Historiography, Theory, and Surveys
Post-Civil War Turns in Race, Labor, and Culture
Populism, Progressivism, Culture Wars, and Early 20th Century Spirits of Reform
Depression, New Deal Transformations, and Times of War
Capitalism, Citizenship, and the Expanding State
Cold War America and the Politics of Place, Space, and Pax Americana
Mid/late-Century Liberalism, Consensus, and Conservative Turns
Race, Rights, and the Politics of Pluralism
Late Twentieth Century and U.S. Religious and Political Culture in an Age of Globalization
- Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Knopf, 2014.
- Bender, Thomas, ed. Rethinking American History in a Global Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
- Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.
- Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
- Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Updated edition. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2014.
- Foner, Eric, Lisa McGirr, eds. American History Now. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
- Fox, Richard Wightman, and T. J. Jackson Lears. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
- Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.
- Preston, Andrew. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. New York: Knopf, 2012.
- White, Richard. “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Post-Civil War Turns in Race, Labor, and Culture
- Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap/Harvard Press, 2001.
- Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
- Callahan, Richard J., Jr. Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
- Carter, Heath W. Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Gilmore, Glenda E. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
- Gloege, Timothy. Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
- Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
- Janney, Caroline E. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Lears, Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
- Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
- Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Sandweiss, Martha A. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line. New York: Penguin, 2009.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Macmillan, 1982.
Populism, Progressivism, Culture Wars, and Early 20th Century Spirits of Reform
- Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
- Ebel, Jonathan H. Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Solider In the Great War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Heap, Chad. Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Irwin, Julia. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Kazin, Michael. A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Knopf, 2007.
- Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
- McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent : The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: Free Press, 2003.
- McGirr, Lisa. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.
- Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2000.
- Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Wenger, Tisa Joy. We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Depression, New Deal Transformations, and Times of War
- Bérubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2007.
- Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- ———. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York: Vintage, 1983.
- Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Greene, Alison Collis. No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Meyer, Leisa D. Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
- Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Capitalism, Citizenship, and the Expanding State
- Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass. Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
- Hyman, Louis. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink: The History of America in Red Ink. Reprint edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Ott, Julia C. When Wall Street Met Main Street the Quest for an Investors’ Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. Reprint edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
- Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
- Sparrow, James T. Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Cold War America and the Politics of Place, Space, and Pax Americana
- Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Reprint edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Cullather, Nick. The Hungry World America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.
- Herzog, Jonathan P. The Spiritual-Industrial Complex America’s Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Immerwahr, Daniel. Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Kennedy, Elizabeth, and Madeline Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
- Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Needham, Andrew. Power Lines Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- O’Mara, Margaret Pugh. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the next Silicon Valley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Rome, Adam Ward. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Updated edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Mid/late-Century Liberalism, Consensus, and Conservative Turns
- Burgin, Angus. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Burns, Jennifer. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Coffman, Elesha J. The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Crespino, Joseph. Strom Thurmond’s America. New York: Macmillan, 2012.
- Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Dochuk, Darren. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
- Hedstrom, Matthew. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. Thirtieth anniversary edition. New York, 2014.
- Nickerson, Michelle M. Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Rossinow, Doug. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Self, Robert O. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012.
- Swartz, David R. Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. Politics and Culture in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
- Wall, Wendy. Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Williams, Daniel K. God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Race, Rights, and the Politics of Pluralism
- Brilliant, Mark. The Color of America Has Changed How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Connolly, N. D. B. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2014.
- D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: Second Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Estes, Steve. I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
- Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014.
- McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1998.
- McGuire, Danielle L. 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. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.
- Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Rigueur, Leah Wright. The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.
- Woodward, Comer Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Late Twentieth Century and U.S. Religious and Political Culture in an Age of Globalization
- Bowler, Kate. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Borstelmann, Thomas. The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin’ Alive the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York: New Press, 2010.
- Gerstle, Gary. Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015.
- McCartin, Joseph Anthony. Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Sargent, Daniel J. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press, 2002.
- Sutton, Matthew Avery. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Waterhouse, Benjamin C. Lobbying America the Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- McAlister, Melani. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
- Worthen, Molly. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Oxford University Press, 2013.