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SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY HIST 177: INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1877-1920
PROF. GENDZEL
BOOK REVIEW READING LIST – SPRING 2015 ONLY NEW SOUTH & OLD WEST Adams, Kevin. Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-
1890 (2009) Ambrose, Stephen A. Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American
Warriors (1975) Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1992) Ayers, Edward L. Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877-1906
(1995) Blair, William A. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the
South, 1865-1914 (2004) Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
(1970) Calhoun, Charles W. Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the
Southern Question, 1869-1900 (2006) Censer, Jane. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895 (2003) Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star (1984) [about Custer and Little Big Horn] Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and
Reconstruction (2002) Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns (1968) Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers’ Frontier, 1865-1900 (1966) Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the
Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (1987) Frantz, Joe B., and Julian E. Choate, Jr., The American Cowboy: The Myth and the
Reality (1955) Fritz, Henry E. The Movement for Indian Assimilation, 1860-1890 (1963) Gaston, Paul M. The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (1970) Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, et al. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
(1987) Hearden, Patrick J. Independence and Empire: The New South's Cotton Mill
Campaign, 1865-1901 (1982) Hine, Robert V. Community on the American Frontier (1980) Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-
1920 (1984) Jacoby, Karl. Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
(2009)
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Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Frontier Women: “Civilizing” the West, 1840-1880 (Rev. ed., 1998) Lemann, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006) Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the
American West (1987) Mardock, Robert W. The Reformers and the American Indian (1971) May, Dean L. Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-
1900 (1994) Newby, I. A. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence,
1880-1915 (1989) Nieman, Donald G. From Slavery to Sharecropping: White Land and Black Labor in the
Rural South, 1865-1900 (1994) Painter, Nell Irvin. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction (1976) Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisementi n the South, 1888-1908
(2001) Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in
the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Richardson, Heather Cox. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after
the Civil War (2007) Robbins, William C. Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American
West (1994) Royce, Edward. The Origins of Southern Sharecropping (1993) Senier, Siobhan. Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt
Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard (2001) Silber, Nina. Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993) Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of
Industrialization (1994) Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (1993) Utley, Robert M. The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890 (Rev. ed., 2003) Utley, Robert M. Last Days of the Sioux Nation (Rev. ed., 2004) Welch, James, with Paul Stekler. Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the
Fate of the Plains Indians (1994) Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951) Woodward. C. Vann. Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of
Reconstruction (1956) Wooster, Robert Allen. The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903 (1988) INDUSTRY, BUSINESS & LABOR Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy (1984) Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago’s Packinghouse Workers,
1894-1922 (1987) Beatty, Jack. The Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
(2007) Bellesiles, Michael A. 1877: The Year of Living Violently (2010) Brands, H. W. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010) Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American
Business (1977)
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Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan (1990) Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) Cochran, Thomas C., and William Miller. The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of
Industrial America (Rev. ed., 1961) Currarino, Rosanne. The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the
Gilded Age (2011) Dubofsky, Melvyn. Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920 (3rd ed., 1996) Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
(1983) Foner, Philip S. The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor, 1900-
1909 (1964) Foner, Philip S. The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917 (1965) Foner, Philip S. The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 (1977) Foner, Philip S. The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915 (1980) Goldstene, Clare. The Struggle for America’s Promise: Equal Opportunity at the Dawn
of Corporate Capital (2014) Green, James R. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor
Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006) Greene, Julie. Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and
Political Activism, 1881-1917 (1998) Grob, Gerald N. Workers and Utopia: A Study of Ideological Conflict in the American
Labor Movement, 1864-1900 (1969) Gutman, Herbert. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America (1976) Hacker, Louis Morton. The World of Andrew Carnegie (1968) Haydu, Jeffrey. Citizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and
San Francisco, 1870-1916 (2008) Husband, Julie, and Jim O’Loughlin. Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-
1900 (2004) Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901
(1934) Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of
Efficiency (1995) Kirkland, Edward C. Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900
