Selected Bibliography

Chapter 1

GENERAL WORKS

Robson Bonnichsen and Karen L. Turnmire, Ice Age Peoples of North America (1999).

Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen R. Stothert, Women in Ancient America (1999).

Thomas D. Dillehay, The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory (2000).

Brian Fagan, Ancient North America (2005).

Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001).

J. C. H. King, First People, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America (1999).

Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (2006).

Francis McManamon et al., eds., Archaeology in America (2008).

Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC (2003).

Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2010).

Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (2006).

NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES IN TERRITORY OF PRESENT-DAY UNITED STATES

Kenneth M. Ames and Herbert D. G. Maschner, Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory (1999).

Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos (2002).

Linda S. Cordell, Archaeology of the Southwest (2009).

Richard J. Dent Jr., Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions (1995).

E. James Dixon, Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America (1999).

Thomas E. Emerson et al., eds., Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent (2008).

Kendrick Frazier, People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Cultures (1999).

George C. Frison, Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains (2nd ed., 1991).

Sarah A. Kerr, Beyond Chaco: Great Kiva Communities on the Mogollon Rim Frontier (2001).

Steven A. LeBlanc, Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (1999).

Stephen H. Lekson, The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest (1999).

Jerald T. Milanich, Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (1994).

Timothy R. Pauketat, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Greatest City on the Mississippi (2009).

Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesley, The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona (1997).

Karl H. Schlesier, Plains Indians, A.D. 500–1500: The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups (1994).

Lynne Sebastian, The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest (1992).

Lynda Shaffer, Native Americans before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands (1992).

Marvin T. Smith, Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom (2000).

Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler, Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (1999).

THE MEXICA

David Carrasco, City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (1999).

Michael D. Coe and Rex Koontz, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (5th ed., 2002).

Susan Toby Evans, Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History (2008).

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Felipe Solis Olguin, Aztecs (2002).

Chapter 2

GENERAL WORKS

J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1491–1830 (2006).

John L. Kessell, Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California (2002).

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009).

David Parrott, The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2013).

William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (1992).

Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (2011).

John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 (2012).

David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (2009).

EXPLORERS AND EMPIRES

James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (2010).

Henry Arthur Francis Kamen, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763 (2004).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony (2nd ed., 2007).

Francesc Relaño, The Shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2002).

A. J. R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808: A World on the Move (1998).

Hugh Thomas, Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan (2004).

EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD

Ricardo Alegria and Jose Arrom, Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean (1998).

Rebecca Catz, Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476–1498 (1993).

Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650 (1998).

Michael Leroy Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand: Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians (2008).

Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, 1500 –1800 (1995).

Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (1992).

CONQUEST AND NEW SPAIN

Herman L. Bennett, Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640 (2003).

Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (1989).

David Ewing Duncan, Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas (1995).

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, The Coronado Expedition (2003).

Serge Gruzinski, The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries (1993).

Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (1991).

Robert H. Jackson, Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America (1999).

John L. Kessell, Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico (2010).

Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (1995).

Miguel León-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún: First Anthropologist (2002).

Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southwestern Indians (1999).

Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2004).

Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (2009).

Charles A. Truxillo, By the Sword and the Cross: The Historical Evolution of the Catholic World Monarchy in Spain and the New World, 1492–1825 (2001).

Stephanie Gail Wood, Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (2003).

Chapter 3

CHESAPEAKE SOCIETY

Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Yeas: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (2012).

Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996).

Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in the Age of Expansion, 1560–1660 (2009).

April Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2003).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (2010).

Peter C. Mancall, The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624 (2007).

Debra Meyers, Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland (2003).

Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (2010).

Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (2013).

Steve Sarson, British America, 1500–1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (2005).

Terry L. Snyder, Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia (2003).

Christopher L. Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (2010).

Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763 (2010).

INDIANS

Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717 (2002).

Joseph M. Hall, Jr., Zamuno’s Gifts: Indian European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast (2012).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000).

Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (2005).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2010).

Jayme A. Sokolow, The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800 (2003).

Margaret Holmes Williamson, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2003).

SLAVERY AND INDENTURED SERVITUDE

Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (2007).

James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002).

Tim Hashaw, The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown (2007).

Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas (2007).

Russell R. Menard, Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America (2001).

Jerald T. Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians (1999).

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (1975).

Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004).

Simon P. Newman, A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (2013).

John Ruston Pagan, Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (2003).

CAROLINA SOCIETY AND THE WEST INDIES

Cara Anzilotti, In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina (2002).

S. Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (2006).

Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (2002).

Michael Jarvis, In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1783 (2010).

Russell K. Menard, Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados (2006).

Chapter 4

GENERAL WORKS

Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004).

Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 (2012).

Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1998).

Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (2010).

David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989).

Peter Moogk, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History (2000).

Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in the Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 (2004).

James Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730 (2007).

NATIVE AMERICANS

Russell Bourne, Gods of War, Gods of Peace: How the Meeting of Native and Colonial Religions Shaped Early America (2002).

Roger M. Carpenter, The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Huron and the Iroquois, 1609–1675 (2004).

Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (1998).

Daniel R. Mandell, King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty (2010).

Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006).

Michael Leroy Oberg, Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585–1685 (1999).

Ann Marie Plane, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriages in Early New England (2000).

NEW ENGLAND

Louise A. Breen, Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692 (2001).

Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World (2010).

James F. Cooper Jr., Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (1999).

Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639–1789 (1995).

Lisa M. Gordis, Opening Scriptures: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (2003).

David D. Hall, A Reforming People: Transformation of Public Life in New England (2013).

Jane Kamensky, Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England (1997).

Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans (2005).

Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002).

Mark A. Peterson, The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (1998).

Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2006).

Michael P. Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641 (2002).

MIDDLE COLONIES

Evan Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty (2012).

Ned C. Landsman, Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America (2010).

Peter C. Mancall, Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson (2009).

