Cambridge Pre-U History (9769)
Resource list for United States History Outlines c.1750–c.2005
The aim of this resource list is to provide some indication as to where resources are available to assist
schools in the teaching and resourcing for Cambridge Pre-U History (9769) Paper 3 United States History
Outlines c.1750–c.2005. This list is neither exhaustive nor prescriptive and is intended to provide guidance
as to how teachers and learners might select a range of resources.
Contents (Ctrl+Click to follow link)
The United States c.1750c.1865 ................................................................................................................... 2 Colonial political organization ........................................................................................................................ 2 The imperial crisis and origins of the American revolution ............................................................................ 2 The war for independence and the confederation period ............................................................................. 2 The constitution of 1787 ................................................................................................................................ 2 The Federalists .............................................................................................................................................. 2 The Jeffersonians .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Antebellum Northern Society......................................................................................................................... 2 Antebellum Southern Society ........................................................................................................................ 3 African-American culture beyond slavery ...................................................................................................... 3 American expansion after the northwest ordinance ...................................................................................... 3 Reform movements ....................................................................................................................................... 3 The second party system .............................................................................................................................. 3 Origins of the civil war ................................................................................................................................... 4 The civil war................................................................................................................................................... 4 The United States from c.1865 ....................................................................................................................... 4 Industrialization ............................................................................................................................................. 4 The west ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 Gender relations ............................................................................................................................................ 5 American intellectual culture ......................................................................................................................... 6 Religion.......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Immigration and ethnicity .............................................................................................................................. 7 Business and labour history .......................................................................................................................... 7 Popular culture .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Consumer culture .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Reconstruction .............................................................................................................................................. 9 The Third Party System and the Gilded Age................................................................................................. 9 Populism ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Segregation and its culture.......................................................................................................................... 10 Progressivism .............................................................................................................................................. 10 World War I home front and the 1920s ....................................................................................................... 11 The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II ............................................................................ 11 Foreign relations, 18651917...................................................................................................................... 12 World War I and Wilsonianism .................................................................................................................... 12 Isolation and war 19331945 ...................................................................................................................... 13 The Cold War .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Vietnam ....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Foreign relations since 1989 ....................................................................................................................... 15 Domestic politics 19451961 ...................................................................................................................... 15 The Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath ............................................................................................. 16 Domestic politics 19611981 ...................................................................................................................... 17 Domestic politics since 1981 ....................................................................................................................... 17 Multiculturalism 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The United States c.1750c.1865
Colonial political organization
J P Greene, Peripheries and Centre: Constitutional Development in the Extended Politics of the British
Empire and the United States 16071789 (University of Georgia Press 1986)
J R Pole, The Gift of Government: Political Responsibility from the English Restoration to American
Independence (University of Georgia Press 1983)
J P Greene and J R Pole, eds., Colonial British America (John Hopkins University Press 1984)
A Taylor, American Colonies (Viking/Penguin 2001)
The imperial crisis and origins of the American revolution
F Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of British Empire in North America,
17541766 (Vintage Books 2001)
J P Greene, The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits (New York University Press 1987)
J P Greene, Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors (University Press of Virginia 1995)
J P Greene and J R Pole, eds., A Companion to the American Revolution (Blackwell Publishing 2000)
J R Pole, The Decision for American Independence (Edward Arnold 1975)
The war for independence and the confederation period
R Hoffman and P Albert, eds., Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution
(University Press of Virginia 1984)
R B Morris, The Forging of the Union, 17811789 (Harper & Row 1987)
G S Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 17761787 (University of North Carolina Press 1969)
The constitution of 1787
A H Kelly et al., The American Constitution, Its Origins and Development (Norton 1991)
L Levy and D J Mahoney eds., The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution (MacMillan 1987)
J L Pasley, A Hamilton and J Jay, The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics 2003)
D Thelen ed., The Constitution and American Life: A Special Issue (Journal of American History 1987)
The Federalists
S Elkins and E McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (Oxford University Press 1993)
J F Hoadley, Origins of American Political Parties, 17891803 (University Press of Kentucky 1986)
G A Phelps, George Washington and American Constitutionalism (University Press Kansas 1993)
R Norton Smith, Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation (Houghton Mifflin 1993)
S Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy, Jefferson to Lincoln (W W Norton 2005)
The Jeffersonians
J J Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage Books 1998)
P Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (University of Virginia Press 1993)
R W Tucker and D Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (Oxford University
Press 1990)
Antebellum Northern Society
M P Ryan, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century
(University of California Press 1997)
R H Wiebe, The Segmented Society: An Introduction to the Meaning of America (Oxford University Press
1975)
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Antebellum Southern Society
J B Boles and E Nolan, eds., Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W.
