," American
Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (1985), 567-593.
Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American
Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986).
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements : Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New
York (1986).
Tom Gunning, “The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde,” in
Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker, eds., Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, 5662 (1990).
Robert Allen, Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American culture (Chapel Hill : University of
North Carolina Press, 1991).
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex,
1790-1920 (Norton, 1992).
William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
(1993).
David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements, 1993.
T. J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994)
Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of
Consumer Culture (1995).
Richard M. Ohmann, Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century
(1996).
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor
Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).
Lauren Rabinovitz, For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-century
Chicago (1998).
Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1999)
Shelley Stamp, Movie-struck girls: women and motion picture culture after the nickelodeon (2000)
Lary May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way (2000).
Ben Singer, Melodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts (2001)
John Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man: the White male body and the challenge of
modernity in America Hill and Wang, 2001.
Susan Glenn, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (2002).
Jayna Brown, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (2008)
Chad Heap, Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
(Chicago, 2009).
David Suisman, Selling sounds: the commercial revolution in American music (2009)
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Gender and Sexuality, 1877-1945
Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex,
1790-1920 (Norton, 1992).
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male
World, 1890-1940 (NY: Basic Books, 1994)
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998),
Elizabeth Alice Clement. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City,
1900–1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
The South (1877-1945)
C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, 1951.
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, 1977.
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry, 1994.
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow, 1996.
Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom, 1997
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1998.
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age
of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press 1998)
Stephen Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from
Slavery to the Great Migration (Harvard 2004)
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Hopkins,
2006)
The West (19th c-1945)
Frederick Hoxie, A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1984.
Deutsch, Sarah. No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in
the American Southwest, 1880-1940 New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Patricia N. Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, 1987.
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, 1991.
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York, 1993).
Neil Foley. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture,1997.
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, 1999.
Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher, The American West: a New Interpretive History (2000)
Matt García, A World of its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles,
1900-1970 (2001).
Pablo R. Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico,
1880-1920 (The University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Science, Technology and Medicine
David Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate
Capitalism, 1977.
Jeffrey Meikle, Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1979.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, "The 'Industrial Revolution in the Home: Household Technology and
Social Change in the 20th Century" in Technology and Culture 17 (1976): 1-23.; later part
of More Work for Mother (1983). Though on the topic of women, technology, and the
home, see Joy Parr's work in Canadian context.
David Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932, 1984.
Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the uses of Human Heredity (1985)
David Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meaning of a New Technology, 1990.
Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern
America (1994)
Nina Lerman, Arwen Mohun, and Ruth Oldenzeil, "The Shoulders we Stand and the View From
Here: Historiography and Directions for Research," in Technology and Culture Jan. 1997,
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vol. 38 no. 1, 9-31.
Claudia Clark, Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Reform: 1910-1935 (1997)
Keith Wailoo, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth Century America
(1997)
Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (1998)
Dinerstein Joel. Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture
Between the Wars. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
To do: check out the journal Technology and Culture on line or in person; check out SHOT on line
(Society for the History of Technology).
1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue (1981).
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity (1985)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill
World, 1987.
David Grossman, Land of Hope: Black Southerners and the Great Migration 1989).
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989)
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990)
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justices, 1991.
Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s (1991)
Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (1991)
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los
Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford 1993).
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Klu Klux Klan (1994).
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)
Lynn Dumenil, A Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) [start with this for
an overview of the 1920s]
Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the 20th Century
(Verso 1997).
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
(1999)
Kimberly Phillips, Alabama North: African-American migrants, community, and working-class
activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 (1999).
Mai M. Ngai, “The Architecture in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the 1924
Immigration Act,” Journal of American History 86, no. 1 (1999).
Lawrence B. Glickman, "A Strike in the Temple of Consumption: Consumer Activism and TwentiethCentury American Political Culture," Journal of American History (June 2001): 99-128.
Karen Ferguson, Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (UNCP, 2002)
Jennifer Klein, For all These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Publicprivate Welfare State (2003).
