PAPER 24

THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1865

READING LIST

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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, but are not necessarily listed twice. Please be sure to check corresponding Themes and Topics.]

AHR = American Historical Review JAH = Journal of American History MAH = Modern American History * = primary source

Themes 1. American Exceptionalism 3 2. History of Capitalism 5 3. Gender and Sexuality 6 4. Religion 9 5. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Nationality 12 6. Popular and Consumer Culture 15 7. The U.S. and the World 17 8. The West and the Environment 19 9. Politics and the State 21 10. Intellectual Culture 23

Topics 11. Reconstruction 26 12. Whites, Indians, and the Consolidation of the West 27 13. Industrializing and Urbanizing America 28 14. Populism, Progressivism, Socialism 29 15. Segregation and Its Cultures 31 16. Becoming a World Power, 1865-1920 32 17. World War I Homefront and the 1920s 34 18. The Great Depression and the New Deal 35 19. World War II and the Homefront 37 20. The Cold War 39 21. McCarthyism 41 22. Liberal Ascendancy, 1945-1968 41 23. Vietnam 43 24. The Civil Rights Revolution 45 25. Conservative Resurgence, 1968-1992 48 26. Political Economy in a Global Age 50 27. America and the World After the Cold War 52

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1. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Subjects include: whether America is unique or has developed along a different path, particularly regarding Europe; the difference between “quantitative” and “qualitative” exceptionalism; transnational and international challenges to exceptionalism; exceptionalism as a form of nationalism; possible areas of American difference, such as socialism and religion. a. General

Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002)

Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)

“Review Essays on American Exceptionalism,” AHR (June 1997)

James W. Ceaser, “The Origins and Character of American Exceptionalism,” American Political Thought (Spring 2012)

William Cronon, “Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner,” Western Historical Quarterly (April 1987)

Eric Foner, “Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?” History Workshop (Spring 1984)

François Furstenberg, “Hartz Is Dead. Long Live Hartz,” Reviews in American History (June 2012)

Thomas L. Haskell, “Taking Exception to Exceptionalism,” Reviews in American History (March 2000)

Michael Kammen, “The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration,” American Quarterly (March 1993)

James T. Kloppenberg, “Requiescat in Pacem: The Liberal Tradition of Louis Hartz,” in Mark Hulliung, ed., The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz (2010)

Deborah L. Madsen, American Exceptionalism (1998)

Daniel T. Rodgers, “Exceptionalism,” in Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past (1998)

Byron E. Shafer, ed., Is America Different? A New Look at American Exceptionalism (1991)

“The Debate Table: Eric Rauchway and Ian Tyrrell Discuss American Exceptionalism,” MAH (July 2018)

Ian Tyrrell, “American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History,” AHR (October 1991), plus commentary by Michael McGerr b. Nationalism, Patriotism, and National Identity

Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005; 2013)

——, ed., The Short American Century: A Postmortem (2012)

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Richard M. Gamble, In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth (2012)

Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (2014)

Nicholas Guyatt, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007)

Michael Kazin and Joseph A. McCartin, eds., Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (2006)

Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (2004; 2012)

Anders Stephenson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995)

Wendy L. Wall, Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008) c. Transnational/International Perspectives and Comparisons

Michael Adas, “From Settler Colony to Global Hegemon: Integrating the Exceptionalist Narrative of the American Experience into World History,” AHR (December 2001)

Nicolas Barreyre, et al, eds., Historians across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age (2014)

Brooke L. Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (2011)

Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn (2015)

Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History (2016)

James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986)

Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (2000)

Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow, eds., Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History (2017)

Eric Rauchway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America (2006)

Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)

Ann Laura Stoler, “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies,” Journal of American History (December 2001)

Ian Tyrrell, Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (2007; 2015)

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2. HISTORY OF CAPITALISM

Subjects include: the transformation of the rural economy and the growth of cities; slavery and capitalism; class relations and perception of them; American economic development in comparative perspective; the rise of corporations and the development of a managerial culture; the development of labour unions and socialism. a. Overviews and general economic history

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, Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century (1996)

Nan Enstad, “The ‘Sonorous Summons’ of the New History of Capitalism; Or, What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Economy?” MAH (March 2019)

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)

Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, eds., Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1998)

Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith, eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012)

Olivier Zunz, Why the American Century? (1998) b. Corporate growth and managerial culture

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014)

Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)

Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (2018)

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960 (1995)

Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (2005), especially Introduction

Sanford M. Jacoby, Employing Bureacracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945 (1985)

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Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017)

Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)

Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (2012)

Julia C. Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy (2011)

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), pp. 1-35

Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Economic Crises Changed the World (2018) d. Labour

Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2010)

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999)

William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991)

Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (2015), Introduction and chapters 1-7

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 (1992)

Robin D. G. Kelley, “‘We Are Not What We Seem’: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South,” JAH (June 1993)

Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2002)

Ronald Mize and Alicia Swords, Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA (2010)

David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)

Robert H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions (1994)

3. GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Subjects include: the origins, development and characteristics of suffrage and feminist movements; women’s involvement in various reform movements; women’s roles within families and the home; the changing nature of women in the workforce; sexuality and social attitudes towards same-sex relationships; masculinity and its effect on wider social and cultural developments. a. Gender history overviews

Kimberly Hamlin, “Gender,” A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2017)

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Mary P. Ryan, Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History (2006) b. Suffrage and Reform Movements

Paula Baker, “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920,” AHR (1984)

Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)

Allison Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 (2008)

Kathryn Kish Sklar, “The Historical Foundations of Women’s Power in the Creation of the American Welfare State,” in Seth Koven and Sonya Michel eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (1993)

Kristi Anderson, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal (1996)

Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (1999) c. Women and work

Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1983)

Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008)

Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2005) d. Dating, sexuality, birth control

Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (1989)

——, Sex in the Heartland (2002)

Jonathan Eig, The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution (2014)

Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (1996)

Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (1977)

Amanda H. Littauer, Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion Before the Sixties (2015)

Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual” in Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985) e. Family and motherhood

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (2016)

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Ruth Schwarz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1985)

Linda Gordon, Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (1994)

Jaqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present, chs. 4-9

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1999) f. Second Wave Feminism, 1940s-1970s

Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (2012)

* Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2006)

* Redstockings Manifesto (1969)

Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (2006)

Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave (2004)

* Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare is a Women’s Issue” (1972) g. Feminist Legacies and Reactions

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)

Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016) h. Queer Histories

George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of a Gay World, 1890-1940 (1995)

Betty Luther Hillman, “‘The Most Profoundly Revolutionary Act a Homosexual Can Engage In’: Drag and the Politics of Gender Presentation in the San Francisco Gay Liberation Movement, 1964-1972,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (January 2011)

Heather Murray, Not in this Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America (2012)

Leila J. Rupp, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (1999)

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Timothy Stewart-Winter, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (2017)

Susan Stryker, Transgender History (2017)

* Michael Warner, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (1999) i. Masculinity

Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995)

Steve Estes, I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (2005)

Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (2011; 2017)

Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America (1989)

C.J. Pascoe and Tristan Bridges, eds., Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change (2015), Part I, “Historicizing Masculinities”

4. RELIGION

Subjects include: the tension between religion and secularization; the First Amendment and the evolution of the separation of church and state; diversity and pluralism; the role of religion in politics and public life; the “religious marketplace”; the growth of Protestant evangelicalism, Catholicism, and Mormonism; religion and religious cultures beyond Christianity. a. General

Patrick Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945: A History (2003)

Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America (2012)

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)

Hasia Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (2004)

Jay P. Dolan, In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2002)

Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy (1992; 2005)

Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (2004)

Paul Harvey, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (2005)

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J. B. Haws, The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception (2013)

David A. Hollinger, After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (2013)

——, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (2017)

Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion, 1893-1960, 3 vols.

John T. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (2003)

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)

James M. O’Toole, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (2008)

Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012)

Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (2003)

Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans (2001)

Leigh E. Schmidt, “Pluralism, Secularism, and Religion in Modern American History,” MAH (March 2018)

Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Idea (2017)

Robert Wuthnow, America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005) b. Historiography

Jon Butler, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” JAH (March 2004)

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, “The Burdens of Church History,” Church History (June 2013)

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. Secularism and Secularization

Tracy Fessenden, Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature (2007)

David A. Hollinger, “The ‘Secularization’ Question and the United States in the Twentieth Century,” Church History (2001)

Michael O’Brien, “The American Experience of Secularisation,” in Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, eds., Religion and the Political Imagination (2010)

Christian Smith, ed., The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life (2003), especially the Introduction

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Mark A. Smith, Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics (2015)

James C. Turner, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1985) d. Church and State

Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth- Century America (2002)

Philip Hamburger, Separation of Church and State (2002)

David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom (2011)

Joseph P. Viteritti, The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square (2007)

Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (2009) e. Religion and Politics

David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (2004)

R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister, eds., Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States (2008)

Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015)

Frank Lambert, Religion in American Politics: A Short History (2008)

John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Experience With Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North (1996)

Steven P. Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (2009)

Mark A. Noll and Luke E. Harlow, eds., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present, 2nd ed. (2007)

Andrew Preston, Bruce J. Schulman, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America (2015)

Kevin M. Schultz, Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (2011)

Mark Silk, Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II (1988)

Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk, eds., Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of Religion and American Politics (2016)

Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (2010)

Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II (1988)

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f. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists

Joel A. Carpenter, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (1997)

Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (2010)

R. Marie Griffith, God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission (1997)

——, Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics (2017)

George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (1980)

Steven P. Miller, The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years (2014)

Randall J. Stephens, The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (2008)

Matthew Avery Sutton, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (2014)

Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (2014)

5. IMMIGRATION, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALITY

Subjects 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

Ronald H. Bayor, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (2016)

Gary Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans” JAH (1997) [with responses by Hollinger and Gabaccia]

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)

Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (2008)

Frank Thistlethwaite, “Migration from Europe Overseas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds., A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930 (1991)

Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2006)

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b. Nativism and immigration restriction

John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955)

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immgrants Since 1882 (2004)

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (2010)

Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)

Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010)

David Montgomery, “Racism, Immigrants, and Political Reform,” JAH (2001)

David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1998) c. Civic vs. racial nationalism

“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)

Richard Alba, Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (2009)

Keith Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and National Identity (1996)

Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001; 2017)

Matthew Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998)

Matthew Jacobson, Roots Too: Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2008)

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) d. Immigrant groups

i. Asian Americans

Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History and Transnationalism in Japanese America (2005)

Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (2008)

Beth Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018)

Ronald T. Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989)

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Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (2000)

Madeline Y. Hsu, The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (2015)

Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans (2007)

Ellen Wu, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (2013)

Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1987)

ii. European Americans

Hasia Diner, Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (1983)

Stephen Erie, Rainbow’s End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics (1988)

Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy’s Many Diasporas (2000)

Susan Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1990)

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)

Russell A. Kazal, Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (2004)

Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exile: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985)

, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001)

Robert Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 (1985)

Joshua Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (2007)

iii. Latino/a Americans

Lori Flores, Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (2016)

Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2000)

Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (2002)

Ana Minian, “De Terruño a Terruño: Reimagining Belonging Through the Creation of Hometown Associations,” JAH (2017)

Clara E. Rodriguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States (2000)

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George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993)

iv. Other Immigrants

Nancy Foner, New Immigrants in New York (1987)

Orlando Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis (1997)

Mary C. Waters, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (1999)

6. POPULAR AND CONSUMER CULTURE

Subjects include: regional, rural, urban, and ethnic varieties of popular culture; commercialization and appropriation; popular culture as a site of domination and/or resistance; the making of a mass market; and the export of U.S. culture. a. Methodology, Terminology, Historiography

Robin D. G. Kelley, “Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Folk,’” and T. J. Jackson Lears, “Making Fun of Popular Culture,” AHR (December 1992)

Robin D. G. Kelley, “The Riddle of the Zoot,” in Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994)

Nan Enstad, “Popular Culture,” in Karen Halttunen, ed., A Companion to American Cultural History (2008)

Michael Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (1999) b. Place-Based Studies

Joe Austin, Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City (2001)

Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004), especially chs. 1, 4, 5

Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007)

Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours For What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City (1983), esp. chs. 2, 3, 8

Suzanne Smith, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (2001) c. Arts, Entertainment, Media

David Andrew Ake, Jazz Cultures (2002)

Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation (2005)

Janet M. Davis, The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top (2002)

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Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1987)

Susan J. Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (1999), chs. 3-5 and 8-10

Julia Guarneri, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (2017)

George Lipsitz, Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music (2007)

Kathryn Lofton, “Practicing Oprah; or, the Prescriptive Compulsion of a Spiritual Capitalism,” Journal of Popular Culture (July 2006)

Bill C. Malone, Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (2003)

Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1983)

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)

Megan Pugh, America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk (2016)

Nicholas Sammond, Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (2015)

Janice A. Radway, Reading the Romance: Women Patriarchy and Popular Literature (1990)

Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’ Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture (1995)

David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music (2012)

Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations since 1945 (1998) d. Sports

Amy Bass, “State of the Field: Sports History and the ‘Cultural Turn,’” JAH (June 2014)

Adrian Burgos, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (2007)

Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Jay Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports (1993)

Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (1999)

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) e. American Culture Abroad

Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (2005)

Richard Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II (1997)

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Penny Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (2004)

Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May, eds., Here, There, and Everywhere: The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (2000) f. Consumer Culture

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)

Kristin Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2006)

William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993)

Kathryn Lofton, Consuming Religion (2017)

Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 (1985)

Shelly Nickles, “More Is Better: Mass Consumption, Gender, and Class Identity in Postwar America,” American Quarterly (2002)

Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation (2001)

Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of an American Mass Market (1989)

7. THE U.S. AND THE WORLD

Subjects include: the growth and projection of America’s global power; diplomacy and statecraft in an increasingly interconnected world; ideologies of power, including unilateralism, liberal internationalism, and imperialism; new approaches to American foreign relations, including race and gender; the integral part war has played in American foreign relations; the role of war in the shaping of domestic American society. a. Historiography and Methodology

Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, eds., America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941, 2nd ed. (2014)

——, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3rd ed. (2016)

Thomas W. Zeiler, “The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field,” JAH (March 2009), plus commentary b. General

Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission (2006)

Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America (2005)

Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (2009)

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Bruce Cumings, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (2009)

Mary L. Dudziak, War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (2012)

Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. and Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and the American Century (2003)

Jeffrey A. Engel, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Andrew Preston, eds., America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (2014)

Julian Go, Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present (2011)

George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 (2008)

Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987; 2009)

——, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (2007)

Andrew Johnstone, “Isolationism and Internationalism in American Foreign Relations,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2011)

Walter McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (1997)

Andrew Preston, “Monsters Everywhere: A Genealogy of National Security,” Diplomatic History (June 2014)

——, American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (2019)

Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (1995)

John A. Thompson, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role (2015)

Julian Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—From World War II to the War on Terrorism (2010) c. Case Studies and Approaches

Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (2001)

Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (2001)

Donna R. Gabaccia, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective (2012)

