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Modern American HistoryPolitical Economy and American Society, 1877 – PresentExaminer: Jeff WiltseHistoriographical OverviewFoner, Eric and Lisa McGirr, American History Now (2011)Gilded Age & Progressive EraOverviewsWiebe, Robert, The Search for Order: 1877 – 1920 (1966)Edwards, Rebecca, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865 – 1905 (2006)Lears, T.J. Jackson, Rebirth of Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877 – 1920 (2010)Ayers, Edward, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992)Rodgers, Daniel, “In Search of Progressivism,” Reviews in American History 10 (1982)Flanagan, Maureen, America Reformed: Progresses and Progressivisms, 1890 – 1920 (2006)Democracy, Law, & The StateBeckert, Sven, “‘Democracy and Its Discontents’: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York,” Past & Present (Feb., 2002)Cappazola, Christopher, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010)Clemens, Elisabeth, The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890 – 1925 (1997)Galambos, Louis, “The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History,” Business History Review (1970)Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896 – 1920 (1996)Horwitz, Morton, The Transformation of American Law, 1870 – 1960 (1992)Keller, Morton, Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America, (1977)Keller, Morton, Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900 – 1933 (1990)Keller, Morton, Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900 – 1933 (1994)Lopez, Ian Haney, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996)McGerr, Michael, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865 – 1928 (1986)Milkis, Sidney, ed., Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999)Novak, William, "The Legal Origins of the Modern American State." In Looking Back at Law's Century, edited by A. Sarat et al, 249-83 (2002)Pascoe, Peggy, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (2010)Postel, Charles, The Populist Vision (2007)Rodgers, Daniel, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (2000)Salyer, Lucy, Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law (1995)Shah, Nayan, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West (2012)Skowronek, Stephen, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982)Welke, Barbara, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865 – 1920 (2001)Willrich, Michael, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (2003)Willrich, Michael, Pox: An American History (2011)Witt, John Fabian, The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (2006)Social & Cultural ChangesBaldwin, Peter, Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850 – 1930 (1999)Bederman, Gail, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880 – 1917 (1995)Boyer, Paul, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820 – 1920 (1992)Flake, Kathleen, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (2004)Hays, Samuel, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890 - 1920 (1969)Jacoby, Karl, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (1998)Kelley, Robin D.G., “We Are Not What We Seem: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South” JAH (Jun., 1993)Orsi, Robert, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880 – 1950 (1985)Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)Shah, Nayan, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001)Wiltse, Jeff, Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America (2007)Industrialization, Labor, & CapitalAndrews, Thomas, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008)Beckert, Sven, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 – 1896 (2001)Chandler, Jr., Alfred, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, (1977)Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)Green, James, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded-Age America (2007)Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working Class and Social History (1973)Johnston, Robert, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003)Klein, Maury, The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870 – 1920 (2007)McCormick, Richard, “The Discovery that Business Corrupts Politics: A Reappraisal of the Origins of Progressivism,” AHR (Apr., 1981)Montgomery, David, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865 – 1925 (1988) Trachtenberg, Alan, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982)White, Richard, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of America (2011)The Twenties, Depression, and WarOverviewsDumenil, Lynn, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)Leuchtenberg, William, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932 – 1940 (1963)Kennedy, David, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004)Kennedy, David, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929 – 1945 (1999)Brinkley, Alan, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919 – 1939 (1991)Ernst, Daniel, Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900 -1940 (2014)Katznelson, Ira, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013)Scott-Smith, Jason, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933 – 1956 (2009)Canaday, Margot, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2009)Ngai, Mae, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2005)Steffes, Tracy, School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890 – 1940 (2012)Kruse, Kevin and Stephen Tuck, eds., Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (2012)Sparrow, James, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011)Postwar, Cold War, and the Rights RevolutionOverviewsGaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War: A New History (2006)Patterson, James T., Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945 – 1974 (1997)The Culture of Postwar CapitalismCohen, Lizabeth, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003)Cowie, Jefferson, Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (2001)Frank, Thomas, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism (1998)Phillips-Fein, Kim, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade against the New Deal (2009)Phillips-Fein, Kim and Julian Zelizer, eds., What’s Good for Business: Business and American Politics Since World War II (2012)Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (2012)Dudziak, Mary, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000)Goluboff, Risa, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2010)Graham, Hugh Davis, “Since 1964: The Paradox of American Civil Rights Regulation,” from Keller & Melnick, eds., Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century (1999)Katznelson, Ira, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in America (2006)Klarman, Michael, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006)Rossinow, Doug, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (1998)Sugrue, Thomas, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008)Tushnet, Mark, “The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century,” in The Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume III, 377 – 402.Wall, Wendy, Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008)Race and Class in City & SuburbKatznelson, Ira, City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (1983)Lassiter, Matthew, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2006)Self, Robert, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003)Sugrue, Thomas J., The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996)Formisano, Ronald, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (1991)Emergent EnvironmentalismMilzzo, Paul, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945 – 1972 (2006)Rome, Adam, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001)Deindustrialization, Conservatism, and Cultural Evolution since the 1970sOverviewsSchulman, Bruce, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (2002)Patterson, James T., Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2007)Rogers, Daniel, Age of Fracture (2011)Rosen, Ruth, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (2006)Dochuk, Darren, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (2012)Jackson, Kenneth, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985)Kruse, Kevin, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2007)McGirr, Lisa, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2002)Moreton, Bethany, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009)Self, Robert, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s (2012)Burgin, Angus, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (2012)Cowie, Jefferson, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010)McCartin, Joseph, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America (2013)Stein, Judith, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2011)Stein, Judith, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (1998) ................
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