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HIST 1302 (History 2) Book Analysis Book List Dr. T. Thomas Austin Community College |
The following books correspond to the textbook
chapters. Find a book on a topic
that interests you.
These books are representative but certainly not
exhaustive, of the period and topics covered in History 2. These books have been chosen because they
fulfill one or more of the following
criteria:
Ø the book is considered a
classic in its subject area;
Ø students in the past have
enjoyed the book and recommended it to others;
Ø the book is suitable for
the assignment; that is, it’ll enable you to thoughtfully & thoroughly
answer the Book Analysis Assignment questions;
Ø the book is a quality
scholarly book; that is, it is well-researched, well-documented, and
well-written;
Ø the book is on a subject
matter that may not be covered in-depth in your textbook, and so, it gives you
an opportunity to learn more about a particular subject;
Ø most of the books are
available locally - in and around Austin - at the ACC libraries, or at one of
the other college/university libraries.
If you see a book you like, try to find a copy
available in a local library. If you
prefer to purchase the book, try a used bookseller.
Below are links to local academic libraries, where
you should be able to find most of the books.
ACC students ARE allowed to check books out of
other Texas public college/university libraries. Here’s how:
HOW TO GET BORROWING
PRIVILEGES AT UT or TEXAS STATE:
Ø go to any ACC librarian
and ask for a “Tex Share” card.
Ø then, fill it out and
bring it (along with your ACC ID) to the college/university library of your
choice
Ø show them the Tex Share card and they’ll give you a one-semester card for
their library
Ø the borrowing privileges
will probably be good for one semester only, and the library might charge you a
nominal fee
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LOCAL Academic Libraries |
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Robert
V.
Hine and John Mack Faragher, The
American West: A New Interpretive History
(2000).
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Something in the Soil:
Legacies and
Reckonings in the New West
(2000).
Louis S. Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America:
William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005).
Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune
and None of My Own”: A New History
of the American West (1991).
———Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).
David M. Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion,
Memory, and the Creation
of the American West (2002).
Stuart Banner, How
the Indians Lost Their Land:
Law and Power on the Frontier (2005).
Ned Blackhawk, Violence
over the Land: Indian
Empires in the Early American West (2006).
James O. Gump, The Dust Rose like Smoke: The
Subjugation of the Zulu
and the Sioux (1994).
Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (2008).
Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1730–1920 (2000).
Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre:
Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek (2013).
Jeffrey Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to
Wounded Knee (2004).
Francis Paul Prucha, The Great
Father: The United
States Government and the American Indian
(1986).
Charles M. Robinson III, A Good Year to Die: The Story
of the Great Sioux War (1995).
Alan
Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha:
Staging Indians, Making
Americans, 1880–1930 (2004).
Suchen Chan, This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in American Agriculture, 1860–1919
(1986).
Roger Daniels, Asian
American: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1997).
Deborah Fitzgerald, Every
Farm a Factory:
The Industrial Ideal in
American Agriculture (2003).
Manuel G. Gonzales, Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United
States (1999).
J. S. Holliday, Rush
for Riches:
Gold Fever and the
Making of California
(1999).
Andrew C. Isenberg, Mining
California: An Ecological History (2005).
Rodman Wilson Paul, Mining
Frontiers of the Far West, 1848–1880 (rev. ed., 2001).
William G. Robbins, Colony and Empire:
The Capitalist Transformation of the American West (1994).
Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth:
Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
(2002).
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Chapter
18 – Railroads, Business & Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900 |
Rebecca Edwards, New
Spirits: Americans in the
Gilded Age, 1865–1905 (2006).
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The
Making of
Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
(2011).
Kathleen Brady, Ida
Tarbell: Portrait
of a Muckraker (1984).
Edward Chancellor, Devil Take
the Hindmost: A History of Financial
Speculation (1999).
Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998).
Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A Cultural
History of Wall Street
in America (2005).
Ernest
Freeberg, The Age
of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
(2013).
