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1 US History (Post-1877) Reading List: History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here): Students not writing a thesis must present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a one-hour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of US History (Post-1877), students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and evidence of at least fifteen of the following books and articles from at least 5 of the categories. Students interested in this subfield should contact Professors Cottrell, Green, Livingston, Magliari, or Matray for guidance. Call numbers at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary Services. 1. The Gilded Age (1877-1896) Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. E661 G67 Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-280- 53319-6 Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. E184 A1 H5 Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Harper’s Magazine (November 1964): 77-86. AP2 H3 Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. E661 .L43 Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. New York: Verso, 1996. Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West . New York: Norton, 1987. F591 .L56 Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1999. E185.6 L58 Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. E661 W58 2. U.S. Expansionism (1877-1998)

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US History (Post-1877) Reading List: History MA Comprehensive Oral Examination

Abbreviated instructions (full instructions here): Students not writing a thesis must present themselves for examination in three subfields. Students will take three subfield examinations (written, three hours each) within a one-week period, followed by a one-hour oral examination with the Graduate Advisory Committee. For the subfield of US History (Post-1877), students will be expected to synthesize the arguments and evidence of at least fifteen of the following books and articles from at least 5 of the categories. Students interested in this subfield should contact Professors Cottrell, Green, Livingston, Magliari, or Matray for guidance. Call numbers at the end of each entry are for copies at the Meriam Library. Books without call numbers have been ordered by the library, but should be requested via Interlibrary Services.

1. The Gilded Age (1877-1896) Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. E661 G67 Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 1-280- 53319-6 Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955. E184 A1 H5 Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Harper’s Magazine (November 1964): 77-86. AP2 H3 Lears, T. J. Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. E661 .L43 Lichtenstein, Alex. Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South. New York: Verso, 1996. Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987. F591 .L56 Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1999. E185.6 L58 Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order, 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. E661 W58

2. U.S. Expansionism (1877-1998)

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Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy and Expansion: A New View of

American Imperialism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. E757 C65

Fry, Joseph A. “From Open Door to World Systems: Economic Interpretations of Late 19th

Century American Foreign Relations.” Pacific Historical Review 65, No. 2 (May 1996):

277-303.

Healy, David. U.S. Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s. Madison: University of

Wisconsin Press, 1970). E713 H45

Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. E183.8

Iriye, Akira. Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations. New York:

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. DS 518.8 I73

LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion. Ithaca, NY:

Cornell University Press, 1963. E 661.7 L2

Love, Eric T. L. Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-7591-0 Nugent, Walter T. K. Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. E179.5

Plesur, Milton. America's Outward Thrust: Approaches to Foreign Policy, 1865-1890. DeKalb,

IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971. E 661.7 P55

Williams, William A. The Roots of the Modern American Empire: A Study of the Growth

and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society. New York: Random

House, 1969. HC 105 W54

3. The Progressive Era (1896-1920) Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780231111034

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Giddings, Paula. Ida: Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. Harper Collins, 2009. E185.97.W55 G53 Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North

Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. E185.93 N6 G55

Link, Arthur S. “What Happened to the Progressive Movement in the 1920’s?” American Historical Review 64, No. 4 (July 1959): 833-51. McGerr, Michael E. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. New York: Free Press, 2003. E661 M415 Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. JK1929 A2 P47

Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780674002012 Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. 1988. HC110 C3 S58 Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780674717664 Taylor, Molly Ladd. Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. HV741 L33 1994

4. Spanish-American War and Entry into World War I Hoganson, Kristin. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-

American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. E721 .H69

Kazin, Michael. War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon

and Schuster, 2017. ISBN 978-1476705903 Levin, N. Gordon Jr. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and

Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. E 768 L62

Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780195176155

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May, Ernest R. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power. New York:

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. E 661 M34 May, Ernest R. The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0812960402 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. E723 O44 Pérez, Louis A. Jr. The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. E715 P45

Schoonover, Thomas. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Lexington:

University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 978-0813191225

Steigerwald, David. “The Reclamation of Woodrow Wilson?” Diplomatic History 23, No. 1

(Winter 1999): 79–99.