(1956) Kirkland, Edward C. Industry Comes of Age: Business, Labor, and Public Policy, 1860-
1897 (1967) Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1983) Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman (2000) Klein, Maury. The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870-1920 (2007) Klein, Maury. The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented
Modern America (2008) Krause, Paul. The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892 (1992) Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of
Consumer Marketing (1998) Laurie, Bruce. Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America (1989)
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Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993)
Livesay, Harold. Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (2nd ed., 2000) Lukas, J. Anthony. Big Trouble (1997) Mink, Gwendolyn. Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development:
Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (1986) Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and
American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (1987) Montgomery, David. Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States
with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century (1993) Nelson, Bruce C. Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago’s Anarchists, 1870-
1900 (1988) Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory
System in the United States, 1880-1920 (2nd ed., 1995) Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management (1980) Noble, David F. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate
Capitalism (1977) Phelan, Craig. Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor
(2000) Piott, Steven L. The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big
Business in the Midwest (1985) Rodgers, Daniel T. The Work Ethic in Industrializing America, 1850-1920 (1978) Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial
City, 1870-1920 (1983) Roy, William G. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in
America (1997) Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier (1999) Tone, Andrea. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive
America (1997) Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded
Age (1982) Voss, Kim. The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class
Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1993) Wolff, Leon. Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 (1965) Wyman, Mark. Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution (1979) Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 (1990) IMMIGRATION & NATIVISM Alexander, June Granatir. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 (2007) Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in
Japanese America (2005) Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985) Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (2009) Chen, Yong. Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community (2000) Daniels, Roger. Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (1997)
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Diner, Hasia. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2001)
Ewen, Elizabeth. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925 (1985)
Gabaccia, Donna. Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians become American Workers (1988)
Glenn, Susan. Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1990)
Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1998) Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the
American People (1951) Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1865-1925
(1955) Higham, John. Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (Rev. ed., 1984) Howe, Irving. World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to
America (1976) Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-
1924 (1988) Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the
Alchemy of Race (1998) Kessner, Thomas. The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Mobility in New York City,
1880-1915 (1977) Klapper, Melissa R. Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in
America, 1880-1925 (2007) Kraut, Alan M. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921,
2nd ed. (2001) Lederhendler, Eli. Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From
Caste to Class (2009) Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-
1943 (2003) Lynch-Brennan, Margaret. The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic
Service in America, 1840-1930 (2009) Nelli, Humbert. The Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility (1970) Nugent, Walter T. K. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 (1992) Rischin, Moses. The Promised City: New York Jews, 1870-1914 (1962) Sorin, Gerald. A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880-1920 (1992) Spiro, Jonathan Peter. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the
Legacy of Madison Grant (2009) Wyman, Mark. Round Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
(1993) Ziegler-McPherson, Christina A. Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social
Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929 (2009)
Zunz, Olivier. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920 (1982)
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CITIES & URBAN LIFE Alexander, June Granatir. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 (2007) Barth, Gunther. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture (1980) Blocker, Jack S. A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest,
1860-1930 (2008) Callow, Alexander B. The Tweed Ring (1966) Cheape, Charles W. Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston,
and Philadelphia, 1880-1912 (1980) Cumbler, John T. Working-Class Community in America: Work, Leisure, and Struggle
in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930 (1979) Duis, Perry R. The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 (1983) Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York Nightllife and the Transformation of
American Culture, 1890-1930 (1981) Fradkin, Philip L. The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco
Nearly Destroyed Itself (2005) Haenni, Sabine. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920
(2008) Kasson, John F. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
(1991) Kessner, Thomas. Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America’s Rise to
Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 (2003) Klein, Maury, and Harvey A. Kantor, Prisoners of Progress: American Industrial Cities,
1850-1920 (1976) McBee, Randy D. Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class
Immigrants in the United States (2000) McKelvey, Blake. The Urbanization of America, 1860-1915 (1963) Mohl, Raymond A. The New City: Urban America in an Industrial Age, 1860-1920
(1985) Nasaw, David. Children of the City at Work and at Play (1985) Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (1993) Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (2nd ed., 1971) Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-
Century New York (1986) Piott, Steven L. Daily Life in the Progressive Era (2011) Powers, Madelon. Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon,
1870-1920 (1998) Sawislak, Karen. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 (1995) Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 (1933) Sennett, Richard. Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago,
1872-1890 (1970) Smith, Carl S. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the
Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (1995) Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 (1967) Teaford, Jon C. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900
(1983) White, Dana F. The Urbanists, 1865-1915 (1989)
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GILDED AGE POLITICS
Beatty, Jack. The Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007)
Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (2005)
Brands, H. W. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002) Calhoun, Charles W. Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the
Southern Question, 1869-1900 (2006) Cherny, Robert A. A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1985) Cherny, Robert A. American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 (1997) Clanton, Gene. Populism: The Humane Preference in America, 1890-1900 (1991) Cohen, Nancy. The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914 (2002) Doenecke, Justus. The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (1981) Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from
the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997) Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 (2006) Fine, Sidney. Laissez-Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in
American Thought, 1865-1901 (1956) Gaither, Gerald H. Blacks and the Populist Movement: Ballots and Bigotry in the New
South (2005) Ginger, Ray. Altgeld’s America: The Lincoln Ideal versus Changing Realities (1958) Ginger, Ray. The Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914 (2nd ed., 1975) Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Movement: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in
America (1978) Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of William McKinley (1980) Hahn, Steven. The Roots of Southern Populism (1983) Hirshon, Stanley P. Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the
Southern Negro, 1877-1893 (1962) Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955) Hoogenboom, Ari A. Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform
Movement, 1865-1883 (1968) Hoogenboom, Ari A. The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1988) Jeffers, H. Paul. An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
(2000) Jensen, Richard J. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-
1896 (1971) Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Nineteenth Century America (1977) Kleppner, Paul. The Cross of Culture: A Social Analysis of Midwestern Politics, 1850-
1900 (1970) Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political
Cultures (1979) Kousser, J. Morgan. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the
Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 (1974) Lears, Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009)
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McMath, Robert C. American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898 (1993) Marcus, Robert D. Grand Old Party: Political Structure in the Gilded Age (1971) McGerr, Michael E. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928
(1986) Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896 (1969) Morgan, H. Wayne. William McKinley and His America (Rev. ed., 2003) Palmer, Bruce. “Man Over Money”: The Southern Populist Critique of American
Capitalism (1980) Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908
(2001) Pollack, Norman. The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare (1987) Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision (2007) Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in
the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Richardson, Heather Cox. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after
the Civil War (2007) Rothman, David J. Politics and Power: The United States Senate, 1869-1901 (1966) Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State,
1877-1917 (1999) Schwantes, Carlos A. Coxey’s Army: An American Odyssey (1985) Socolofsky, Homer E., and Allan B. Spetter. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
(1987) Steeples, Douglas, and David O. Whitten. Democracy in Desperation: The Depression
of 1893 (1998) Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Era of Good Stealings (1993) Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878
(1994) Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a
President, 1884 (2000) Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded
Age Politics (2004) Underhill, Lois Beachy. The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria
Woodhull (1995) Welch, Robert E. The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland (1988) Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (1938) THE JIM CROW ERA Bay, Mia. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (2009) Brown, David, and Clive Webb. Race in the American South: From Slavery to Civil
Rights (2007) Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
(1993) Carrigan, William D. The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in
Central Texas, 1836-1916 (2004) Cohen, William. At Freedom’s Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for
Racial Control, 1861-1915 (1991)
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Davis, Deborah. Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner that Shocked a Nation (2012)
