Topical Bibliographies
General Works (Aug. 29)
Patterson, James T., America in the Twentieth Century: A History
Moss, George Donelson, America in the Twentieth Century
Horowitz, David, and Peter Carroll, On the Edge: The United States in the 20th Century
Woods, Randall Bennett: Quest for Identity: America Since 1945
Chafe, William H., The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II
Evans, Sara M., Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
Takaki, Ronald T., Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Levine, Bruce, et al, Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation’s Economy,
Politics, Culture, and Society (volume 2)
Palmer, Colin, Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America
Ferrell, Robert H., American Diplomacy: A History
Patterson, James, America’s Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985
D’Emilio, John, and Estelle Friedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
America
White, Richard, “It’s your misfortune and none of my own”: A New History of the
American West
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American
West
Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretive
History
Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin eds, Under an Open Sky: Rethinking
America’s Western Past
Gender, Culture, and Sexuality (Sept. 12)
Rotundo, Anthony, American Manhood
D’Emilio, John, and Estelle Friedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in
America
Chauncy, George, Gay New York
Lears, T.J. Jackson, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of
American Culture, 1880-1920
Blee, Kathleen, Women of the Klan: Race and Gender in the 1920s
Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century
New York
Blackwelder, Julia, Women and the Depression
May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Douglas, Susan J., Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Yung, Judy, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
Ruiz, Vicki, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Susman, Warren, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the
Twentieth Century
Lears, Jackson and Richard Fox, Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American
History, 1880-1980
Feminism and the Politics of Sex (Sept. 19)
Muncy, Robyn, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935
D’Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual
Minority in the U.S., 1940-1970
Cott, Nancy, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
Ladd-Taylor, Molly, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930
Davis, Flora, Moving the Mountain: The Women’s Movement in the U.S. Since 1960
Luker, Kristin, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
Ware, Susan, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal
Wars, Susan, Partner and I: Molly Dewison, Feminism, and New Deal Politics
Horowitz, Daniel, Betty Friedan and the Making of The feminine Mystique: the American
Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism
Evans, Sara Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement and the New Left
Harris, Cynthia, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women’s Issues, 1945-1968
Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack, Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and
Reproductive Freedom
White, Deborah Gray, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-
1994
Klatch, Rebecca, Women of the New Right
Hartmann, Susan, From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since
1960
Hartmann, Susan, The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment
Adam, Barry, The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement
Mathews, Donald, and Jane Sherron De Hart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A
State and the Nation
Enloe, Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics
Solinger, Rickie, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex
in America
Class and Politics (Oct. 10)
Gordon, Linda, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-
1935
Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order
Sklar, Martin J., The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916
Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy
in the United States
Greene, Julie, Pure and Simple Politics: the American Federation of Labor and political
Activism, 1881-1917
Matusow, Allen, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s
Katz, Michael, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America
Patterson, James, America’s Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1985
Isserman, Maurice, If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the
New Left
Jencks, Christopher, Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass
Phillips, Kevin, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in
the Reagan Aftermath
Trattner, Walter, From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in
America
Kaplan, Marshall, and Peggy Cucity, eds, The Great Society and It’s Legacy: Twenty
Years of U.S. Social Policy
Race and Power (Oct. 31)
Taylor, Quintard, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American
West, 1528-1990
McMillen, Neil, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
McLean, Nancy, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Stein, Judith, The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society
Stein, Judith, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy and the Decline
of Liberalism
Goodman, James, Stories of Scottsboro
Sitkoff, Harvard, A New Deal for Blacks
Sitkoff, Harvard, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980
Lemann, Nicholas, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed
America
Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: American in the King Years, 1954-1963
Morris, Alson, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities
Organizing for Change
Lentz, Richard, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King
Van Deburg, William, New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American
Culture
Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Dyson, Michael, Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
Wei, William, The Asian American Movement
Quadagno, Jill, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Kelley, Robin, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Kelley, Robin, Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
Carter, Dan, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative
Counterrevolution, 1963-1994
20th Century Wars (Nov. 7)
Kennedy, David, Over Here: The First World War and American Society
Hawley, Ellis, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order
Polenberg, Richard, War and Society: The United States, 1941-1945
Blum, John Morton, V Was For Victory: Politics and American Culture During World
War II
Berube, Allan, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World
War Two
Daniels, Roger, Concentration Camps USA: Japanese-Americans and World War II
Dallek, Robert, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy
Milkman, Ruth, Gender at Work: the dynamics of job segregation by sex during World
War II
Lipstiz, George, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
Nash, Gerald, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War
Isserman, Maurice, What Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the
Second World War
Lichtenstein, Nelson, Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II
Bailey, Beth, and David Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex
in World War II Hawaii
Boyer, Paul, By The Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of
the Atomic Age
Whitfield, Stephen, The Culture of the Cold War
McMahon, Robert and Thomas Paterson, Origins of the Cold War
Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
Hevly, Bruce and John Findlay eds, The Atomic West
Herring, George, America's Longest War: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
Young, Marilyn B., The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
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