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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 2
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) 3
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