Paper 24 reading list

PAPER 24
THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865
READING LIST

Historical Tripos, Part I, Paper 24
The History of the United States since 1865
[NB: Many readings overlap with other sections, especially between Themes and Topics]
AHR = American Historical Review
JAH = Journal of American History
Themes
1. American Historical Literature 3
2. Industrialization 4
3. The West 5
4. Gender Relations 6
5. American Intellectual Culture 10
6. Religion 13
7. Immigration and Ethnicity 15
8. Business and Labour History 17
9. Popular Culture 18
10. Consumer Culture 20
Topics
11. Reconstruction 21
12. The Third Party System and the Gilded Age 23
13. Populism 23
14. Segregation and Its Culture 24
15. Progressivism 26
16. The World War I Homefront and the 1920s 27
17. The Great Depression, New Deal, and WWII Homefront 28
18. Foreign Relations, 1865-1914 30
19. World War I and Wilsonianism 32
20. Isolationism and World War II, 1933-1945 32
21. The Cold War 33
22. Vietnam 36
23. Foreign Relations since 1993 38
24. Domestic Politics, 1945-1961 38
25. Civil Rights and Black Power 39
26. Domestic Politics, 1961-1981 42
27. Domestic Politics since 1981 44
28. Multiculturalism 46
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THEMES
1. AMERICAN HISTORICAL LITERATURE
Topics include: the professional structure of the enterprise of history in the United States; the challenge to
empiricism and the emergence of post-structural and postmodernist theory; the rise of particularist
perspectives since the 1960s, especially those centred on social and gender identities; and the relationship
between historians and public culture.
a. Guides to Historiography
Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (1997)
Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret Their Past
(1998)
Melvyn Stokes, ed., The State of U.S. History (2002)
b. Intellectual History
James M. Banner and John R. Gillis, eds., Becoming Historians (2009)
Ellen F. Fitzpatrick, History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880-1980 (2002)
David Harlan, The Degradation of American History (1997)
Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (1968)
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession
(1988)
c. Debates
Round Table, “Synthesis in American History,” JAH (1987)
“The Practice of American History: A Special Issue,” JAH (1994)
“The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History: A Special Issue,” JAH
(1999)
James W. Cook, et al., eds., The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future (2008)
Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (1996)
d. Gender
Judith Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2007)
Kathleen Brown, “Brave New Worlds: Women’s and Gender History,” William and Mary Quarterly
(1993)
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Julie Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory (2003)
Nancy Hewitt, ed., A Companion to American Women’s History (2002)
Linda Kerber, “Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History,”
JAH (1988)
e. Aspects
Joyce Appleby, “Recovering America’s Historic Diversity: Beyond Exceptionalism,” JAH (1992)
Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)
James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American
Memory (2006)
J. Victor Koschmann, “The Nationalism of Cultural Uniqueness,” AHR (1997)
Gary B. Nash, Crabtree Charlotte, and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of
the Past (1999)
Roy Rosenzweig and David P. Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
(1998)
Ian Tyrrell, Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (2007)
2. INDUSTRIALIZATION
Topics include: the transformation of the rural economy and the growth of cities; class relations and
perception of them; American economic development in comparative perspective.
Richard F. Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (2000)
Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States:
Volume 2: The Long Nineteenth Century (1996)
Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and People Who Made It (2005)
Herbert S. Klein, A Population History of the United States (2004)
Michael Merrill, “Putting ‘Capitalism’ in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature,” William and Mary
Quarterly (1995)
Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-
Century Atlantic Economy (1999)
David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)
Donald Schaefer and Thomas Joseph Weiss, eds., American Economic Development in Historical
Perspective (1994)
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3. THE WEST
Topics include: the mythology of the West; the ecological history of the trans-Mississippi West; the place
of the West in American regionalism; the development and nature of the “New Western History”.
a. General
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987)
——, Something In the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000)
Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (1998)
Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990 (1999)
Richard E. White, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West
(1991)
b. Historiography
Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, eds., Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s
West (1997)
John Mack Faragher, “The Frontier Trail: Rethinking Turner and Reimagining the American West,” AHR
(1993)
Jay Gitlin, George A. Miles, and William Cronon, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s
Western Past (1992)
Kerwin Lee Klein, Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native
America, 1890-1990 (1997)
c. Native Americans and Ecology
Brian W. Dippie, The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy (1982)
Tbeodore Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (2002)
Richard White, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the
Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983)
Donald E Worster, Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1985)
——, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (1992)
d. Regional Studies and Aspects
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Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf, All Over the Map:
Rethinking American Regions (1996)
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
Brian W. Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth (1994)
John Mack Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979)
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
Richard Lowitt, ed., Politics in the Postwar American West (1995)
Gerald D. Nash, The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West (1999)
4. GENDER RELATIONS
Topics include: the origins, development and characteristics of the Women’s Rights Movement; Women’s
involvement in various reform movements; Women, Work and Domesticity; The intersection of gender,
race and class in the South.
