US History (Post-1877) Reading List: History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here): Students not writing a thesis must present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a one-hour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of US History (Post-1877), students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and evidence of at least fifteen of the following books and articles from at least 5 of the categories. Students interested in this subfield should contact Professors Cottrell, Green, Livingston, Magliari, or Matray for guidance. Call numbers at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary Services. 1. The Gilded Age (1877-1896) Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. E661 G67 Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-280- 53319-6 Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. E184 A1 H5 Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Harper’s Magazine (November 1964): 77-86. AP2 H3 Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. E661 .L43 Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. New York: Verso, 1996. Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987. F591 .L56 Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1999. E185.6 L58 Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. E661 W58 2. U.S. Expansionism (1877-1998) 1 Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy and Expansion: A New View of American Imperialism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. E757 C65 Fry, Joseph A. “From Open Door to World Systems: Economic Interpretations of Late 19th Century American Foreign Relations.” Pacific Historical Review 65, No. 2 (May 1996): 277-303. Healy, David. U.S. Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970). E713 H45 Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. E183.8 Iriye, Akira. Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. DS 518.8 I73 LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963. E 661.7 L2 Love, Eric T. L. Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-7591-0 Nugent, Walter T. K. Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. E179.5 Plesur, Milton. America's Outward Thrust: Approaches to Foreign Policy, 1865-1890. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971. E 661.7 P55 Williams, William A. The Roots of the Modern American Empire: A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society. New York: Random House, 1969. HC 105 W54 3. The Progressive Era (1896-1920) Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780231111034 2 Giddings, Paula. Ida: Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. Harper Collins, 2009. E185.97.W55 G53 Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. E185.93 N6 G55 Link, Arthur S. “What Happened to the Progressive Movement in the 1920’s?” American Historical Review 64, No. 4 (July 1959): 833-51. McGerr, Michael E. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: Free Press, 2003. E661 M415 Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. JK1929 A2 P47 Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780674002012 Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. 1988. HC110 C3 S58 Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780674717664 Taylor, Molly Ladd. Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. HV741 L33 1994 4. Spanish-American War and Entry into World War I Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish- American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. E721 .H69 Kazin, Michael. War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. ISBN 978-1476705903 Levin, N. Gordon Jr. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. E 768 L62 Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780195176155 3 May, Ernest R. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. E 661 M34 May, Ernest R. The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0812960402 Offner, John L. An Unwanted War: The Diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. E723 O44 Pérez, Louis A. Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. E715 P45 Schoonover, Thomas. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 978-0813191225 Steigerwald, David. “The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson?” Diplomatic History 23, No. 1 (Winter 1999): 79–99. 5. U.S. in War and Peace (1917-1928) Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 9780521385855 Bristow, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. RA644.I6 B75 Cooper, John Milton Jr. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. E768 C66 Costigliola, Frank. Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. D1065 U5 Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913- 1923. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. E183.8 G7 G23 Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Vintage Books, 1955. E 743 H63 McCartin, Joseph A. Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of 4 Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. HD8072 M189 Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8223- 3219-0 Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. E780 S34 Williams, William Appleman. “The Legend of Isolationism in the 1920’s.” Science & Society 18, No. 1 (Winter 1954): 1-20. 6. The Great Depression Bernstein, Michael. “Why the Great Depression Was Great: Toward a New Understanding of the Interwar Economic Crisis in the United States.” In The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, Eds., 32-54. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. E806 R57 Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1983. E806 B75 Ferrell, Robert H. American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover–Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957. E801 F4 Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. ISBN 9780395478059 Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929- 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. E173 O94 Leuchtenberg, William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. HC 106.3 L3957 Parrish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. E784 P37 Preston, William. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. E 743.5 P7 Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. E 802 W53 5 Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. F786 W87 7. Roosevelt and the New Deal Best, Gary Dean. Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933–1938. New York: Praeger, 1991. E806 B494 Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Knopf, 1995. E806 B747 Conkin, Paul K. FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State. New York: Crowell, 1967. E 806 C6 Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics.