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United States History 1140: Edward Bates Booklist

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The West

The Black infantry in the West, 1869-1891 
Author: Fowler, Arlen L
Publication information: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1996
Physical description: xxii, 167 p. : ill. 21 cm
Call Number: E185.63 .F66 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
The colonel's lady on the western frontier: the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson 
Author: Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888
Publication information: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1989
Physical description: xiii, 255 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: F594 .G765 1989
Format: Book
Location: General
In search of Butch Cassidy 
Author: Pointer, Larry, 1940-
Publication information: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1977
Physical description: xvii, 294 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: F 595 .C362 P64
Format: Book
Location: General
The Indian frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 
Author: Utley, Robert Marshall, 1929-
Publication information: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1984
Physical description: xxi, 325 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E81 .U747 1984
Format: Book
Location: General
Rocky Mountain mining camps:: the urban frontier 
Author: Smith, Duane A
Publication information: Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1967]
Physical description: xii, 304 p. illus., map. 22 cm
Call Number: F 593 .S66
Format: Book
Location: General
William Tecumseh Sherman and the settlement of the West 
Author: Athearn, Robert G
Publication information: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1956]
Physical description: xix, 371 p. illus., ports., maps. 25 cm
Call Number: E 467.1 .S55 A8
Format: Book
Location: General
Wolves for the blue soldiers: Indian scouts and auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860-90 
Author: Dunlay, Thomas W., 1944-
Publication information: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1982
Physical description: 304 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E83.866 .D86 1982
Format: Book
Location: General
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Crazy Horse and Custer: the parallel lives of two American warriors 
Author: Ambrose, Stephen E
Publication information: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975
Physical description: x, 486 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E 99 .O3 A46
Format: Book
Location: General
Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869 
Author: Ambrose, Stephen E
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000
Physical description: 431 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps 25 cm
Call Number: TF23 .A48 2000
Format: Book
Location: General

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Crazy Horse Custer, George Armstrong
Frontier and Pioneer Life West (U.S.) West (U. S.) History (time period)


Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism : selected essays. 
Author: Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910
Publication information: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
Physical description: 180 p. 22 cm
Call Number: HM 22 .U5 S8
Format: Book
Location: General
Social Darwinism in American thought 
Author: Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970
Publication information: New York, G. Braziller, 1959 [c1955]
Physical description: 248 p. 22 cm
Call Number: HM 22 .U5 H6
Format: Book
Location: General
Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism 
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
Physical description: xii, 260 p. 24 cm
Call Number: BM538.E8 J49 2006
Format: Book
Location: General
Missing the revolution: Darwinism for social scientists 
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
Physical description: vii, 302 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: BF701 .M55 2006
Format: Book
Location: General
Race, culture, and evolution : essays in the history of anthropology 
Author: Stocking, George W., 1928-
Publication information: New York, Free Press [1968]
Physical description: xvii, 380 p. 22 cm
Call Number: GN325 .S75 1968
Format: Book
Location: General
New Edition
Darwinism and human affairs 
Author: Alexander, Richard D
Publication information: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1979
Physical description: xxiv, 317 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: HM 106 .A44
Format: Book
Location: General
Theoretical logic in sociology 
Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982-
Physical description: v. 25 cm
Call Number: HM 24 .A465 1982
Format: Book
Location: General

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Social Evolution


Immigration

Cheap amusements: working women and leisure in turn-of-the-century New York 
Author: Peiss, Kathy Lee
Publication information: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986
Physical description: xi, 244 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: F124 .P38 1986
Format: Book
Location: General
The uprooted : the epic story of the great migrations that made the American people 
Author: Handlin, Oscar, 1915-
Publication information: Boston, Little, Brown, 1951
Physical description: 310 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E 184 .A1 H27
Format: Book
Location: General
Strangers in the land : patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925. 
Author: Higham, John
Publication information: New York, Atheneum, 1963
Physical description: 431 p. illus. 19 cm
Call Number: E 184 .A1 H5 1963
Format: Book
Location: General
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Guarding the golden door: American immigration policy and immigrants since 1882 
Author: Daniels, Roger
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2004
Physical description: xii, 328 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: JV6483 .D36 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making of modern America 
Author: Ngai, Mae M
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004
Physical description: xx, 377 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: KF4800 .N485 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Becoming Mexican American: ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 
Author: Sánchez, George J
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, c1993
Physical description: xiv, 367 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: F869.L89 M57 1995
Format: Book
Location: General
Also available as an eBook
Immigration reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics 
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
Physical description: viii, 342 p. 25 cm
Call Number: JV6450 .I57 1990
Format: Book
Location: General
Erin's daughters in America: Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century 
Author: Diner, Hasia R
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1983
Physical description: xvi, 192 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E 184 .I6 D56 1983
Format: Book
Location: General