Michael Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in NYC (Harvard, 2008)
Sarah T. Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal
(Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Neil M. Maher, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the
Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford, 2007).
Touré F. Reed, Not Alms but Opportunity: the Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift,
1910-1950, UNCP, 2008.
Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great migration, & Black Urban Life
(UNCP, 2007)
Clare Courbold, Becoming African American: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard,
2009)
WWII, the Homefront, and the Origins of Postwar America
John Morton Blum, V Was For Victory: Politics and Culture During World War Il (1976)
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
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Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propaganda During WWII
(1984).
Alan Winkler, Home Front USA (1986)
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic
Age (1986)
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II
(1987)
Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men & Women in World War Two
(1990)
John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)
William L. O'Neill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II
(1993)
Gary Y. Okihiro, Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War (1996)
Barbara Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948
(1999).
Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American
Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Luis Alvarez, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (Cal,
2008)
Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality: Post-1945
Sara Evans, “The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement”, Radical America 9 (1975): 1-14.
John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the
United States, 1940-1970 (1983)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988)
Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (1989)
William H. Chafe, Paradox of Change (1991)
Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century
America (1991)
Louise Newman, ‘”Critical theory and the history of women: what’s at stake in deconstructing
women’s history?’ Journal of Women’s History, vol. 2, no. 3 (Winter, 1991): 58-68.
Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (1992)
Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: American Women in the 1950s (1992)
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of
Race,” Signs 17, no. 2 (1992): 251-274.
Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a
Lesbian Community (1993)
Peggy Pascoe, "Gender." A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Fox and James
Kloppenberg. Blackwell, 1995. pp. 272-275.
Susan Stryker, “The Transgender Issue: An Introduction,” GLQ 4, no. 2 (1998): 146-158.
John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (1999).
Bailey, Sex in the Heartland (1999).
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
(2000).
Jane F. Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American
Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001)
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002).
Nan Boyd, Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (2003)
David Johnson, The Lavender Scare: the Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the
Federal Government (2004)
Steve Estes, I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (UNCP, 2005).
Kathleen Berry, Femininity in Flight: a History of Flight Attendants (2007).
Nancy McClean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard,
2008).
Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (2008)
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Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
(Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Princeton, 2009)
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States & the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972)
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1996 (Eighth Edition, 1997)
David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (1983)
Michael Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 19471952 (1987)
Thomas J. McCormick, America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War (1989).
Reinhold Wagnleitner, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States
in Austria after the Second World War (UNCP, 1994).
Frank Costigliola, "`Unceasing Pressure for Penetration': Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George
Kennan's Formation of the Cold War," Journal of American History, Vol. 83 (March 1997), 13091339.
Walter L. Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961 (1997).
Michael J. Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins the National Security State (1998)
Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (U
Cal Press 2001).
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
(Harvard 2002).
Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2002).
Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (University of
California Press, 2003).
Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East
since 1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Penny Von Eschen Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Harvard, 2004).
Odd Arne Westad The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005).
Cold War Cultures (domestic, inc McCarthyism):
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).
Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (1989)
Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)
Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left,
the Cold War and Modern Feminism (2000).
Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert, eds. Rethinking Cold War Culture, (Smithsonian 2001).
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global
Arena (Harvard 2002).
David Johnson, The Lavender Scare: the Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the
Federal Government (2004).
Susan Jacoby, Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale, 2009)
Post-War Social Movements (on the Left)
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981)
Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.(1987)
Maurice Isserman, If I had a Hammer. . . : The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left
(1987)
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (1988)
Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (Oxford, 1988).
Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi
Struggle (1995)
Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to
Wounded Knee (1995)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit
(Princeton UP, 1996).
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Steven F. Lawson, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941,
(Second edition, 1997)
Tracye Matthews, “’No One Ever Asks What a Man’s Place in the Revolution Is’: Gender and the
Politics of the Black Panther Party, 1966-1971,” in Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black
Panther Party Reconsidered (1998), 267-304.
Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F, Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999).
Suzanne E. Smith, Dancing in the street: Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit (1999).
John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (Harvard 2001).
Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York (Harvard,
2003).