Cathy Matson, Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (1998).

David E. Narrett, Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City (1992).

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (2004).

Allen Tully, Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (1994).

Chapter 5

GENERAL WORKS

Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (2012).

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).

Holly Brewer, By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005).

Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (2010).

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006).

Patrick Griffin, The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764 (2001).

David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (2009).

Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (2007).

Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (2008).

Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2012).

Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (2013)

NEW ENGLAND

Richard Aquila, The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701–1754 (1997).

Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630–1800 (1998).

Phyllis Whitman Hunter, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780 (2001).

George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003).

Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whale Fishery, 1720–1870 (2000).

Daniel Vickers, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail (2005).

Middle Colonies

Katherine Carté Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (2009).

Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 (2003).

Eric Hinderaker, Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800 (1997).

Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005).

James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999).

Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763 (2003).

Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006).

Simon P. Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003).

David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (2004).

SOUTHERN COLONIES

Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005).

Steven W. Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 (2005).

Robert H. Jackson, Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America (2005).

Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (2006).

Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country (1998).

Robert Olwell, Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (2012).

Jon F. Sensbach, Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (2005).

Randy Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey (2004).

David J. Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment (2005).

Bradford J. Wood, This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725–1775 (2004).

Chapter 6

GENERAL WORKS

Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (2003).

Merrill Jensen, The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (2004).

Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2005).

Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1993).

Alfred F. Young, Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (2006).

Native Americans and the Seven Years’ War.

Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (2001).

Colin G. Calloway, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America (2007).

Gregory Evans Dowd, War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire (2004).

Eric Hinderaker, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (2010).

James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (2000).

Timothy J. Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2002).

Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (2009).

Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (1991).

The Revolutionary Crisis of the 1760s and 1770s.

Richard Archer, As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution (2010).

Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1976).

Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence (2006).

T. H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010).

Benjamin L. Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010).

John E. Ferling, The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988).

David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride (1995).

Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (2001).

Joan Gundersen, To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790 (1996).

Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999).

Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776 (1992).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006).

Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800 (1996).

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2013).

Ray Raphael, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord (2002).

William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication Innovation and the American Revolution (2013).

Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution (2000).

SLAVERY

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (2000).

Douglas R. Egerton, Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009).

Sylvia Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (1991).

Philip Morgan, Slave Counterpoint (1998).

Chapter 7

GENERAL WORKS

Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence (2005).

Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985).

John Fering, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (2009).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005).

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).

Ray Raphael, A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (2001).

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 (1996).

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).

Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation (2011).

THE WARTIME CONFEDERATION AND ITS LEADERS

Ron Chernow, George Washington: A Life (2010).

Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington (2004).

John E. Ferling, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution (2000).

Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (2004).

Edith Gelles, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (1992).

Woody Holton, Abigail Adams (2010).

Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).

Jackson Turner Main, The Sovereign States, 1775–1783 (1973).

Jack N. Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979).

Sheila L. Skemp, The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit (2012).

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, AND SOLDIERS

Wayne K. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War (2004).

W. Jeffrey Bolster,

Edwin G. Burrows, The Prisoners of New York (2008).

Colin G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (1995).

E. Wayne Carp, To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783 (1984).

Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–1782 (2002).

David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing (2004).

Joseph R. Fischer, A Well-Executed Failure: The Sullivan Campaign against the Iroquois, July–September 1779 (1997).

Sylvia Frey, The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period (1965).

Robert Gross, The Minutemen and Their World (1976).

Myra Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2012).

Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (1989).

Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War (1997).

David G. Martin, The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777–1778 (2003).

James Kirby Martin, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997).

Holly A. Mayer, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (1996).

David McCullough, 1776 (2005).

Alfred F. Young, Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004).

Chapter 8

GENERAL WORKS

Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (1995).

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006).

Peter S. Onuf and Cathy D. Matson, A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (1990).

Jack Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010).

Robert E. Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: American Thought and Culture, 1760–1800 (2004).

Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2006).

Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969).

Alfred F. Young, ed., Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism (1993).

THE CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES

Daniel M. Friedenberg, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land: The Plunder of Early America (1992).

Marc W. Kruman, Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America (1997).

Peter S. Onuf, Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance (1987).

Charles Rappleye, Robert Morris, Financier of the American Revolution (2010).

Jack N. Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979).

CITIZENSHIP

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998).

Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980).

Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860 (1998).

Gary B. Nash and Jean R. Sonderlund, Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath (1991).

Leonard L. Richards, Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle (2002).

Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986).

Rosemarie Zagarri, A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (1995).

THE CONSTITUTION AND RATIFICATION

John K. Alexander, The Selling of the Constitutional Convention: A History of News Coverage (1990).

Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (2010).

Carol Berkin, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2003).

Richard Brookhiser, Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003).

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1999).

Michael Allen Gillespie and Michael Lienesch, eds., Ratifying the Constitution (1989).

Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007).

John P. Kaminski and Richard Leffler, Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate over the Constitution (1998).

Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (1994).

Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 (2011).

Jackson Turner Main, The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788 (2006).

William Lee Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic (1986).

Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution (1985).

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996).

Chapter 9

POLITICS

Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003).

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (2004).

Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (2010).

Jerry A. Clouse, The Whiskey Rebellion: Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Frontier People Test the American Constitution (1995).

Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993).

Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic (2008).

Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000).

Todd Estes, The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (2006).

John E. Ferling, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2005).

John E. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon (2010).

David P. Geggus, ed., The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2002).

David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering, eds., The World of the Haitian Revolution (2008).

Peter P. Hill, French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783–1793 (1988).

Ralph Ketcham, Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789–1829 (1984).

David McCullough, John Adams (2001).

Jeffrey L. Pasley, The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (2001).

Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986).

Larry E. Tise, The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783–1800 (1999).

Richard J. Twomey, Jacobins and Jeffersonians: Anglo-American Radicalism in the United States, 1790–1820 (1989).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001).

