Field: Modern American History, 1815-1975



U.S. History Since 1815

Professor Nancy Cott

Synthesis & Overview

1. Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (1994)

2. Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color (1998)

3. Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2001)

4. Thomas Bender, A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (2006)

5. Jon Butler et al., Religion in American Life: A Short History (2011)

6. Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (2013)

Antebellum U.S. (1st Industrial Rev., Jacksonian Democracy, Slavery, Market Revolution)

7. Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1976)

8. Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York and the Rise of the Working Class 1788-1850 (1984)

9. Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire (1985)

10. David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)

11. Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991)

12. Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995)

13. Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of Antebellum S. Carolina (1995)

14. Patrick Wolfe, “Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race” AHR 106:3 (2001)

15. Manisha Sinha, “Eugene Genovese: The Mind of a Marxist Conservative,” Radical History Review 88 (2004)

16. Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2005)

17. Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2005)

18. Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007)

19. Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (2008)

20. Anne Hyde, Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West 1800-1860 (2011)

21. Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013)

Civil War and Reconstruction

22. Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World – Chapter 3, “The American Civil War: The Last Capitalist Revolution” (1966)

23. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (1970/1995)

24. David Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976)

25. James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)

26. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)

27. Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Era of Slave Emancipation (1998)

28. Tera W. Hunter, To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War (1998)

29. David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001)

30. Steven Hahn, A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003)

31. Sven Beckert, “Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War” American Historical Review (2004)

National Consolidation & Conquest (2nd Industrial Rev., Taking the West, Urbanization, Imperialism)

32. Herbert Gutman, “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919,” AHR 78:3 (1973)

33. Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)

34. Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)

35. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)

36. Eliot West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998)

37. Sven Beckert, Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001)

38. Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the U.S. and the Philippines (2006)

39. Thomas Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008)

40. Louis A. Pérez, Jr., Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (2008)

41. Julie Greene, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal (2009)

42. Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011)

43. Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith, eds. Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012)

Reform Era and Jim Crow

44. Daniel Rodgers, “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History, 10 (1982)

45. Linda Gordon, Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (1994)

46. Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era (1988)

47. Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)

48. Daniel Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998)

49. Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The U.S. Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad (2005)

50. Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (2006)

51. Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (2007)

52. Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (2009)

53. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2011)

Two World Wars and the Interwar Period

54. Bruce Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1970 (1991)

55. Robin Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994)

56. Peggy Pascoe, “Miscegenation Law, Court Cases and Ideologies of ‘Race’ in 20th-Century America,” JAH (1996)

57. David Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999)

58. Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism 1915-1940 (2001)

59. Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (2003)

60. Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004)

61. Margot Canaday, “Heterosexuality as a Legal Regime” in The Cambridge History of Law in America, vol. 3 (2008), eds. Michael Grossberg and Chris Tomlins

62. Jefferson Cowie and Nick Salvatore, “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History,” ILWCH 74 (2008)

63. Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in 20th Century America (2009)

64. Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013)

Postwar Society & Politics

65. Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race, Industrial Decline, and Housing in Detroit, 1940-1960 (1996)

66. James N. Gregory, "Southernizing the American Working Class: Postwar Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation," Labor History 39:2 (1998), 135-68.

67. Melvyn Leffler, “The Cold War: What Do 'We Now Know'?" AHR 104:2 (Apr. 1999)

68. Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2001)

69. Lizabeth Cohen, Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)

70. Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Intervention and the Making of Our Times (2005)

Civil Rights and Sixties Social Movements

71. Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000)

72. Becky Thompson; “Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism,” Feminist Studies 28:2 (Summer 2002)

73. Premilla Nadasen, “Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights,” Feminist Studies 28:2 (2002)

74. Robert Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)

75. Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003)

76. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History, 91 (March 2005)

77. Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement (2010)

78. Kevin Mumford, “The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982,” JAH 98 (2011)

79. Robert Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s (2012)

80. Robert Self, "Bodies Count: The Sixties Body in American Politics," in The Long 1968, ed. A. Aneesh (2013)

Late Twentieth Century Society and Politics (1970s crisis, 1980s, Neoliberalism)

81. Rosalind Petchesky, "Antiabortion, Antifeminism, and the Rise of the New Right," Feminist Studies 7:2 (Summer 1981)

82. Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)

83. Jeremi Suri, "Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?" Journal of Cold War Studies, 4:4 (Fall 2002)

84. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)

85. Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)

86. Jodi Melamed, “The Spirit of Neoliberalism: From Racial Liberalism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism,” Social Text (2006)

87. Darren Dochuk, "Evangelicalism Becomes Southern, Politics Becomes Evangelical," Religion and American Politics from the Colonial Period to the Present (2007)

88. Nancy Maclean, "Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: the Regional Origins of American Neoliberalism," in New Landscapes of Inequality, ed. Jane L. Collins et al., (2008)

89. Heather Thompson, “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History,” The Journal of American History 97, No. 3 (December 2010)

90. Kimberly Phillips-Fein, "Conservatism: A State of the Field," JAH 98:3 (Dec. 2011)

91. Daniel Rodgers, Age of Fracture (2012)

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