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Emigration and Immigration Law Illegal Aliens
Immigrants United States [Ethnicity] Americans History example: Mexican Americans
Nativism United States Emigration and Immigration History (time period)


The Gilded Age

Mark Twain 
Author: Ward, Geoffrey C
Publication information: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2001
Physical description: xvi, 269 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 col. map 26 cm
Call Number: PS1331 .W37 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
Rutherford B. Hayes: warrior and president 
Author: Hoogenboom, Ari Arthur, 1927-
Publication information: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, c1995
Physical description: xii, 626 p. : ill., map 25 cm
Call Number: E682 .H78 1995
Format: Book
Location: General
Dark horse: the surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield 
Author: Ackerman, Kenneth D
Publication information: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, c2003
Physical description: 551 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E687 .A65 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Congressional populism and the crisis of the 1890s 
Author: Clanton, O. Gene
Publication information: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1998
Physical description: xii, 228 p. 24 cm
Call Number: JK2372 .C58 1998
Format: Book
Location: General
Democracy in desperation: the depression of 1893 
Author: Steeples, Douglas W
Publication information: Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1998
Physical description: x, 261 p. 24 cm
Call Number: JK231 .S74 1998
Format: Book
Location: General
*The gilded age 
Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
Physical description: xlii, 574, 51 p. : ill. 23 cm
Call Number: PS1311 .A1 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
Populism: the humane preference in America, 1890-1900 
Author: Clanton, O. Gene
Publication information: Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1991
Physical description: xviii, 199 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. 23 cm
Call Number: E661 .C56 1991
Format: Book
Location: General
America in the Gilded Age: from the death of Lincoln to the rise of Theodore Roosevelt 
Author: Cashman, Sean Dennis
Publication information: New York : New York University Press, 1984
Physical description: xiv, 370 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E 661 .C38 1984
Format: Book
Location: General
New edition
American populism: a social history, 1877-1898 
Author: McMath, Robert C., 1944-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 1993
Physical description: vi, 245 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E661 .M43 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
Fraud of the century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876 
Author: Morris, Roy
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003
Physical description: 311 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E680 .M85 2003
Format: Book
Location: General

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Populism United States Populist Party
United States Economic Conditions (time period)
United States Politics and Government (time period)


Imperialism

The transformation of American foreign relations, 1865-1900 
Author: Campbell, Charles Soutter, 1911-
Publication information: New York : Harper & Row, c1976
Physical description: xviii, 393 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: E661.7 .C36 1976
Format: Book
Location: General
From the old diplomacy to the new, 1865-1900 
Author: Beisner, Robert L
Publication information: Arlington Heights, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, c1986
Physical description: xi, 195 p. 21 cm
Call Number: E661.7 .B44 1986
Format: Book
Location: General
The new empire: an interpretation of American expansion, 1860-1898 
Author: LaFeber, Walter
Publication information: Ithaca, N.Y. : Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press [1963]
Physical description: xiii, 444 p. 24 cm
Call Number: E661.7 .L2
Format: Book
Location: General
Twelve against empire the anti-imperialists, 1898-1900, 
Author: Beisner, Robert L
Publication information: New York, McGraw-Hill [1968]
Physical description: xvi, 310 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E 713 .B47
Format: Book
Location: General
Roosevelt and the Caribbean 
Author: Hill, Howard Copeland, 1878-1940
Publication information: New York, Russell & Russell, 1965 [c1927]
Physical description: xi, 232 p. map. 23 cm
Call Number: E 756 .H65 1965
Format: Book
Location: General
Rough rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the politics of desire 
Author: Watts, Sarah Lyons, 1942-
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003
Physical description: x, 289 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E757 .W35 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Theodore Roosevelt and the international rivalries 
Author: Esthus, Raymond A
Publication information: Claremont, Calif. : Regina Books, 1970
Physical description: 165 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E756 .E8 1970
Format: Book
Location: General
Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: the Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American context 
Author: Collin, Richard H
Publication information: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1990
Physical description: xviii, 598 p. 24 cm
Call Number: E756 .C76 1990
Format: Book
Location: General
Velvet on iron: the diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt 
Author: Marks, Frederick W
Publication information: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1979
Physical description: xiv, 247 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E 756 .M37
Format: Book
Location: General

