Nineteenth and Twentieth Century United States

Broad and Thematic Works

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. DuBois, Ellen Carol. Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South, from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Kramer, Larry. The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1988.

Sehat, David. The Myth of American Religious Freedom. Oxford [UK] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Blacks in the diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Antebellum America

Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-century New York. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Holt, Michael F. Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Laurie, Bruce. Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Novak, William J. The People’s Welfare Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America. Studies in legal history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Remini, Robert Vincent. The Legacy of Andrew Jackson: Essays on Democracy, Indian Removal, and Slavery. The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London: Verso, 1991.

Rugemer, Edward Bartlett. The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War. Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

Sellers, Charles Grier. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Smith, Rogers M. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History. The Yale ISPS series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Stewart, James Brewer. Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Varon, Elizabeth R. Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 2005.

Civil War and Reconstruction

Ayers, Edward L. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. 1st ed. The Valley of the shadow project. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. 1st ed. The New American nation series. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

McPherson, James M. Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.

Richardson, Heather Cox. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Rubin, Anne S. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Gender & American culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Gutman, Herbert G. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: BasicBooks, 1997.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

McCartney, Paul T. Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism. Political traditions in foreign policy series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club.

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.

Summers, Mark W. Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. 1st ed. American century series. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. 1st ed. The Making of America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Great Depression and World War II

Brinkley, Alan. Liberalism and Its Discontents. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.

———. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1982.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated. 1st ed. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1985.

Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Goodman, James E. Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.

Leuchtenburg, William E. The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Cold War Politics

Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history. Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 1996.

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Fisher, Louis. Presidential War Power. 2nd ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Friedman, Andrea. “The Smearing of Joe McCarthy: The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics.” American Quarterly 57, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 1105-1129.

Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. America in crisis. New York: Wiley, 1979.

Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Leffler, Melvyn P. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. 1st ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Zubok, V. M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. The New Cold War history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Cold War Society and Culture

Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and the Sixties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Blacks in the New World. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Klatch, Rebecca E. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999.

Kruse, Kevin Michael. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2008.