Richard D. Brown, Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700–1865 (1989).

Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: Women’s Sphere in New England, 1780–1835 (1997).

Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001).

Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1996).

Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1997).

Clare A. Lyons, Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830 (2006).

Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2002).

Simon P. Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (2000).

Sheila L. Skemp, Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (1998).

David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820 (1997).

Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (2007).

INDIANS AND THE FRONTIER

Andrew R. L. Cayton, Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780–1825 (1989).

Gregory E. Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815 (1992).

R. Douglas Hurt, The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830 (1998).

Claudio Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (1999).

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POLITICS

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Madison and Jefferson (2010).

Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1999).

Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (1997).

Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001).

Nancy Isenberg, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (2008).

Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000).

Peter J. Kastor, The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America (2004).

Edward J. Larson, A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign (2007).

Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (2003).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

Richard Zacks, The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 (2006).

INDIANS, THE WAR OF 1812, AND THE WEST

Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996).

Carl Benn, The Iroquois in the War of 1812 (1998).

James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002).

Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2007).

Albert Furtwangler, Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals (1993).

Pekka Hämälainen, The Comanche Empire (2009).

John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (1997).

Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 (2013).

Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (2010).

Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (1991).

SLAVERY

Douglas Egerton, Gabriel’s Rebellion (1993).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2009).

James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860 (1997).

Gary B. Nash, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720–1840 (1988).

Shane White, Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1710–1810 (1991).

WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND RELIGION

Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000).

Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (1999).

Norma Basch, In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (1982).

Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845 (1998).

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

Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (1994).

Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic (2006).

Susan E. Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820 (2009).

Mary Beth Sievens, Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England (2005).

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THE MARKET REVOLUTION

Edward J. Balleisen, Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (2001).

Mary H. Blewett, Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910 (1988).

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).

Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994).

John Lauritz Larson, The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good (2009).

Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009).

Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008).

Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (1991).

Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862 (1996).

POLITICS

Andrew Burstein, The Passions of Andrew Jackson (2003).

John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997).

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1845 (2009).

Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2009).

Sean Michael O’Brien, In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson’s Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles (2003).

Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835 (1998).

Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (1987).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy, Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

CULTURE, RELIGION, AND REFORM

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).

Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990).

Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1991).

Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998).

Richard R. John, Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995).

Catherine E. Kelly, In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century (1999).

Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (2005).

Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition (2009).

Richard S. Newman, The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic (2002).

Mark Perry, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders (2002).

Alisse Portnoy, Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates (2005).

Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).

Stacey M. Robertson, Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest (2010).

Scott A. Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (2005).

Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Slavery in the Era of Emancipation (2007).

Richard B. Stott, Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Mid-Nineteenth Century America (2009).

Daniel S. Wright, “The First of Causes to Our Sex”: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834–1848 (2006).

Ronald J. Zboray, Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book (2005).

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THE ECONOMY AND FREE LABOR

Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (1990).

J. Matthew Gallman, Receiving Erin’s Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1854–1855 (2000).

Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in the Antebellum United States (1991).

Donald R. Hoke, Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector (1990).

Jonathan Hughes and Louis P. Cain, American Economic History (2011).

Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820–1860 (2000).

David R. Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization (2003).

Scott A. Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (2005).

Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (2001).

WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR

Gary Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 (2005).

Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007).

Peter J. Blodgett, Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848–1858 (1999).

H. W. Brand, Lone Star Nation (2004).

Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005).

David C. Clary, Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent (2009).

Christopher Corbett, The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West (2009).

David Dary, The Oregon Trail: An American Saga (2004).

Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008).

Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (2008).

Paul W. Foos, A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War (2002).

Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (2002).

Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire (2005).

———A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2013).

Timothy J. Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (2007).

Albert Hurtado, John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier (2006).

Benjamin Heber Johnson, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003).

Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).

Kent G. Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontier (2005).

Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009).

Gregory H. Nobles, American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1997).

Andres Resendez, Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (2005).

Malcolm Rohrbough, Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (1997).

James A. Sandos, Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions (2004).

Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, Home Lands: How Women Made the West (2010).

Joel H. Sibley, Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War (2005).

Michael L. Tate, Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail (2006).

John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (2012).

Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West (1993).

Richard Bruce Winders, Mr. Polk’s Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (1997).

Steven E. Woodworth, Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to Civil War (2010).

ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Bruce Dorsey, Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (2002).

Lori D. Ginzberg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (2009).

Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (2005).

Sally McMillen, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement (2008).

Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (2002).

Susan M. Ryan, The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence (2003).

Beth A. Salerno, Sister Societies: Women’s Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America (2005).

Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity (2003).

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SLAVEHOLDERS AND THE ECONOMY

Edward E. Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War (2002).

David L. Carlton and Peter A. Coclanis, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003).

Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (2005).

Richard Follett, The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 (2005).

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

Aaron W. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (2009).

Jonathan Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (2004).

James David Miller, South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South (2002).

Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development (2006).

SLAVES, SLAVERY, AND RACE RELATIONS

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).

Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World (2004).

Diane Mutti Burke, On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865 (2011).

Stephanie M. H. Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (2004).

Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (2005).

Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (1998).

Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002).

Kenneth S. Greenberg, ed., Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory (2003).

Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slave Made (1974).

Kenneth S. Greenberg, ed., Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory (2002).

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (2005).

Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007).

Tiya Miles, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005).

Sydney Nathans, To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker (2012).

Dylan C. Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (2003).

Larry Eugene Rivers, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (2012).

Brenda E. Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996).

Leonard Todd, Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave (2008).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Ira Berlin, Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974).

Charles C. Bolton and Scott P. Culclasure, eds., The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South (1998).

Christine Jacobson Carter, Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800–1865 (2006).

Laura F. Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009).

Craig T. Friend and Lorri Glover, eds., Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (2004).

Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890 (1983).

Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1997).

Charles F. Irons, The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia (2008).

Anya Jabour, Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South (2007).

Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984).

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

Glenn McNair, Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia’s Criminal Justice System (2009).

Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009).

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

Joshua D. Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861 (2002).

Loren Schweninger, Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (2012).

Jonathan Daniel Wells, Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800–1861 (2004).

Eva Sheppard Wolf, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (2012).

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982).

Jeffrey Robert Young, Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837 (1999).

POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE

Anthony Gene Carey, Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia (1997).

William J. Cooper Jr., Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 (1983).

Lacy K. Ford Jr., Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2009).

Michael Perman, Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South (2009).

Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998).

Peter Wallenstein, From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).

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GENERAL WORKS

Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery (2001).

Michael Holt, Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2004).

Bruce C. Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War (1992).

James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982).

David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848–1861 ( ).

Mark E. Neely, Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005).

Eric H. Walther, The Shattering of the Union: America in the 1850s (2004).

Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005).

NORTHERN SECTIONALISM

Tom Chaffin, Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire (2002).

Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson, eds., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (2008).

Eric Foner, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (1970).

William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852–1856 (1987).

R. Blakeslee Gilpin, John Brown Still Lives! America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change (2011).

Susan-Mary Grant, North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000).

David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828–1865: Toward Civil War (1998).

Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (1994).

Pamela Herr, Jessie Benton Frémont: A Biography (1987).

Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998).

David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (2005).

Leonard L. Richards, The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (2007).

Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (2009).

James Brewer Stewart, Wendell Phillips, Liberty’s Hero (1986).

Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (1991).

Douglas L. Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1998).

Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (2001).

SOUTHERN SECTIONALISM

Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood (2009).

William J. Cooper Jr., The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856 (1978).

John Patrick Daly, When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War (2002).

Lacy K. Ford Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 (1988).

William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion, 2 vols. (1990-2007).

Matthew Pratt Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008).

David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry Clay: The Essential American (2010).

William A. Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2002).

Robert E. May, Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (2002).

Christopher J. Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830–1860 (2002).

Edward Rugemer, The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (2008).

Manisha Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000).

Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993).

SECESSION

Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis (2010).

Daniel Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989).

Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (2001).

Michael P. Johnson, Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia (1977).

Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (2008).

David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1942).

Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr., Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War (2003).

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GENERAL WORKS

Orville Vernon Burton, The Age of Lincoln (2007).

Allen C. Guelzo, A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012).

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

Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War (2007).

Adam I. P. Smith, The American Civil War (2007).

MILITARY HISTORY

Michael J. Bennett, Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (2004).

Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865 (1995).

Joseph T. Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008).

Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (2007).

James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008).

Mark E. Neely Jr., The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction (2007).

Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865 (2000).

Donald Stoker, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War (2010).

Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (2009).

William G. Thomas, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (2011).

Joan Waugh, U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (2009).

Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865 (2000).

John Fabian Witt, Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War (2012)

THE NORTH AND SOUTH AT WAR

Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (1995).

Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War (1990).

William A. Blair, Virginia’s Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 (1998).

Victoria E. Bynum, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies (2010).

William J. Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American (2000).

Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865 (2001).

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008).

William W. Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001).

Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997).

Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (2000).

William C. Harris, Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (2012).

Libra R. Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing.in the Civil War South (2012).

Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (2008).

Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South (2013).

Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War (2010).

Mark E. Neely Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991).

Megan Kate Nelson, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (2012).

Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006).

George C. Rable, God’s Almost Chosen People: A Religious History of the American Civil War (2010).

Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997).

James L. Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977).

Anne Sarah Rubin, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868 (2005).

Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death (2008).

Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (2006).

Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man (2012).

Yael A. Sternhell, Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South (2012).

Margaret M. Storey, Loyalty and Loss: Alabama’s Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2004).

Harry S. Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War (2006).

Amy Murrell Taylor, The Divided Family in Civil War America (2005).

Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North (2008).

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, 5 vols. (1982–2008).

Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010).

Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (1990).

William B. Gould IV, ed., Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (2002).

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004).

Steven Hahn, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009).

Bruce Levine, Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War (2006).

William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991).

James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007).

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GENERAL WORKS

Thomas J. Brown, ed., Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (2006).

Michael W. Fitzgerald, Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (2007).

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988).

James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (3rd ed., 2000).

THE MEANING OF FREEDOM

Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, 5 vols. (1982–).

Ronald E. Butchart, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861–1876 (2010).

Jim Downs, Sick for Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012).

John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (2006).

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008).

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

Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979).

Susan Eva O’Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South (2007).

Joshua Paddison, American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California (2012).

Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (1978).

Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (1977).

Leslie Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (1997).

Loren Schweninger, James T. Rapier and Reconstruction (1978).

Rebecca J. Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (2005).

Clarence E. Walker, A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1982).

THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION

Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877 (1990).

Philip Dray, Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen (2008).

Ellen Carol DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869 (1978).

Laura Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).

James K. Hogue, Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction (2006).

Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (2008).

Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North, 1865–1901 (2001).

Leslie A. Schwalm, Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (2009).

Brooks D. Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (1998).

Mark Wahlgren Summers, A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (2009).

Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001).

C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951).

THE STRUGGLE IN THE SOUTH

James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003).

Nancy D. Bercaw, Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861–1875 (2003).

Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (2008).

Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (2003).

Paul A. Cimbala, Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 (1997).

Jane E. Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-emancipation Virginia (2000).

Sarah E. Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937 (2004).

Carole Faulkner, Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004).

Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006).

Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).

Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (2008).

Amy Feely Morsman, The Big House After Slavery: Virginian Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiences (2010).

George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).

James L. Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977).

Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (2009).

Hyman Rubin III, South Carolina Scalawags (2006).

Christopher M. Span, From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862–1875 (2009).

Peter Wallenstein, From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).

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GENERAL

Najia Aarin-Heriot, Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848–1882 (2003).

Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000).

Patricia Nelson Limerick, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000).

Valerie Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger, eds., Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (1999).

Louis S. Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (2005).