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Imperialism Roosevelt Theodore
United States Foreign Relations (time period)


Progressive Era

Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist 
Author: Salvatore, Nick, 1943-
Publication information: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1982
Physical description: xiv, 437 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: HX 84 .D3 S23 1982
Format: Book
Location: General
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*The jungle 
Author: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Publication information: Baltimore, Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, by the Garamond Press, 1965
Physical description: xi, 334 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm
Call Number: PS3537.I85 J85 1965a
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Another edition
Theodore Rex 
Author: Morris, Edmund
Publication information: New York : Random House, c2001
Physical description: x, 772 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
Call Number: E757 .M885 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the election that changed the country 
Author: Chace, James
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004
Physical description: x, 323 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E765 .C47 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
America in the progressive era, 1890-1914 
Author: Gould, Lewis L
Publication information: Harlow, England New York : Longman, 2001
Physical description: xii, 132 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E661 .G675 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
A fierce discontent: the rise and fall of the Progressive movement in America, 1870-1920 
Author: McGerr, Michael E
Publication information: New York : Free Press, c2003
Physical description: xvi, 395 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E661 .M415 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Mothers of all children: women reformers and the rise of juvenile courts in progressive era America 
Author: Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane), 1960-
Publication information: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1998
Physical description: ix, 214 p. 24 cm
Call Number: KF9794 .C58 1998
Format: Book
Location: General
Seven days a week: women and domestic service in industrializing America 
Author: Katzman, David M
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1978
Physical description: xviii, 374 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: HD 6072.2 .U5 K37
Format: Book
Location: General
To better our world: Black women in organized reform, 1890-1920 
Author: Salem, Dorothy C
Publication information: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1990
Physical description: xi, 383, 17 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E185.86 .B543 1990 v.14
Format: Book
Location: General
A very different age: Americans of the progressive era 
Author: Diner, Steven J., 1944-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 1998
Physical description: viii, 320 p. 22 cm
Call Number: E661 .D56 1998
Format: Book
Location: General

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Progressivism (United States Politics) Social Reformers United States
United States Politics and Government (time period) United States Social Conditions (time period)
Women Social Reformers United States


