Modern United States

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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