Julia F. Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening (2013)

Nancy H. Kwak, A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid (2015)

Michael E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (2011)

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Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 (2001; 2005)

David Milne, Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (2015)

Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012)

8. THE WEST AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Subjects include: the mythology of the West; the history of Indian conquest; 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”; the environment and environmentalism in American history. a. General

Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2012)

Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (2013)

Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis, Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (2007), especially Intro and chapter 1 by Krech

Gary J. Hausladen, ed., Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About The West (2003)

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)

Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History (1998)

D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 (2000)

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

Seth Archer, “Colonialism and Other Afflictions: Rethinking Native American Health History,” History Compass (2016)

Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, eds., Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s West (1997)

William Cronon, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (1995)

——, William Cronon, “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative,” JAH (March 1992)

William Deverell, ed., A Companion to the History of the American West (2004)

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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)

“The WHA at Fifty: Essays on the State of Western History Scholarship A Commemoration,” Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2011) c. Indigenous Wests

David A. Chang, The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (2016)

Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (2010)

Joshua Reid, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (2015)

Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (1999)

Lissa K. Wadewitz, The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (2012)

Louis S. Warren, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America (2017)

Richard White, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (1983) d. Environmental Thought and Use

Kurkpatrick Dorsey, Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas (2013)

Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (2000)

Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (2001)

Hal K. Rothman, Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West (1998)

Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (2007)

Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800- 1890 (1985)

Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (2004)

——, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West (1992)

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e. Regional Studies and Aspects

Edward L. Ayers, et al, All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions (1996)

Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2013)

Kornel S. Chang, Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands (2012)

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)

Gretchen Heefner, The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland (2012)

Elizabeth Jameson, All that Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (1998)

Robert D. Johnston and Catherine McNicol Stock, eds., The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America (2001)

Howard R. Lamar, The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History (rev. ed., 2000)

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)

Andrew Needham, Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (2016)

Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (2011)

Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874- 1939 (1993)

Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West (2000)

Sarah T. Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (2007)

Marguerite S. Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001)

Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California (1998)

9. POLITICS AND THE STATE

Subjects include: the myth of the weak American state; the manner in which the American state resembled and diverged from European states; the meaning of federalism; statebuilding and war; the evolution of the American welfare state; the roles of the presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court; the emergence of the national security state; and the influence of state policy on private life.

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William J. Novak, “The Myth of the ‘Weak’ American State,” AHR (June 2008), with responses in AHR (June 2010)

Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (2015)

Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982)

James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer, eds., Boundaries of the State in US History (2015)

Brian Balogh, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (2009)

——, The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century (2015)

Samuel H. Beer, To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism (1993)

Martha Derthick, Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism (2001)

Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development (2004)

Jefferson Cowie, The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016)

Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (2011)

Theda Skocpol, et al, Bringing The State Back In (1985)

Anne M. Kornhauser, Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970 (2015) b. War and the American State

Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter, eds., Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development (2002)

Geoffrey Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004)

Gary Gerstle, “The Civil War and Statebuilding: A Reconsideration,” Journal of the Civil War Era (2017)

Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (1990)

Christopher Capozolla, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010)

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Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions (1992)

Barry Karl, The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915-1945 (1983)

James T. Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011)

Aaron L. Friedberg, In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy (2000)

Louis Fisher, Presidential War Power (1995; 2004)

Beth Bailey, America’s Army: Making the All Volunteer Force (2009)

Jennifer Mittelstadt, The Rise of the Military Welfare State (2015)

Douglas T. Stuart, Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America (2008) c. Labor, Social Welfare and the American State

Elisabeth Clemens, The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 (1997)

William Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991)

Jacob Hacker, The Divided Welfare State: The Battle Over Public and Private Benefits in the United States (2002)

Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (1992) d. Marriage, Sexuality and the State

Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscenegation Law and the Making of Race in America (2010)

Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2011)

Nancy F. Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2002)

10. INTELLECTUAL CULTURE

Subjects 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)

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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)

David Hollinger, In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas (1985)

Joel Isaac, et al, eds., The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016)

Linda K. Kerber, Toward an Intellectual History of Women (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)

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)

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David A. Hollinger, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (1996)

Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn (2012)

Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (1991)

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)

Daniel Matlin, On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis (2013)

James Hunter Meriwether, Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 (2002)

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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)

Shamoon Zamir, Dark Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903 (1995)

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)

Michael Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction (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)

Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (2015)

Gregory Downs and Kate Masur, eds., The Worlds the Civil War Made (2015)

Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997)

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)

Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003)

Martha Elizabeth Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South (1997)

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), esp. ch. 23

Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1890 (1984)

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——, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879 (1987)

Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1978)

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)

Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence and the Meaning of Race in the Post Emancipation South (2007)

Round Table, “On the Borderland Between Ethnicity and Race,” JAH (2000)

John David Smith, Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1997)

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)

Elliot West, “Reconstructing Race,” Western Historical Quarterly (February 2003)

12. WHITES, INDIANS, AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE WEST

Subjects include: warfare between Native Americans and the federal government c.1862-1890; Indian massacres in the Plains and Intermountain West; federal Indian policy; ongoing westward settlement; ideologies of settler colonialism; establishing sovereignty at the federal and state levels; commodities, railroads, and the Western economy.