The Great War

*A farewell to arms 
Author: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Publication information: New York, Scribner [c1969]
Physical description: 332 p. 21 cm
Call Number: PS 3515 .E37 F3 1969
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
*All quiet on the western front 
Author: Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970
Publication information: Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett, 1966
Physical description: 175 p
Call Number: PT 2635 .E68 A416
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Another edition.
The First World War 
Author: Keegan, John, 1934-
Publication information: New York : A. Knopf Distributed by Random House, 1999
Physical description: xvi, 475 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
Call Number: D521 .K345 1999
Format: Book
Location: General
The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest plague in history 
Author: Barry, John M., 1947-
Publication information: New York : Viking, c2004
Physical description: 546 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: RC150.4 .B37 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Crusader nation: the United States in peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 
Author: Traxel, David
Publication information: New York : Knopf, 2006
Physical description: xi, 413 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E743 .T73 2006
Format: Book
Location: General
Uncle Sam wants you: World War I and the making of the modern American citizen 
Author: Capozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus, 1971-
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Physical description: ix, 334 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E780 .C26 2008
Format: Book
Location: New Books
Making men moral: social engineering during the Great War 
Author: Bristow, Nancy K., 1958-
Publication information: New York : New York University Press, c1996
Physical description: xxiv, 298 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: UH630 .B75 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
Savage peace: hope and fear in America, 1919 
Author: Hagedorn, Ann
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007
Physical description: x, 543 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E766 .H34 2007
Format: Book
Location: General
A fraternity of arms: America and France in the Great War 
Author: Bruce, Robert B. (Robert Bowman), 1963-
Publication information: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2003
Physical description: xx, 380 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
Call Number: D570 .B77 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
The last days of innocence: America at war, 1917-1918 
Author: Harries, Meirion, 1951-
Publication information: New York : Random House, c1997
Physical description: xiii, 573 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map 25 cm
Call Number: D570 .A46 1997
Format: Book
Location: General
Optimism at Armageddon: voices of American participants in the First World War 
Author: Meigs, Mark
Publication information: Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1997
Physical description: ix, 269 p. 23 cm
Call Number: D570.1 .M45 1997
Format: Book
Location: General
To raise an army: the draft comes to modern America 
Author: Chambers, John Whiteclay
Publication information: New York : Free Press London : Collier Macmillan, c1987
Physical description: xi, 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. 24 cm
Call Number: UB343 .C483 1987
Format: Book
Location: General
A world without war: how U.S. feminists and pacifists resisted World War I 
Author: Early, Frances H
Publication information: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1997
Physical description: xxi, 265 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: D570.1 .E27 1997
Format: Book
Location: General

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Influenza Pacifism
World War 1914-1918 United States History (time period)
United States Politics and Government (time period)


1920's

Better for all the world: the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity 
Author: Bruinius, Harry
Publication information: New York : Knopf, 2006
Physical description: 401 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: HQ755.5.U5 B78 2006
Format: Book
Location: General
Discontented America: the United States in the 1920s 
Author: Goldberg, David Joseph
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
Physical description: xii, 210 p. 24 cm
Call Number: E784 .G65 1999
Format: Book
Location: New Books
Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion 
Author: Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Publication information: New York : BasicBooks, c1997
Physical description: x, 318 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: KF224.S3 L37 1997
Format: Book
Location: General
Also available as an eBook
The modern temper: American culture and society in the 1920s 
Author: Dumenil, Lynn, 1950-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 1995
Physical description: ix, 351 p. 21 cm
Call Number: E169 .D912 1995
Format: Book
Location: General
New world coming: the 1920s and the making of modern America 
Author: Miller, Nathan, 1927-
Publication information: New York : Scribner, c2003
Physical description: 433 p. 24 cm
Call Number: E784 .M555 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940: how Americans lived through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression 
Author: Kyvig, David E
Publication information: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2004
Physical description: xv, 330 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: E169 .K985 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
These United States: portraits of America from the 1920s 
Publication information: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992
Physical description: xii, 418 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E169 .T43 1992
Format: Book
Location: General

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Eugenics United States Nineteen Twenties
Scopes John Thomas United States Civilization (time period)
United States History (time period) United States Social Conditions (time period)
United States Social Life and Customs (time period)