Dray, Philip. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (2002) Giddings, Paula J. Ida, a Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against
Lynching (2008) Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996) Godshalk, David Fort. Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping
of American Race (2005) Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South,
1890-1940 (1998) Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South
from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003) Harlan, Louis. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (1983) Jaspin, Elliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in
America (2007) Kirby, Jack Temple. Darkness at Dawning: Race and Reform in the Progressive South
(1972) Kantrowitz, Stephen. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000) Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993) Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998) Logan, Rayford W. The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901
(1954) Logan, Rayford W. Betrayal of the Negro from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
(1965) Luker, Ralph E. The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-
1912 (1991) McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989) McMurry, Linda O. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells (1998) Meier, August. Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1963) Moore, John Hammond. Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South
Carolina, 1880-1920 (2006) Newby, I. A. Jim Crow’s Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, 1900-1930 (1965) Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908
(2001) Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1996) Schechter, Patricia Ann. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (2001) Southern, David W. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917
(2005) Waldrep, Christopher. The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and
Punishment in America (2002) Williamson, Joel. A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South Since
Emancipation (1986) Wood, Amy Louise. Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America,
1890-1940 (2009)
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WOMEN’S SPHERE Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists (2005) Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in
the United States, 1880-1917 (1995) Beeton, Beverly. Women Vote in the West: The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1869-
1896 (1986) Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in
American Department Stores, 1890-1940 (1986) Bordin, Ruth. Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty (1981) Bordin, Ruth. Frances Willard: A Biography (1986) Buechler, Steven M. The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement: The Case
of Illinois, 1850-1920 (1986) Camhi, Jane Jerome. Women against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920
(1994) Censer, Jane. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895 (2003) Connelly, Mark Thomas. The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era (1980) Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987) Davies, Margery W. Woman’s Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office
Workers, 1870-1930 (1982) Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (1973) DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriet Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (1988) Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (2002) Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture,
and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999) Finnegan, Margaret. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (1999) Flexner, Eleanor, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights
Movement in the United States (Enlarged ed., 1996) Fowler, Robert Booth. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician (1986) Ginzberg, Lori D. Women and the Work of Benevolence (1990) Graham, Sara Hunter. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy (1996) Green, Elna. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage
Question (1997) Gullett, Gayle. Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California
Women’s Movement, 1880-1911 (2000) Jablonsky, Thomas J. The Home, Heaven, and Mother Party: Female Anti-Suffragists
in the United States, 1868-1920 (1994) Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1890-1915 (1963) Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate
Office, 1870-1930 (1994) Ladd-Taylor, Molly. Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930
(1994) Lasch-Quinn, Elizabeth. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the
American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (1990) Lissak, Rivka Shpak. Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants,
1890-1919 (1989)
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Lubove, Roy. The Professional Altruist: The Emergence of Social Work as a Career, 1880-1930 (1965)
Lunardini, Christine A. From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1912-1918 (1986)
Marilley, Suzanne M. Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920 (1996)
Marshall, Susan E. Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage (1997)
Meyerowitz, Joanne J. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988)
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Domesticating Drink: Men, Women, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940 (1999)
Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995)
Pivar, David. Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868-1900 (1973) Pivar, David. Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the “American Plan,” 1900-
1930 (2002) Satter, Beryl. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New
Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (1999) Scott, Ann Firor. One-Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (1975) Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's
Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1999) Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
(1985) Stebner, Eleanor J. The Women of Hull House: A Study in Spirituality, Vocation, and
Friendship (1997) Strom, Sharon H. Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern
American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992) Tax, Meredith. The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1890-
