| Suggested Texts
The books listed are organized both by time period and by topic. In order to find a book of interest to you, make sure to look through the entire list before making your choice. 1. Reconstruction/New South |
Ayers, Edward L., The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
Carter, Dan, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867
Cooper, John M., Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855-1918
Foner, Eric, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
Foner, Eric, A Short History of Reconstruction
Hahn, Steven, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890
Litwak, Leon, Been in the Storm So Long
McPherson, J. M., The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP
Nixon, Raymond B., Henry W. Grady: Spokesman of the New South
Roark, James, Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Stampp, Kenneth M., The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Woodward, C. Vann, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Woodward, C. Vann, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Woodward, C. Vann, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Woodward, C. Vann, The Origins of the New South
Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams
Addams, Jane, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets: Twenty Years at Hull House
Cayton, Andrew R. L., and Peter S. Onuf, The Midwest and the Nation
Dearing, Mary, Veterans in Politics: The Story of the GAR
Garraty, John A., The New Commonwealth
Gillette, William, Retreat from Reconstruction: The Political Years
Hoogenboom, Ari, The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
Livesay, Harold, Andrew Carnegie
Logan, Rayford, The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
Logan, Rayford, The Negro in American Life and Thought
McPherson, James, The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP
Morgan, H. Wayne, From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896
Nevins, Allan, Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration
Painter, Nell, Standing at Armageddon
Perman, Michael, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879
Peskin, Allan, Garfield: A Biography
Sproat, John, The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age
Trefousse, Hans, Carl Schurz: A Biography
White, William W., The Confederate Veteran
Goodwyn, Lawrence, The Populist Moment
Hicks, John D., The Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party
McMath, Robert, Populist Vanguard
McMath, Robert, American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898
Shaw, Barton, The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party
Woodward, C. Vann, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Chesler, Ellen, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Davis, Allen F., Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914
Dawley, Alan, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920
Hofstadter, Richard, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to FDR
Ladd-Taylor, Molly, ed., Raising a Baby the Government Way: Mothers' Letters to the Children's Bureau
Miller, Zane, Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era
Nasaw, David, Children of the City: At Work and At Play
Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Wiebe, Robert H., The Search for Order, 1877-1920
America between the Wars (1915-45)
Anderson, Karen, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women during World War II
Badger, A. J., Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina
Badger, A. J., The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940
Baumgartner, John and Thomas Coode, In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People
Benson, Susan Porter, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
Blum, John Morton, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II
Bremer, William W., Depression Winters: New York Social Workers and the New Deal
Brinkley, Alan, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
Clark, Norman, Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
Coben, Stanley, Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Change in 1920s America
Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Conkin, Paul, The New Deal
Dumenil, Lynn, Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Dumenil, Lynn, Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930
Evenberg, Lewis, Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930
Ewen, Stuart, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Great Crash, 1929
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Kelley, Robin D., Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Leuchtenberg, William, The Perils of Prosperity
Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelical,
Melosh, Barbara, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater
Ribuffo, Leo, The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Watkins, T. H., The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
Worster, Donald, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation
Ambrose, Stephen, The Rise to Globalism
Boyer, Paul, By the Bomb's Early Light
Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
Brands, H. W., The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Chafe, William, Civilities and Civil Rights
Clifford, Clark, with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir
Degler, Carl, At Odds
Divine, Robert, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Gaddis, John L., Strategies of Containment
Gaddis, John L., The United States and the Origins of the Cold War
Garrow, David, Bearing the Cross
Gitlin, Todd, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Greenstein, Fred, The Hidden Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader
Halberstam, David, The Making of a Quagmire
Hayslip, Le Ly, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Herring, George, America's Longest War
Karnow, Stanley, Vietnam: A History
Kearns, Doris, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Kluger, Richard, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
LeFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War
Lipsitz, George, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
Lipsitz, George, A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
McAdam, Doug, Freedom Summer
McCullough, David, Truman
Meier, August, and Elliott Rudwick, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968
Reeves, Thomas, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy
Rorabaugh, W. J., Berkeley at War: The 1960s
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr., The Thousand Days
Whitfield, Stephen, The Culture of the Cold War
Young, Marilyn, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
African Americans/Race Relations
Blee, Kathleen M., Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
Borchert, James, Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970
Carnes, Mark C., Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America
Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening in the 1960s
Chafe, William H., Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
Chalmers, David M., Hooded Americanism: A History of the Ku Klux Klan
Cronon, David, Black Moses: Marcus Garvey
Formisano, Ronald P., Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
Grossman, James, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
Hines, Herbert, Black Radicals ad the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1930-1960
Hirsch, Arnold R., Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing
Jaynes, Gerald David, Branches Without Roots: The Genesis of the Black Working Class in theAmerican South, 1862-1882
Lawson, Steven, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941
Lemann, Nicholas, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
MacLean, Nancy, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
McMillen, Neil R., Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
Trotter, Joseph, Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945
Weisbrot, Robert, Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement
Williamson, Joel, Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