The Depression

Decade of betrayal: Mexican repatriation in the 1930s 
Author: Balderrama, Francisco E
Publication information: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1995
Physical description: ix, 283 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E184.M5 B35 1995
Format: Book
Location: General
*The grapes of wrath 
Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Publication information: New York : Viking, 1989
Physical description: xx, 619 p. 24 cm
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 G8 1989
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Riding the rails: teenagers on the move during the Great Depression 
Author: Uys, Errol Lincoln
Publication information: New York : TV Books c1999
Physical description: 303 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: HV4504 .U97 1999
Format: Book
Location: General
The banking panics of the Great Depression 
Author: Wicker, Elmus
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996
Physical description: xviii, 174 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
Call Number: HG2481 .W493 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940: how Americans lived through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression 
Author: Kyvig, David E
Publication information: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2004
Physical description: xv, 330 p. : ill. 22 cm
Call Number: E169 .K985 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Dust Bowl: the southern plains in the 1930s 
Author: Worster, Donald, 1941-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
Physical description: x, 277 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: F 786 .W87 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
The economics of the great depression 
Publication information: Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, c1998
Physical description: iii, 213 p. : ill. 23 cm
Call Number: HC106.3 .E18 1998
Format: Book
Location: General
For the survival of democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the world crisis of the 1930s 
Author: Hamby, Alonzo L
Publication information: New York : Free Press, c2004
Physical description: xiv, 492 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E806 .H293 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
The Great Depression 
Publication information: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000
Physical description: 223 p. 23 cm
Call Number: HB3717 1929 .G686 2000
Format: Book
Location: General
Hope among us yet: social criticism and social solace in depression America 
Author: Peeler, David P
Publication information: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987
Physical description: xiv, 340 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E 806 .P447 1987
Format: Book
Location: General
Rainbow's end: the crash of 1929 
Author: Klein, Maury, 1939-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
Physical description: xx, 345 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: HB3717 1929 .K588 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
Rethinking the Great Depression 
Author: Smiley, Gene, 1940-
Publication information: Chicago : I.R. Dee, c2002
Physical description: xii, 179 p. 22 cm
Call Number: HB3717 1929 .S55 2002
Format: Book
Location: General

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Bank Failures Depressions 1929
Dust Storms New Deal 1933-1939
Nineteen Thirties United States Economic Conditions (time period)
United States Social Conditions (time period)


World War II

Atomic tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the decision to use the bomb against Japan 
Author: Malloy, Sean L. (Sean Langdon), 1972-
Publication information: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
Physical description: xi, 233 p. : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: D767.25.H6 M26 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
Auschwitz and the Allies 
Author: Gilbert, Martin, 1936-
Publication information: New York : Henry Holt and Co., c1982
Physical description: xii, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : facsims., ill., maps 24 cm
Call Number: D 805 .P7 G553 1982
Format: Book
Location: General
Barbarossa: the Russian-German conflict, 1941-1945 
Author: Clark, Alan, 1928-
Publication information: New York : Quill, c1985
Physical description: xxii, 522 p. : maps 24 cm
Call Number: D764 .C55 1985
Format: Book
Location: General
By the bomb's early light: American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age 
Author: Boyer, Paul S
Publication information: New York : Pantheon, 1985
Physical description: xx, 440 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E 169.12 .B684 1985
Format: Book
Location: General
Also available as an eBook
Citizen soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 
Author: Ambrose, Stephen E
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997
Physical description: 512 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., plans 25 cm
Call Number: D756 .A52 1997
Format: Book
Location: General
*Hiroshima 
Author: Hersey, John, 1914-
Publication information: New York, Bantam Books [1966, c1946]
Physical description: 116 p
Call Number: PS 3515 .E7715 H668
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Racing the enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan 
Author: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005
Physical description: ix, 382 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps 25 cm
Call Number: D813.J3 H37 2005
Format: Book
Location: General
Also available as an eBook
The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II 
Author: Chang, Iris
Publication information: New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1997
Physical description: xi, 290 p. : ill., map 25 cm
Call Number: DS796.N2 C44 1997
Format: Book
Location: General

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Atomic Bomb Hiroshima-shi
Holocaust, Jewish Nagasaki-shi
World Politics 1933-1945 World War 1939-1945


Containment

American diplomacy 
Author: Kennan, George Frost, 1904-
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984
Call Number: E744 .K3 1984
Format: Book
Location: General
At the highest levels: the inside story of the end of the cold war 
Author: Beschloss, Michael R
Publication information: Boston : Little, Brown, c1993
Call Number: E183.8.S65 B4685 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
*Darkness at noon, 
Author: Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983
Publication information: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941
Physical description: 5 p. l., 3-267 p. 21 cm
Call Number: PR 6021 .O4 D27 1941
Format: Book
Location: General
For the soul of mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 
Author: Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2007
Call Number: E183.8.S65 L44 2007
Format: Book
Location: General
Harry S. Truman and the war scare of 1948: a successful campaign to deceive the nation 
Author: Kofsky, Frank
Publication information: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993
Call Number: E183.8.S65 K63 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
Justice downwind: America's atomic testing program in the 1950's 
Author: Ball, Howard, 1937-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
Physical description: xviii, 280 p. : ill., maps, ports. 25 cm
Call Number: U 264 .B35 1986
Format: Book
Location: General
Operation rollback: America's secret war behind the Iron Curtain 
Author: Grose, Peter, 1934-
Publication information: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Call Number: E183.8.S65 G76 2000
Format: Book
Location: General
Power and peace: the diplomacy of John Foster Dulles 
Author: Marks, Frederick W
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993
Call Number: E835 .M328 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
The specter of communism: the United States and the origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 
Author: Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 1994
Call Number: E744 .L432 1994
Format: Book
Location: General