1917 (1980) Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-
1920 (1998) Tyrrell, Ian. Woman’s World/Woman’s Empire: The Women’s Christian Temperance
Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930 (1991) Ward, Geoffrey C. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony (1999) Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman
Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (1993) THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (1978) Brown, Victoria Bissell. The Education of Jane Addams (2003) Buenker, John D. Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (1973) Buenker, John D. The Income Tax and the Progressive Era (1985) Crocker, Ruth Hutchinson. Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in
Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930 (1992)
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Crunden, Robert M. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives’ Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 (1982)
Danbom, David B. “The World of Hope”: Progressives and the Struggle for an Ethical Public Life (1987)
Davis, Allen F. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1880-1914 (1967)
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998) Finegold, Kenneth. Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in
New York, Cleveland, and Chicago (1995) Filler, Louis. The Muckrakers (1976) Fink, Leon. Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment
(1997) Flanagan, Maureen. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-
1920s (2007) Goldman, Eric F. Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform
(1952) Gorrell, Donald K. The Age of Social Responsibility: The Social Gospel in the
Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (1988) Grantham, Dewey W. Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and
Tradition (1983) Greenbaum, Fred. Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response (2000) Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive
Conservation Movement (1959) Hays, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914 (2nd ed., 1995) Hennings, Robert E. James D. Phelan and the Wilson Progressives of California (1985) Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955) Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in
European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (1986) Link, Arthur S., and Richard L. McCormick. Progressivism (1983) Link, William A. The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (1992) Lubove, Roy. The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York
City, 1890-1917 (1962) Mattson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory
Democracy During the Progressive Era (1998) Maxwell, Robert S. La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin (1956) May, Henry F. Protestant Churches and Industrial America (1949) May, Henry F. The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own
Time, 1912-1917 (1959) McGerr, Michael E. The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928
(1986) McGerr, Michael E. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive
Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) Murphy, Kevin P. Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of
Progressive Era Reform (2009) Nye, Russell B. Midwestern Progressive Politics (1959)
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Olin, Spencer C. California’s Prodigal Sons: Hiram Johnson and the Progressives, 1911-1917 (1968)
Pastorello, Karen. The Progressives: Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893-1917 (2014)
Platt, Anthony. The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (2nd ed., 1977) Rauchway, Eric. The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900-
1920 (2001) Rauchway, Eric. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America
(2003) Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998) Salem, Dorothy. To Better Our World: Black Women in Organized Reform, 1890-1920
(1990) Sarasohn, David. The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era (1989) Schiesl, Martin J. The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in
America, 1880-1920 (1977) Schlossman, Steven. Love and the American Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of
“Progressive” Juvenile Justice, 1825-1920 (1977) Sitton, Tom. John Randolph Haynes: California Progressive (1992) Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (1995) Sklar, Martin J. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The
Market, the Law, and Politics (1988) Skowronek, Stephen. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National
Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982) Southern, David W. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917
(2005) Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class
Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (2006) Thelen, David P. The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-
1900 (1972) Thelen, David P. Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit (1976) Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000) Weinstein, James. The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918 (1968) Wiebe, Robert. Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement
(1962) Wiebe, Robert. The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967) Young, James Harvey. Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906
(1989) RADICAL MOVEMENTS Berman, David R. Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920: Socialists, Populists,
Miners, and Wobblies (2007) Buhle, Mary Jo. Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) Chester, Eric Thomas. The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the
Industrial Workers of the World in the World War I Era (2014) Dubofsky, Melvyn. We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
(2000)
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Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914 (1990)
Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003)
Judd, Richard W. Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism (1989)
Kipnis, Ira. The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912 (1952) Kraditor, Aileen S. The Radical Persuasion, 1860-1917 (1981) Lasch, Christopher. The New Radicalism in America: The Intellectual as a Social Type
(1965) Laslett, John H. M. Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in
the American Labor Movement, 1881-1924 (1970) Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of