Morton J. Horowitz, The Transformation
of American Law, 1870–1960 (1992).
Christopher F. Jones, Router of Power: Energy
and Modern America (2014).
Walter Licht, Industrializing America (1995).
Carol Marvin, When Technologies Were New (1988).
David Nasaw, Andrew
Carnegie (2006).
T. J. Stiles, The
First Tycoon: The
Epic Life of
Cornelius Vanderbilt (2009).
Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (1999).
Viviana A. Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (1994).
Paula Baker, The
Moral Framework of Public Life (1991).
Richard F. Bensel, The Political Economy
of American Industrialization, 1877–1900 (2000).
Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873–1900 (1990).
Alyn Brodsky, Grover
Cleveland: A Study in
Character (2000).
Robert W. Cherny, American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868–1900 (1997).
Dana Frank, Buy
American: The Untold Story of
Economic Nationalism (1999).
Paula Giddings, Ida, a Sword among Lions:Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching (2008).
Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes:
Warrior and President (1995).
H. Paul Jeffers, An Honest
President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
(2000).
Dorothy Salem,
To Better Our World: Black Women
in Organized Reform, 1890–1920 (1990).
LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters: Civil
War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South
(2005).
Judy Arlene Hilkey, Character Is Capital: Success
Manuals and
Manhood in Gilded Age America
(1997).
Jane H. Hunter, How
Young
Ladies Became Girls:
The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood
(2002).
Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking: The American Success Formula in the Gilded Age
(1996).
John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of
Immigration in Urban
America (1985).
Vincent J. Cannato, American Passage: The
History of Ellis Island (2010).
Allan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal
State (1991).
Martha Gardner, The Qualities
of a Citizen: Women,
Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965 (2005).
Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second
Millennium (2002).
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers (1998).
David R. Roediger, Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White
(2005).
Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore:
A History of Asian Americans (1998).
Ileen A. DeVault,
United Apart: Gender
and the Rise of Craft Unionism
(2004).
Hasia Diner, Lower
East Side Memories:
A Jewish Place in America
(2000).
Leon Fink, Workingman’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American
Politics (1983).
Jacqueline Jones, American Work: Four
Centuries of Black and
White Labor (1998).
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The
Making of
Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
Timothy Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and
the City, 1871–1919 (2005).
Robert E. Weir, Knights
Unhorsed: Internal
Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement (2000).
LeRoy Ashby, With Amusement
for All: A History
of American Popular
Culture since 1830 (2006).
Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston,
1870–1940 (2000).
Richard Haw, The Brooklyn Bridge:
A Cultural History (2005).
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and
Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986).
Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park
and the People: A History of Central Park (1992).
Jules Tygiel, Past Time:
Baseball as History (2000).
THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE, THE LABOR WARS, AND WOMEN’S
ACTIVISM
Jean H. Baker, Sisters: The
Lives of America’s
Suffragists (2005).
Donna A. Barnes, The Louisiana Populist Movement, 1881–1900 (2011).
Ruth Bordin, Frances Willard: A Biography (1986).
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).
Ellen Carol DuBois, Woman Suffrage and Women’s
Rights (1998).
Gerald H. Gaither, Blacks and the Populist Movement (2013).
Michael Lewis Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics
in Gilded Age Kansas
(1997).
Elizabeth
Jameson, All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple
Creek (1998).
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion:
An American History (rev. ed., 1998).
Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892 (1992).
Theodore R. Mitchell, Political
Education in the Southern Farmers’ Alliance, 1887–1900 (1987).
David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (2006).
Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982).
DEPRESSION AND THE ELECTION
OF 1896
Louis L, Gould, The Presidency of Willliam McKinley (1981).
Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).
Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William
Jennings Bryan (2006).
Kenneth L. Kusmer, Down
and Out, on the
Road: The Homeless in American History (2002).
Carol A. Schwantes, Coxey’s Army: An American
Odyssey (1985).
