HIST 608, Winter 2011
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.
McClay, Wilfred M. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
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., and Vicki Ruíz, eds. American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Lytle Hernandez, Kelly, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. Berkeley University of California Press, 2010.
Pegler-Gordon, Anna. In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
THE REFORM TRADITION THROUGH THE NEW DEAL, WORLD WAR II, AND BEYOND
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.
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.
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.
SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE CHANGING PUBLIC SPHERE
Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
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.
O'Connor, Alice. Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Public Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
RACE, SEX, LAW, AND SCIENCE
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.
Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Welke, Barbara Young. Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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
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.
Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Plant, Rebecca Jo. Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America. Chicago: The University of Chicago 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
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.
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.
THE MODERN HISTORICAL PROFESSION
Appleby, Joyce Oldham, Lynn Avery Hunt, and Margaret C. Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. New York: Norton, 1994.
Brown, David S. Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Cook, James W., Lawrence B. Glickman, and Michael O'Malley, eds. The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" And the American Historical Profession. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Tyrrell, Ian R. Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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