5. U.S. in War and Peace (1917-1928) Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight

in Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 9780521385855

Bristow, Nancy K. American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. RA644.I6 B75

Cooper, John Milton Jr. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the

League of Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. E768 C66

Costigliola, Frank. Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural

Relations with Europe, 1919-1933. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. D1065 U5

Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-

1923. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. E183.8 G7 G23

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Vintage Books, 1955. E

743 H63

McCartin, Joseph A. Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of

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Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina

Press, 1997. HD8072 M189

Rosenberg, Emily S. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar

Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8223-3219-0

Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1991. E780 S34 Williams, William Appleman. “The Legend of Isolationism in the 1920’s.” Science & Society 18,

No. 1 (Winter 1954): 1-20.

6. The Great Depression Bernstein, Michael. “Why the Great Depression Was Great: Toward a New Understanding of the Interwar Economic Crisis in the United States.” In The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, Eds., 32-54. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. E806 R57 Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1983. E806 B75 Ferrell, Robert H. American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover–Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929–1933. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957. E801 F4 Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

ISBN 9780395478059 Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-

1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. E173 O94 Leuchtenberg, William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

1958. HC 106.3 L3957 Parrish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. E784 P37 Preston, William. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. E 743.5 P7 Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. E 802 W53

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Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University

Press, 1979. F786 W87

7. Roosevelt and the New Deal Best, Gary Dean. Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933–1938. New York: Praeger, 1991. E806 B494 Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Knopf, 1995. E806 B747 Conkin, Paul K. FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State. New York: Crowell, 1967. E 806 C6 Cowie, Jefferson. The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. E806 .C68 Cowie, Jefferson and Nick Salvatore. “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History.” International Labor and Working Class History 74, No. 1 (Fall 2008): 3-32. Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. E 806 D33 Katznelson, Ira. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013. E806 K37 Klein, Jennifer. For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 9781400835669 Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. E 806 L475 Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. ISBN 978-0393337662

8. World War II at Home and Abroad

Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New

York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1976. E 806 B58

Doenecke, Justus D. Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-

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1941. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. E806 D628

Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon

Books, 1986). D767.9 D69

Hartmann, Susan M. Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 40's. Boston: Twayne

Publishers, 1982. HQ1420 H34

Heinrichs, Waldo. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World

War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. D753 H38

Kimball, Warren F. “The Incredible Shrinking War: The Second World War, Not (Just) the Origins of the Cold War,” Diplomatic History 25, No. 3 (Summer 2001): 347-65. Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II. New York: Cambridge

University Press, 1982. HD8055 C75 L5 Offner, Arnold. American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-

1938. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1969. E 183.8 G3 O35

Tuttle, William M. Jr. “Daddy’s Gone to War”: The Second World War in the Lives of

America’s Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195096491

9. The Cold War (1945-1965) Dean, Robert D. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. E744 D43

Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. E744 G24

Hahn, Peter L. Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-

1961. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807857007

Hixson, Walter L. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. New

York: St. Martin’s, 1997. ISBN 978-0-312-17680-8

Hogan, Michael J. A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security

State, 1945-1954. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. E813 H58

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Latham, Michael E. Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and “Nation

Building" in the Kennedy Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN

978-0807848449

McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. E183.8 I4 M36

Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. E185.6 P68

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. “Origins of the Cold War.” Foreign Affairs 46, No. 1 (October 1967): 22–52.

Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our

Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521703147

Whitfield, Stephen. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,

1996. E169.12 W47

10. The Rights Revolution Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. E185.61 B7914

Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 9781400830428 Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5660-4 Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. E743 D345 1991 Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” Journal of American History 91, No. 4 (March 2005): 1233-63. Hogan, Wesley C. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. E185.61 .H693 Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic

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Citizenship in the 20th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. HQ1236.5 U6 K475 Riley, Glenda. Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women’s History. 2 Vols. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1987. HQ1410 .R55 Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America. New York: Penguin, 2001. HQ1421.R68.