Richard White, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”: A New History of the American West (1991).

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

David M. Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West (2002).

INDIANS

David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 (1995).

Gary Clayton Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 (2005).

Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (2005).

Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indian Empires in the Early American West (2006).

Colin Calloway, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (3rd ed., 2008).

James O. Gump, The Dust Rose like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux (1994).

Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire (2008).

Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1730–1920 (2000).

Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek (2013).

Edward Lazarus, Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation versus the United States, 1775 to the Present (1991).

Jeffrey Ostler, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2004).

Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2010).

Francis Paul Prucha, The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indian (1986).

Charles M. Robinson III, A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War (1995).

Alan Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930 (2004).

MINING, RANCHING, AND FARMING

Suchen Chan, This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in American Agriculture, 1860–1919 (1986).

Suchen Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry P. Wilson, Peoples of Color in the American West (1994).

Roger Daniels, Asian American: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1997).

Deborah Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (2003).

Manuel G. Gonzales, Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (1999).

J. S. Holliday, Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California (1999).

David Igler, Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920 (2001).

Andrew C. Isenberg, Mining California: An Ecological History (2005).

Ronald M. James, The Roar and the Silence: The History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode (1998).

William Loren Katz, Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (2005).

Karen R. Merrill, Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them (2002).

Rodman Wilson Paul, Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848–1880 (rev. ed., 2001).

William G. Robbins, Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West (1994).

Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (2002).

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GENERAL WORKS

Charles W. Calhoun, ed., The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America (1996).

Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1993).

Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905 (2006).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

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

BUSINESS

Kathleen Brady, Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker (1984).

Edward Chancellor, Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (1999).

Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998).

Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A Cultural History of Wall Street in America (2005).

Morton J. Horowitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1870–1960 (1992).

Walter Licht, Industrializing America (1995).

Carol Marvin, When Technologies Were New (1988).

David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (2006).

T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (2009).

Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (1999).

Viviana A. Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money (1994).

POLITICS

Paula Baker, The Moral Framework of Public Life (1991).

Richard F. Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900 (2000).

Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873–1900 (1990).

Alyn Brodsky, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character (2000).

Robert W. Cherny, American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868–1900 (1997).

Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds., Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from the Civil War to Civil Rights (2000).

Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997).

Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999).

Paula Giddings, Ida, a Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching (2008).

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

Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (1998).

Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (1995).

H. Paul Jeffers, An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland (2000).

Ross Evans Paulson, Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865–1932 (1997).

Dorothy Salem, To Better Our World: Black Women in Organized Reform, 1890–1920 (1990).

Ian Tyrell, Woman’s World, Woman’s Empire: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930 (1991).

LeeAnn Whites, Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South (2005).

CULTURE

Ellen Gruber Garvey, The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s (1996).

Judy Arlene Hilkey, Character Is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America (1997).

Jane H. Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (2002).

Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking: The American Success Formula in the Gilded Age (1996).

Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (anniversary edition, 2009).

Chapter 19

IMMIGRATION

John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigration in Urban America (1985).

Vincent J. Cannato, American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (2010).

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (2004).

Allan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).

Martha Gardner, The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870–1965 (2005).

Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002).

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998).

David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers (1998).

David R. Roediger, Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White (2005).

Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1998).

WORKERS AND UNIONS

Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890–1940 (1986).

Ileen A. DeVault, United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism (2004).

Hasia Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2000).

Leon Fink, Workingman’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics (1983).

James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (2006).

Hamilton Hold, ed., The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves (2000).

Jacqueline Jones, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

Susan Levine, Labor’s True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age (1984).

David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 (1987).

Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920 (1983).

Timothy Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919 (2005).

Carole Srole, Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth Century Courts and Offices (2009).

Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900–1930 (1992).

Robert E. Weir, Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement (2000).

THE CITY AND ITS AMUSEMENTS

LeRoy Ashby, With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830 (2006).

Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (2001).

Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton, The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (2005).

Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 (2000).

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).

Margaret Garb, City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871–1919 (2005).

Richard Haw, The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History (2005).

Elizabeth Hawes, New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed Life in the City, 1869–1930 (1993).

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986).

Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (1992).

Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999).

Jules Tygiel, Past Time: Baseball as History (2000).

Chapter 20

WAR AND FOREIGN POLICY

THE FARMERS ALLIANCE, THE LABOR WARS, AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM

Peter H. Argersinger, The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics (1995).

Jean H. Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists (2005).

Donna A. Barnes, The Louisiana Populist Movement, 1881–1900 (2011).

Ruth Bordin Frances Willard: A Biography (1986).

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State (1991).

Ellen Carol DuBois, Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights (1998).

Gaither, Blacks and the Populist Movement (2013).

Michael Lewis Goldberg, An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (1997).

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

Elizabeth Jameson, All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek (1998).

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (rev. ed., 1998).

Paul Krause, The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892 (1992).

Connie L. Lester, Up From the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870–1915 (2006).

Theodore R. Mitchell, Political Education in the Southern Farmers’ Alliance, 1887–1900 (1987).

David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (2006).

Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982).

DEPRESSION AND THE ELECTION OF 1896

Louis L, Gould, The Presidency of Willliam McKinley (1981).

Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).

Michael Kazin, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006).

Kenneth L. Kusmer, Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History (2002).

Gretchen Ritter, Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition in the Politics of Finance in America (1997).

Carol A. Schwantes, Coxey’s Army: An American Odyssey (1985).

Douglas Steeples and David O Whitten, Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1892 (1998).

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, The Domination of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000 (2005).

Edward P. Crapol, James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire (1999).

Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998).

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917 (2000).

Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2002).

Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006).

Walter LaFeber, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. 2 The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 (1993).

Brian Linn, The Philippine War, 1899–1902 (2000).

Paul T. McCartney, Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism (2006).