Higginbotham (Louisiana State University Press 1987)
J William Harris, ed., Society and Culture in the Slave South (Routledge 1992)
B Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace and War, 1760s1890s (University of North
Carolina Press 2001)
African-American culture beyond slavery
G M Frederickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and
Destiny, 18171914 (Wesleyan University Press 1971)
L Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
(Oxford University Press 1977)
J M McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the
Union (Pantheon Books 1965)
W J Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 18501925 (Archon Books 1978)
P Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (University of North Carolina Press 2002)
E J Sundquest, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Harvard University Press
1993)
American expansion after the northwest ordinance
A S Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (Cambridge University Press
2005)
M A Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil
War (University of North Carolina Press 1997)
M-J Rossignol, The National Ferment: The Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy, 17891812 (Ohio State University
Press 2004)
A Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right (Hill and Wang 1995)
Reform movements
T Bender, ed., The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
(University of California Press 1992)
S Harrold, The Abolitionists and the South, 18311861 (University Press of Kentucky 1995)
R S Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
(University of North Carolina Press 2002)
J B Stewart, Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery (Hill & Wang 1976)
R G Walters, American Reformers, 18151860 (Hill & Wang 1978)
The second party system
D B Cole, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (University of Kansas Press 1993)
R E Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’ Rights and the Nullification Crisis (Oxford
University Press, USA 1987)
D Walker Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (University of Chicago Press 1979)
R L McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the Jacksonian Era (University of
North Carolina Press 1966)
R L McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the
Progressive Era (Oxford University Press 1986)
E Pessen, Jacksonian America: Society, Personality and Politics (University of Illinois Press 1969)
J H Silbey, The Partisan Imperative: The Dynamics of American Politics Before the Civil War (1985)
J H Silbey, The American Political Nation, 18381893 (Stanford University Press 1991)
H L Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (Hill & Wang 1990)
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Origins of the civil war
E Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
(Oxford University Press 1970)
M F Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (W W Norton 1978)
D M Potter, The Impending Crisis (Harper & Row 1976)
B Holden Reid, The Origins of the American Civil War (Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1996)
J Silbey, A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 18601868 (W W Norton 1977)
K M Stampp, The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War (Oxford University Press
1980)
R H Sewell, A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 18481865 (Johns Hopkins University Press
1988)
The civil war
R Carwardine, Lincoln (Longman 2003)
A Fahs and J Waugh, eds., The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina
Press 2004)
W W Freehling, The South vs the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil
War (Oxford University Press 2001)
Earl J Hess, Liberty, Virtue and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union (Fordham University
Press 1988)
J M McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press 1988)
J M McPherson, This Mighty Scourge (Oxford University Press 2007)
J M McPherson and William J Cooper, eds., Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (University of
South Carolina Press 1998)
G C Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics (University of North Carolina Press
The United States from c.1865
Industrialization
R F Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 18771900 (Cambridge University Press
2000)
S L Engerman and R.E Gallman eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States: Volume 2:
The Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press 1996)
H S Klein, A Population History of the United States (Cambridge University Press 2004)
K H O’Rourke and J G Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic
Economy (The MIT Press 1999)
The west
General
R V Hine and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretive History (Yale University Press
2000)
P Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (W W Norton & Co
1987)
Historiography
J Gitlin, G A Miles and W Cronon, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past (W.W.
