Twentieth Century United States

Reading Lists

• Twentieth Century America
• Twentieth Century United States - Cummings

Book Summaries

• Luis Alvarez. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (2008).
• Karen Anderson. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II (1981).
• Eric Avila. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
• Beth Bailey. America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (2009).
• Beth Bailey & David Farber. The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (1992).
• Beth L. Bailey. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (1989).
• Amy Bridges. Morning Glories (1999).
• Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (2002).
• Alan Brinkley. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression (1983).
• Alan Brinkley. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1996).
• Charlotte Brooks. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (2009).
• Lizabeth Cohen. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
• Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (2008).
• Nancy F. Cott. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2002).
• Mike Davis. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (2006).
• Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City (2001).
• Michael J. Dear. The Postmodern Urban Condition (2001).
• Steven Erie. Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development (2004).
• Steven P. Erie. Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California (2006).
• Elizabeth Ewen. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars (1985).
• Barbara Ferman. Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh (1996).
• John M. Findlay. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (1993).
• Steven Gregory. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community (1999).
• Jason Hackworth. The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism (2006).
• William Ivy Hair. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (2008).
• Chester W. Hartman. Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco, (1974).
• Georgina Hickey. Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 (2005).
• Richard Hofstadter. The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it (1989).
• Daniel Horowitz. Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (2000).
• Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (2000).
• Daniel Hurewitz. Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (2007).
• Marilynn S. Johnson. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1994).
• Kevin M. Kruse. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2007).
• Matthew D. Lassiter. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2007).
• William R. Leach. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1994).
• Michael F. Logan. Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest (1995).
• Roger W. Lotchin. Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare (2002).
• Lisa Lowe. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996).
• Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (1959).
• Nancy MacLean. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008).
• Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (1993).
• Lisa McGirr. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2002).
• James Miller. Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 (2000).
• Glen M. Mimura. Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video (2009).
• John Hull Mollenkopf. The Contested City (1983).
• Armando Navarro. The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control (1998).
• Becky M. Nicolaides. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002).
• Margaret Pugh O’Mara. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (2004).
• Gilbert Osofsky. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930 (1996).
• Rebecca Jo Plant. Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (2012).
• Daniel T. Rodgers. Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence (1998).
• Adam Rome. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001).
• Richard Ronald. The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Societies and the Role of Housing (2008).
• Peter Henry Rossi & Robert A. Dentler. The Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings (1981).
• Roger Sanjek. The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City (1998).
• Bruce Schulman & Bruce J. Schulman. The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics (2002).
• Joel Schwartz. The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City (1993).
• Rickie Solinger. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (2002).
• Allan H. Spear. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 (1969).
• Todd Swanstrom. The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (1988).
• Ronald Takaki. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (1996).
• Rhonda Y. Williams. The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality (2004).
• William Appleman Williams. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (2009).
• Gwendolyn Wright. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1983).