American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981) Lears, Jackson. Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009) Lipow, Arthur. Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist
Movement (1982) Quint, Howard. The Forging of American Socialism (1953) Ramirez, Bruno. When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the
Progressive Era, 1898-1916 (1978) Renshaw, Patrick. The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States (1967) Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982) Shannon, David. The Socialist Party of America (1955) Thomas, John L. Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry
Demarest Lloyd, and the Adversary Tradition (1983) Weinstein, James. The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925 (1967) Young, Marguerite. Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor
Debs (1999) PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS Brands, H. W. T.R.: The Last Romantic (1997) Broderick, Francis L. Progressivism at Risk: Electing a President in 1912 (1989) Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs (2004) Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson (1992) Coletta, Paolo E. The Presidency of William Howard Taft (1973) Cooper, John Milton, Jr., The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore
Roosevelt (1983) Cooper, John Milton, Jr. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009) Dalton, Kathleen. Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002) Donald, Aida D. Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt (2007) Gable, John A. The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party
(1978) Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1991) Gould, Lewis L. Reform and Regulation: American Politics from Roosevelt to Wilson
(3rd ed., 1986)
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Gould, Lewis L. Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics (2008)
Grondahl, Paul. I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt (2004)
Harbaugh, William A. Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (Rev. ed., 1975)
Heckscher, August. Woodrow Wilson (1991) Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History,
1900-1916 (1963) Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (1963) Maynard, W. Barksdale. Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency (2008) Miller, Nathan. Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (1992) Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex (2001) Morrisey, Will. The Dilemma of Progressivism: How Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Reshaped the American Regime of Self-Government (2009) Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement (1946) Mowry, George E. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 (1958) O’Toole, Patricia. When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House
(2005) Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (1931) Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft (1939) Robertson, James Oliver. No Third Choice: Progressives in Republican Politics, 1916-
1921 (1983) Walworth, Arthur. Woodrow Wilson (3rd ed., 1978) Weinstein, Edwin A. Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography (1981) Watts, Sarah. Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of
Desire (2003) AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Bain, David Haward. Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines (1984) Beisner, Robert L. Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 (1968) Beisner, Robert L. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900 (2nd ed., 1986) Brands, H. W. The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002) Campbell, Charles S. The Transformation of American Foreign Relations, 1865-1900
(1976) Clements, Kendrick A. William Jennings Bryan: Missionary Isolationist (1982) Dobson, John M. America’s Ascent: The United States Becomes a Great World Power,
1880-1914 (1978) Dulles, Foster Rhea. The Imperial Years (1956) Dulles, Foster Rhea. Prelude to World Power: American Diplomatic History, 1860-1900
(1965) Espino, Ovidio Diaz. How Wall Street Created a Nation: J. P. Morgan, Teddy
Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal (2001) Gates, John Morgan. Schoolbooks and Krags: The United States Army in the
Philippines, 1898-1902 (1973)
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Gould, Lewis L. The Spanish-American War and President McKinley (1992) Hannigan, Robert E. The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
(2002) Hansen, Jonathan M. The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity,
1890-1920 (2003) Healy, David A. U.S. Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s (1970) Healy, David A. Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1865-1921
(1988) Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked
the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998) Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign
Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000) Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2002) LaFeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-
1898 (1963) LaFeber, Walter. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Vol. II: The
American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 (1993) Linderman, Gerald K. The Mirror of War: American Society and the Spanish-American
War (1974) Linn, Brian M. The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902
(1989) Linn, Brian M. The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (2000) May, Ernest R. Imperial Democracy: The Emergence of America as a Great Power
(1961) May, Ernest R. American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay (1968) McCaffrey, James M. Inside the Spanish-American War: A History Based on First-
Person Accounts (2009) McCartney, Paul T. Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898,
and the Rise of American Imperialism (2006) McCormick, Thomas J. China Market: America’s Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901
(1967) Miller, Stuart C. “Benevolent Assimilation”: American Conquest of the Philippines,
1899-1903 (1982) Ninkovich, Frank. Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism,
1865-1890 (2009) Perez, Louis A. The War of 1898 (1998) Plesur, Milton. America’s Outward Thrust: Approaches to Foreign Affairs, 1865-1900
(1971) Rydell, Robert V. All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International