Douglas Steeples
and David O. Whitten, Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1892 (1998).
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE SPANISH-
AMERICAN WAR
Edward P. Crapol, James G. Blaine:
Architect of Empire (1999).
Amy Kaplan,
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2002).
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century
of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006).
Brian Linn, The Philippine War, 1899–1902 (2000).
Thomas J. Osborne, Annexation Hawaii (1998).
Diana Preston,
Besieged in Peking: The Story of the 1900
Boxer Uprising (1999).
Lars Shoultz, Beneath the United States (1998).
David J. Silbey, A War of Frontier
and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902 (2008).
Margaret Strobel, Gender, Sex, and Empire (1993).
Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (2010).
David Traxel, 1898:
The Birth of the American
Century (1999).
Walter Zimmerman,
First
Great Triumph: How Five
Americans Made
Their
Country a World
Power (2002).
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Chapter
21 – Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 |
Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed:
Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s (2007).
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The
Making of
Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
Eric Ruchway, Blessed among Nations: How the World Made America (2006).
Victoria Bissell
Brown,
The Education
of Jane
Addams (2004).
Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick
Winslow Taylor (1997).
Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams
and the Struggle for Democracy
(2005).
———Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010).
Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female
Dominion in American Reform (1991).
Nancy C. Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette: The
Righteous Reformer (2000).
David Von Drehle, Triangle:
The Fire That Changed America (2003).
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
AND DIPLOMACY
Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade
for America (2009).
John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).
Alan Dawley, Changing the World:
American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003).
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics
in a
Progressive Age (1998).
RADICALS, RACE RELATIONS, AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Mary
Jo Buhle, Women and American
Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981).
Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret
Sanger and the Birth
Control Movement in America
(1993).
Melvyn Dubofsky, “Big
Bill” Haywood (1987).
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation
in the Twentieth Century (2002).
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography
of a Race, 1868–1919 (1993).
Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982).
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Chapter
22 – World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home & Abroad, 1914-1920 |
John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).
Thomas Fleming, The Illusion
of Victory: America in World War I (2003).
Robert H. Zieger, America’s Great War: World War I
and the American Experience (2000).
Gerald Astor, The Right to Fight:
A History of African Americans in the Military (1998).
Peter Boyle, American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism (1993).
Edward M. Coffman,
The War to End All Wars: The
American Military Experience in World War I (1968)
Byron Farwell, Over There: The United States in the Great
War, 1917–1918 (1999).
Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe for Democracy: The Anglo- American Response to Revolution, 1913–1923 (1987).
Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001).
Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow
Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
(1992).
Edward G. Lengel, To Conquer
Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2008).
Margaret Olwen
Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months
That Changed the World (2002).
Gary Mead, The Doughboys: America
and the First World War (2000).
David F. Trask, The AEF and Coalition
Warmaking, 1917–1918 (1993).
Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam’s Service:
Women with the AEF, 1917–1919
(1999).
Jean Baker, Sisters:
The Lives of America’s
Suffragists (2005).
Nancy Cott,
The Grounding of American
Feminism (1987).
Leslie Midkiff
DeBauche, Reel Patriotism: The
Movies and World War I (1997).
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography
of a Race, 1868–1919 (1993).
Robert K. Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National
Hysteria, 1919–1920 (1955).
Tammy M. Proctor, Civilians in a World
at War, 1914–1918 (2010).
David M. Kennedy, Freedom
from Fear: The
American People in Depression
and War, 1929–1945 (1999).
William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity,
1914–1932 (1958).
Michael Parrish,
Anxious Decades: America
in Prosperity and Depression, 1920–1941 (1992).
Kendrick A. Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (2000).
Warren I. Cohen, Empire without Tears: America’s Foreign Relations,
1921–1933 (1987).
Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History
of Wall Street
(2005).
Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor, and
Politics in America, 1920–1935
(1994).