Norton & Co 1992)
Native Americans
B W Dippie, The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy (Wesleyan 1982)
W E Washburn, The Indian in America (Harper & Row Publishers 1975)
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Gender relations
General
N F Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale University Press 1987)
M P Ryan, Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Franklin Watts 1979)
Nineteenth-century women
A Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (Knopf 1977)
Separate spheres, work and workplace resistance to 1920
K Anderson, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics Before the New Deal (University of
Chicago Press 1996)
C Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America (Oxford University Press USA 1981)
R Milkman ed., Women and Work Protest (Routledge and Keegan Paul 1985)
R Rosenberg, Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century (Hill & Wang 1993)
Domestic feminism, social reform, and suffrage
S Buechler, The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement (Rutgers 1986)
A F Davis, Spearheads for Reform: the Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement (Oxford
University Press 1967)
A S Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 18901920 (Columbia University Press 1981)
L Gordon ed., Women, the State and Welfare (University of Wisconsin Press 1990)
The politics of influence: Depression and the New Deal
W Chafe, The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and Political Roles, 19201970 (Oxford
University Press 1972)
J Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women (1965)
W D Wandersee, Women’s Work and Family Values (Harvard University Press 1981)
S Ware, Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s (Twayne Publishing 1984)
S Ware, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (Harvard University Press 1981)
World War II and stunted aspirations
D’Ann Campbell, Women at War with America (Harvard University Press 1984)
Gender and family
B Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (University of Massachusetts Press 1982)
S Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (Free Press 1988)
S Lynn, Progressive Women in Conservative Times (Rutgers University Press1992)
The Women’s Movement
V Crawford et al., eds, Women in the Civil Rights Movement (Carlson Publishing 1990)
S M Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press 1991)
D Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and
Modern Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press 1998)
The politics and achievement of the Women’s Movement
D Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The right to Privacy and the making of Roe v Wade (University of California
Press 1998)
C Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap (1990)
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American intellectual culture
General
T Bender, Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United
States (Johns Hopkins University Press 1993)
R Wightman Fox and J T Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell 1995)
J Higham and P K Conkin, eds. New Directions in American Intellectual History (John Hopkins University
Press 1979)
D Hollinger and C Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition, (Oxford University Press 2001)
L K Kerber, Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays (University of North Carolina Press 1997)
L Perry, Intellectual Life in America: A History (University of Chicago Press 1984)
Twentieth century
J T Kloppenberg, The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press 1998)
J Livingston, Pragmatism, Feminism and Democracy (Routledge 2001)
K Mattson, Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism 19451970
(Pennsylvania State University Press 2002)
R H Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and the 1950s
(Wesleyan 1989)
S L Pratt, Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (Indiana University Press 2002)
D Tallack, Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context (Longman 1991)
Black intellectual culture
W Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Ages of Black Nationalism, 18501925 (Shoe String Pr Inc. 1978)
D B Gordon, Black Identity: Rhetoric Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism (Southern Illinois
University Press 2003)
M Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America, 19001940 (Harvard University Press 2001)
D E Robinson, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought (Cambridge University Press 2001)
Religion
General
S Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (Yale University Press 1972)
P Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945: A History (Columbia University Press 2003)
J Butler et al, Religion in America: A Short History (Oxford University Press 2003)
P Goff and P Harvey eds., Themes in Religion and American Culture (University of North Carolina Press
2004)
G Marsden, Religion and American Culture (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing 1990)
Historiography
J F Wilson, Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History (University of Georgia Press
2003)
Protestant theology and intellectual culture
J A Carpenter, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (Oxford University Press
1997)
American Judaism
H Diner, The Jews of the United States, 16542000 (University of California Press 2004)
American Catholicism
J T Ellis and R Trisco, ‘A Guide to American Catholic History American Catholicism’, The Journal of
Ecclesiastical History Vol 34 1983. Published online 2011
African American religious culture
P E Johnson ed., African-American Christianity: Essays in History (University of California Press 1994)
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Immigration and ethnicity
General
J Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (University of Nebraska Press 1985)
R Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (Harper Perennial
1990)
N Foner, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press 2005)
A M Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 18801921 (Harlan Davidson 1982)
Ethnicity, race and nation
K Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State and National Identity (Stanford University Press
1996)
G Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press 2001)
J Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism (Atheneum 1963)
D S King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard
University Press 2000)
Immigration and ethnicity, 18201920
L Cohen, Making a New Deal (Cambridge University Press 1990)
R Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (University of Washington
Press 1988)
J Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Penguin 2000)