Ivan Musicant, Empire by Default: The Spanish American War and the Dawn of the American Century (1998).

Thomas J. Osborne, Annexation Hawaii (1998).

Louis A. Perez Jr., The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (1998).

Diana Preston, Besieged in Peking: The Story of the 1900 Boxer Uprising (1999).

Lars Shoultz, Beneath the United States (1998).

Margaret Strobel, Gender, Sex, and Empire (1993).

Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (2010).

David Traxel, 1898: The Birth of the American Century (1999).

Walter Zimmerman, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power (2002).

Chapter 21

GENERAL

Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s (2007).

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).

Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America (2005).

Eric Ruchway, Blessed among Nations: How the World Made America (2006).

GRASSROOTS PROGRESSIVISM

Victoria Bissell Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (2004).

Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1997).

Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005).

Louise W. Night, Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010).

Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of the Welfare State (1993).

Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform (1991).

Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830–1900 (1995).

Landon R. Y. Storre, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000).

Nancy C. Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000).

David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003).

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY

Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2009).

John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).

Alan Dawley, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution (2003).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and ther Golden Age of Journalism (2013).

Lewis L. Gould, Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics (2008); William Howard Taft: Presidency (2009).

Lewis L. Gould, William Howard Taft: Presidency (2009).

Kristin Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920 (2007).

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917 (2000).

Robert Johnston, The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003).

Walter LaFeber, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. 2 The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 (1993).

Kevin Matson, Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era (1998).

Robert W. Righter, The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (2005).

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

RADICALS, RACE RELATIONS, AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Mary Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981).

Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America (1993).

Melvyn Dubofsky, “Big Bill” Haywood (1987).

Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2002).

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

David Fort Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations (2005).

Evelyn Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (1993).

David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 (1993).

Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914 (2004).

Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982).

Chapter 22

GENERAL WORKS

John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009).

Thomas Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (2003).

Robert H. Zieger, America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience (2000).

“OVER THERE”

Gerald Astor, The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military (1998).

Peter Boyle, American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism (1993).

Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1968).

Byron Farwell, Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917–1918 (1999).

Lloyd C. Gardner, Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913–1923 (1987).

Judith S. Graham, ed., “Out Here at the Front”: The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall (2004).

Jennifer D. Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001).

Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1992).

Edward G. Lengel, To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 (2008).

Margaret Olwen Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2002).

Gary Mead, The Doughboys: America and the First World War (2000).

Emily S. Rosenberg, Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1890–1930 (1999).

Gene Smith, Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing (1998).

David L. Snead, ed., An American Soldier in World War I: George Browne (2006).

David F. Trask, The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917–1918 (1993).

Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women with the AEF, 1917–1919 (1999).

THE HOME FRONT

Jean Baker, Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists (2005).

Nancy Cott, The Grounding of American Feminism (1987).

Leslie Midkiff DeBauche, Reel Patriotism: The Movies and World War I (1997).

Marc A. Eisner, From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order (2000).

Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (2008).

Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, eds., Women’s Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History (1992).

Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1980).

James N. Gregory, Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (2005).

James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1989).

David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980).

David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 (1993).

Robert K. Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920 (1955).

Tammy M. Proctor, Civilians in a World at War, 1914–1918 (2010).

George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (1993).

William H. Thomas Jr., Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent (2008).

Joe William Trotter Jr., ed., The Great Migration in Historical Perspective (1991).

Chapter 23

GENERAL WORKS

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).

William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932 (1958).

Michael Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920–1941 (1992).

POLITICS AND ECONOMY

Kristi Anderson, After Suffrage: Women in Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal (1996).

Douglas Brinkley, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003 (2003).

Kendrick A. Clements, Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life (2000).

Warren I. Cohen, Empire without Tears: America’s Foreign Relations, 1921–1933 (1987).

Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street (2005).

Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935 (1994).

David Greenberg, Calvin Coolidge (2006).

Owen Gutfreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape (2004).

Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (2003).

William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert Hoover: 31st President, 1929–1933 (2009).

Martha L. Olney, Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s (1991).

Lorrai Schuyler, Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s (2006).

Steven Watts, People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (2005).

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Douglas Carl Abrams, Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920–1940 (2001).

Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodriguez, Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (1995).

Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (2004).

Liz Conor, Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (2004).

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983).

Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (2004).

Paula S. Fass, The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977).

David J. Goldberg, Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s (1999).

David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970).

David E. Kyvig, Daily Life in the United States, 1920–1940 (2002).

Edward J. Larson, Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1997).

David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 (2000).

Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994).

David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (1990).

Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010).

David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn against Immigration (1998).

Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934 (1994).

Judith Stein, The World of Marcus Garvey (1986).

Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004).

Chapter 24

GENERAL WORKS

Gary Dean Best, The Retreat from Liberalism: Collectivists versus Progressives in the New Deal Years (2002).

William H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies (2003).

Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2010).

Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression (2000).

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

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).

Alan Lawson, A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis (2006).

William Edward Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (2009).

Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2008).

NEW DEAL POLITICS

Roger Biles, The South and the New Deal (2006).

Kirstin Downey, The Woman behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins (2010).

Alonzo L. Hamby, For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s (2004).

Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism (2009).

Marian C. McKenna, Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937 (2002).

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade against the New Deal (2010).

Theodore Rosenof, Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933–1993 (1997).

Robert Shogan, Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal (2006).

Mary Triece, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression (2007).

Clyde P. Weed, The Nemesis of Reform: The Republican Party during the New Deal (1994).

NEW DEAL POLICIES

Lizbeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1990).

Kathleen G. Donohue, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer (2004).

Timothy Eagan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006).

Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative (2010).

Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits (2009).

Michael R. Grey, New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration (1999).

Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (2000).

Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003).

Lawrence Levine et al., The Fireside Conversations: America Responds to FDR during the Great Depression (2010).

Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years (2001).

Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (2007).

Patrick D. Reagan, Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1936 (1999).

