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U.S. History, 1900-Present United States History 1890-present Comprehensive Examination Bibliography Overviews Classic Works Hartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (1955) Kennedy, David. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988. Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present (1995) Brandt, Allan M. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007 Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom (1998) Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, Eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (2005) Jacobs, Meg, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, Eds., The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003) Johnston, Robert and Burton Bledstein, eds., The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class. Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1998) Kerber, Linda. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (2001) Lichtenstein, Nelson, and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, eds. The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 Preston, Andrew, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012) Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War (1986) 1890-1932 Political Economy/Labor Classic Works Goodwyn, Lawrence. Populist Moment: Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (1978) Gutman, Herbert G. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (1966) Hofstader, Richard. Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955) Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. Barber, William J. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, Economists, and American Foreign Policy, 1921-1933 (1989) Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1988) Buhle, Paul. Marxism in the United States: Remapping the History of the American Left (1987) Greene, Julie. Pure and Simple Politics: American Federation of Labor and Politial Activism, 1881-1917 (1998) Montgomery, David. Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987) Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982) Sklar, Martin. Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1988) Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990) Politics/Law Classic Works Davis, Alan F. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914 (1967) Rodgers, Daniel T. “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982) Alchon, Guy. Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science and the State in the 1920s (1985) Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991) Eisenach, Eldon J. Lost Promise of Progressivism (1994) Gordon, Linda. Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (1994) Horwitz, Morton J. Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (1992) Johnston, Robert D. Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive-Era Portland, Oregon (2003) Reagan, Patrick. Designing a New America: the Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890- 1943 (2000) Rodgers, Daniel T. “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982) Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing “the People”: The Progressive Movement and the Problem of Class. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005 Tomlins, Christopher. “How Who Rides Whom. Recent ‘New’ Histories of American Labour Law and What They May Signify,” Social History (1995) Ideas/Culture Classic Works Lasch, Christopher. New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: Intellectual as a Social Type (1965) Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (1980) Leuchtenburg, William E. Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (1958) Carson, Mina. Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885- 1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Donohue, Kathleen. G. Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer (2003) Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995) Dumenil, Lynn. Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) Goldstein, Warren, and Elliott J. Gorn, eds. A Brief History of American Sports, co-authored with Warren Goldstein. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, new edition, University of Illinois Press, 2013 Gorn, Elliott J. Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year that Made America’s Public Enemy Number One. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Gorn, Elliott J., ed. Sports in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. Kloppenberg, James T. Virtues of Liberalism (1998) Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993) Lears, Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and The Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981) Mattson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era (1998) Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991) Peiss, Cathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York (1986) Rosen, Ruth. Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (1983) Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: The Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982) Ross, Dorothy. Origins of American Social Science (1991) Thomas, John L. A country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land. (2000) Wiebe, Robert H. Self Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy (1995) Gender/Race Classic Works Leach, William. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (1980) C. Vann Woodward, Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) Almaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California (1994) Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (1994) Boris, Eileen, and S.J. Kleinberg, “(Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State,” Journal of Women’s History (2003) Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994) Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2004) Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on the American-Hispanic Frontier in the Ameridan Southwest, 1880-1940 (1987) Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past (2004) Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997) Flanagan, Maureen. Seeing with their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002 Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (2002) Gordon, Linda. Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994 Grossman, James. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Guglielmo, Thomas. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 Hewitt, Nancy A. Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s- 1920s (2001) Keene, Jennifer, D. Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882- 1943 (2003) MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994) Muncy, Robin. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991) Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Origins of Modern Feminism (1982) Shah, Nayan. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001) Williamson, Joel. Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation (1984) Foreign Policy Classic Works Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hofstadter, Richard. “Cuba, the Philippines and Manifest Destiny,” in Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays (1965) Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988. Frank, Dana. Buy American: Untold Story of American Nationalism (1999) Hunt, Michael H. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987) Kennedy, Paul “Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part One, 1885-1918,” in Rise and
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