Brian W. Dippie, The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy (1982)

David W. Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875- 1928 (1995)

Elliot R. Barkan, From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 (2007)

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970; 2000; 2007)

Cathleen A. Cahill, Federal Fathers & Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869- 1933 (2011)

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David A. Chang, The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (2010)

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (2012)

Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)

Margaret D. Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 (2009)

Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History (2008)

Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (2013)

Janne Lahti, ed., “Special Issue: Settler Colonialism and the American West,” Journal of the West (Fall 2017)

Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846- 1873 (2016)

Jeffrey Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2004)

Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction (1977)

Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874- 1939 (1993)

Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (2011)

Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2006)

Robert Utley, The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890 (2003)

Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998)

——, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2011)

Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011)

13. INDUSTRIALIZING AND URBANIZING AMERICA

Subjects include: the nature and pace of economic growth in the late nineteenth century; the expanding gulf between rich and poor; the nature and impact of industrial labor, the growth of cities, and the birth of a widespread consumer culture.

Thomas Adam, Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective (2009)

Jack Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007)

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Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001)

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (2006)

Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age”1865-1905 (2010)

Gaines M. Foster, Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920 (2002)

Steve Fraser, Everyman a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (2005)

Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Economic Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (2016)

Lisa Keller, The Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London (2008)

Joanne Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Women Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988)

T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880- 1920 (1994)

——, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2010)

Harold Platt, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (2005)

* Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890)

Mary C. Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century (1997)

Carl Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (1995)

Jon C. Teaford, The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 (1984)

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of American Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)

14. POPULISM, PROGRESSIVISM, SOCIALISM

Subjects include: Agrarian protest; anti-capitalist movements; women’s roles in relief work and municipal campaigns; Populist and Progressive critiques industrialization; the successes and failures of both movements on broader American politics and culture; the motivations of the Progressives; the diversity of Progressivism; and the racial attitudes of Populists and Progressives. a. Populism

G.R. Andros, “Social History and the Populist Movement: Contesting the Political Terrain,” Journal of Social History (1995)

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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)

Richard Hofstader, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955)

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion (1995; 1998), Intro and chapters 1-3

——, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2007)

Robert C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993)

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, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917 (1999) b. Progressivism

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)

——, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003)

Maureen Flanagan, Seeing With Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871- 1933 (2002)

——, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 18902-1920s (2007)

David Huyssen, Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920 (2014)

James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986)

Kriste Lindenmeyer, A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46 (1997)

Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of th Progressive Movement in America, 1870- 1920 (2003)

Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (1991)

Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)

——, “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History (1982)

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Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (1995)

John A. Thompson, Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War (1987)

James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918 (1969)

Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967) [to be read in conjunction with Hofstadter’s Age of Reform] c. Socialism

Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981)

Irving Howe, Socialism and America (1986)

John H. M. Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism (1984)

15. SEGREGATION AND ITS CULTURES

Subjects include: the origins of Jim Crow; the controversy over the Woodward thesis; black ideological adaptation and resistance to segregation; the role of violence, especially lynching; the practices of disenfranchisement; the place of segregation in the politics and ideology of the New South; the sexual politics of racial division; black survival strategies.

Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992)

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008)

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia. 1880-1930 (1993)

——, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005)

Jane Elizabeth Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds., Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2000), chapters 4-7

William H. Chafe, “The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun,” JAH (2000)

Adam Ewing, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (2014)

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, “Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative Perspective,” AHR (1990)

Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (2016)

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Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998)

Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (2014)

Tera Hunter, To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War (1998)

Stephen David Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000)

William A. Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism 1880-1930 (1992)

Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998)

Nancy MacLean, “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism,” JAH (1991)

Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississipians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989)

Khalid Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2011)

Michael Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908 (2001)

John Herbert Roper, ed., C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics (1997)

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

C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, rev. ed. (1974)

Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (1986)

16. BECOMING A WORLD POWER, 1865-1920

Subjects include: America’s rise to global power; Anglo-American rapprochement towards the end of the nineteenth century; the Spanish-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; Wilsonianism and the dawn of liberal internationalism. a. The Roots of Globalism

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)

Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right (1996), chapter 3

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John A. Thompson, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role (2015), chapter 1

Fareed Zakaria, From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role (1998) b. War and Empire in Cuba and the Philippines

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)

Matthew Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000)

Stuart Creighton Miller, “Benevolent Assimilation”: The American Conquest of the Philippines (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)

Jay Sexton and Ian Tyrell, eds., Empire’s Twin: U.S. Anti-Imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terror (2015), chapters 4-9 c. Imperialism, Intervention, and Dollar Diplomacy

Richard H. Collin, Theodore Roosevelt’s Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context (1990)

Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2003)

Frank Ninkovich, “Theodore Roosevelt: Civilization as Ideology,” Diplomatic History (1986)

Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890- 1945 (1982)

——, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy (1999)

Bartholomew H. Sparrow, The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire (2006)

Cyrus Veeser, A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to Global Power (2002) d. World War I and Wilsonianism

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)

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Charlie Laderman, “Sharing the Burden? The American Solution to the Armenian Question, 1918-1920,” Diplomatic History (2015)

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

John A. Thompson, Woodrow Wilson (2002), esp. chapters 1, 5-8

——, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role (2015), chapter 2

Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order (2014)

17. WORLD WAR I HOMEFRONT AND THE 1920s

Subjects include: the fate of Progressivism after World War I; modernism and anti-modernism; the impact of cultural tensions as manifested in the first Red Scare, race riots, Protestant fundamentalism, and the Second Klan; “the Jazz Age,” Prohibition, and gangland violence; the Harlem Renaissance; the automobile and the economic boom; changing gender norms; and the origins of the 1929 crash on Wall Street.

