Twentieth Century United States - Cummings

Progressive Era

• Bernstein, Irving, The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
• Buhle, Mari Jo, Women and American Socialism
• Connelly, Mark Thomas, The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era
• Cott, Nancy, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
• Frank, Dana, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement
• Gerstle, Gary, American Crucible
• Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow
• Gordon, Linda, Pitied But Not Enttitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
• Hanchett, Thomas, Sorting Out the New South City
• Higham, John, Strangers in the Land
• Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society
• Leach, William, Land of Desire
• Lears, T.J., Fables of Abundance
• Lears, T.J., No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
• Sanders, Elizabeth, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1917
• Tuttle, William M., Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
• Weinstein, James, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918
• Wiebe, Robert, The Search for Order, 1877-1920

Great Depression and New Deal

• Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
• Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest.
• Cohen, Elizabeth. Making a New Deal.
• Daniel, Pete, Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880
• Denning, Michael, The Cultural Front
• Fraser & Gerstle, Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order.
• Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible.
• Gordon, Linda, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
• Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform.
• Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear.
• Kelley, Robin D.G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.
• Leffler, Melvyn, The Specter of Communism

Politics of Postwar Prosperity

• Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light
• Dionne, E.J., Why Americans Hate Politics
• Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A., Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor, 1945-1960
• Gibson, James William, The Perfect War: The War We Couldn’t Lose and How We Did
• Himmelstein, Jerome L., To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism
• Hirsch, Arnold, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
• Hoff, Joan, Nixon Reconsidered
• Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier
• Katz, Michael, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
• Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America
• May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
• Navasky, Victor. Naming Names
• Nicolaides, Becky M., My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles
• Paterson, Thomas, The Origins of the Cold War
• Rome, Adam, Bulldozer in the Countryside
• Schulman, Bruce, The Seventies
• Self, Robert, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
• Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis
• Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow
• Young, Marilyn, The Vietnam Wars