a. General
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of a Gay World, 1890-1940
(1995)
Nancy F. Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2002)
Sarah M. Evans, Born for Liberty: a History of Women in America (1991)
David Leverenz, Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940 (2003)
Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008)
Leila J. Rupp, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (1999)
Mary P. Ryan, Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History (2006)
Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988)
Allison L. Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929
(2008)
b. Late Nineteenth-Century Women
Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900 (1990)
Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977)
Carol Faulkner, Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004)
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Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008)
Tera Hunter, “To ‘Joy My Freedom”: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War
(1998)
Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence and the Meaning of Race in
the Post Emancipation South (2007)
Lara Vapnek, Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (2009)
c. Separate Spheres: Work and Workplace Resistance to 1920
Paula Baker, “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920,” AHR
(1984)
Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor (1991)
Lisa Fine, Souls of the Skyscraper: Women’s Work and Family Values, 1920-1940 (1990)
Susan Estabrook Kennedy, If All We Did Was to Weeep at Home: A History of White Working-Class
Women in America (1979), chapters 1-4
Vivien Hart, Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage (1994)
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States (1982)
Joanne Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988)
Ruth Milkman ed., Women Work and Protest (1985)
Mary Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United
States, 1885-1920 (1995)
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)
d. Social Reform and Suffrage
Kristi Anderson, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal (1996)
Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (1991)
Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981)
Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
——, “What’s in a Name: The Limits of ‘Social Feminism’, or, Expanding the Vocabulary of Women’s
History,” JAH (1989)
Allen F. Davis, Spearheads for Reform: the Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement (1967)
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——, The American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (1975)
Ellen Carol DuBois, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women Suffrage (1999)
Elna Green, Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Suffrage Question (1997)
Nancy A. Hewitt, Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (2001)
Seth Koven and Sonya Michel eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of
Welfare States (1993), esp. essay by Kathryn Kish Sklar
Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-
1939 (1993)
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (1995)
Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (1999)
e. The Politics of Influence: Depression and the New Deal
Elizabeth Faue, Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men and the Labor Movement in
Minneapolis, 1915-45 (1991)
Nancy Gabin, Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935-1975
(1990)
Linda Gordon, ed., Women, the State and Welfare (1990)
——, “Pitied but not Entitled”: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (1994)
Joan Jensen and Lois Scharf, eds., Decades of Discontent: The Women’s Movement, 1910-1940 (1983)
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women (1965) 196-240
Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Feminism in New Deal Public Policy (1998)
Winnifred D. Wandersee, Women’s Work and Family Values (1981)
Susan Ware, Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s (1982)
——, Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics (1987)
f. World War II and Stunted Aspirations
Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during World
War II (1981)
——, “Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War II,” JAH (1982)
Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982)
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Leisa D. Meyer, Creating G.I. Jane (1998)
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (1987)
g. Gender and Family
Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (1996)
Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988)
Susan Lynn, Progressive Women in Conservative Times (1992)
Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (2009)
Martin Anthony Summers, Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation
of Masculinity, 1900–1930 (2004)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1999), chapters 4-9
Joanne Meyerowitz, “Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reappraisal of Post-War mass culture, 1946-58,”
JAH (1993)
——,ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (1994)
h. Women’s Movements, 1940s-1970s
Carl M. Brauer, “Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Journal of Southern History (1983)
Wini Breines, The Trouble Between Us: The Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist
Movement (2006)
Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern
America (2005)
Vicki Crawford et al., eds., Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1990)
Anne Enke, Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space and Feminist Activism (2007)
Sara M. Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the
New Left (1980)
——, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (2003)
Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (rev. 1977:
New York, 1976)
Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women’s Issues, 1945-68 (1998)
Susan Hartmann, From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960 (1989)
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Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (2010)
Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold
War, and Modern Feminism (1998)
James Reed, From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society
since 1830 (1978)
Leila Rupp and Verta Tyler, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement: The
1940s to the 1960s (1987)
i. Feminist Legacies and Reactions
Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation
Movement (2001)
Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in
Modern America (1999)
——, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (2005)
David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v Wade (1998)
Faye D. Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (1998)
Claudia Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap (1990)
Susan Hartman, From Margins to Mainstream (1989)
Nancy MacLean, ed., The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000 (2009 )
Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
(2006)
5. AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE
Topics include: the status of the intellectual in American society; the social history of the life of the mind,
including its gender and racial dynamics; regionalism in American thought; particular philosophical
moments, including Romanticism, Darwinism, Pragmatism, and Modernism; the professionalization of
intellectual discourse.
a. General
Thomas Bender, Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the
United States (1993)
Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (1995)
David Hollinger and Charles Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition (2001)
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David Hollinger, In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas (1985)
Linda K Kerber, Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays (1997)
Bruce Kuklick, A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000 (2001)
Lewis Perry, Intellectual Life in America: A History (1984)
b. Civil War to c. 1918
Francesca Bordogna, William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of
Knowledge (2008)
Leslie Butler, Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (2007)
George Cotkin, Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900 (1992)
Lucy Delap, The Feminist Avante-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century (2007)
James Kloppenberg, “Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking” JAH (1996)
Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts 1860-1930 (1977)
T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture.
1880-1920 (1981)
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (2001)
Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America (1998)
Dorothy Ross, The Origins of American Social Science (1991)
Louise L. Stevenson, The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 (1991)
c. Twentieth Century
Howard Brick, Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (1998)
Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995)
Paul R. Gorman, Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America (1996)
David Paul Haney, The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the
Postwar United States (2008)
J. David Hoeveler, Jr., The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s (1996)
David A. Hollinger, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American
Intellectual History (1996)
Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (1991)
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Richard H. King, A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955
(1980)
James T. Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism (1998)
Kevin Mattson, Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970
(2002)
Wilfred M. McClay, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994)
Paul V. Murphy, The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought
(2001)
Richard H. Pells, Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression
Years (1973)
——, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s (1989)
Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex
(2001)
Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2000)
Douglas Tallack, Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context (1991)
d. Black Intellectual Culture
William M Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life (1996)
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 (1978)
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)
Dexter B. Gordon, Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism (2003)
Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (2001)
Joy James, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1996)
David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue (1989)
James Hunter Meriwether, Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 (2002)
Ross Posnock, Color & Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual (1998)
Dean E. Robinson, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought (2001)
Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, eds. Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds
(2007)
