Main Text:
- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue, These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890-Present (W.W. Norton: New York, 2016), ISBN-10: 9780393264463.
Required Weekly Reading:
- Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer makes “The Case against the Reds” (1920), from History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4993/
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922), 24-31.
- David Greenberg, “Hot for Coolidge: Why Are Republicans so Obsessed with Silent Cal?” Slate, November 10, 2011.
- David Goldberg, “Rethinking the 1920s: Historians and Changing Perspectives,” OAH Magazine of History 21:3 (July 2007): 7-10.
- Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1929), 263-269.
- Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (W.W. Norton: New York, 2016), 103-120.
- Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), xiii-12.
- Virginia Durr in Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (New York: Pantheon Books, 1970), 461-462.
- Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006), 1-10; 198-221
- Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 3-25.
- “Huge Dust Cloud, Blown 1,500 Miles, Dims City 5 Hours,” New York Times, May 12, 1934, 1, 8.
- “In the Land Made Desolate by Drought,” New York Times, July 22, 1934, SM4.
- Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-40 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995), 299-312.
- G. H. Bennet, ed., Roosevelt’s Peacetime Administrations, 1933-41 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 17-22; 121-125.
- “The Social Impact of World War II,” in Colin Gordon, ed., Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage, 2011), 420-452.
- “The Origins of the Cold War,” in Natasha Zaretsky et al., eds., Major Problems in American History since 1945 (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage, 2014), 1-47.
- Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 112-151.
- “Elvis—A Different Kind of Idol,” Life, August 27, 1956, 101-109
- “Letters,” Life, September 17, 1956, 19.
- Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations (London: UCL Press, 1998), 90-122.
- “Langston Hughes’ Senate testimony, 1953,” in Harper’s Magazine (December 2003), 24-27.
- “Brown vs Topeka, 1954,” in Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers, eds. The Way We Lived (2000), 248-250.