Stanley Coben, “Ordinary White Protestants: The KKK of the 1920s,” Journal of Social History (1994)

Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (2016)

Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)

Paula Fass, The Damned and Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977)

Gary Gerstle, “The Protean Character of American Liberalism,” AHR (1994)

——, “The Immigrant as Threat to National Security: A Historical Perspective,” in Elliott Barkan, et al, From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (2008)

Linda Gordon, The Second Coming of the Ku Klux Klan: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (2017)

Otis L. Graham, The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928 (1971), Part Three

Michael Heale, American Anti-Communism (1990), chapters 4-5

George Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (1995)

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)

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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)

Michael Lienesch, In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (2007)

* Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown: A Study in American Culture (1929)

Nancy Maclean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)

Joseph A. McCartin, Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (1997)

Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (2015)

Kim Nielson, Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare (2001)

Ronald Schaffer, America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State (1991)

Regina Schmidt, Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, 1919-1943 (2000)

Moshik Temkin, The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (2009)

James Weinstein, The Decline of Socialism in the United States, 1912-1925 (1984)

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)

18. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL

Subjects include: Hoover’s response to the Depression and voluntarism; FDR and the emergency of 1933, New Deal recovery and poverty programmes; How many New Deals? Popular movements, radicalism, and minorities during the Great Depression; the new welfare state – gendered and conservative? 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)

Morris Dickstein, Dancing In the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009)

Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013)

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999)

Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 1929-41 (1985)

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Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989), Intro and chapters 1-4 b. 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 (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)

* Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) 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)

Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression (2000)

Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America (2005)

Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003)

John W. Jeffries, “A ‘Third New Deal’? Liberal Policy and the American State, 1937-1945,” Journal of Policy History (1996)

George McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2000)

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)

Eric Rauchway, “The New Deal Was on the Ballot in 1932,” MAH (July 2019)

Theodore Rosenof, New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-93 (2000)

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Jordan Schwarz, The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (1993)

Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works (2006) d. Popular Movements, Radicalism, and Minorities During the New Deal

Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (1982)

Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39 (1990)

Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1996)

Lawrence C. Kelly, The Assault on Assimilation: John Collier and the Origins of Indian Policy Reform (1983)

Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest of Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2001)

Barbara Melosh, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theatre (1991)

Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), chapters 3-4

Lauren Sklaroff, Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (2014)

19. WORLD WAR II AND THE HOMEFRONT

Subjects include: the political controversies over intervention, non-intervention, and neutrality; “isolationism” and its problems as an historical concept; the diplomatic and military history of the war; the impact of war on American state and society, particularly on economics, gender, and race. a. The Road to War

Brooke L. Blower, “From Isolationism to Neutrality: A New Framework for Understanding American Political Culture, 1919-1941,” Diplomatic History (April 2014)

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)

John A. Thompson, “Another Look at the Downfall of ‘Fortress America,’” Journal of American Studies (1992)

——, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role (2015), chapters 3-4 b. Waging a Global War

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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

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, “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) c. The World War II Homefront

Round Table, “A Critical Moment: World War II and Its Aftermath at Home,” JAH (March 2006)

Roger Daniels, Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (2004)

Maurice Isserman, Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War (1982)

John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996)

Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), chapter 5

Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck, eds., Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012)

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. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938–1980 (1991), chapters 4-5

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20. THE COLD WAR

Subjects include: the origins of the Cold War, including historiographical controversies; how perceptions of communism were formed; the causes and consequences of the Korean War; McCarthyism; how the Cold War affected domestic politics and culture in the 1940s and ’50s; 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; the structural changes of the 1970s; the end of détente and the “Second” Cold War of the 1980s; Reagan, Gorbachev, and the end of the Cold War. a. Overviews

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (2018)

Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009)

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)

Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell, eds., Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (2012)

Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007)

Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 3 vols. (2010)

David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (2000)

Mike Sewell, The Cold War (2002)

Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005) b. Origins, 1945-1950

Curt Cardwell, NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War (2011)

Michael J. Hogan, 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)

——, 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)

Benn Steil, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (2013)

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William Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (2002) c. Crisis Years

Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (2011)

Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)

Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958- 1964 (1997)

Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence, eds., Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (2014)

William I. Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018) d. The Era of Détente

Thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (2012)

Niall Ferguson, et al, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010), chs. 2, 9-17, 19

Jussi M. Hanhimaki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (2004)

Barbara J. Keys, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (2014)

Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston, eds., Nixon in the World (2008)

Stephen Macekura, Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (2015)

Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)

Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (2015) e. To the End of the Cold War

Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (2016)

Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 (2009)

Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (2017)

David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam (2004)

Beth A. Fischer, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (1997)

Sarah B. Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (2012)

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21. McCARTHYISM

Subjects include: the rise of anti-communist hysteria; whether anti-communism was a popular phenomenon or an elite project; the influence of the Cold War [see esp. the readings above in Section 20b.]; McCarthyism as a populist phenomenon; the myths and realities of communist spies; the broader effects on American politics, foreign policy, and society.