John A. Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama (2002).

Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956 (2005).

Landon R. Y. Stors, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000).

David A. Taylor, Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America (2010).

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GENERAL WORKS

Max Arthur, ed., Forgotten Voices of the Second World War: A New History of World War Two in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (2004).

Anthony Beevor, The Second World War (2013)

Richard Evans, The Third Reich at War (2010).

Thomas Fleming, The New Dealers’ War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War within World War II (2001).

Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 (2011)

Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich (2009).

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).

Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2008).

Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (2011)

Paul W. Tibbets Jr., The Tibbets Story (1978).

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 (2001).

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006).

FOREIGN POLICY

Tokomo Akami, Internationalizing the Pacific: The U.S., Japan, and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919–1945 (2002).

Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (2005).

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005).

J. Robert Moskin, Mr. Truman’s War: The Final Victories of World War II and the Birth of the Postwar World (2002).

David Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War (2001).

Gaddis Smith, American Diplomacy during the Second World War, 1941–1945 (1985).

MOBILIZATION AND THE HOME FRONT

Gerald Astor, The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military (1998).

Jeffrey F. Burton et al., Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (2002).

Stephanie A. Carpenter, On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II (2003).

Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982).

Arthur Herman, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (2012)

John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996).

Christopher Moore, Fighting for America: Black Soldiers—The Unsung Heroes of World War II (2005).

Wendy Ng, Japanese American Internment during World War II (2002).

MILITARY EVENTS

Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (2013).

Antony Beevor, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (2009).

John Dower, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986).

Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (2006).

Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (1999).

Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (1996).

Richard Overy, The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945 (2013)

Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (2013).

Peter Schrijvers, The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II (2002).

Thomas W. Zeiler, Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II (2004).

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GENERAL WORKS

Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (5th ed., 2004).

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

Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2009).

Peter L. Hahn, Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945–1961 (2004).

Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995).

Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth- Century America (2005).

James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974 (1996).

Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960 (1996).

Julian E. Zelizer, Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security—from World War II to the War on Terrorism (2010).

DOMESTIC POLITICS AND POLICIES

Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans (2009).

Jonathan Bell, The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years (2004).

Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968 (1995).

Mark Brilliant, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941–1978 (2010).

Griffin Fariello, Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition (1995).

Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932–1968 (2001).

Michael D. Gambone, The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society (2005).

Ignacio M. García, Hector P. García: In Relentless Pursuit of Justice (2002).

Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2004).

David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (2004).

Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (2005).

Henry A. J. Ramos, The American GI Forum: In Pursuit of the Dream, 1948–1983 (1998).

Ellen W. Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998).

Ingrid Winther Scobie, Center Stage: Helen Gahagan Douglas: A Life (1992).

Robert Shogan, Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2013).

Philippa Strum, Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (2010).

THE COLD WAR

Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (2006).

Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe (2007).

Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm (1996).

Campbell Craig and Fredric Logevall, America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009).

Robert Dallek, The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945–1953 (2010).

Carolyn Eisenberg, Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949 (1996).

John L. Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (2005).

Michael D. Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. (2010).

Daniel F. Harrington, Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War (2012).

Lawrence S. Kaplan, 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance (2007).

Melvyn Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007).

Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995).

Katherine A. S. Sibley, Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004).

Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (2005).

ASIA AND THE KOREAN WAR

Gordon H. Chang, Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972 (1990).

Bruce Cumings, The Korean War (2010).

Chae-Jin Lee, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas (2006).

Allen R. Millett, The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning (2005); The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came from the North (2010).

Michael Schaller, Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997).

Stanley Weintraub, MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero (2000).

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EISENHOWER’S ADMINISTRATION

Jeff Broadwater, Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade (2010).

Dino A. Brugioni, Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA and Cold War Aerial Espionage (2010).

Steven Z. Freiberger, Dawn over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953–1957 (1992).

David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993).

Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003).

William M. McClenaham, Jr., and William H. Becker, Eisenhower and the Cold War Economy (2011).

David A. Nichols, A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution (2007)

David A. Nichols, Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War (2011).

Chester J. Pach Jr. and Elmo Richardson, The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (rev. ed., 1991).

Kathryn C. Statler and Andrew L. Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (2006).

Philip Taubman, Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage (2003).

Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004).

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

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

Gail Cooper, Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960 (1998).

Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (2004).

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985).

Michael Johns, Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s (2002).

Fred Kaplan, 1959: The Year Everything Changed (2009).

Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003).

Tom Lewis, Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (1999).

David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story (2005).

Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001).

Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (1994).

GENDER, THE FAMILY, AND CULTURE

Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America (2004).

Erik Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television (rev. ed., 1990).

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip (1992).

Robert Ellwood, The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict (1997).

Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America (Oxford, 2009).

James Gilbert, Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s (2005).

James Howard Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1998).

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).

Anna McCarthy, The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America (2010).

Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945–1960 (1994).

Alan Petigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 (2009)

Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (1992).

Steven Watson, The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944–1960 (1995).

MINORITIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Melba Patillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High (1994).

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963 (1988).

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

Donald L. Fixico, Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945–1960 (1986).

David J. Garrow, ed., The Montgomery Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (1987).

Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004).

Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Racial Equality (rev. ed. 2004).

James T. Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001).

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (2003).

Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008).

Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (2009).

Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998).

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THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE

Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2006).

Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2003).

Taylor Branch, America in the King Years, 3 vols. (1988, 1998, 2006).

John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (2003).

Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America (2009).

William P. Jones, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013).

Peniel E. Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama (2010).

Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999).

Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011).

Gary May, Bending toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy (2013).

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2005).

Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995).

Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (2003).

Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999).

Bruce Watson, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (2010).

POLITICS, POLICIES, AND COURT DECISIONS

David C. Carter, The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965–1968 (2009).

Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (2003).

Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2000).

Michael B. Katz, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1989).

Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006).

Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993).

Lucas A. Powe Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (2000).

