Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon

Professor
Department of History
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1288
541-346-3118


eherman@uoregon.edu

 

HIST 608, Spring 2013
Recommended Reading

 

MODERNITIES

Everdell, William R. The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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

Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000.

IMMIGRATION

Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Barkan, Elliott Robert. From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Gabaccia, Donna R. Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Pegler-Gordon, Anna. In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

REFORMS AND REFORMERS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE NEW DEAL

Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

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

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

Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.

Jacobs, Margaret D. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Knight, Louise W. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Selig, Diana. Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

THE NATIONAL, THE INTERNATIONAL, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL

Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Hoganson, Kristin L. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Suri, Jeremi. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2003.

Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

KNOWLEDGE POLITICS, KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS

Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Igo, Sarah E. The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Lasch, Christopher. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.

Lemann, Nicholas. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Menand, Louis. The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

O'Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Public Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

RIGHTS, IDENTITIES, AND CULTURE WARS

Cott, Nancy. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Goluboff, Risa Lauren. The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

HoSang, Daniel. Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.

Mayeri, Serena. Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Welke, Barbara Young. Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

CONSUMPTION, POLITICS, AND RELIGION

Burns, Jennifer. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Kornbluh, Felicia. The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

D'Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Duggan, Lisa. Saphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity. Durham, NH: Duke University Press, 2000.

Kline, Wendy. Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Stein, Marc. Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Summers, Martin Anthony. Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

CITIES IN CRISIS

Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Freund, David M. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Klingle, Matthew W. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Kurashige, Scott. The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Perales, Monica. Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Schneider, Eric C. Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

NEW DIRECTIONS: BODIES

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage, 1997.

McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

O'Brien, Ruth. Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Reagan, Leslie J. Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010

Reis, Elizabeth. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Serlin, David. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.