Jonathan Bell, The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years (2004)

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)

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)

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion (1995; 1998), chapter 7

Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)

Tom Wicker, Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (2006)

22. LIBERAL ASCENDANCY, 1945-1968

Subjects include: the nature and ascendancy of post-war liberalism; Truman and the struggle to extend the New Deal; the political impact of unprecedented economic growth; Eisenhower and the Republicans in an era of liberalism; the influence of the Cold War on domestic society; the extent to which the era can be defined as one of “liberal consensus”; Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society; domestic disorder, the counterculture, and the New Left. a. General

William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II (1999)

David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994)

Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon—What Happened and Why (1976)

Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (1999)

Mark Lytle, America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (2006)

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Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan, eds., The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era (2017)

James T. Patterson, America’s Struggle Against Poverty (1994; 2000)

——, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1997)

Eric Schickler, Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 (2016) b. Truman and Eisenhower

Alonzo L. Hamby, Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism (1974)

Fred Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency (1994)

William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (1993) c. Cold War Culture and Society

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)

Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003)

Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995; 2007)

Jonathan P. Herzog, The Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America’s Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War (2011)

Christina Klein, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination (2003)

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988)

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)

Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991; 1996) d. JFK’s New Frontier, LBJ’s Great Society, and the New Left

John A. Andrew, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (1998)

Brian Balogh, “Making Pluralism ‘Great’: Beyond a Recycled History of the Great Society,” in Sidney Milkis and Jerome M. Miller, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (2005)

Carl Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977)

Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 (1999)

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Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism (1996)

Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1989)

David Farber, The Sixties: From Memory to History (1994)

Stephen M. Gillon, “That’s Not What We Meant to Do”: Reform and its Unintended Consequences in Twentieth Century America (2000)

Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1993)

Hugh Davis Graham, The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy (1990)

Michael B. Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (2001)

Ira Katznelson, “Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?” in Fraser and Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)

Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (1999)

Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s (1984)

Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America (1992)

G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s (2008)

Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006)

Alice O’Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (2001)

Thomas J. Sugrue, “All Politics is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America,” in Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment (2003)

Jeremi Suri, The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2007)

Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1997)

Julian E. Zelizer, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015)

23. VIETNAM

Subjects 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; the effect of the war on American society.

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Robert A. Divine, “Vietnam Reconsidered,” Diplomatic History (1988)

John Dumbrell, Rethinking the Vietnam War (2012)

Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (2018)

George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (2002; 2014)

Gary R. Hess, Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War (2009)

Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2008)

Simeon Man, Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (2017)

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)

Mark Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam (2000)

Lloyd Gardner, Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954 (1988)

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)

Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (2012)

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)

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) d. War

Gregory Daddis, Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam (2014)

——, Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam (2017)

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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)

Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (1998)

Meredith H. Lair, Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War (2011)

Heather Marie Stur, Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (2011) e. The War at Home

Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War (2003)

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)

——, Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (2012)

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War (1999)

David W. Levy, The Debate Over Vietnam (1991; 1995)

Sandra Scanlon, The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism (2013)

Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle Over Vietnam (1994)

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (2013)

24. THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION

Subjects include: the origins of black protest; ideas and strategies of protest; 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)

Kari A. Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (2001)

Kevin K. Gaines, “The End of the Second Reconstruction,” MAH (March 2018)

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)

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Philip Klinker and Rogers Smith, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (1999)

Steven Lawson, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941 (1997; 2009)

Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1991)

Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered (1983)

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

Robert Weisbrot, Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement (1989) b. Origins

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)

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008)

Robin Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002)

Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Lost and Found: Labor, Radicals and the Early Civil Rights Movement,” JAH (1988-89)

Danielle L. McGuire, “‘It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle,” JAH (2004)

Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996) c. The Civil Rights Movement

Jack Bloom, Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (1987)

Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992)

Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004)

Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999)

Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion (1991)

Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (2007)

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Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (2005)

Beryl Satter, Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America (2010)

J. Mills Thornton III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma (2002) d. The Influence of the Cold War

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)

Simon Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2005)

George Lewis, The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965 (2004)

Jonathan Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam (2006) e. Black Power

Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1995)

Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism (2003)

Tom Adam Davies, Mainstreaming Black Power (2017)

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)

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)

Donna Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (2010)

Robert Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2005)

Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: 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 (1993)

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25. CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE, 1968-1992

