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Modern U.S. History Reading List
Important Historiographic Collection
Foner, Eric. The New American History
Antebellum/Sectional Crisis
Recommended Synthesis Sectional Crisis: Elizabeth Varon, Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
- Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
- DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
- Foner, Eric. Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Men
- Litwack, Leon. North of Slavery
- Walters, Ronald. American Reformers, 1815-1860
1861-1900
Recommended Synthesis Civil War: James McPherson. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Recommended Synthesis 1877-1920: Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
- Ayers, Edward. The Promise of the New South.
- Bender, Thomas. Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century
- Blight, David. Race and Reunion
- Fink, Leon. Workingmen’s Democracy
- Foner, Eric. Reconstruction
- Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow
- Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest
- Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision
Twentieth Century
Recommended Synthesis Depression and World War II: David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Recommended Synthesis 1945-1974: James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
Recommended Synthesis 1970s-2000: James Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
- Brinkley, Alan. The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
- Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
- Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History
- Gilmore, Glenda, ed. Who Were the Progressives? [ANTHOLOGY]
- Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- Herring, George. America's Longest War: The United States in Vietnam
- Jacobs, Meg. Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- Lichtenstein, Nelson. State of the Union.
- Leuchtenberg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
- Marable, Manning, Malcolm X.
- May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound
- Sugrue, Thomas. Sweet Land of Liberty.
- Schulman, Brad, and Julian Zelizer, eds. Rightward Bound. [ANTHOLOGY]
General
- Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
- D'Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
- Herring, George C. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776.
- Mintz, Steve and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life