David Greenberg, Calvin Coolidge (2006).
William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President, 1929–1933 (2009).
Martha L. Olney, Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s (1991).
Lorrai Schuyler, Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political
Leverage in the 1920s (2006).
Steven Watts, People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (2005).
Kevin Boyle, Arc
of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil
Rights, and Murder in
the Jazz Age
(2004).
Steven Conn,
Americans Against the City: Anti- urbanism in the Twentieth Century (2014).
Liz Conor, Spectacular Modern Woman:
Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (2004).
Paula S. Fass, The Damned and the Beautiful:
American Youth in the 1920s (1977).
David J. Goldberg, Discontented America:
The United States
in the 1920s (1999).
David M. Kennedy, Birth Control
in America: The
Career of Margaret Sanger (1970).
David E. Kyvig, Daily Life in the United States, 1920–1940 (2002).
Nancy MacLean,
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994).
David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940
(1990).
Daniel Okrent,
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010).
Thomas R. Pegram,
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan (2011).
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration (1998).
Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934 (1994).
Judith Stein, The World
of Marcus Garvey (1986).
Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004).
Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin
D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
(2016).
Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural
History of the Great Depression (2010).
Ronald Edsforth,
The New Deal: America’s Response
to the Great Depression (2000).
Alonzo Hamby, Man
of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American
Century (2015).
Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal
and the Origins of Our Time (2013).
David M. Kennedy, Freedom
from Fear: The
American People in Depression
and War, 1929–1945 (1999).
Alan Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope:
The
New Deal Response to Crisis (2006).
William Edward Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (2009).
Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of
the Great Depression (2008).
Roger Biles, The South and the New Deal (2006).
Jefferson Cowie, The Great
Exception: The New
Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016).
Kirstin Downey, The Woman behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy
of Frances Perkins (2010).
Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands:
The Businessmen’s Crusade against
the New Deal (2010).
Robert Shogan,
Backlash: The Killing
of the New Deal (2006).
Mary Triece, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class
Women during the Depression
(2007).
Clyde P. Weed, The Nemesis
of Reform: The Republican Party during
the New Deal (1994).
Lizbeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial
Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
(1990).
Kathleen G. Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the
Consumer (2004).
Linda Gordon,
Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits (2009).
Janet Irons,
Testing the New Deal: The General
Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South
(2000).
Sarah Phillips, This Land,
This Nation: Conservation, Rural
America, and the New Deal (2007).
Patrick D. Reagan, Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1936 (1999).
John A. Salmond, The
General Textile Strike of 1934:
From
Maine to Alabama (2002).
David A. Taylor, Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America (2010).
Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third
Reich (2009).
Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War,
1939–1945 (2011).
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).
Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe
1914–1949 (2015).
Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire:
How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2008).
Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History
of the Second World War (2011).
Paul W. Tibbets
Jr., The Tibbets Story (1978).
John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 (2001).
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
(2006).
Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World:
America’s Vision for Human Rights (2005).
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender
of Japan (2005).
Adam Hochschild,
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil
War, 1936–1939 (2016).
Gaddis Smith,
American Diplomacy during
the Second World War, 1941–1945
(1985).
MOBILIZATION AND THE HOME FRONT
Gerald Astor, The Right to Fight:
A History of African Americans in the Military (1998).
Stephanie A. Carpenter, On the Farm Front:
The Women’s Land Army in World War II (2003).
Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond:
American Women in the 1940s (1982).
Arthur Herman,
Freedom’s Forge:
How American Business Produced
Victory in World War II (2012).
John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World
War II
Home Front
(1996).
Christopher Moore, Fighting for America:
Black Soldiers—The Unsung
Heroes of World War II
(2005).
Wendy Ng, Japanese American Internment during
World
War II (2002).
James T. Sparrow, Warfare State: World
War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2013).
Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light:
The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
(2013).
Antony Beevor, D-Day:
The Battle for Normandy (2009).