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Shamoon Zamir, Dark Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903 (1995)
6. RELIGION
Topics include: the tension between religion and secularization, especially in American education; the
growth of evangelicalism; American spirituality beyond Christianity (especially Judaism); the role of
religion in American public life, including its constitutional standing; black Christianity
a. General
Patrick Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945: A History (2003)
Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992)
Jon Butler, et al, Religion in America: A Short History (2003)
Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (2004)
Philip Goff and Paul Harvey, eds., Themes in Religion and American Culture (2004)
Hugh Heclo and Wilfred M. McClay, eds., Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in
America (2003)
Frank Lambert, Religion in American Politics: A Short History (2008)
Charles H. Lippy, Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century (2000)
George Marsden, Religion and American Culture (1990)
Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion, 1893-1960, 3 volumes
R. Laurence Moore, Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History (2003)
James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003)
Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (2003)
Mark Silk, Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II (1988)
Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II (1988)
b. Historiography
John E. Boles, “The Discovery of Southern Religious History,” in John E. Boles and Everlyn Thomas
Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History (1987)
Jon Butler, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” JAH (2004)
Andrew Preston, “Bridging the Gap between Church and State in the History of American Foreign
Relations,” Diplomatic History (2006)
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Harry S. Stout and D. G. Hart, eds., New Directions in American Religious History (1997)
John F. Wilson, Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History (2003)
c. Protestant Theology and Intellectual Culture
Joel A. Carpenter, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (1997)
Michael Lienesch, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the
Antievolution Movement (2007)
George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture:The Shaping of Twentieth-Century
Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (1980)
Leo P. Ribuffo, “God and Contemporary Politics,” JAH (1993)
Doug Rossinow, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity and the New Left in America
(1998)
Jon H. Roberts and James Turner, The Sacred and the Secular University (2000)
James Turner, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1985)
d. American Judaism
Hasia Diner, A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (1992)
——, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (2004)
Henry L. Feingold, A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (1992)
Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History (2004)
Edward Shapiro, A Time For Healing: American Jewry Since World War II (1992)
Gerald Sorin, A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920 (1992)
e. American Catholicism
Jay P. Dolan, In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2002)
John Tracy Ellis, American Catholicism, 2nd ed. (1989)
John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Experience With Race in the Twentieth-Century
Urban North (1996)
——, Catholicism and American Freedom (2003)
f. African American Religious Culture
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Michael A. Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
(2005)
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to
Freedom (1977)
Paul E. Johnson, ed., African-American Christianity: Essays in History (1994)
Albert J. Raboteau, African American Religion (1999)
——, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans (2001)
7. IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY
Topics include: migrations to the United States from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America; nativist
movements and the legislation to restrict immigration; the degree to which migrants assimilated to or
resisted American culture; the influence of migration on the invention of ethnic and racial identities; the
role of the state and the nation in structuring the practical and ideological dynamics of migration.
a. General
David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History
(1988)
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)
Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (1990)
Nancy Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000)
——, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (2005)
Ronald Formisano, “The Invention of the Ethnocultural Interpretation,” AHR (1994)
Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 (1982)
Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds., A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930 (1991)
b. Ethnicity, Race and Nation
“The Nation and Beyond: A Special Issue,” JAH (1999)
“Rethinking History and the Nation State: Mexico and the United States as a Case Study,” JAH (1999)
“Review Essays on American Exceptionalism,” AHR (June 1997)
Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
(2004)
Keith Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and National Identity (1996)
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Gary Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans” JAH (1997) [with responses by Hollinger
and Gabaccia]
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001)
Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)
Russell A. Kazal, “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American
Ethnic History,” AHR (1995)
Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000)
David Montgomery, “Racism, Immigrants, and Political Reform,” JAH (2001)
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1998)
Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2006)
d. Immigration and Ethnicity
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39 (1990)
Roger Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1988)
Hasia Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001)
——, Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (1983)
Nancy Foner, New Immigrants in New York (1987)
Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy’s Many Diasporas (2000)
Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1990)
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2000)
Michael D. Harris, Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation (2003)
Andrew Heinze, Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for
American Identity (1990)
Jenna Weissman Joselit, The Wonder of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 (1994)
Timothy Meagher, Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City,
1880-1928 (2001)
Deborah Dash Moore, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981)
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)
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Ronald T. Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989)
Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1987)
Joshua Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (2007)
8. BUSINESS AND LABOR HISTORY
Topics include: the development of labour unions; the weakness of socialism; the rise of corporations and
the development of a managerial culture; consumerism and advertising; the racial, ethnic and racial
dynamics of the labour force
a. General
Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States:
Volume 3: The Twentieth Century (1996)
Michael French, US Economic History since 1945 (1997)
b. Business
Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
Sanford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureacracy: Managers, Unions and the Transformation of Work in
American Industry, 1900-1945 (1985)
Jack Temple Kirby, Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (1987)
Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: European and
American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1998)
Pamela Laird, Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing (1998)
c. Labour
Round Table, “Labor, Historical Pessimism, and Hegemony,” JAH (1988)
Steve Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present (1999)
Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 (1997)
Leon Fink, In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
(1994)
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (1997)
Herbert G. Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (1987)
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to
the Present (1985)
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Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982)
Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002)
Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001)
Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (2000)
d. Trade Unions amd Socialism
Leon Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983)
John H. M. Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, Failure of a Dream Essays in the History of American
Socialism (1984)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor
Activism. 1865-1925 (1987)
Robert H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions (1994)
9. POPULAR CULTURE *[see also relevant readings in Section 10]
Topics include: popular music and its history; the development of American media (print, film, television)
and its imagery; American sporting culture; the spread of American culture abroad
a. General
Sam B. Girgus, ed., The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981)
Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988)
Russel Blaine Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America (1970)
Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20 th Century (1999)
Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001)
Susan Smulyan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (2007)
William L. Van Deburg, Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture (1984)
b. Music
David Andrew Ake, Jazz Cultures (2002)
Erika Lee Doss, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999)
Paul Friedlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History (1996)
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Nicholas Gebhardt, Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology (2001)
Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (1997)
William Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory (1999)
George Lipsitz, Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music (2007)
Bill C. Malone, Country Music, U.S.A. (1985)
——, Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
(1993)
Eric Porter, What is this thing called Jazz African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists
(2002)
Peter Townsend, Jazz in American Culture (2000)
Clyde Woods, Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (1998)
c. Radio, Film, and Television
Daniel Bernardi, Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future (1998)
Daniel J. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982)
Susan J. Douglas, Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination from Amos ’n Andy and Edward R.
Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern (1999)
Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1983)
Jack Temple Kirby, Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination (1986)
d. Print Culture
Cathy N. Davidson, ed., Reading in America: Literature & Social History (1989)
Ian Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945 (1998)
Janice A. Radway, Reading the Romance: Women Patriarchy and Popular Literature (1990)
——, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste. and Middle Class Desire (1997)
Jay Satterfield, The World’s Best Books: Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library (2002)
e. Sports
Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson, eds., The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (2002)
Robert Elias, ed., Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and the National Pastime
(2001)
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Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Jay Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports (1993)
David McGimpsey, Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture (2000)
Michael Oriard, Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture (1991)
Clifford Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 (2001)
David K. Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997)
f. American Culture Abroad
Victoria de Grazia, Irrestible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (2005)
Heide Fehrenbach and Uta Poiger, eds., Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture
in Western Europe and Japan (2000)
Rob Kroes, If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture (1996)
Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture
Since World War II (1997)
Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May, eds, Here, There, and Everywhere: The Foreign Politics of
American Popular Culture (2000)
10. CONSUMER CULTURE *[see also relevant readings in Section 9]
a. General
Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (1999)
Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears, eds., The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in
American History 1880-1980 (1983)
Warren I. Susman, Culture As History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century
(1984)
b. 1880s-1920s
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at
the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999)
Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
(1976)
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (1997)
Andrew Heinze, Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for
American Identity (1990)
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Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-
1940 (1985)
William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993)
T. J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994)
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)
Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1978)
Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
(1983)
Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’ Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of
Consumer Culture (1995)
Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989)
Vincent Vinikas, Soft Soap, Hard Sell (1992)
c. Post-1920s
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)
Shelly Nickles, “More Is Better: Mass Consumption, Gender, and Class Identity in Postwar America,”
American Quarterly (2002)
Daniel Horowitz, Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (1998)
——, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (2004)
Andrew Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Post-War
Consumer Culture (2001)
Roland Marchand, Advertising The American Dream: Making Way For Modernity, 1920-1940 (1985)
Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century (1998)
TOPICS
11. RECONSTRUCTION
Subjects include: the role of Abraham Lincoln; slave emancipation, its origins and significance for black
and white Southerners; the transition from Presidential to Congressional Reconstruction; the character of
Reconstruction regimes; the effect of Reconstruction on the American constitution; the roles of violence
and party politics in ending Reconstruction regimes; the economic impact of war and its aftermath.
James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003)
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Michael Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-
1869 (1974)
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001)
Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South (1985)
Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997)
Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2009)
Eric Foner, “Reconstruction Revisited,” Reviews in American History (1982)
——, Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983)
——, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
William Gillette, Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879 (1979)
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the
Great Migration (2003)
Harold H. Hyman, A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the
Constitution (1973)
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), chapter 23
Michael Perman, Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-1868 (1973)
——, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1890 (1984)
——, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879 (1987)
George Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of the Reconstruction
(1984)
Roger L. Ransome and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of
Emancipation (1977)
Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the post-Civil War
North, 1865-1901 (2001)
——, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War (2007)
James L. Roark, Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977)
John David Smith, Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1997)
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Allen W. Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1971)
Stephen Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to
Obama (2010), chapters 1-2
LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South (2005)
12. THE THIRD PARTY SYSTEM AND THE GILDED AGE
Includes the nature of politics following the Civil War and Reconstruction and the impact upon it of
economic change and industrial development. Were the contests between Republicans and Democrats in
this period merely struggles for place and patronage between groups of professional politicians, or did they
reflect broader social conflicts How do we explain the high level of popular participation in politics Did
the period’s reputation for corruption reflect reality - or just the disgruntlement of traditional elites
Jean H. Baker, The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-19th Century (1983)
Nancy Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (2002)
Gaines M. Foster, Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality,
1865-1920 (2002)
Michael Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (1997)
Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late 19th-Century America (1977)
Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979)
Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to
the Progressive Era (1986)
Michael E. McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (1986)
Joanne Reitano, The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age (1994)
Joel Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991)
Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (1993)
13. POPULISM
Includes not only the history of the People’s Party in the early 1890s but also a consideration of the much
broader and long-term phenomenon of agrarian protest movements in the United States. To what extent
have these manifested an indigenous form of anti-capitalist ideology with broad popular appeal Or are
they better understood as an angry and incoherent response to economic change The historiographical
controversies show that these questions have had more than merely historical significance for American
historians.
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G. R. Andros, “Social History and the Populist Movement: Contesting the Political Terrain,” Journal of
Social History (1995)
Peter H. Argersinger, The Limits of American Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics
(1995)
Pete Daniel, “The Metamorphosis of Slavery,” JAH (1979)
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (1976)
——, The Populist Moment (1978)
William F. Holmes, “Populism: In Search of a Context,” Agricultural History (1990)
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995; 1998)
Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993)
Bruce Palmer, “Man Over Money”: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism (1980)
Stanley B. Parsons, et al, “The Role of Cooperatives in the Development of the Movement Culture of
Populism,” JAH (1983) [a critique of Goodwyn]
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (2007)
Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in
America, 1865-1896 (1997)
Elizabeth Sanders, Root of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
R. Hal Williams, Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s (1978)
14. SEGREGATION AND ITS CULTURE
Topics include: the origins of segregation in antebellum culture, North and South; the controversy over the
Woodward thesis; bi-racial politics in the South and their demise; black ideological adaptation and
resistance to segregation; the role of violence, especially lynching; the place of segregation in the politics
and ideology of the New South; the sexual politics of racial division; black survival strategies.
a. General
Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia. 1880-1930 (1993)
——, ed., Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (1997)
——, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005)
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John W. Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the
American South (1982)
William H. Chafe, “The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun,” JAH (2000)
Jane Elizabeth Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds., Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern
Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2000)
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998)
J. William Harris, Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (2001)
Martha Elizabeth Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (1997)
Michael A. Morrison and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Race and the Early Republic: Racial Consciousness
and Nation-Building in the Early Republic (2002)
Robert J. Norrell, The House I Live in: Race in the American Century (2005)
Round Table, “On the Borderland Between Ethnicity and Race,” JAH (2000)
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1978)
John Herbert Roper, ed., C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1997)
Rebecca J. Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery (2005)
Mark M. Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (2006)
Stephen Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to
Obama (2010), chapters 3-4
Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order: Black/White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
(1986)
Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (1986)
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, rev. ed. (1974)
b. Whites
Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and race in the United States,
1880-1917 (1995)
Jane Elizabeth Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (2000)
Steven Hahn, “Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative
Perspective,” AHR (1990)
Stephen David Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000)
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J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage, Restriction and the Establishment of the
One-Party South 1880-1910 (1975)
Nancy MacLean, “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of
Reactionary Populism,” JAH (1991)
Michael Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 (2001)
J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
(2002)
c. African Americans
William H. Chafe et al, eds, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the Segregated
South (2001)
Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000 (2001)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North
Carolina 1896-1920 (1996)
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the
Great Migration (2003)
Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994)
Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998)
Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississipians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989)
15. PROGRESSIVISM
Includes the various responses to the processes of industrialization, urbanization and immigration that
occurred in late 19th and early 20th-century America, and the demands generated for reform at municipal,
state and federal level, the changes in politics with the decline in party loyalty, the growth of pressure
groups and the rise of the Presidency, especially under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Basic
questions include the reasons why the demand for reform grew when it did, and the extent to which it
represented a coherent movement.