Expositions, 1876-1916 (1985) Schirmer, Daniel B. Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War
(1972) Silbey, David J. A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-
1902 (2007) Tompkins, E. Berkeley. Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate (1970)
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Torruella, Juan R. Global Intrigues: The Era of the Spanish-American War and the Rise of the United States to World Power (2006)
Trask, David F. The War with Spain in 1898 (1981) Walker, Dale L. Boys of ’98: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (1998) Wolff, Leon. Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the
Philippines (1961) Zimmerman, Warren. First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a
World Power (2002) PROGRESSIVE DIPLOMACY Beale, Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (1956) Burton, David H. Theodore Roosevelt: Confident Imperialist (1968) Calhoun, Frederick S. Power and Principle: Armed Interventionism in Wilsonian
Foreign Policy (1986) Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansion: A New
View of American Imperialism (1985) Collin, Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt’s Caribbean (1990) Dyer, Thomas G. Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race (1980) Esthus, Raymond A. Theodore Roosevelt and the International Rivalries (1970) Gilderhus, Mark T. Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations under Wilson
and Carranza (1977) Gilderhus, Mark T. Pan-American Visions: Woodrow Wilson in the Western
Hemisphere, 1913-1921 (1986) Greene, Julie. The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal
(2009) Hannigan, Robert E. The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
(2002) Healy, David A. Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898-1917
(1988) Holmes, James R. Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International
Relations (2006) Israel, Jerry. Progressivism and the Open Door: America and China, 1905-1921 (1971) Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign
Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000) Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins
of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007) Marks, Frederick W., III. Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) McCullough, David. Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-
1914 (1977) Missal, Alexander. Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the
Construction of the Panama Canal (2008) Munro, Dana C. Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921 (1964) Parker, Matthew. Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human
Achievements of All Time--The Building of the Panama Canal (2007) Traxel, David. Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-
1920 (2006)
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WORLD WAR I Bailey, Thomas A. The Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern Warfare and
Diplomacy (1975) Barbeau, Arthur E., and Florette Henri. The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops
in World War I (1974) Boghardt, Thomas. The Zimmerman Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s
Entry into World War I (2012) Bork, Kathleen. Britain, America, and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918 (1985) Chatfield, Charles. For Peace and Justice: Pacifism in America, 1914-1921 (1971) Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in
World War I (1968) Coogan, John W. The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain, and Maritime
Rights, 1899-1915 (1981) Cooper, John M., Jr. The Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World
War, 1914-1917 (1969) Dawley, Alan. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution
(2003) Devlin, Patrick. Too Proud to Fight: Woodrow Wilson’s Neutrality (1974) Doenecke, Justus D. Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into
World War I (2010) Eisenhower, John S. D. Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
(2001) Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 (1985) Finnegan, John P. Against the Specter of a Dragon: The Campaign for American
Military Preparedness, 1914-1917 (1974) Fleming, Thomas. Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (2003) Ford, Nancy Gentile. Americans All! Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I (2001) Grotelueschen, Mark E. The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in
World War I (2007) Gutiérrez, Edward A. Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed
Their Military Service (2014) Harries, Meirion, and Susie Harries. The Last Days of Innocence: America at War,
1917-1918 (1997) Johnson, Robert David. The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
(1995) Keene, Jennifer D. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001) Kenne, Jennifer D. World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011) Kennedy, Ross A. The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s
Strategy for Peace and Security (2009) Lentz-Smith, Adriane. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) Levin, N. Gordon. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America’s Response to War
and Revolution (1968) May, Ernest R. The World War and American Isolation, 1914-1917 (1959) Meigs, Mark. Optimism at Armageddon: Voices of American Participants in the First
World War (1997)
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Melton, Carol Willcox. Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918-1921 (2001)
Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy (2002) Rubin, Richard. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their
Forgotten World War (2013) Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women
Overseas in World War I (1991) Slotkin, Richard. Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
(2005) Stallings, Laurence. The Doughboys: The Story of the AEF, 1917-1918 (1963) Striner, Richard. Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden Too Great to Bear (2014) Thompson, J. Lee. Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War (2013) Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918 (1993) Traxel, David. Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-
1920 (2006) Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s
Neutrality, 1914-1917 (2007) Williams, Chad L. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World
