George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). The classic book on the history of American fundamentalism and the controversy with modernism.

Matthew Avery Sutton, The Politics of Apocalypse: A History of Modern American Evangelicalism. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). A new book that grounds the fundamentalist-modernist controversy in its historical and political contexts.