John D. Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (1973; 1978)
John W. Chambers, The Tyranny of Change, 1890-1920 (1992)
Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (1991)
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991)
Steven Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998)
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Glenda Gilmore, Who Were the Progressives (2002)
Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare, 1890-1935 (1994)
Lewis L. Gould, Reform and Regulation: American Politics, 1900-1916 (1978)
Nancy A. Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock, eds., Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993)
Morton Keller, Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900-1933
(1990)
Arthur S. Link and Richard McCormick, Progressivism (1983)
William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism 1880-1930 (1992)
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-
1920 (2003)
Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935 (1994)
Daniel T. Rodgers, “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982)
Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United
States (1992)
Stephen Skowrenek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative
Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982), chapters 5 and 8
John A. Thompson, Progressivism (1979)
——, Reformers and War (1987), chapter 3
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967)
16. THE WORLD WAR I HOMEFRONT AND THE 1920s
Includes question of what happened to progressivism after World War I and impact of cultural tensions as
manifested in such phenomena as the first Red Scare, race riots, the anti-evolution movement and the Ku
Klux Klan. Did "the Jazz age" – the era of prohibition and Al Capone – constitute a distinctive period in
American history, or is it better understood in terms of more long-term trends
John Braeman et al, eds., Change and Continuity in Twentieth-century America: The 1920s (1968)
Norman H. Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976)
Stanley Coben, “Ordinary White Protestants: The KKKof the 1920s” Journal of Social History (1994)
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
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Paula Fass, The Damned and Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977)
Otis L. Graham, The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928 (1971), Part Three
Ellis W. Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People
and Their Institutions, 1917-1933 (1979)
Kenneth T. Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 (1967)
David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War And American Society (1980)
Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science
and Religion (2006)
Shawn Lay, “Hooded Populism: New Assessments of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s,” Reviews in
American History (1994)
William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (1958; 1993)
Nancy Maclean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Leonard J. Moore, “Historical Interpretation of the 1920s Klan: The Traditional View and the Populist
Revision” Journal of Social History (1990)
Kim Nielson, Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare (2001)
Regin Schmidt, Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, 1919-1943
(2000)
Joshua Zeitz, Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America
Modern (2006)
Robert Ziegler, America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience (2000)
17. THE GREAT DEPRESSION, THE NEW DEAL, AND THE WORLD WAR II HOMEFRONT
Hoover’s response to the Depression and voluntarism; FDR and the emergency of 1933, New Deal
recovery and poverty programmes, How many New Deals, partial political realignment, the new welfare
state – gendered and conservative, impact of World War II on American society and on liberalism
a. General
Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds., Defining Moment: The Great Depression
and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998)
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982)
Morris Dickstein, Dancing In the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009)
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999)
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Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 1929-41 (1985)
Gene Smiley, Rethinking the Great Depression (c2002)
Daniel Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998), pp. 409-508
a. Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
William J. Barber, From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic
Policy, 1921-1933 (1985)
Michael Bernstein, The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-
1939 (1987)
Peter Fearon, War, Prosperity and Depression. The U.S. Economy, 1917-1945 (1987)
Richard Jensen, “The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History (1989)
Maury Klein, Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 (2001)
Jim Potter, The American Economy Between the World Wars (1974)
c. FDR and the New Deal
Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal (1990)
——, FDR: The First Hundred Days (2008)
William J. Barber, Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of
American Economic Policy, 1933-1945 (1996)
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)
William H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies (2003)
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39 (1990)
Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression (2000)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)
Colin Gordon, The New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935 (1962)
John W. Jeffries, “A ‘Third New Deal’ Liberal Policy and the American State, 1937-1945”, Journal of
Policy History (1996)
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963)
——, The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (1995)
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George McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2000)
Pat Maney, The Roosevelt Presence (1992)
Daniel Nelson, “The Other New Deal and Labor: The Regulatory State and the Unions, 1933-1940,”
Journal of Policy History (2001)
David Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and
1940s (1996)
Theodore Rosenof, New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies 1933-93 (2000)
Jordan Schwarz , The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (1993)
Theda Skocpol and Kenneth Finegold, State and Party in America’s New Deal (1995)
Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1935-1956
(2006)
Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, and Theda Skocpol eds., The Politics of Social Policy in the United
States (1988)
d. World War II
Round Table, “A Critical Moment: World War II and Its Aftermath at Home,” JAH (March 2006)
John Morton Blum, V was for Victory: Politics and Culture during World War II (1976)
John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996)
Daniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II (2000)
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
Gerald D. Nash, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (1985)
William L. O’Neill, A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (1993)
Bruce J. Shulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the
Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (1991), pp. 88-134
18. FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1865-1914
Topics include: Anglo-American rapprochement towards the end of the nineteenth century; the Soanish-
American and Philippine-American wars and the turn to imperialism; amendments to the Monroe
Doctrine; intervention in the Western hemisphere; the road to World War I
a. War, Expansion, and Manifest Destiny in the Nineteenth Century
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Robert L. Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900 (1975)
Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1963)
——, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Vol. 2: The American Search for
Opportunity, 1865-1913 (1993)
Bradford Perkins, The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895-1914 (1968)
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-
1945 (1982), chapter 1
Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right (1996), chapter 3
b. Imperialism
Robert L. Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 (1968)
Lewis L. Gould, The Spanish-American War and President McKinley (1982)
Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American
and Philippine-American Wars (1998)
Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (2006)
Eric T. L. Love, Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (2004), chapters 4-5
Ernest R. May, Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power (1961)