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Anti-Communist Movements Cold War
Nuclear Weapons United States Foreign Relations (time period)
United States Foreign Relations (country) World Politics 1945-1989


The 1950's

Air wars: television advertising in election campaigns, 1952-1992 
Author: West, Darrell M., 1954-
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1993
Call Number: JF2112.A4 W47 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
As seen on TV: the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s 
Author: Marling, Karal Ann
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994
'Call Number: E169.02 .M3534 1994
Format: Book
Location: General
Cold War, cool medium: television, McCarthyism, and American culture 
Author: Doherty, Thomas Patrick
Publication information: New York : Columbia University Press, c2003
Call Number: PN1992.6 .D64 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Daily life in the United States, 1940-1959: shifting worlds 
Author: Kaledin, Eugenia
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
Call Number: E169 .K139 2000
Format: Book
Location: General
Diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks: chasing the American dream in the postwar consumer culture 
Author: Hurley, Andrew, 1961-
Publication information: New York : Basic Books, c2001
Call Number: HC110.C6 H87 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
The fifties 
Author: Halberstam, David
Publication information: New York : Villard Books, 1993
Physical description: xi, 800 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. 25 cm
Call Number: E169.02 .H34 1993
Format: Book
Location: General
*The man in the gray flannel suit 
Author: Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
Publication information: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002
Physical description: 276 p. 21 cm
Call Number: PS3573.I475 M3 2002
Format: Book
Location: General

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McCarthy Joseph Nineteen Fifties
Television and Politics United States Social Conditions (time period)
United States Social Life and Customs (time period)


Civil Rights Era

The autobiography of Malcolm X. 
Author: X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
Publication information: New York, Grove Press [1965]
Physical description: xvi, 455 p. illus., ports. 24 cm
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57943 1965
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader 
Author: Jackson, Troy, 1968-
Publication information: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008
Call Number: E185.97.K5 J343 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
The children 
Author: Halberstam, David
Publication information: New York : Random House, c1998
Physical description: 783 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: E185.61 .H195 1998
Format: Book
Location: General
Cold War civil rights: race and the image of American democracy 
Author: Dudziak, Mary L., 1956-
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000
Call Number: E185.61 .D85 2000
Format: Book
Location: General
King: pilgrimage to the mountaintop 
Author: Sitkoff, Harvard
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2008
Call Number: E185.97.K5 S535 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
King's dream 
Author: Sundquist, Eric J
Publication information: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009
Call Number: E185.97.K5 S864 2009
Format: Book
Location: General
Your spirits walk beside us: the politics of Black religion 
Author: Savage, Barbara Dianne
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008
Call Number: BR563.N4 S37 2008
Format: Book
Location: General

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African American Civil Rights Workers African Americans Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movements United States Civil Rights Workers United States
King Martin Luther Jr Segregation
X Malcolm


Bay of Pigs / Cuban Missile Crisis

Awaiting armageddon: how Americans faced the Cuban Missile Crisis 
Author: George, Alice L., 1952-
Publication information: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Call Number: E841 .G39 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
The Bay of Pigs 
Author: Jones, Howard, 1940-
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Call Number: F1788 .J615 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
The Cuban missile crisis 
Author: White, Mark J
Publication information: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996
Call Number: E841 .W48 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban missile crisis 
Author: Allison, Graham T
Publication information: [S.l.] : Harper Collins, c1971
Call Number: E183.8.R9 A64 1971
Format: Book
Location: General
The making of a Catholic president: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 
Author: Casey, Shaun
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Call Number: E837.7 .C38 2009
Format: Book
Location: General
Maximum danger: Kennedy, the missiles, and the crisis of American confidence 
Author: Weisbrot, Robert
Publication information: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001
Call Number: E841 .W44 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
On the brink: Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis 
Author: Blight, James G
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 1989
Call Number: E841 .B57 1989
Format: Book
Location: General
The other missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 
Author: Nash, Philip
Publication information: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Call Number: E835 .N37 1997
Format: Book
Location: General

