Modern America History Books
Reconstruction
- Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2002.
- Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Hunter, Tera W. To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Western Settlement/Settler Colonialism
- Deutsch, Sarah. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. City of Inmates Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Peck, Gunther. Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Jim Crow/Juan Crow
- Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Haley. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface. Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Kelley, Blair Murphy. Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Escobar, Edward J. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
- González, Gabriela. Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Martinez, Monica Munoz. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Gilded Age
- Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. Oxford University Press, 1978.
- Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, Second Edition. The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Green, James R. Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895–1943. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
- Gutman, Herbert G. Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Migration and Citizenship
- Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Molina, Natalia. How Race Is Made in America Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
- Glenn, Evelyn. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Progressive Era
- Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Basic Books, 2019.
- McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Dawley, Alan. Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Gerstle, Professor Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Harvard University Press, 1992.
- Mink, Gwendolyn. Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party and State, 1875-1920. Cornell University Press, 1986.
- Kessler-Harris, Alice. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985).
- Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Ruiz, Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Labor and Depression
- Fraser, Steve, and Professor Gary Gerstle, eds. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton University Press, 1989.
- Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, Et al. Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
- Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Roll, Jarod. Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Ruiz, Vicki L. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
- Vargas, Zaragosa. Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 1935-1955. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
World War II
- Castillo, Richard Griswold del. World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights. University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Chiang, Connie Y. Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Zamora, Emilio, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2010.
- Bates, Beth Tompkins. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
- Griffith, Barbara S. The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the Cio. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
- Lipsitz, George. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Long and Wide Civil Rights Movements
- Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
- Bardacke, Frank. Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. New York: Verso, 2011.
- Blanton, Carlos Kevin. George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
- Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. Oxford University Press, 1981.
- García, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
- Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Krochmal. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era. The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
- Kurashige, Scott. The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Montejano, David. Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
- Rickford, Russell. We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Rosales, Rodolfo. The Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
- Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: of North Carolina Press, 2001.
- Windham, Lane. Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Lee, Corky, Amy Jordan, Christina Greene, Daniel M. Cobb, Greta de Jong, Guian A. McKee, Karen M. Tani, et al. The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980. Edited by Annelise Orleck and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian. University of Georgia Press, 2011.
- Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left. New York: Random House, 1979.
- D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities the Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Bérubé, Allan, John D’Emilio, and Estelle B Freedman. My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community and Labor History. Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- Jones, William P. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013.
- Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface. University of California Press, 1995.
- MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Harvard University Press, 2008.
Postwar Urban
- Bao, Xiaolan. Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
- Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
- Balto. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Contreras, Eduardo. Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
- Goodman, Adam. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Minian, Ana Raquel. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
- Shabazz, Rashad. Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Rise of the New Right
- McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right – Updated Edition. Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Cadava, Geraldo. The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump. New York: Ecco and Harper Collins, 2020.
- Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Delmont, Matthew F. Why Busing Failed: Conservative Politics, TV News, and the Backlash to Integration. University of California Press, 2016.
Globalization
- Cowie, Jefferson R. Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. New York: The New Press : distributed by W. W. Norton, 2001.
- Frank, Dana. Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. Boston Beacon Press, 2005.
- Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon. Sweatshop Warriors. Cambridge: South End Press, 2001.
Borderlands: Latinx/ Chicanx Experience Books
- Acuna, Rodolfo. Occupied America: The Chicano’s Struggle Toward Liberation. San Francisco: Harper Collins Publisher, 1972.
- Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987.
- Arredondo, Gabriela F. Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
- Barraclough, Laura. Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
- Benton-Cohen, Katherine. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Calderón, Roberto R. Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000.
- Carpio, Genevieve. Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race. University of California Press, 2019.
- Casas, Maria Raquél. Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880. Reno: Univ Of Nevada Press, 2009.
- Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. First edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
- Gutiérrez, David. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
- Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
- Martinez, Monica Munoz. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Meeks, Eric V. Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
- Molina, Natalia. How Race Is Made in America Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
- Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2009.
- Neil Foley. Mexicans in the Making of America. Cambridge: Belknap Harvard, 2017.
- Oropeza, Lorena. The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
- Perales, Monica. Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Raul A. Ramos. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
- Reséndez, Andrés. Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Rodriguez, Marc Simon. Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin. University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Salinas, Cristina. Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.
- Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Weber, David J. Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
Military History Books
World War I
- Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Keene, Jennifer D. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. Baltimore, Md.: JHUP, 2003.
Cold War
- Linn, Brian McAllister. Elvis’s Army. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Vietnam War
- Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.
- Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam . The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
- Asselin, Pierre. Vietnam’s American War: A History. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Daniel S. Lucks. Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
- Lawrence, Mark Atwood. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Lewis, Penny. Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory. Cornell University Press, 2013.
- Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. Random House, 2012.
- Martini, Edwin. Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Volunteer Army
- Bailey, Beth. America’s Army: Making The All-Volunteer Force. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Draft
- Baskir, Lawrence M, and William A Strauss. Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, The War, and The Vietnam Generation . University of Michigan Press, 1978.
- Flynn, George Q. The Draft, 1940-1973. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
- Foley, Michael S. Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
- Rutenberg, Amy J. Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Race and the Military
- Coronado, Juan David. “I’m Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place”: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
- Dixon, Chris. African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- García, Ignacio M. Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.
- Graham, Herman. The Brothers’ Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
- Lentz-Smith, Adriane. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Oropeza, Lorena. Raza sí!, guerra no!: Chicano protest and patriotism during the Viet Nam war era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
- Rosales, Steven. Soldados Razos at War. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017.
- Takaki, Ronald. Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2001.
- Westheider, James E. Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Gender and the Military
- Roberts, Mary Louise. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Stur, Heather Marie. Beyond Combat: Women And Gender In The Vietnam War Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Military Synthesis
- Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Kinder, John M. Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Sherry, Professor Michael S. In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
- Taylor, William A. Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
Critical Curriculum Studies Books
- Au, Wayne. Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing. Routledge, 2012.
- Blanton, Carlos Kevin. The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
- Devlin, Rachel. A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
- Flinders, David J., and Stephen J. Thornton, eds. The Curriculum Studies Reader. 5 edition. New York: Routledge, 2017.
- Gonzalez, Gilbert G. Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013.
- Grande, Sandy. Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015.
- Grant, Carl A., Keffrelyn D. Brown, and Anthony L. Brown. Black Intellectual Thought in Education. New York: Routledge, 2015.
- Grumet, Madeline R., and William Pinar, eds. Toward a Poor Curriculum. Troy: Educator’s International Press, 2014.
- Jr, Guadalupe San Miguel. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
- ———. Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
- Kliebard, Herbert M. The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958. 3 edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
- Miguel, Guadalupe San. Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community. Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- Miller, Janet L. Sounds of Silence Breaking: Women, Autobiography, Curriculum. New York: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2005.
- Mirel, Jeffrey. The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81. Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Regional, 1999.
- Paraskeva, João M., and Shirley R. Steinberg, eds. Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2016.
- Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Pinar, William F. What Is Curriculum Theory? New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Taubman, Peter M., William F. Pinar, Patrick Slattery, and William M. Reynolds. Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. 5 edition. New York: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006.
- Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Valencia, Richard R. Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality. New York University Press, 2010.
- Valenzuela, Angela. Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.
- Watkins, William H., William Ayers, and Therese Quinn. The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865–1954. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.
- Winfield, Ann. Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory. New York: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2007.