Stuart Creighton Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation”: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-
1903 (1982)
Frank Ninkovich, The United States and Imperialism (2001), chapters 1-3
Louis A. Perez, Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (1998)
Richard E. Welch, Jr., Response to Imperialism: The United States and the Philippine-American War,
1899-1902 (1979)
c. Theodore Roosevelt
Richard H. Collin, Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansion: A New View of American
Imperialism (1985)
——, Theodore Roosevelt’s Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American
Context (1990)
John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest (1983)
Frank Ninkovich, “Theodore Roosevelt: Civilization as Ideology,” Diplomatic History (1986)
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d. Dollar Diplomacy
Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream (1982), chapters 2-3
——, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930
(1999)
Cyrus Veeser, A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to Global Power
(2002)
19. WORLD WAR I AND WILSONIANISM
a. Woodrow Wilson and the War
Lloyd Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition (1987)
John Milton Cooper, Jr., The Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World War, 1914-
1917 (1969)
——, The Warrior and the Priest (1983)
——, Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations (2001)
Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe For Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 (1984)
Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992)
Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace (1979)
Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial
Nationalism (2007)
Frank Ninkovich, The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900 (1999), chapter 2
Tony Smith, America’s Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the
Twentieth Century (1994), chapters 3-4
John A. Thompson, Woodrow Wilson (2002), esp. chapters 1, 5-8
b. 1920-1933
Patrick Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I (2006)
Frank Costigliola, Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with
Europe, 1919-1933 (1984)
Melvyn P. Leffler, The Elusive Quest: America’s Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-
1933 (1979)
20. ISOLATIONISM AND WORLD WAR II, 1933-1945
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Topics include: the foreign policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt; isolationism, in public opinion and among
elites; assistance to Britain and prewar intervention in the Atlantic; ideological reasons for intervention;
tensions in Europe and Japan; debates over what constituted the national interest and national security;
alliance workings and tensions; the road to Pearl Harbor; wartime strategy; plans and visions for the
postwar world.
a. From Isolationism and Appeasement to Intervention, 1933-1941
Wayne S. Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45 (1983)
Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy (1979; 1995), chapters 1-11
Justus D. Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941 (2000)
Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (1987)
David Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor (2001)
Geoffrey S. Smith, To Save a Nation: American “Extremism,” the New Deal, and the Coming of World
War II (1973; 1992)
John A. Thompson, “Another Look at the Downfall of ‘Fortress America,’” Journal of American Studies
(1992)
b. World War II, 1941-1945
Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (1994)
Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (2005)
Steven Casey, Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against
Nazi Germany (2001)
Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy (1979; 1995), chapters 12-16
Robert Divine, Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America during World War II (1967)
John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)
Warren F. Kimball, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991)
David Reynolds, Warren F. Kimball, and A. O. Chubarian, eds., Allies at War (1994)
Mark A. Stoler, “The ‘Pacific First’ Alternative in American World War II Strategy,” Pacific Historical
Review (1980)
——, “A Half-Century of Conflict: Interpretations of U.S. World War II Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History
(1994)
J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
(1997)
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21. THE COLD WAR
Includes: origins of the Cold War, including historiographical controversies; the American response to
communism abroad; how perceptions of communism were formed; the causes and consequences of the
Korean War; the varying approaches to containment by presidential administrations from Truman to
Reagan; the crisis of American power in the 1960s and responses to it, such as détente and the opening to
China;
a. General (also applicable to all other categories in Section 21, below)
Warren I. Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power (1993)
Richard Crockatt, The Fifty Years War (1995)
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (1982; 2005)
——, The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War (1987)
——, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (2000)
Mike Sewell, The Cold War (2002)
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (1999)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (2005), esp. Intro and chapters 1-2
b. Origins
John Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War
(2000)
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (1972)
Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe (1987)
——, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State (1998)
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the
Cold War (1992), especially the conclusion
——, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (1994)
——, “The Cold War: What Do ‘We Now Know’” AHR (1999)
Geir Lundestad, “Empire by Invitation The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952,” Journal of
Peace Research (1986)
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c. The Korean War
Robert Jervis, “The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (1980)
Burton I. Kaufman, The Korean Conflict (1999)
William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (1995)
——, ed., The Korean War in World History (2004)
d. Eisenhower, Dulles, and the New Look
Robert R. Bowie and Richard H. Immerman, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold
War Strategy (1998)
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War (1981)
Richard H. Immerman, ed., John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (1990)
e. Kennedy, Johnson, and Flexible Response
H. W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)
Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, eds., Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American
Foreign Policy, 1963-1968 (1994)
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy, and the
Cuban Missile Crisis (1997)
Diane B. Kunz, ed., The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade (1994)
Thomas G. Paterson, ed., Kennedy’s Quest for Victory (1989)
Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (2003)
f. Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, and Détente
Niall Ferguson, et al, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010)
Raymond Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (1994)
Jussi Hanhimäki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (2004)
Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston, eds., Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977
(2008)
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003)
Julian E. Zelizer, “Détente and Domestic Politics,” Diplomatic History (2009)
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g. Jimmy Carter
John Dumbrell, The Carter Presidency: A Re-Evaluation (1995)
Burton I. Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (1993; 2006)
h. Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
Special Forum, “Reconsidering the Foreign Policy of the First Bush Administration, Twenty Years On,”
Diplomatic History (January 2010)
Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 (2009)
Beth A. Fischer, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (1997)
Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War (2000)
Don Oberdorfer, From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1991
(1998)
James M. Scott, Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy (1996)
22. VIETNAM
Topics include the causes, course, and consequence of American military intervention, from the 1940s to
the 1970s; the role of advisers, especially in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; the intersection of
domestic politics with diplomacy; the antiwar movement and its political impact.
