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Jean H. Baker,
Votes for Women
(2002). A collection of essays on the achievement of women’s suffrage.
Frank Freidel,
Over There
(1990). A collection of American soldiers’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in World War I.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
. An excellent PBS documentary with accompanying documents at pbs.org/greatwar/index.html.
Julie Greene,
The Canal Builders
(2009). The story of the Panama Canal through the viewpoint of the diverse workers who constructed it.
James R. Grossman,
Land of Hope
(1999). A sweeping study of the Great Migration.
Walter LaFeber,
The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913
(1993). An excellent, up-to-date synthesis of foreign policy in this era.