War I Era (2010) Woodward, David R. Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 (1993) Woodward, David R. The American Army and the First World War (2014) Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women Workers with the American
Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (1999) Zieger, Robert. America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience (2000) THE HOME FRONT Axelrod, Alan. Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda (2009) Blum, Howard. Dark Invasion: The Secret War Against the Kaiser’s Spies (2012) Bristow, Nancy K. Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War (1996) Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the
Modern American Citizen (2008) Chambers, John Whiteclay, II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
(1987) Chester, Eric Thomas. The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the
Industrial Workers of the World in the World War I Era (2014) Conner, Valerie Jean. The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the
Voluntary State in World War I (1983) Cuff, Robert D. The War Industries Board: Business-Government Relations During
World War I (1973) Eisner, Marc Allen. From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory
State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order (2000) Foner, Philip S. Labor and World War I, 1914-1918 (1987) Grossman, James. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
(1989) Gruber, Carol S. Mars and Minerva: World War I and the Uses of Higher Learning in
America (1975)
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Greenwald, Maureen Weiner. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1980)
Henri, Florette. Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920 (1975) Johnson, Donald. The Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of
the American Civil Liberties Union (1963) Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) Kennedy, Kathleen. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion
During World War I (1999) Kingsbury, Celia Malone. For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the
Home Front (2010) Koistenen, Paul A. C. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American
Warfare, 1865-1919 (1997) Laskin, David. The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the
Great War (2010) Livermore, Seward. Politics is Adjourned: Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress,
1916-1918 (1966) Luebke, Frederick. Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I (1974) McCartin, Joseph A. Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the
Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (1997) McClymer, John F. War and Welfare: Social Engineering in America, 1890-1925 (1980) Millman, Chad. The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt
for Justice (2006) Mock, James R., and Cedric Larson. Words That Won the War: The Story of the
Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919 (1939) Murphy, Paul L. World War I and the Origins of Civil Liberties in the United States
(1979) Peterson, Horace C., and Gilbert C. Fite. Opponents of War, 1917-1918 (1957) Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free
Speech (1987) Ross, Stewart Halsey. Propaganda for War: How the United States was Conditioned to
Fight the Great War of 1914-1918 (1996) Scheiber, Harry N. The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921 (1960) Steinson, Barbara J. American Women’s Activism in World War I (1982) Thompson, John A. Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First
World War (1987) Vaughn, Stephen. Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the
Committee on Public Information (1980) Weiss, Elaine F. Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of America in the Great
War (2008) Work, Clemens P. Darkest before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American
West (2005) Wynn, Neil A. From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society
(1986)
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THE AFTERMATH Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on
Civil Liberties (2007) Ambrosius, Lloyd E. Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition (1987) Bagby, Wesley M. The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of
1920 (1962) Bailey, Thomas A. Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (1944) Bailey, Thomas A. Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (1945) Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
(2004) Blocker, Jack S., Jr., Retreat from Reform: The Prohibition Movement in the United
States, 1890-1913 (1976) Clements, Kendrick. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman (1987) Cooper, John Milton, Jr. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the
Fight for the League of Nations (2001) Crosby, Alfred W. America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2nd ed.,
2004) Gardner, Lloyd C. Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution,
1913-1920 (1984) Hagedorn, Ann. Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (2007) Johnson, Robert David. The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations
(1995) Kerr, K. Austin. Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League
(1985) Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order (1992) Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search
for the Virus that Caused It (1999) Levin, N. Gordon. Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America’s Response to War
and Revolution (1968) Murray, Robert K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 (1955) Noggle, Burl. Into the Twenties: The United States from Armistice to Normalcy (1974) Nordholt, Jan Willem Schulte. Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace (1991) Read, Anthony. The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism (2008) Rudwick, Elliott M. Race Riot at East St. Louis (1964) Rumbarger, John J. Profits, Power, and Prohibition: Alcohol Reform and the
Industrializing of America, 1800-1930 (1989) Timberlake, James H. Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 (1963) Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970) Voogd, Jan. Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919 (2008) Walworth, Arthur C. America’s Moment, 1918: American Diplomacy at the End of World
War I (1977) Walworth, Arthur C. Wilson and His Peacemakers: American Diplomacy at the Paris
Peace Conference, 1919 (1986) Whitaker, Robert. On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for
Justice that Remade a Nation (2008)