Paper 24 reading list

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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