———Ardennes 1944: The Battle
of the Bulge (2015).
Jonathan Dimbleby, The Battle of the
Atlantic: How
the Allies Won the
War (2016).
John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power
in the Pacific War
(1986).
Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for
Normandy (2006).
———The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and
Guerrillas, 1939–1945 (2016).
Peter
Novick, The
Holocaust in American Life (1999).
Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (1996).
———The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945 (2013).
Mary Louise
Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (2013).
Thomas W. Zeiler, Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II (2004).
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Chapter
26 – Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 |
Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America:
A History of Chicanos (5th ed., 2004).
Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2009).
Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).
DOMESTIC
POLITICS AND POLICIES
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans
(2009).
Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American
Liberalism, 1945–1968 (1995).
Andrew E. Busch, Truman’s Triumph: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America (2012).
Griffin Fariello, Red Scare: Memories of the
American Inquisition (1995).
Kari
Frederickson, The
Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932–1968 (2001).
Michael D. Gambone, The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran
in American Society (2005).
Ignacio M. García, Hector P. García:
In Relentless Pursuit of Justice (2002).
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2004).
Henry A. J. Ramos, The American GI Forum: In
Pursuit of the Dream,
1948–1983 (1998).
Ellen W. Schrecker, Many
Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998).
Ingrid Winther Scobie, Center
Stage: Helen Gahagan Douglas: A Life (1992).
Robert Shogan,
Harry Truman and the Struggle for
Racial Justice (2013).
Philippa Strum, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (2010).
Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (2006).
Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm
(1996).
Campbell Craig and Fredric Logevall,
America’s Cold War: The Politics
of Insecurity (2009).
Robert Dallek,
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of
Horror and Hope, 1945–1953 (2010).
Carolyn Eisenberg, Drawing the Line: The American
Decision to Divide
Germany, 1944–1949 (1996).
John L. Gaddis, The Cold
War: A New
History (2005).
Michael D. Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman,
Stalin, and the End of the Atomic
Monopoly. (2010).
Daniel F.
Harrington, Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift,
and the Early Cold War (2012).
Lawrence S. Kaplan, 1948: The Birth of the
Transatlantic Alliance (2007).
Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995).
Katherine A. S. Sibley, Red Spies in America:
Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004).
Bruce Cumings, The Korean War (2010).
Chae-Jin Lee, A Troubled
Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two
Koreas (2006).
Allen R. Millett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950:
A House Burning (2005).
———The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came
from the North (2010).
Michael Schaller, Altered States:
The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997).
Stanley Weintraub, MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero (2000).
Jeff Broadwater, Eisenhower and the Anti-
Communist Crusade (2010).
Dino A. Brugioni, Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA,
and Cold War Aerial Espionage (2010).
William M. McClenaham Jr. and William H. Becker, Eisenhower and
the Cold War Economy
(2011).
Yanek Mieczkowski,
Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment:
The Race
for Space
and World
Prestige (2013).
David A. Nichols, Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War (2011).
Jean Edward
Smith, Eisenhower: In War and
Peace (2012).
Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The
Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle
East (2004).
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Lizabeth Cohen,
A Consumers’ Republic: The
Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar
America (2003).
Gail Cooper, Air-Conditioning America:
Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960 (1998).
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United
States (1985).
Michael Johns, Moment
of Grace: The American
City in the 1950s (2002).
Fred Kaplan, 1959:
The
Year
Everything Changed (2009).
Tom Lewis, Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (1999).
David Oshinsky, Polio:
An American Story (2005).
GENDER, THE FAMILY, AND CULTURE
Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock ’n’
Roll Changed America (2004).
Erik Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television
(rev. ed., 1990).
Stephanie Coontz,
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip (1992).
Robert Ellwood, The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace:
American Religion in a Decade of Conflict (1997).
Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Playboy and the Making of the Good
Life in Modern America (Oxford, 2009).
James Gilbert, Men in the Middle: Searching
for Masculinity in the 1950s (2005).