M D Harris, Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation (The University of North Carolina Press
2003)
L Kurashige and Alice Yang Murray, eds., Major Problems in Asian American History (Wadsworth Publishing
2003)
K A Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish (Oxford University Press 1985)
M Rischin ed., The Jews of North America (Wayne State University Press 1987)
Immigration and ethnicity since 1920
N Glazer and D PMoynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (MIT Press 1970)
Business and labour history
General
S L Engerman and R E Gallman, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the United States: Vol 3: The
Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press 1996)
Business
M French, US Economic History Since 1945 (Palgrave MacMillan 1997)
H Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (Knopf 1966)
Labour
S Babson, The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labour, 1877Present (Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1999)
D Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays in the Twentieth Century Struggle (Oxford University Press
1980)
L Fink, In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (University of
Illinois Press 1994)
H G Gutman, Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (Pantheon Books 1987)
N Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton University Press 2002)
B Nelson, Divided we Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (Princeton University
Press 2001)
Trade Unions and socialism
L Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (University of Illinois Press
1983)
J H M Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset, Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism
(University of California Press 1984)
R H Zeiger, American Workers, American Unions (The Johns Hopkins University Press 1994)
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Popular culture
General
S B Girgus ed., The American Self: Myth, Ideology and Popular Culture (University of New Mexico Press
1981)
M Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (Knopf 1999)
W L Van Deburg, Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture (University of Wisconsin Press 1984)
Music
D Andrew Ake, Jazz Cultures (University of California Press 2002)
P Friedlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History (Westview Press Inc. 1996)
P Townsend, Jazz in American Culture (Keele University Press 2000)
Film and television
D J Czitrom, Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (The University of North Carolina
Press 1982)
L May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (Chicago
University Press 1983)
Print culture
C N Davidson, ed., Reading in America: Literature and Social History (Johns Hopkins University Press
1989)
J Satterfield, The World’s Best Books: Taste, Culture and the Modern Library (University of Massachusetts
Press 2002)
Sports
E J Gorn and W J Goldstein, A Brief History of American Sports (Hill & Wang 1993)
M Oriard, Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture (Cambridge
University Press 1991)
American culture abroad
V de Grazia, Irrestible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (Belknap Press 2005)
R Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated and Transformed American Culture Since World
War II (Basic Books 1997)
Consumer culture
General
M Kammen, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (Knopf 1999)
1880s1920s
L Cohen, Making a New Deal (Cambridge University Press 1990)
D Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 18751940 (The
Johns Hopkins University 1985)
D T Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 18501920 (University of Chicago Press 1978)
S Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (Smithsonian 1989)
V Vinikas, Soft Soap, Hard Sell (Iowa State University Press 1992)
Post-1930
L Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage 2003)
D Halberstam, The Fifties (Ballantine Books 1993)
O Zunz, Why the American Century? (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
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Reconstruction
M Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 18631869
(Norton 1974)
I Berlin et al, eds., Free at Last A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War (New Press
1992)
D W Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press 2001)
D T Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South: 18651867
(Louisiana State University Press 1985)
L F Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (University of Illinois
Press 1997)
H H Hyman, A More Perfect Union: The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution
(Knopf 1973)
L Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (Alfred A Knopf 1979)
J M McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press 1988)
O H Olsen, Reconstruction and Redemption in the South (Louisiana State University Press 1980)
M Perman, Reunion without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 18651868 (Cambridge
University Press 1973)
M Perman, The Road to Redemption, Southern Politics, 18691890 (1984)
M Perman, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 18621879 (Harlan Davidson Inc. 1987)
A W Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Harper & Row
1971)
L Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South (Palgrave MacMillan
2005)
The Third Party System and the Gilded Age
General
D W Blight, Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press 2001)
N Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 18651914 (University of Northern Carolina 2002)
R L McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the
Progressive Era (Oxford University Press 1986), Parts 1 and 2
J Silbey, The American Political Nation, 18381893 (Stanford University Press 1991)
S Skownerek, The Politics Presidents make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton (Harvard University
Press 1997)
Aspects
R J Dinkin, Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices (Greenwood Press 1989)
J G Sproat, The “Best Men”: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (Oxford University Press 1968)
The theory of critical elections and party systems
W Dean Burnham, Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics (Norton 1970)
B Shafer, ed., The End of Realignment?: Interpreting American Electoral Eras (University of Wisconsin
Press 1991)
The ethnocultural interpretation
R Jensen, The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 188896 (University of Chicago Press
1971)
P Kleppner, The Third Electoral System, 18531892: Parties, voters and political cultures (University of
North Carolina Press 1979)
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Populism
General
L Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (Oxford University Press 1976)
M Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (Cornell University Press 1995; 1998)
R C McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 18771898 (Hill & Wang 1993)
Historiography
L Goodwyn, The Populist Moment (Oxford University Press 1978)
R Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR (Knopf 1955)
Economics
D C North, Growth and Welfare in the American Past (Prentice Hall College 1966)
Segregation and its culture
General
E L Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Oxford University Press 1992)
W Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Harvard University Press 2005)
J E Dailey, G E Gilmore and B Simon, eds., Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil
Rights (Princeton University Press 2000)
G E Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 18901940 (Vintage Books 1998)
H N Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 18651890 (Oxford University Press 1978)
R J Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery (Belknap Press 2005)
M M Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (The University of North Carolina
Press 2006)
C.Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, (Oxford University Press 1974)
Whites
S D Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The University of North Carolina
Press 2000)
J Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage, Restriction and the Establishment of the
One-Party South 18801910 (Yale University Press 1975)
M Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 18881908 (University of North Carolina
Press 2001)
J Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
(University of North Carolina Press 2002)
African Americans
W H Chafe et al, eds, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the Segregated South
(New Press 2001)
A Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 18902000 (Penguin 2001)
S Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great
Migration (Belknap Press 2003)
L F Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 17901860 (University of Chicago Press 1961)
L F Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Knopf 1998)
Progressivism
Overviews
A Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (Harvard University Press 1991)
S Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (Hill & Wang 1998)
O L Graham, The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 19001928 (Prentice Hall 1971)
A S Link and Richard McCormick, Progressivism (Harlan Davidson 1983)
J A Thompson, Progressivism (Keele University Press 1983)
Interpretations
G Gilmore, Who Were the Progressives? (Palgrave Macmillan 2002)
R Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (Vintage 1955)
G Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism, 19001916 (Free Press 1963)
R H Wiebe, The Search for Order, 18771920 (Greenwood Publishing Group 1967)
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The rise of big business and the demand for regulation
J Braeman, ‘The Square Deal In Action’ in J Braeman et al, eds., Change and Continuity in TwentiethCentury America (Ohio State University 1964)
M Keller, Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 19001933 (Harvard
University Press 1990)
G Porter, The Rise of Big Business (Harlan Davidson 1973)
M J Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 18901916: The Market, the Law and
Politics (Cambridge University Press 1988)
Other aspects
J D Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (Charles Scribner’s Sons 1973)
K Austin Kerr, Organized for Prohibition (Yale University Press 1985)
W A Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 18801930 (University of North Carolina Press 1992)
E Sanders, Root of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 18771917 (University of Chicago
Press 1999)
J A Thompson, Reformers and War (Cambridge University Press 1987)
World War I home front and the 1920s
General
J Braeman et al, eds., Change and Continuity in Twentieth-century America: the 1920s (Ohio State
University Press 1968)
L Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (Hill and Wang 1995)
D M Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (Oxford University Press 1980)
P Kleppner, Continuity and Change in Electoral Politics, 18931928 (Greenwood Press 1987)
W E Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 19141932 (University of Chicago Press rev. 1993, 1958)
J Potter, The American Economy Between the World Wars (Macmillan 1974)
R Ziegler, America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience (Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers, Inc. 2000)
Progressivism in the 1920s
O L Graham, The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 19001928 (Prentice Hall 1971)
Ethnocultural Tensions
N Maclean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press
1994)
R K Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 191920 (University of Minnesota Press 1955)
The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II
General
A J Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years 19331940 (Ivan R Dee 1990)
R Edsforth, The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression (Wiley Blackwell 2000)
D M Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 19291945 (Oxford
University Press 1999)
W E Leuchtenburg, Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal (Harper Perennial 1963)
W E Leuchtenburg, The FDR Years: on Roosevelt and His Legacy (Columbia University Press 1995)
P Maney, The Roosevelt Presence (Twayne Publishers 1992)
R S McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 192941 (Three Rivers Press 1985)
G McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (University Press of Kansas 2000)
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
M Bernstein, The Great Depression (Cambridge University Press c.1987)
D Burner, Herbert Hoover: a Public Life (Knopf 1979)
The New Deal
A Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Vintage 1995)
W H Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies (Columbia
University Press 2003)
S Fraser and G Gerstle eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (Princeton University Press 1989)
T Rosenof, New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies 19331993 (University of North Carolina Press 2009)
J Schwarz, The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (Vintage 1993)
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The Third New Deal
B D Karl, The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915 to 1945 (University of Chicago Press 1983)
S Milkis, The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System since the New
Deal (Oxford University Press 1993)
World War II
J M Blum, V was for Victory: Politics and Culture during World War II (Mariner Books 1976)
A Brinkley, The End of Reform (Vintage Books 1995)
