US History (Post-1877) Reading List: History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination
Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here): Students not writing a thesis must present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a one-hour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of US History (Post-1877), students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and evidence of at least fifteen of the following books and articles from at least 5 of the categories. Students interested in this subfield should contact Professors Cottrell, Green, Livingston, Magliari, or Matray for guidance. Call numbers at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary Services.
1. The Gilded Age (1877-1896)
Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. E661 G67
Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-280- 53319-6
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. E184 A1 H5
Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Harper’s Magazine (November 1964): 77-86. AP2 H3
Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. E661 .L43
Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. New York: Verso, 1996.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987. F591 .L56
Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1999. E185.6 L58
Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. E661 W58
2. U.S. Expansionism (1877-1998)
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Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy and Expansion: A New View of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. E757 C65
Fry, Joseph A. “From Open Door to World Systems: Economic Interpretations of Late 19th Century American Foreign Relations.” Pacific Historical Review 65, No. 2 (May 1996): 277-303.
Healy, David. U.S. Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970). E713 H45
Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. E183.8
Iriye, Akira. Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. DS 518.8 I73
LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963. E 661.7 L2
Love, Eric T. L. Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-7591-0
Nugent, Walter T. K. Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. E179.5
Plesur, Milton. America's Outward Thrust: Approaches to Foreign Policy, 1865-1890. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971. E 661.7 P55
Williams, William A. The Roots of the Modern American Empire: A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society. New York: Random House, 1969. HC 105 W54
3. The Progressive Era (1896-1920)
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780231111034
2 Giddings, Paula. Ida: Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. Harper Collins, 2009. E185.97.W55 G53
Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. E185.93 N6 G55
Link, Arthur S. “What Happened to the Progressive Movement in the 1920’s?” American Historical Review 64, No. 4 (July 1959): 833-51.
McGerr, Michael E. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: Free Press, 2003. E661 M415
Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. JK1929 A2 P47
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780674002012
Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. 1988. HC110 C3 S58
Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780674717664
Taylor, Molly Ladd. Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. HV741 L33 1994
4. Spanish-American War and Entry into World War I
Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish- American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. E721 .H69
Kazin, Michael. War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. ISBN 978-1476705903
Levin, N. Gordon Jr. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. E 768 L62
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780195176155
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May, Ernest R. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. E 661 M34
May, Ernest R. The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0812960402
Offner, John L. An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. E723 O44
Pérez, Louis A. Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. E715 P45
Schoonover, Thomas. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 978-0813191225
Steigerwald, David. “The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson?” Diplomatic History 23, No. 1 (Winter 1999): 79–99.
5. U.S. in War and Peace (1917-1928)
Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 9780521385855
Bristow, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. RA644.I6 B75
Cooper, John Milton Jr. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. E768 C66
Costigliola, Frank. Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. D1065 U5
Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913- 1923. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. E183.8 G7 G23
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Vintage Books, 1955. E 743 H63
McCartin, Joseph A. Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of
4 Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. HD8072 M189
Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8223- 3219-0
Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. E780 S34
Williams, William Appleman. “The Legend of Isolationism in the 1920’s.” Science & Society 18, No. 1 (Winter 1954): 1-20.
6. The Great Depression
Bernstein, Michael. “Why the Great Depression Was Great: Toward a New Understanding of the Interwar Economic Crisis in the United States.” In The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, Eds., 32-54. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. E806 R57
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1983. E806 B75
Ferrell, Robert H. American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover–Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957. E801 F4
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. ISBN 9780395478059
Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929- 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. E173 O94
Leuchtenberg, William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. HC 106.3 L3957
Parrish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. E784 P37
Preston, William. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. E 743.5 P7
Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. E 802 W53
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Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. F786 W87
7. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Best, Gary Dean. Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933–1938. New York: Praeger, 1991. E806 B494
Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Knopf, 1995. E806 B747
Conkin, Paul K. FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State. New York: Crowell, 1967. E 806 C6
Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. E806 .C68
Cowie, Jefferson and Nick Salvatore. “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History.” International Labor and Working Class History 74, No. 1 (Fall 2008): 3-32.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. E 806 D33
Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013. E806 K37
Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 9781400835669
Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. E 806 L475
Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. ISBN 978-0393337662
8. World War II at Home and Abroad
Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1976. E 806 B58
Doenecke, Justus D. Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-
6 1941. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. E806 D628
Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986). D767.9 D69
Hartmann, Susan M. Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 40's. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. HQ1420 H34
Heinrichs, Waldo. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. D753 H38
Kimball, Warren F. “The Incredible Shrinking War: The Second World War, Not (Just) the Origins of the Cold War,” Diplomatic History 25, No. 3 (Summer 2001): 347-65.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. HD8055 C75 L5
Offner, Arnold. American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933- 1938. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1969. E 183.8 G3 O35
Tuttle, William M. Jr. “Daddy’s Gone to War”: The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195096491
9. The Cold War (1945-1965)
Dean, Robert D. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. E744 D43
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. E744 G24
Hahn, Peter L. Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945- 1961. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807857007
Hixson, Walter L. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. New York: St. Martin’s, 1997. ISBN 978-0-312-17680-8
Hogan, Michael J. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. E813 H58
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Latham, Michael E. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0807848449
McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. E183.8 I4 M36
Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. E185.6 P68
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. “Origins of the Cold War.” Foreign Affairs 46, No. 1 (October 1967): 22–52.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521703147
Whitfield, Stephen. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. E169.12 W47
10. The Rights Revolution
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. E185.61 B7914
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 9781400830428
Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5660-4
Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. E743 D345 1991
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” Journal of American History 91, No. 4 (March 2005): 1233-63.