James Howard Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1998).
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families
in the Cold War Era (1988).
Anna McCarthy, The Citizen
Machine: Governing
by Television in 1950s America (2010).
Lynn Spigel, Make Room
for
TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (1992).
Taylor Branch, Parting the
Waters: America in the
King Years,
1954–1963 (1988).
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold
War Civil Rights: Race and
the Image of American Democracy (2000).
Barbara Ransby, Ella
Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (2003).
Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998).
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial
Justice (2006).
Ari Berman,
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights
in America (2015).
John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: the Life and Times
of Bayard Rustin (2003).
Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s
Dream for a New America (2009).
Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999).
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011).
Barbara Ransby, Ella
Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (2003).
Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams
and the Roots of Black Power (1999).
POLITICS, POLICIES,
AND COURT DECISIONS
Robert Dallek,
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (2003).
Maurice Isserman
and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil
War of the 1960s
(2000).
Michael B. Katz, The Undeserving Poor: From the
War
on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1989).
Nancy MacLean,
Freedom Is Not Enough:
The Opening of the American
Workplace (2006).
Gerald Posner, Case Closed:
Lee Harvey Oswald
and the Assassination of JFK (1993).
Lucas A. Powe Jr., The Warren
Court and American Politics (2000).
John D. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution (2002).
Melvin Small,
The Presidency of Richard Nixon (2003).
Irwin Unger, The Best of Intentions: The Triumph
and Failure of the Great Society (1996).
Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American
Ambition (2006).
Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties (1995).
David Barber, A Hard Rain Fell:
SDS and Why It
Failed (2010).
Stefan M. Bradley, Harlem vs. Columbia
University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s (2009).
Daniel M. Cobb, Native Activism
in Cold War America: The Struggle
for Sovereignty (2008).
Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story
of the Struggle (2015).
Ian F. Haney López, Racism
on Trial: The Chicano
Fight for Justice (2003).
Daryl J. Maeda,
Chains of Babylon:
The Rise of Asian America
(2009).
Malcolm McLaughlin, The Long, Hot Summer of 1967:
Urban Rebellion in America (2014).
F. Arturo Rosales, Chicano! The History of the
Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1997).
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Chapter
29 – Vietnam & End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961-1975 |
FOREIGN POLICY UNDER KENNEDY,
JOHNSON, AND NIXON
Beth Bailey, America’s Army: Making the All-
Volunteer Force (2009).
H. W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon
Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995).
Robert Dallek,
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in
Power (2007).
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need Is Love: The
Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (1998).
Howard Jones, The Bay of Pigs (2008).
Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev,
and the
Most Dangerous Place on Earth (2011).
Margaret Macmillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed
the World (2007).
Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (1985).
Keith L. Nelson, The Making of Détente: Soviet-
American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam (1995).
Robert B. Rakove, Kennedy, Johnson,
and the Nonaligned World (2013).
Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow
of Vietnam (2003).
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution
and the
Rise of Détente (2003).
Mark
Philip Bradley, Vietnam
at War
(2009).
Arnold
R. Isaacs, Vietnam
Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy (1997).
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson,
and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000).
Jeffrey P. Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War
(1998).
A.
J.
Langguth, Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet
Ta:
A History of the War, 1954–1975 (2000).
Mark Atwood
Lawrence, The Vietnam
War: A Concise International History (2008).
------------------. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (2013).
Daniel S. Lucks, Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights
Movement and the Vietnam
War (2014).
David Maraniss, They Marched into Sunlight: War, Peace, Vietnam,
and America, October 1967 (2004).
James Willbanks, The Tet
Offensive: A Concise
History (2008).
Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American
Combat Soldiers in Vietnam (1993).
Kara Dixon Vuic, Officer, Nurse, Woman:
The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam
War (2010).
James E. Westheider, Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War (1997).
POLITICS AND THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam
War (2007).