Subjects include: the origins of resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s; racial backlash and the shaping of modern conservatism; battles for control of the Supreme Court and to delimit the scope of individual rights; efforts to end the era of “big government”; the rise of neoliberalism; the “culture wars” of the 1980s and 1990s; and the contributions of vaious presidents to the resurgence. a. General

Dean Baker, The United States since 1980 (2007)

Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race and the Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (1996)

Donald T. Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (2007)

David Farber, The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism (2010)

Godfrey Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (2006)

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation (2004)

James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005)

Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008)

William C. Berman, America’s Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton (1998)

Michael Kazin “The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century,” AHR (February 1992)

Richard Jensen, “The Last Party System: The Decay of Consensus, 1932-1980,” AHR (1994)

Romain D. Huret, American Tax Resisters (2014) b. Roots of the New Right

Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)

Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)

Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, eds., Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (2008) c. Race and the Rise of the Right

Merle and Earl Black, The Vital South (1992)

——, The Rise of Southern Republicans (2002)

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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Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (2007)

Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)

Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)

Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1986) d. Supreme Court Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Bruce Ackerman, We the People, Vol. 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014)

Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America (1999)

David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (1998)

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)

Steven M. Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (2008)

Melvin Urosky, The Warren Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (2001) e. Conservatism in National Politics

William Berman, From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency (2001)

Robert M. Collins, Transforming America: Politics and Culture in the Reagan Years (2007)

Lily Geismer, Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (2014)

Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies, eds., Ronald Reagan and the 1980s (2008)

Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (2010)

Burton I. Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter (1993; 2006)

Nelson Lichtenstein, “A Fabulous Failure: Clinton’s 1990s and the Origins of Our Times,” https://prospect.org/article/fabulous-failure-clinton%E2%80%99s-1990s-and-origins-our-times (2018)

Robert Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004)

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Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2009)

Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party’s Soul (2010)

Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005) f. The Culture Wars

* Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impervished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987)

John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner, eds., Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity (2005)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Loaded: A Disarming History (2018)

Andrew Hartmann, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)

David A. Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995)

Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (1993)

Robin Kelley, Yo Mama’s Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1998)

James T. Kloppenberg, “Objectivity and Historicism: A Century of American Historical Knowing,” AHR (1989)

Everett Carl Ladd, “The 1996 Vote: The ‘No Majority’ Realignment Continues,” Political Science Quarterly (1997)

Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (1996)

Fred Matthews, “The Attack on ‘Historicism’: Allan Bloom’s Indictment of Contemporary American Historical Scholarship,” AHR (1990)

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1991)

26. POLITICAL ECONOMY IN A GLOBAL AGE

Subjects include: 1970s transitions in the global economy and their impact on the US; the shift in the US economy from manufacturing to finance and retail; the migration of capital and population from the Northeast to the Southwest; the campaign against unions and the deteroriation of the working class; the war on drugs, war on crime, and rise of the carceral state. a. Overviews

Niall Ferguson, et al, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010), chapters 2, 5, 7-8

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007)

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Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2016)

Charles S. Maier, “Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era,” AHR (June 2000)

George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (2013)

Natasha Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980 (2007) b. A Corporate Economy

Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created A Brave New World of Business (2010)

Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009)

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (2013)

P. W. Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003) c. Neoliberal Thought and Policy

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessman’s Crusade Against the New Deal (2010)

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression (2012)

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture (2012)

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)

Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (2012) d. The Fall of Labour

Jefferson R. Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010)

Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2011)

Jean-Christian Vinel, The Employee: A Political History (2013)

Lane Windham, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (2017)

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Kathleen J. Frydl, The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 (2013)

Marie Gottschalk, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (2015)

Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2016)

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (2017)

Heather Ann Thompson, “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History,” JAH (2010)

——, Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)

27. AMERICA AND THE WORLD AFTER THE COLD WAR

Subjects include: the acceleration of globalization in the 1990s; competing ways of seeing the world, from “the end of history” to “the clash of civilizations”; what changed, and did not change, with the end of the Cold War; the Persian Gulf War, 1990-91; the rise of humanitarianism, liberal interventionism, and “the responsibility to protect”; human rights; 9/11 and its effects; the “war on terror”; the “forever wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

Andrew Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences and U.S. Diplomacy (2002)

——, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (2016)

Beth Bailey and Richard H. Immerman, eds., Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (2015)

Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (2008)

Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004)

Richard Crockatt, After 9/11: Cultural Dimensions of American Global Power (2007)

John Dumbrell, Clinton’s Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000 (2009)

* Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

Christopher J. Fuller, See It/Shoot It: The Secret History of the CIA’s Lethal Drone Program (2017)

Peter L. Hahn, Missions Accomplished? The United States and Iraq (2012), chapters 4-7

* Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Melvyn P. Leffler, “9/11 and American Foreign Policy,” Diplomatic History (June 2005), and commentary

——, “9/11 in Retrospect,” Foreign Affairs (September/October 2011)

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James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (2004)

Jeanne Morefield, Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection (2014), Introduction and chapters 2, 4, and 6

George Packer, The Assassin’s Gate (2005), esp. chapters 1-4

Andrew Preston, “The Iraq War as Contemporary History,” International History Review (December 2008)

Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006), esp. chapters 1-6