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OVERVIEW
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace James Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1898
RECONSTRUCTION
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North Kristina DuRocher, Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South Stacey Smith, Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 T.J. Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 Ian Tyrrell, Reforming the World: The Creation of America’s Moral Empire
INTERWAR PERIOD AND GREAT DEPRESSION
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War Lauren Sklaroff, Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
WORLD WAR II
John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 Ronald Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS DURING THE COLD WAR
William Durch, UN Peacekeeping, American Politics, and the Uncivil War of the 1990s Penny Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World John Shattuck, Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response Eric Weitz, A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 Jacquelyn Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (Mar.2005):1233-1263 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Robert Cook, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Marc Dollinger, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
CULTURE AND PROGRESS IN THE 1960S AND 1970S
Laurence Hauptman, The Iroquois Struggle for Survival: World War II to Red Power Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 Tom Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam Francisco Rosales, Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Denise Bates, The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South W.J. Rorabaugh, American Hippies Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Mike Davis and John Wiener, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND LABOR IN THE 1970S
Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: the Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class Thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality Kimberly Phillips-Fein and Julian Zelizer, What’s Good for Business: Business and American Politics since World War II Daniel Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s Meg Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s Stephen Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans
MODERN CONSERVATISM
Alan Brinkley, “The Problem of American Conservatism.” The American Historical Review 99:2 (1994): 402-429. Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought their Own War on Poverty Matt Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise Kelly Hernández, Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol Whitney Strub, Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right Daniel Rodgers, Age of Fracture Daniel Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism Robert Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s