J W Jefferies, Wartime America: the World War II home front (Ivan R Dee 1996)
R Polenberg, War and Society: The United States 194145 (Longman Higher Education 1972)
Foreign relations, 18651917
War, expansion, and manifest destiny in the nineteenth century
W H Becker and Samuel Wells, eds., Economics and World Power (Columbia University Press 1984)
R L Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 18651900 (AHM Publishing1975)
W LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 18601898 (Cornell University
Press 1963)
E R May, Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power (Imprint 1961)
A Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansionism and the Empire of Right (Hill & Wang 1996)
Imperialism
L L Gould, The Spanish-American War and President McKinley (University Press of Kansas 1982)
P T McCartney, Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American
Imperialism (Louisiana State University Press 2006)
F Ninkovich, The United States and Imperialism (Wiley-Blackwell 2001)
W Zimmerman, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made their Country a World Power (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux 2002)
Theodore Roosevelt
R H Collin, Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy and Expansion: A New View of American Imperialism
(Louisiana State University Press 1985)
S Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire (University of
Chicago Press 2003)
Dollar diplomacy
E S Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream (Hill & Wang 1982)
World War I and Wilsonianism
Woodrow Wilson and the war
L Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition (Cambridge University Press 1987)
J Milton Cooper, Jr., The Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World War, 19141917
(Greenwood Publishing Corporation 1969)
T J Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (Oxford University
Press 1992)
A S Link, Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace (AHM Publishing 1979)
F Ninkovich, The Wilsonian Century: U.S Foreign Policy since 1900 (University of Chicago Press 1999)
J A Thompson, Woodrow Wilson (Longman 2002)
19201933
P Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I (Cambridge University Press 2006)
F Costigliola, Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe,
19191933 (Cornell University Press 1984)
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Isolation and war 19331945
From isolationism and appeasement to intervention, 19331941
S Casey, Cautious Crusade: Franklin D Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi
Germany (Oxford University Press 2001)
W S Cole, Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 193245 (University of Nebraska Press 1983)
R Dallek, Franklin D Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, (Oxford University Press 1979; 1995)
A Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Longman 1987)
M Jonas, Isolationism in America (Cornell University Press 1966)
G McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (University Press of Kansas 2000)
A A Offner, American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 19331938 (Harvard
University Press 1969)
A A Offner, The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 19171941
(Praeger 1975)
D Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor (Ivan R Dee 2001)
World War II 19411945
M C C Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press 1994)
R Dallek, Franklin D Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press 1979; 1995)
R A Divine, Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America during World War II (Atheneum
1967)
R A Divine, Roosevelt and World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press 1969)
G R Hess, The United States at War, 19411945, (Harlan Davidson 2000)
W L O’Neill, A Democracy at War: America’s First Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (Harvard
University Press 1993)
D Reynolds, W F Kimball and A O Chubarian eds., Allies at War (Palgrave MacMillan 1994)
G L Weinberg, A World at Arms (Cambridge University Press 1994)
The Cold War
General
W I Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power (Cambridge University Press 1993)
R Crockatt, The Fifty Years War (Routledge 1995)
J Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (Oxford University Press 1982; 2005)
J Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War (Oxford University Press 1987)
J Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Clarendon Press 1997)
J Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War (Allen Lane 2006)
D Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945 (Penguin 2000)
M Sewell, The Cold War (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Origins
J Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War (University
of North Carolina Press 2000)
J Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War (Penguin 1972)
M J Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S Truman and the Origins of the National Security State (Cambridge
University Press 1998)
M P Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
(Stanford University Press 1992)
The Korean war
P M Edwards, To Acknowledge a War: The Korean War in American Memory (Greenwood Press 2000)
J Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (Oxford University Press 1982; 2005)
B I Kaufman, The Korean Conflict (Greenwood Publishing Group 1999)
W Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton University Press 1995)
Eisenhower, dulles, and the new look
R Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War (Oxford University Press 1981)
R H Immerman, ed., John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (Princeton University Press
1990)
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Kennedy, Johnson, and flexible response
M R Beschloss, Kennedy v. Khruschev: The Crisis Years, 196063 (Harper Collins 1991)
H W Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (Oxford
University Press 1995)
W I Cohen and N Bernkopf Tucker, eds., Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy,
19631968 (Cambridge University Press 1994)
T G Paterson, ed., Kennedy’s Quest for Victory (Oxford University Press 1989)
T A Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard University Press 2003)
Nixon, Kissinger, Ford and Détente
R L Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan, (Brookings
Institution 1994)
J RGreene, The Presidency of G R Ford (University Press of Kansas 1995)
H Kissenger, White House Years (Brown Little 1979)
H Kissenger, Years of Upheaval (Brown Little 1982)
H Kissenger, Years of Renewal (Brown Little 1999)
M Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (University Press of Kansas 1999)
J Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Harvard University Press 2003)
Jimmy Carter