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Cuba History Invasion 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis
United States Foreign Relations Cuba


Great Society

Calculating visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and civil rights 
Author: Stern, Mark, 1945-
Publication information: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1992
Call Number: E841 .S75 1992
Format: Book
Location: General
The feminine mystique 
Author: Friedan, Betty
Publication information: New York : W.W. Norton, 2001
Physical description: xxxiv, 430 p. 21 cm
Call Number: HQ1420 .F7 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
Into the quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War 
Author: VanDeMark, Brian, 1960-
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
Call Number: DS558 .V36 1991
Format: Book
Location: General
Reaching for glory: Lyndon Johnson's secret White House tapes, 1964-1965 
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001
Call Number: E846 .R38 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
Silent spring. 
Author: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
Publication information: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962
Physical description: 368 p. illus. 22 cm
Call Number: QH 545 .P4 C38 1962
Format: Book
Location: General
Another edition
Taking charge: the Johnson White House tapes, 1963-1964 
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998, c1997
Physical description: 591 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm
Call Number: E846 .T355 1998
Format: a
Location: General
The triumph & tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: the White House years 
Author: Califano, Joseph A., 1931-
Publication information: College Station : A&M University Press, 2000
Call Number: E847 .C32 2000
Format: Book
Location: General

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Feminism United States Johnson Lyndon B
United States Politics and Government (time period) United States Social Conditions (time period)


Vietnam

At the water's edge: American politics and the Vietnam War 
Author: Small, Melvin
Publication information: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2005
Call Number: DS558 .S55 2005
Format: Book
Location: General
Bringing the war home: the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies 
Author: Varon, Jeremy, 1969-
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004
Call Number: HN90.R3 V37 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Catfish and mandala: a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam 
Author: Pham, Andrew X., 1967-
Publication information: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
Call Number: E184.V53 P455 1999
Format: Book
Location: General
In retrospect: the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam 
Author: McNamara, Robert S., 1916-
Publication information: New York : Times Books, 1995
Physical description: xviii, 414 p. : ill. 25 cm
Call Number: DS558 .M44 1995
Format: Book
Location: General
Lessons in disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam 
Author: Goldstein, Gordon M
Publication information: New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008
Call Number: E183.8.V5 G64 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
Perils of dominance: imbalance of power and the road to war in Vietnam 
Author: Porter, Gareth, 1942-
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004
Call Number: E183.8.V5 P67 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
A rumor of war 
Author: Caputo, Philip
Publication information: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996
Physical description: xxi, 356 p. 21 cm
Call Number: DS559.5 .C36 1996
Format: Book
Location: General
Tim O'Brien's The things they carried 
Publication information: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005
Call Number: PS3565.B75 T56 2005
Format: Book
Location: General
With the Weathermen: the personal journal of a revolutionary woman 
Author: Stern, Susan, 1943-1976
Publication information: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007
Call Number: HQ1413.S68 A36 2007
Format: Book
Location: General

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United States Foreign Relations Vietnam United States Politics and Government (time period)
Vietnam War 1961-1975 Weatherman (Organization)