Woodward, C. Vann, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Callahan, Raymond E., Education and the Cult of Efficiency
Coleman, Michael C., American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Cremin, Lawrence, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957
Fuller, Wayne, The Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle West
Grant, Gerald, The World We Created at Hamilton High
James, Thomas, Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945
Kozol, Jonathon, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Mohraz, Judy Jolley, The Separate Problem: Case Studies of Black Education in the North, 1900-1930
Tyack, David B., The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
Archdeacon, Thomas, Becoming American: An Ethnic History
Barton, Joseph, Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City, 1890-1950
Bayor, Ronald, Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941
Bodnar, John, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Briggs, John W., An Italian Passage: Immigrants to Three American Cities, 1890-1930
Chan, Sucheng, Asian Americans
Cinel, Dino, From Italy to San Francisco
Conzen, Kathleen Neils, Immigrant Milwaukee: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City
Cowan, Neil M. and Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews
DeLeon, Arnoldo, Mexican Americans in Texas, A Brief History
Fitzpatrick, Joseph P., Puerto Rican Americans: the Meaning of the Migration to the Mainland
Gabaccia, Donna, From Italy to Elizabeth Street
Garcia, Mario, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920
Gorelick, Sherry, City College and the Jewish Poor: Education in New York, 1880-1924
Gurock, Jeffrey, When Harlem was Jewish: 1870-1930
Gutierrez, David, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Poltics of Ethnicity
Handlin, Oscar, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
Hoglund, A. William, Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880-1920
Kantowicz, Edward R., Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 1880-1940
Moore, Deborah Dash, At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews
Romo, Ricardo, East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio
Sanchez, George, Becoming Mexican-American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Sone, Monica, Nisei Daughter
Takaki, Ronald, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Labor and Working Class History--Late 19th Century
Arnesen, Eric, Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923
Fink, Leon, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
Foner, Eric, A Short History of Reconstruction
Foner, Philip, The Great Labor Uprising of 1877
Gorn, Eliot, The Manly Art: Bareknuckle Boxing in Nineteenth Century America
Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in Working-Class History
Kaufman, Stuart, Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896
Levine, Susan, Labor's True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age
Oestreicher, Richard, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
Rachleff, Peter, Black Labor in the South: Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1890
Rosenzweig, Roy, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
Stromquist, Shelton, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
Labor and Working Class History--Twentieth Century
Barrett, James, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
Benson, Susan Porter, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
Brody, David, Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era
Cohen, Lisbeth, Making a New Deal: Chicago Workers, 1919-39
Cooper, Patricia, Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1919-39
Dubofsky, Melvin, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Dubofsky, Melvin and Warren Van Tine, John L Lewis: A Biography
Faue, Elizabeth, Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-45
Hall, Jacquelyn, et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Lichtenstein, Nelson, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II
Lipsitz, George, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
Montgomery, David, Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles
Moody, Kim, An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism
Salvatore, Nick, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
Schatz, Ronald W., The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-60
Dunlap, Thomas R., DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy
Nye, David E., Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
Bluestone, Daniel, Constructing Chicago
Boyer, Paul, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Cavallo, Dominick, Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920
Cronon, William, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Jackson, Kenneth, The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Schmitt, Peter J., Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America
Schultz, Stanley K., Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800-1920
Trotter, Joe, Black Milwaukee
Warner, Sam Bass, Jr., Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
Allen, Barbara, Homesteading the High Desert
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Cronon, William, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Danbom, David B., The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930
Faragher, John Mack, Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Fink, Deborah, Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940
Fite, Gilbert C., American Farmers: The New Minority
Limerick, Patricia, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
McMurry, Sally, Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885
Nash, Gerald D., The American West Transformed
Neihardt, John, Black Elk Speaks
Painter, Nell Irvin, Exodusters
Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Stratton, Joanna, Pioneer Women: Voices From the Kansas Frontier
West, Elliot, Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier
White, Richard, It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West
Worster, Donald, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Women's History/Feminism/Family
Benson, Susan Porter, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr., The American Family Home, 1800-1960
Cott, Nancy, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
Cowan, Ruth Schwarz, More Work for Mother
Echols, Alice, Daring to Be Bad
Evans, Sara, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
Ewen, Elizabeth, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925
Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Gordon, Linda, Pitied but not Entitled: A History of Welfare in America
Gordon, Linda, Heroes of the Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880-1960
Hartmann, Susan M., The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s
Hayden, Delores, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities
May, Elaine Tyler, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Milkman, Ruth, Gender at Work
Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
Peiss, Kathy, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Tuttle, William, Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children
Caldwell, Erskin, Tobacco Row
Cather, Willa, O! Pioneers
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Chesnutt, Charles, The Marrow of Tradition
Chesnutt, Charles W, The Wife of His Youth and other Stories
Doctorow, E. L., Ragtime
Dreiser, Theodore, Jennie Gerhardt
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie
Garland, Hamlin, A Son of the Middle Border
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale, Dust Tracks on a Road
Johnson, James Weldon, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Morrison, Toni, Beloved
Rolvaag, Ole, Giants in the Earth
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Strong, Josiah, Our Country
Twain, Mark, Roughing It
Twain, Mark, The Gilded Age
Vidal, Gore, Empire
Vidal, Gore, Washington DC
Vidal, Gore, 1876
Washington, Booker T., Up From Slavery
Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith, The Portrait of a Lady
Yezierska, Anzia, Bread Givers
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