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J Dumbrell, American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (MacMillan Press 1997)
B I.Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (University Press of Kansas 1993)
Ronald Reagan
B A Fischer, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (University of Missouri
Press 1997)
F FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War (Simon &
Schuster 2000)
J Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the End of the Cold War (Oxford University Press 1992)
J M Scott, Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy (Duke University Press
1996)
Vietnam
Overviews and historiography
G C Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 19501975 (McGraw-Hill 1996; 2002)
G R Hess, Explaining America’s Lost War (Wiley-Blackwell 2008)
M H Hunt, Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 19451968 (Hill & Wang 1996)
R S McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Crown 1995)
M Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 19541965 (Cambridge University Press 2006)
R Schulzinger, A Time for War, 19411975 (Oxford University Press 1997)
M B Young, The Vietnam Wars, 19451990 (Harper Perennial 1991)
Roots: FDR to Eisenhower
M Philip Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 19191950
(University of North Carolina Press 2000)
A J Rotter, The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to South-East Asia (Cornell
University Press 1987)
Causes: JFK and LBJ
L Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (Oxford University Press 2000)
F Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (University of
California Press 1999)
B VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (Oxford
University Press 1991)
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The Vietnam war
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L Berman, No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam (Touchstone 2002)
M J Gilbert, ed., Why the North Won the Vietnam War (MacMillan 2002)
G C Herring, LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (University of Texas Press 1994)
J Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (University Press of Kansas 1998)
L Sorley, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam
(Harcourt 1999)
The war at home
S Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (University of
Pennsylvania Press 2005)
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1999)
D W Levy, The Debate Over Vietnam (Johns Hopkins University Press 1991; 1995)
T Wells, The War Within: America’s Battle Over Vietnam (Backinprint.com 1994)
Foreign relations since 1989
A Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences and U.S Diplomacy (Harvard University
Press 2002)
H W Brands, ed., The Use of Force after the Cold War (Texas A&M University Press 2000)
F Cameron, US Foreign Policy after the Cold Ear: Global Hegemon or Reluctant Sheriff? (Routledge 2002)
J Dumbrell, American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (Harvard University Press 1997)
D Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (Scribner 2001)
J M Scott, ed., After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold-War World (Duke University
Press 1998)
Domestic politics 19451961
General
A Hamby, Liberalism and Its Challengers (Oxford University Press 1992)
W E Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (Cornell University Press 1993)
J T Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 19451974 (Oxford University Press 1997)
R H Bremner and Gary W Reichard, eds., Reshaping America: Society and Institutions, 19451960 (Ohio
State University Press 1982)
Truman and the Fair Deal
R Ferrell, Harry S Truman: A Life (University of Missouri 1994)
R Ferrell, Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism (University of Missouri Press
1973)
A Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman (Oxford University Press 1995)
D McCullough, Truman (Simon & Schuster 1992)
McCarthyism
J Broadwater, Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade (University of North Carolina Press 1992)
D Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge under Truman and Eisenhower (Simon and Schuster
1978)
R Fried, Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press USA 1991)
J E Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace: American Communism and Anti-Communism in the Cold War Era
(Ivan R Dee, Inc 1996)
M Heale, American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within (The Johns Hopkins University Press
1990)
M Heale, McCarthy’s Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 19351965 (Palgrave Macmillan
1998)
T G Paterson, Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (Oxford University Press Inc, USA 1989)
S J Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War: American Moment (The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990
and 1996)
T Wicker, Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (Harcourt 2006)
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Eisenhower
D Halberstam, The Fifties (Villard Books 1993)
A Hamby, Liberalism and Its Challengers (Oxford University Press USA 1992)
W E Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow of FDR (Cornell University Press 1993)
The Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath
Overviews
R Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty?: African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
(Longman 1988)
S Lawson and C Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1991)
H Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc 1993)
Origins
T Badger and B Ward eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (Palgrave
Macmillan 1996)
P Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (The University of North Carolina Press 2000)
K A Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 19321968 (The University of North
Carolina Press 2001)
R Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press 2002)
A Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (Free Press
1984)
J White, Black Leadership in America (Longman 1985)
Civil Rights Movement
J Bloom, Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (Indiana University Press 1987)
V Crawford et al., Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers (Indiana University
Press 1990)
R H King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (University of Georgia Press1992)
M Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion (The University Press of Virginia 1991)
T Ownby, ed., The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South (University Press of Mississippi 2002)
A Robinson and Pat Sullivan, eds., New Directions in Civil Rights Studies (University of Virginia 1991)
J M Washington, ed., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.)