Watergate

All the President's men 
Author: Bernstein, Carl, 1944-
Publication information: New York, Simon and Schuster [1974]
Physical description: 349 p. ports. 24 cm
Call Number: E 860 .B47
Format: Book
Location: General
Blind ambition: the White House years 
Author: Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938-
Publication information: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976
Call Number: E 860 .D38
Format: Book
Location: General
Chief counsel: inside the Ervin Committee--the untold story of Watergate 
Author: Dash, Samuel
Publication information: New York : Random House, c1976
Call Number: E 860 .D36
Format: Book
Location: General
The ends of power 
Author: Haldeman, H. R. (Harry R.), 1926-
Publication information: New York : Times Books, c1978
Call Number: E 860 .H34
Format: Book
Location: General
The final days 
Author: Woodward, Bob, 1943-
Publication information: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976
Call Number: E 861 .W66
Format: Book
Location: General
Game plan for disaster: an ombudsman's report on the Nixon years 
Author: Mollenhoff, Clark R
Publication information: New York : Norton, [1976]
Call Number: E 855 .M64 1976
Format: Book
Location: General
1973 nervous breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America 
Author: Killen, Andreas
Publication information: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006
Call Number: E169.12 .K463 2006
Format: Book
Location: General
Nixon in the world: American foreign relations, 1969-1977 
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Call Number: E855 .N46 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
The terrors of justice: the untold side of Watergate 
Author: Stans, Maurice H., 1908-
Publication information: New York : Everest House, c1978
Call Number: E 860 .S7
Format: Book
Location: General
Watergate: the presidential scandal that shook America 
Author: Olson, Keith W., 1931-
Publication information: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2003
Call Number: E860 .O47 2003
Format: Book
Location: General

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Dean John W Nixon Richard M
Watergate Affair 1972-1974


Iran Hostage Crisis

The crisis: the president, the prophet, and the Shah, 1979 and the coming of militant Islam 
Author: Harris, David, 1946-
Publication information: New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2004
Call Number: E183.8.I55 H37 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
444 days: the hostages remember 
Publication information: San Diego : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985
Call Number: E183.8.I7 W45 1985
Format: Book
Location: General
In the shadow of the Ayatollah: a CIA hostage in Iran 
Author: Daugherty, William J., 1947-
Publication information: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2001
Call Number: E183.8.I55 D37 2001
Format: Book
Location: General
October surprise : America's hostages in Iran and the election of Ronald Reagan 
Author: Sick, Gary, 1935-
Publication information: New York : Times Books Toronto : Random House, c1991
Call Number: E875 .S48 1991
Format: Book
Location: General
The Persian puzzle: the conflict between Iran and America 
Author: Pollack, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Michael), 1966-
Publication information: New York : Random House, c2004
Call Number: E183.8.I55 P58 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Taken hostage: the Iran hostage crisis and America's first encounter with radical Islam 
Author: Farber, David R
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005
Call Number: E183.8.I55 F37 2005
Format: Book
Location: General

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Iran Hostage Crisis 1979-1981 Khomeini Ruhollah
United States Foreign Relations Iran


Ronald Reagan

Reagan and Gorbachev: how the Cold War ended 
Author: Matlock, Jack F
Publication information: New York : Random House, c2004
Call Number: E183.8.S65 M3724 2004
Format: Book
Location: General
Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: revisiting the end of the Cold War 
Author: Graebner, Norman A
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008
Call Number: E183.8.S65 G73 2008
Format: Book
Location: General
The Reagan reversal: foreign policy and the end of the cold war 
Author: Fischer, Beth A., 1964-
Publication information: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2000, 1997
Call Number: E876 .F569 1997
Format: Book
Location: General
Reagan's war: the epic story of his forty year struggle and final triumph over communism 
Author: Schweizer, Peter, 1964-
Publication information: New York : Anchor Books Doubleday, 2003, c2002
Call Number: E877.2 .S35 2003
Format: Book
Location: General
Tear down this myth: how the Reagan legacy has distorted our politics and haunts our future 
Author: Bunch, William
Publication information: New York : Free Press, 2009
Call Number: E877.2 .B86 2009
Format: Book
Location: New Books
The turn: from the cold war to a new era the United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1990 
Author: Oberdorfer, Don
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992
Call Number: E183.8.S65 O24 1992
Format: Book
Location: General
The United States and the end of the cold war: implications, reconsiderations, provocations 
Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
Publication information: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
Call Number: E183.8.S65 G345 1992
Format: Book
Location: General
We all lost the Cold War 
Author: Lebow, Richard Ned
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994
Call Number: D849 .L425 1994
Format: Book
Location: General

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Reagan Ronald United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union


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Updated January 2010

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