Walker, Samuel. In Defense of Civil Liberties: A History of the ACLU. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. JC599 U5 W28

11. American Outsiders Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: a History of Chicanos. 7th Ed. Boston: Longman, 2011. E184.M5 A63 Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing the White Man’s Indian at the End of the Twentieth Century. New York: Doubleday, 1996. E99 T77 B67 D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. HQ76.8 U5 D45

Deloria, Vine Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1969. E93 D4

Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. E741 G475

Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: William Morrow, 1984. E185.61 G42 Harring, Sidney L. Crow Dog’s Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. KF8205 H37 Hirshman, Linda R. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. New York: Harper, 2017. HQ76.8.U5 H57 Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: a History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. E184 O6 T35

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Smith, Paulo Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New Press, 1997. ISBN 978-1565844025

12. Postwar U.S. Politics (1945-1980) Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. F330.3 W3 C37 Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. ISBN 978-0-316-17238-7 Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader. New York: Basic Books, 1982. E836 G73 Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972. E841 H25 Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. E814 H28 Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. HV9950 H56 Kaufman, Burton I. The Presidency of James Earl Carter Jr. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. E872 K38 Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: Knopf, 1990. E860 K87 Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. E169.12 R587 Woods, Randall B. Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism. New York: Basic Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0465050963

13. From Vietnam to the End of the Cold War Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York: Viking, 2015. DS558 .A56 Garthoff, Raymond L. Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to

Reagan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1984. E183.8 S65 G37

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Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. 4th Ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. DS558 H45 Leffler, Melvyn. The Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. E855 .S26

Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5898-1

MacMillan, Margaret. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World. New York: Random

House, 2008. E183.8 C5 M3134

Sargent, Daniel J. A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Policy in the

1970s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. E855 .S26

Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Modern Library, 2009. DS558.847 .S54

Suri, Jeremi. “Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?” Journal of Cold

War Studies 4, No. 4 (Fall 2002): 60-92.

Wilson, James Graham. The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's

Engagement, and the End of the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014.

ISBN 0801452295

14. Rise of the Right Goldberg, Robert Alan. Barry Goldwater. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. E748 G64 G65 Hart, D. G. That Old-time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. BR1642.U5 H375 Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0691133867 Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0691133898

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McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. E839.5 M32 Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American

Consensus. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. E748 G64 P37 Phillips-Fein, Kim. “Conservatism, A State of the Field.” Journal of American History 98, No. 3 (December 2011): 723-43. Schaller, Michael. Ronald Reagan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. E877 .S2558 Schneider, Gregory L. Conservatism in America Since 1930: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2003. JC573.2.U6 C655 Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: a History, 1974-2008. 1st ed. New York, NY: Harper, 2008. E839.5 .W535

15. Economic Patterns (1877-Present) Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption on Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003. HC110 C6 C537 Collins, Robert. More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. HC110 W4 C65 Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. HD6983 .G69 Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. Basic Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0465090754 Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780674736351 Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. HD8072 M73 Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. HD6079.2 U5 O75 Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic Books, 2005. E184.A1

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R644 White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. HE2751 .W55 Zieger, Robert H. The CIO: 1935-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0807846308

17. Intellectual Patterns (1877-Present) Aaron, Daniel. Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. PS228.C6 A2 Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. eISBN 978-0-8014-5429-5 Cowley, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Viking Press, 1951. PS221 .C65 Diggins, John P. Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual Development. New York, Harper & Row, 1975. HX 83 D48 Hollinger, David A. “Historians and the Discourse of Intellectuals.” In New Directions in American Intellectual History. John Higham and Paul K. Conkin, Eds., 42-63. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. E 169.1 W558 Kloppenberg, James. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. JA84 E9 K57 Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America. New York: Basic Books, 1976. E 743 N37 Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. D13.5 U6 N68 Pells, R. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s. New York: Harper & Row, 1985). E169.12 P45

18. Science, Ecology, and Environment (1960-Present) Cottrell, Robert C. Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture.

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Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. F548.4 C85 Eig, Jonathan. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. RG137.5 .E37 Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0295993294 France, David. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. New York: Knopf, 2016. ISBN 978-0307700636 Hayes, Samuel P., et al. “Environmental History: Retrospect and Prospect.” Pacific Historical Review 70, No. 1 (February 2001): 55-111. Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. HT384 U5 J33 Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservatism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 9786612759246 Lytle, Mark. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0198038534 Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 5th Ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. E169.1 .N37