(Harper Collins 1990)
The Influence of foreign relations
T Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Harvard
University Press, 2009)
M Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press
2000)
S Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (University of
Pennsylvania Press 2005)
B Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 19451988 (The
University of North Carolina Press 2003)
J Rosenberg, How Far The Promised Land: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the
First World War to Vietnam (Princeton University Press 2005)
Black Power
P S Foner, ed., The Black Panthers Speak (Haymarket Books 2014)
C E Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered) (Robert Beard Books 2005)
P E Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (Routledge
2006)
J O G Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (Johns Hopkins University Press
2005)
T B Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of N. Carolina
Press 2001)
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Domestic politics 19611981
General
J M Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 19611974 (W W Norton & Company1993)
D Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (Hill & Wang 1994)
G Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (Princeton University Press
2006)
M Hamilton Lytle, America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (OUP USA
2006)
J T Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 19451974 (OUP USA 1998)
J T Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (OUP USA 2007)
I Unger, The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson and
Nixon (Doubleday 1996)
Kennedy, Johnson, and Wallace
D T Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the
Transformation of American Politics (Louisiana State University Press 1995)
D T Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich (Louisiana State University Press 1997)
R Dallek Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 19611973 (Oxford University Press1999)
R Dallek John F Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 19171963 (Penguin 2013)
D Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Andre Deutsch Ltd 1976)
The Great Society and the War on Poverty
J A Andrew III, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (Ivan R Dee 1999)
E Berkowitz, America’s Welfare State: from Roosevelt to Reagan (John Hopkins University Press 1991)
M Grinspan ed., The Great Society Revisited: Success, Failure or Remorse? (Rhodes College 1993)
I Katznelson, ‘Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?’ in Fraser and Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the
New Deal Order (Princeton University Press 1990)
C Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 19501980 (Basic Books 2015)
JT Patterson, America’s Struggle Against Poverty (Harvard University Press 2000)
Nixon, Watergate, and the Emerging Republican Majority
D Greenberg, Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (W W Norton & Company 2004)
J R Greene, The Limits of Power: the Nixon and Ford Administrations (Indiana University Press 1992)
J Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered (Basic Books 1995)
S Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (W W Norton & Company 1999)
M Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (University Press of Kansas 2003)
Jimmy Carter
G M Fink and Hugh Davis Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency (University Press of Kansas 2001)
Domestic politics since 1981
General
G Hodgson, More Equal than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century (Princeton University Press
2006)
J T Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (OUP USA 2007)
Ronald Regan
T Edsall and S Blumenthal, ed., The Reagan Legacy (Pantheon 1988)
A L Hamby, Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F D R to Bush (Oxford University Press 1992)
D Hill et al., The Reagan Presidency: An Incomplete Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan 1990)
D Mervin, Ronald Reaga: The American Presidency (Routledge 1990)
M Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and its Presidents in the 1980s (Oxford University Press 1994)
The Rights Revolution
D T Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race and the Counterrevolution 196394 (Louisiana
State University Press 1997)
D M O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (W W Norton 2014)
C R Sunstein, After The Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State (Harvard University Press
1993)
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The new political order
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Kansas 2000)
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Littlefield 2001)
J C Bivins, The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics (The
University of North Carolina 2003)
T Frank, What’s the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right (Vintage 2006)
J R Greene, The Presidency of George Bush (University Press of Kansas 2000)
J Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Why American is Different (Penguin 2005)
B Shafer ed., The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras (University of Wisconsin 1991)
Multiculturalism
Identity politics
D R Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (Louisiana State
University Press 2013)
T Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (Owl Books, US 1997)
J Higham, Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture (Yale University Press 2001)
D A Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Basic Books 2006)
C E Rodriguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity (New York University Press
2000)
A Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (W W Norton &
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Education
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H Brogan, History of the United States (Penguin 2005)
P Johnson, A History of the American People (Phoenix 1997)
H Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Longman 2003)
N Lowe Mastering Modern World History and Mastering Modern United States History (Palgrave, Macmillan
2005)
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