Ian F. Haney Lopez, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Harvard 2003).
David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (UNCP 2004).
Steve Estes, I am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (UNCP, 2005).
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (2005)
Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (2005)
Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice by
(MIT, 2007).
Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black
America, 1945-2006, 3rd ed. (2007).
Kevin Gaines, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2007)
Peniel Joseph, A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2007)
Nancy McClean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard, 2008).
Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random
House, 2009)
Post-War Social Movements (on the Right)
Overview: David L. Chappell, “The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age,” in JeanChristophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds, A Companion to Post-1945 America
(Blackwell, 2002), 303-327.
Dan Carter, George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservativism, and the Transformation of
American Politics (1995).
Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society,
and Politics (New York: Free Press, 2001).
Lisa McGerr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, 2001).
Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Donald Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's
Crusade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Kevin M. Cruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005).
Catherine Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservativism from Suffrage to the Rise
of the New Right (UNCP, 2006)
Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: a History, 1974-2008 (2008).
Bruce Schulman and Julian Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America
Conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2008).
U.S. Society and Culture, post-1945
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America, 1985.
Delores Hayden, Building suburbia: green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000 (2003).
Lynn Spigel Make Room for T.V.:Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (1992).
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic
Age (1985)
Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991)
David Halberstam, The Fifties, 1993.
Margot Henriksen, Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age (1997)
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Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History (Berkeley, 1997)
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-class Suburbs of Los
Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
(2003)
Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (Leon Fink,
with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn (2003)
Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties (Harvard 2003).
Post WWII Market History (consumerism, business and labor)
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor
and Liberalism, 1945-1960 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Thomas Frank, The Conquest of Cool Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip
Consumerism (Chicago, 1998).
Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Daniel Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer
Culture, 1939-1979 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in the TwentiethCentury United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through TwentiethCentury Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Liz Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
(Vintage, 2003)
Jason Chambers, Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising
Industry (Penn, 2007)
Adam Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical
Studies of Urban America) (Chicago, 2006).
Susannah Walker, Style & Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007).
Sarah Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (2007)
Matthew Hilton, Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization (Cornell, 2008)
Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy (2008)
Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
(Harvard, 2009)
Lawrence Glickman, Buying Power: a History of Consumer Activism in America (2009).
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of
Business (2009).
Richard Longstreth, The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 (2010).
Post-45 Politics
Lloyd Gardner, Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1995)
Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative
Counterrevolution 1963-1994 (1996)
Berman, Willam C., America's Right Turn from Nixon to Clinton (1998)
Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity and the New Left in America
(1998)
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in
Vietnam (1999).
Post-WWII Urban and Suburban History
Start with overview: Robert O. Self and Thomas Sugrue, “The Power of Place: Race, Political
Economy, and Identity in the Post-War Metropolis,” in Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy
Rosenzweig, eds, A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell, 2002), 20-44.
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America (1985).
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Post-War Detroit
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(Princeton UP, 1996).
Suzanne E. Smith, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (1999).
Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles,
1900-1970 (UNCP, 2001)
Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American
Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-class Suburbs of Los
Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002)
Delores Hayden, Building suburbia: green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000 (2003).
Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the
Present (2003)
Robert Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003).
Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
(University of California Press, 2004).
Andrew Weise, Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the 20th Century (2004).
Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: a History of the Place and the People who Made It (2004).
Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2006)
Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of
Multiethnic Los Angeles (2007).
David Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (2007).
Josh Sides, Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (2009).
Immigration and Ethnicity, post-WWII
Rachel Buff, Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and
American Indian Minneapolis.
Donna Gabaccia, D. From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 18201990 (Indiana University Press, 2004).
Vicki L. Ruiz, “Nuestra America: Latino History as United States History,” Journal of American
History 93, no. 3 (Dec. 2006): 655-672.
Mai Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004).
Matthew Jacobson, Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (Harvard, 2008)
Environmental History, post-1945
Samuel P. Hayes, A History of Environmental Politics since 1945 (2000)
Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: the Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (2005)
Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics,
Technoscience, and Women Workers (2006).
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