a. Overviews and Historiography
Robert A. Divine, “Vietnam Reconsidered,” Diplomatic History (1988)
George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (1996; 2002)
Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War (2009)
Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (1996)
Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2008)
Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (1997)
Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (1991)
b. Roots: FDR to Eisenhower
David L. Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-1961 (1991)
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Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950
(2000)
Lloyd Gardner, Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954 (1988)
Seth Jacobs, America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention
in Southeast Asia (2004)
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in
Vietnam (2005)
Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, eds., The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold
War Crisis (2007)
Andrew J. Rotter, The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to South-East Asia (1987)
c. Origins: JFK and LBJ
Robert Dallek, “Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Making of a Tragedy,” Diplomatic History (1996)
Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000)
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999)
Andrew Preston, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (2006)
Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (1991)
d. The Vietnam War
Larry Berman, Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam (1989)
——, No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam (2002)
Lloyd Gardner, Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1994)
Marc Jason Gilbert, ed., Why the North Won the Vietnam War (2002)
George C. Herring, LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (1994)
Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (1998)
Lewis Sorley, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in
Vietnam (1999)
e. The War at Home
Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War (2003)
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Adam Garfinkle, Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (1995)
Simon Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2005)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War (1999)
David W. Levy, The Debate Over Vietnam (1991; 1995)
Dominic Sandbrook, Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism (2004),
chapters 9-10
Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle Over Vietnam (1994)
23. FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE 1993
Includes: what changed, and did not change, with the end of the Cold War; differences in the approaches
to foreign policy by George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush; the Gulf War, 1990-91; the
Balkans and other interventions under Clinton; 9/11; the Iraq War.
Andrew Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences and U.S. Diplomacy (2002)
Fraser Cameron, US Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sheriff (2002)
Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (2008)
Richard Crockatt, After 9/11: Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power (2007)
Robert C. DiPrizio, Armed Humanitarians: U.S. Interventions from Northern Iraq to Kosovo (2002)
Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (2003)
John Dumbrell, Clinton’s Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000 (2009)
Melvyn P. Leffler, “9/11 and American Foreign Policy,” Diplomatic History (June 2005), and commentary
James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (2004)
George Packer, The Assassin’s Gate (2005), esp. chapters 1-4
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006), esp. chapters 1-6
24. DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1945-1961
The nature of post-war liberalism, Truman and the struggle to extend the New Deal, the domestic impact
of the Cold War – McCarthyism an elite of mass movement, the political impact of unprecdented
economic growth, how far did Eisenhower embody modern Republicanism
a. General
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William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II (1999)
James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1997)
Robert Bremner & Gary Reichard, eds., Reshaping America: Society and Institutions, 1945-1960 (1982)
b. Truman and the Fair Deal
Tony Badger, “The Republican 80 th Congress,” in Dean McSweeney and John E. Owens, eds., The
Republican Takeover of Congress (1998)
Jonathan Bell, The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years
(2004)
c. McCarthyism
Richard Fried, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-
War America (1998)
John Earl Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace: American Communism and Anti-Communism in the Cold
War Era (1996)
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (1999)
——, Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (2006)
Michael Heale, American Anti-Communism (1990), chapters 7-9
——, McCarthy’s Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965 (1998)
David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal
Government (2004)
Melvyn P. Leffler, The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-
1953 (1994)
Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)
Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War, (1991; 1996)
Tom Wicker, Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (2006)
d. Eisenhower
Fred Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency (1994)
William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (1993), chapter 2
Iwan Morgan, Eisenhower vs the Spenders (1990)
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25. CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER
Includes: Origins of black protest; strategies of protest; ideas of resistance; the interplay between local
protest and the national movement; leadership and the role of King; the impact of the federal government
and Supreme Court; Black Power; the relationship between civil rights and the Cold War; the legacy of the
civil rights movement.
a. Overviews
Robert Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty (1988)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement,” JAH (2005)
Michael J. Klarman “How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis,” JAH (1994)
Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1991)
Peter Ling and Sharon Monteith, eds., Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999)
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (1991)
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008)
Stephen Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to
Obama (2010), chapters 7-10
John White, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in America (1991)
b. Origins
Tony Badger, and Brian Ward eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
(1996)
Manfred Berg, “Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP in the Early Cold War,”
JAH (2007)
Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000)
Kari A. Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (2001)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008)
Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Lost and Found: Labor, Radicals and the Early
Civil Rights Movement,” JAH (1988-89)
Robin Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002)
David Lewis, “Origins and Causes of the Movement,” in C. Eagles, ed. The Civil Rights Movement in
America (1986)
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Danielle L. McGuire, “‘It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community
Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle,” JAH (2004)
Aldon Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1984)
John White, Black Leadership in America (1985), chapters 1-3
c. The Civil Rights Movement
Jack Bloom, Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (1987)
Vicki Crawford, et al, Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers (1990)
Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992)
Steven Lawson, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941 (1997; 2009)
Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999)
Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion (1991)
Ted Ownby, ed., The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South (2002)
Belinda Robnett, How Long How Long African American Women and the Struggle for Freedom and
Justice (1997)
J. Mills Thornton III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery,
Birmingham, and Selma (2002)
Stephen Tuck, Beyond Atlanta: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Georgia, 1940-1980 (2001)
Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
(1998)
John White, Black Leadership in America (1985)
d. The Influence of Foreign Relations
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
(2001)
Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000)
George Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive
Resistance, 1945-1965 (2004)
Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
(2002)
Jonathan Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights
Movement from the First World War to Vietnam (2006)
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e. Black Power
Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2003)
Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
(2003)
Simon Hall, “On the Tail of the Panther: Black Power and the 1967 Convention of the National
Conference for New Politics,” Journal of American Studies (2003)
——, “The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969,” The
Historian (2007)
Gerald C. Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (1995)
Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) (1998)
Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006)
——, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (2006)
Daniel Matlin, “‘Lift Up Yr Self!’ Reinterpreting Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Black Power, and the
Uplift Tradition,” JAH (2006)
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2004)
Robert O. Self, “‘To Plan Our Liberation’: Black Power and the Politics of Place in Oakland, California,
1965-1977,” Journal of Urban History (2000)
Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, eds., Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggle Outside the
South, 1940-1980 (2003)
——, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America (2005)
Timothy B. Tyson, Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999)
William L. Van Deburg, New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-
1975 (1993)
26. DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1961-81
Activist presidential leadership and federal government growth, the ideas behind the War on Poverty, the
explosion of federal programmes, how far did those programmes succeed or did they exacerbate poverty
Domestic disorder and the divisions in the liberal coalition. The growth of the Imperial Presidency and the
crisis of Watergate. The ordeal and beginnings of decline of liberalism, and the conservative
counterrevolution.