John D. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution (2002).

Melvin Small, The Presidency of Richard Nixon (2003).

Irwin Unger, The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society (1996).

Tom Wicker, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream (1991).

Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (2006).

PROTEST MOVEMENTS

Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (2013).

Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties (1995).

David Barber, A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed (2010).

Stefan M. Bradley, Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s (2009).

Daniel M. Cobb, Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty (2008).

John D’Emilio, William B. Turner, and Urvashi Vaid, Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights (2000).

Matt Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement (2012)

Troy R. Johnson, The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination (2008).

Ian F. Haney López, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (2003).

Daryl J. Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America. (2009).

F. Arturo Rosales, Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1997).

Randy Shaw, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century (2008).

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FOREIGN POLICY UNDER KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND NIXON

Beth Bailey, America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (2009).

Warren Bass, Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (2003).

H. W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995).

Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (2007).

Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (2008).

Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000).

Michael Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War (2008).

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (1998).

Howard Jones, The Bay of Pigs (2008).

Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (2011).

Margaret Macmillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (2007).

Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (1985).

Keith L. Nelson, The Making of Détente: Soviet- American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam (1995).

Robert B. Rakove, Kennedy, Johndon, and the Nonaligned World (2013).

Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (2003).

Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003).

THE WAR IN VIETNAM

Mark Philip Bradley, Vietnam at War (2009).

Arnold R. Isaacs, Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy (1997).

David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000).

Jeffrey P. Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (1998).

A. J. Langguth, Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet Ta: A History of the War, 1954–1975 (2000).

Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2008).

Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in Vietnam (1999); Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (2013).

They Marched into Sunlight: War, Peace, Vietnam, and America, October 1967 (2004).

James Willbanks, The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (2008). Those Who Served

Christian G. Appy, Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam (1993).

Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977).

David Donovan, Once a Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam (1985).

Frederick Downs, The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War (1978); Aftermath: A Soldier’s Return from Vietnam (1984); No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam (1991).

Harry Maurer, Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945–1975, an Oral History (1998).

Tim O’Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box me Up and Ship Me Home (1992).

Al Santoli, Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1981).

William J. Shkurti, Soldiering On in a Dying War: The True Story of the Firebase Pace Incidents and the Vietnam Drawdown (2011).

James E. Westheider, Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War (1997).

Kara Dixon Vuic, Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (2010).

POLITICS AND THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT

Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Race: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (1995).

Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War (2007).

Adam Garfinkle, Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Anti-War Movement (1997).

Lewis L. Gould, 1968: The Election That Changed America (rev. ed., 2010).

Simon Hall, Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (2011).

Andrew E. Hunt, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans against the War (1999).

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War (1999).

Martin Klimke, The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (2009).

Lorena Orpesa, Raza Sí!, Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam War Era (2005).

David Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case (1996).

Scanlon, Sandra, The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism. (2013).

Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s (1993).

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GENERAL WORKS

Edward D. Berkowitz, Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies (2006).

Thomas Borstelman, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (2011).

Robert Collins, Transforming Americas: Politics and Culture in the Reagan Years (2007).

Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980 (2010).

Burton I. Kaufman and Scott Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (2006).

Robert Mason, Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004).

Keith W. Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America (2003).

James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005).

Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005).

Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008).

FOREIGN POLICY

David Farber,

David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (2012).

Marc Ensalaco, Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 (2008).

Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War (2000).

Scott Kaufman, Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration (2008).

William M. LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (1998).

Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (2002).

James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2009).

THE ECONOMY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

W. Carl Biven, Jimmy Carter’s Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits (2003).

Elizabeth D. Blum, Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (2008).

Phillip J. Cooper, The War against Regulation: From Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush. (2009).

Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010).

Samuel P. Hays, A History of Environmental Politics since 1945 (2000).

Robert J. Samuelson, The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945–1995 (1996).

John W. Sloan, The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership (1999).

Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2010).

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CONTESTS OVER RIGHTS

Terry H. Anderson, The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action (2004).

John A. Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (1997).

Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (2005).

J. Brooks Flippen. Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right. (2011).

Linda Hirshman, Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution—How a Despised Minority Pushed Back, Beat Death, Found Love, and Changed America for Everyone (2012).

J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1986).

Bradford Martin, The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (2011).

William Martin,

Donald G. Mathews and Jane Sherron De Hart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics of the ERA (1990).

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

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (2009).

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

James F. Simon, The Center Holds: The Power Struggle inside the Rehnquist Court (1995).

Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (2010).

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DOMESTIC POLITICS, POLICIES, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE

Jonathan Alter, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (2013).

Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead (2013).

Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006).

Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Science Industries (2001).

Robert Draper, “Dead Certain”: The Presidency of George W. Bush (2007).

John F. Harris, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2005).

Bruce D. Meyer and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Its Impact on America’s Families (2002).

Jack N. Rakove, ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (2001).

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (2012).

Richard K. Scotch, From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (rev. ed., 2001).

David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004).

Paul Starr, Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform (2011).

Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (2010).

GLOBALIZATION AND IMMIGRATION

Frank D. Bean and Gillian Stevens, America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity (2003).

Globalization from Below (2000).

Otis L. Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History of America’s Immigration Crisis (2004).

John R. MacArthur, The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy (2000).

David M. Reimers, Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People (2005).

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (2002).

FOREIGN POLICY AFTER THE COLD WAR

Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (2002).

David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (2012).

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (2003).

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (2006).

David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2001).

James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (2004).

Christopher Maynard, Out of the Shadow: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (2008).

Richard Sale, Clinton’s Secret Wars: The Evolution of a Commander in Chief (2009).

TERRORISM AND THE AFGHAN AND IRAQ WARS

Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Quaeda (2011).

Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (2009).

Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (2002).

Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (2008).

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (2004).

George Packer, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (2005).

Gary Rosen, ed., The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq (2005).

Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War (2005).