Hogan, Wesley C. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. E185.61 .H693
Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic
8 Citizenship in the 20th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. HQ1236.5 U6 K475
Riley, Glenda. Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women’s History. 2 Vols. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1987. HQ1410 .R55
Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America. New York: Penguin, 2001. HQ1421.R68.
Walker, Samuel. In Defense of Civil Liberties: A History of the ACLU. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. JC599 U5 W28
11. American Outsiders
Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: a History of Chicanos. 7th Ed. Boston: Longman, 2011. E184.M5 A63
Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing the White Man’s Indian at the End of the Twentieth Century. New York: Doubleday, 1996. E99 T77 B67
D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. HQ76.8 U5 D45
Deloria, Vine Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1969. E93 D4
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. E741 G475
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: William Morrow, 1984. E185.61 G42
Harring, Sidney L. Crow Dog’s Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. KF8205 H37
Hirshman, Linda R. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. New York: Harper, 2017. HQ76.8.U5 H57
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: a History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. E184 O6 T35
9 Smith, Paulo Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New Press, 1997. ISBN 978-1565844025
12. Postwar U.S. Politics (1945-1980)
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. F330.3 W3 C37
Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. ISBN 978-0-316-17238-7
Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader. New York: Basic Books, 1982. E836 G73
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972. E841 H25
Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. E814 H28
Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. HV9950 H56
Kaufman, Burton I. The Presidency of James Earl Carter Jr. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. E872 K38
Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: Knopf, 1990. E860 K87
Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. E169.12 R587
Woods, Randall B. Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism. New York: Basic Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0465050963
13. From Vietnam to the End of the Cold War
Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York: Viking, 2015. DS558 .A56
Garthoff, Raymond L. Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1984. E183.8 S65 G37
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Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. 4th Ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. DS558 H45
Leffler, Melvyn. The Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. E855 .S26
Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5898-1
MacMillan, Margaret. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2008. E183.8 C5 M3134
Sargent, Daniel J. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Policy in the 1970s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. E855 .S26
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Modern Library, 2009. DS558.847 .S54
Suri, Jeremi. “Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?” Journal of Cold War Studies 4, No. 4 (Fall 2002): 60-92.
Wilson, James Graham. The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. ISBN 0801452295
14. Rise of the Right
Goldberg, Robert Alan. Barry Goldwater. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. E748 G64 G65
Hart, D. G. That Old-time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. BR1642.U5 H375
Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0691133867
Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0691133898
11 McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. E839.5 M32
Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. E748 G64 P37
Phillips-Fein, Kim. “Conservatism, A State of the Field.” Journal of American History 98, No. 3 (December 2011): 723-43.
Schaller, Michael. Ronald Reagan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. E877 .S2558
Schneider, Gregory L. Conservatism in America Since 1930: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2003. JC573.2.U6 C655
Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: a History, 1974-2008. 1st ed. New York, NY: Harper, 2008. E839.5 .W535
15. Economic Patterns (1877-Present)
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption on Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003. HC110 C6 C537
Collins, Robert. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. HC110 W4 C65
Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. HD6983 .G69
Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. Basic Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0465090754
Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780674736351
Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. HD8072 M73
Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. HD6079.2 U5 O75
Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic Books, 2005. E184.A1
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White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. HE2751 .W55
Zieger, Robert H. The CIO: 1935-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0807846308
17. Intellectual Patterns (1877-Present)
Aaron, Daniel. Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. PS228.C6 A2
Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. eISBN 978-0-8014-5429-5
Cowley, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Viking Press, 1951. PS221 .C65
Diggins, John P. Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual Development. New York, Harper & Row, 1975. HX 83 D48
Hollinger, David A. “Historians and the Discourse of Intellectuals.” In New Directions in American Intellectual History. John Higham and Paul K. Conkin, Eds., 42-63. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. E 169.1 W558
Kloppenberg, James. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. JA84 E9 K57
Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America. New York: Basic Books, 1976. E 743 N37
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. D13.5 U6 N68
Pells, R. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s. New York: Harper & Row, 1985). E169.12 P45
18. Science, Ecology, and Environment (1960-Present)
Cottrell, Robert C. Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. E169.12 .C68
13 Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. F548.4 C85
Eig, Jonathan. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. RG137.5 .E37
Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0295993294
France, David. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. New York: Knopf, 2016. ISBN 978-0307700636
Hayes, Samuel P., et al. “Environmental History: Retrospect and Prospect.” Pacific Historical Review 70, No. 1 (February 2001): 55-111.
Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. HT384 U5 J33
Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservatism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 9786612759246
Lytle, Mark. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0198038534
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 5th Ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. E169.1 .N37
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