a. General
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John Morton Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 (1991)
David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994)
Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (2006)
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (1999)
Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (1999)
Mark Lytle, America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (2006)
James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1997)
——, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005)
b. JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great Society
John A. Andrew, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (1998)
Hugh Brogan, Kennedy (1996)
Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 (1999)
——, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (2003)
Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society
Liberalism (1996)
Stephen M. Gillon, “That’s Not What We Meant to Do”: Reform and its Unintended Consequences in
Twentieth Century America (2000)
Michael Katz, The “Underclass” Debate: Views from History (1993)
Ira Katznelson, “Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity” in Fraser and Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall
of the New Deal Order (1989)
Mitchell B. Lerner, ed., Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light (2005)
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in
the 1960s (2008)
James T. Patterson, America’s Struggle Against Poverty (1994; 2000)
Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (2006)
c. Richard Nixon and the Conservative Ascendancy
Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the
Transformation of American Politics (1995)
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——, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race and the Counterrevolution 1963-1994 (1996)
Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution
(2007)
David Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (2003)
Joan Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered (1994)
Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (2010)
Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)
Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990)
Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)
Robert Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004)
Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the
1970s (2008)
Melvin Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (1999)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1998)
d. Jimmy Carter
Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency (1998)
Erwin C. Hargrove, Jimmy Carter as President (1998)
Burton I. Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter (1993; 2006)
Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party’s Soul (2010)
27. DOMESTIC POLITICS SINCE 1981
Topics include: the limits of government authority in the inflation of the 1970s; the rise of cultural issues
and Christian Conservatism; the Rights Revolution; the backlash against big government; Republican
southern strategies; massive deficits and economic troubles; economic growth, Republican revival and a
new Democratic party in the 1990s.
a. General
Dean Baker, The United States since 1980 (2007)
Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (2006)
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James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005)
b. Ronald Reagan
William C. Berman, America’s Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton (1998)
Robert M. Collins, Transforming America: Politics and Culture in the Reagan Years (2007)
Alonzo Hamby, Liberalism and Its Challengers (1992), pp. 339-395
Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies, eds., Ronald Reagan and the 1980s (2008)
William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (1993), chapters 7-8
Iwan Morgan, Beyond the Liberal Consensus (1994), chapters 7-8
Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its Presidents in the 1980s (1992)
Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005)
Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008)
c. The Rights Revolution
Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in
Modern America (1999)
——, ed., The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective (1996)
David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v Wade (1998)
Hugh Davis Graham, “Legacies of the 1960s: The American ‘Rights Revolution’ in an Era of Divided
Government” Journal of Policy History 1998: 267-88
Stephen C. Halpern, On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
(1995)
David M. O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (1993)
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., The Transformation of the Supreme Court’s Agenda: From the New Deal to the
Reagan Administration (1991)
Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, The Scar of Race (1993)
Cass R. Sunstein, After the Rights Revolution (1990)
d. The New Political Order *[see also readings in Section 26, c.]
Kenneth S. Baer, Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton (2000)
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William Berman, From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency (2001)
Merle and Earl Black, The Vital South (1992)
——, The Rise of Southern Republicans (2002)
E. J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics (1992)
Thomas and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics
(1991)
Michael Kazin “The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century,”
AHR (1992)
Richard Jensen, “The Last Party System: The Decay of Consensus, 1932-1980,” AHR (1994)
Everett Carl Ladd, “The 1996 Vote: The ‘No Majority’ Realignment Continues,” Political Science
Quarterly (1997)
Alexander Lamis, ed., Southern Politics in the 1990s (1999)
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation (2004)
Byron Shafer and William Claggett, The Two Majorities: The Issue Context of Modern American Politics
(1995)
Byron Shafer ed., The End of Realignment (1991)
28. MULTICULTURALISM
Topics: the development of identity politics since the 1960s; the cultural debate about postmodernism,
relativism, and empiricism; “culture wars” concerned with American homogeneity and the viability of
cultural nationalism; the moral standing of ethnicity, race, and gender; recent changes in American higher
education
a. Theoretical Issues
Forum, “Amalgamation and the Historical Distinctiveness of the United States,” AHR (2003), essay by
Hollinger and responses by Skidmore, Fields, and Yu
Forum, “Intellectual History and the Return of Literature,” AHR (June 1989)
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (1994)
James T. Kloppenberg, “Objectivity and Historicism: A Century of American Historical Knowing,” AHR
(1989)
Fred Matthews, “The Attack on ‘Historicism’: Allan Bloom’s Indictment of Contemporary American
Historical Scholarship,” AHR (1990)
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John Toews, “Intellectual History After the Linguistic Turn: The Autonomy of Meaning and the
Irreducibility of Experience,” AHR (1987)
b. Identity Politics
Richard Bernstein, Dictatorship of Virtue: How the Battle Over Multiculturalism is Reshaping Our
Schools, Our Country, and Our Lives (1995)
John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner, eds., Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide
to Acculturation and Ethnicity (2005)
John D’Emilio, William B Turner, and Urvashi Vaid, eds, Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and
Civil Rights (2000)
Eugene D. Genovese, The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War (1995)
David R. Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002)
Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995)
John Higham, Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture (2001)
David A. Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995)
Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (1993)
Wendy F. Katkin, Ned C. Landsman, and Andrea Tyree, eds., Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of
Groups and Group Identities in America (1998)
Orlando Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis
(1997)
Clara E. Rodriguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States
(2000)
Renee Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (2003)
Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s
Second Wave (2004)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1992)
Peter Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law (2002)
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