Adam Garfinkle, Telltale Hearts:
The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Anti-War Movement
(1997).
Lewis L. Gould, 1968:
The Election That Changed
America (rev. ed., 2010).
Simon Hall, Rethinking the American Anti-War
Movement (2011).
Andrew E. Hunt, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans against
the War (1999).
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War
(1999).
Edward D. Berkowitz, Something Happened: A Political
and Cultural Overview
of the Seventies (2006).
Thomas Borstelman, The 1970s:
A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (2011).
Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980 (2010).
Burton I. Kaufman and Scott Kaufman,
The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (2006).
Robert Mason,
Richard Nixon
and the Quest
for a New Majority (2004).
Keith W. Olson, Watergate: The
Presidential Scandal
That
Shook America (2003).
James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005).
Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the
1980s (2015).
Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005).
Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A
History, 1974–2008 (2008).
Marc Ensalaco, Middle
Eastern Terrorism:
From Black September to September 11 (2008).
Scott Kaufman,
Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy
of the Carter Administration (2008).
William M. LeoGrande, Our
Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992
(1998).
Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United
States and the Middle East since 1945 (2002).
James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A
History of the End of the Cold
War (2009).
THE ECONOMY, ENERGY, AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
W. Carl Biven, Jimmy
Carter’s Economy: Policy
in an Age of Limits (2003).
Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race,
Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (2008).
Phillip J. Cooper, The War against
Regulation: From Jimmy Carter to George
W. Bush (2009).
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the
Last Days
of the Working Class (2010).
Samuel P. Hays, A
History of Environmental Politics since 1945 (2000).
John W. Sloan, The Reagan Effect: Economics and
Presidential Leadership
(1999).
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AND CONTESTS OVER RIGHTS
Terry H. Anderson,
The Pursuit
of Fairness: A
History of Affirmative Action (2004).
Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (2005).
J. Brooks Flippen, Jimmy Carter, the
Politics of
Family, and the Rise
of the Religious Right
(2011).
Bradford Martin,
The Other Eighties: A Secret
History of America in the Age of Reagan (2011).
Donald G. Mathews
and Jane Sherron De Hart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics
of the ERA (1990).
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the
New American Right (2001).
Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (2010).
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Chapter
31 – The Promises and Challenges of Globalization: Since 1989 |
DOMESTIC POLITICS,
POLICIES, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
Jonathan Alter, The Center Holds: Obama and His
Enemies (2013).
John F. Harris, The Survivor: Bill
Clinton in the
White House (2005).
John Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American
Odyssey of
George Herbert Walker
Bush (2015).
David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible
in America (2004).
Jean Edward Smith, Bush (2016).
Paul Starr, Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar
American Struggle over Health Care Reform (2011).
Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality (2012).
Frank D. Bean and Gillian Stevens, America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics
of
Diversity (2003).
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello,
and Brendan Smith, Globalization from Below (2000).
Otis L. Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History
of America’s Immigration Crisis (2004).
David M. Reimers, Other
Immigrants: The Global
Origins of the American People (2005).
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (2002).
FOREIGN POLICY
AFTER THE COLD WAR
Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities
and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
(2002).
Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, America
Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign
Policy (2003).
Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (2006).
David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace:
Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001).
James Mann, Rise
of the Vulcans: The
History of
Bush’s War Cabinet (2004).
Christopher Maynard, Out
of the Shadow: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (2008).
Richard Sale, Clinton’s Secret Wars: The Evolution
of a Commander in Chief
(2009).
TERRORISM AND THE AFGHAN AND IRAQ WARS
Peter Hahn, Missions Accomplished?: The United States and Iraq Since World
War I (2011).
Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires:
America’s War in Afghanistan (2009).
Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia
Movement and the Radical Right (2002).
George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (2005).
Joby Warrick, Black Flags: The Rise of Isis (2015).
Lawrence
Wright, The Terror
Years: From Al-Qaeda
to the Islamic State (2016).