Below are a selection of essay questions for those of you who want to satisfy the course requirements by writing on American history and society. Some are directly related to things discussed in the seminars. Some ask you to investigate further issues raised in the lectures. Others take you into uncharted territory.
Below each question are the titles of books and articles in which you will find useful ideas. You are not expected to use all of them (though you are of course free to do so): the lists are hopefully long enough to make inter-student conflict over books unnecessary or at least non-violent. Please note: not all of these books will be available in the State Library or the Modern Languages Library.
If they are not, then you can request them through the State Library’s inter-library loan system. In addition, you will in many cases find information sources from the World Wide Web (WWW). New websites are being developed all the time, while some also disappear: the sites listed here were all checked between February and November 1998 and were at the time active; but the list is by no means exhaustive, and will slowly become dated. A introductory note on web sites and the use of the web is given on the American Studies Center Aarhus (ASCA) website http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/asca/WEBGUIDE.HTM.
For a list of general web sites which will give you access to a wide variety of more detailed sources in American history and society, consult the ASCA list at http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/asca/Asonwww.htm.
While the World Wide Web offers the most technologically advanced source of further information, published bibliographies should not be overlooked. They can be quicker to use than the web. One excellent (albeit dated) source book is Frank Friedel (ed), Harvard Guide to American History (1974), a copy of which is in the Modern Languages Library.
The essay titles are suggestions only. Some of you may prefer to come up with essay titles of your own, and this is fine. But if you do want to work on a title of your own, you are strongly advised to consult your teacher before you start work.
1 In what ways did the European invasion alter the lives of the Indians of eastern North America?
Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America (1975)
Francis Jennings, The Founders of America (1993)
Gary Nash, Red, White and Black (1982)
Wilcolm Washburn, The Indian in America (1972)
William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983)
Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange (1972)
James Axtell, The Invasion Within (1985)
James Axtell, The European and the Indian (1981)
Eleanor Leacock and Nancy Lurie, North American Indians in Historical Perspective (1988)
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975)
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans and the Making of New England (1982)
Bernard Sheehan, Seeds of Extinction
Karen Kupperman, Settling with the Indians (1980)
W.R. Jacobs, Dispossessing the American Indian
Douglas Leach, Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War (1958)
Alden Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-75 (1979)
Neil Salisbury, ‘Red Puritans: The Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay and John Eliot,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 31 (1974) 27-54
Bernard Sheehan, ‘Indian-White Relations in Early America,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 26 (1969), 267-86
http://pride-net.com/native_indians/index.html
2 What factors best help us explain the differences between life in colonial New England and Virginia?
James Henretta, The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815 (1973)
James Henretta and Gregory Nobles, Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600- 1820 (1987)
Richard Middleton, Colonial America: A History, 1607-1760 (1992)
Jack Greene and J.R. Pole (eds), Colonial British America (1984)
R.C. Simmons, The American Colonies from Settlement to Independence (1976)
Gary Nash, Race, Class and Politics: Essays on American Colonial and Revolutionary Society (1986)
J.M. Smith (ed), Seventeenth Century America
Jack Greene, Pursuits of Happiness (1988)
Stanley Katz and John Murrin (eds), Colonial America (1983)
David Hall, John Murrin and Thad Norton (eds), Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History (1984)
David Hackett Fisher, Albion’s Seeds: Four British Folkways in America (1989)
Richard Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee (1967)
Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First One Hundred Years (1970)
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Commerce and Culture (1984)
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975)
Thad Tate and David Ammermann (eds), The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century (1979)
Philip Morgan and Jean Russo (eds), Colonial Chesapeake Society (1988)
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia (1982)
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves (1986)
Winthrop Jordan, The White Man’s Burden (1972)
Gary Nash, Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America (1982)
Alan Kulikoff, ‘The Colonial Chesapeake: Seedbed of Antebellum Southern Culture?’ Journal of Southern History, 45 (1979), 513-40
3 What did Thomas Jefferson understand by the term ‘liberty’ in the Declaration of Independence?
Carl Becker, The Declaration of Independence (1922, 1942)
Gary Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1977)
Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America (1958)
Pauline Maier, American Scripture (1997)
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
Clinton Rositter, Seedtime of the Republic (1953)
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition (1948)
Douglas Adair, Fame and the Founding Fathers (1974)
Merrill Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (1970)
Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority (1982)
J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (1975)
Morton White, The Philosophy of the American Revolution (1978)
Gordon S. Wood, ‘Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 23 (1966)
Joyce Appleby, ‘Liberalism and the American Revolution,’ New England Quarterly, 49 (1976), 3-26
Joyce Appleby, ‘The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology,’ Journal of American History, 64 (1977/78), 935-58
Richard Hamowy, ‘Jefferson and the Scottish Enlightenment,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 36 (1979), 503-23
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/declaration.html
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/jefferson.html
4 What was most revolutionary about the American Revolution?
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution (1985)
Colin Bonwick, The American Revolution (1991)
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991)
Stephen Kurtz and James Hutson (eds), Essays on the American Revolution (1973)
Alfred Young (ed), The American Revolution (1976)
James Henretta, The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815 (1973)
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)
Jack Greene (ed), The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution (1968)
Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority (1982)
Gary B. Nash, The Urban Crucible (1979)
Dirk Hoerder, Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts (1977)
Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)
Jack P. Greene, ‘The Social Origins of the American Revolution,’ Political Science Quarterly, 88 (1973), 1-22
Kenneth Lockridge, ‘Social Change and the Meaning of the American Revolution,’ Journal of Social History, 6 (1972/73), 397-439
5 ‘Frederick Jackson Turner’s influence owes more to his accuracy as a mythologist than as an historian.’ Do you agree?
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950)
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (1920)
George Taylor (ed), The Turner Thesis (1956)
Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians (1970)
Richard Hofstadter and Seymour Martin Lipset (eds), Turner and the Sociology of the Frontier
David Noble, Historians Against History (1965)
Marcus Cunliffe and Robin Winks (eds), Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (1969)
Wilbur Jacobs, On Turner’s Trail (1994)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest (1987)
William Cronon, George Miles and Jay Gitlin, Under an Open Sky: Rethinking
America’s Western Past (1992)
Lee Benson, Turner and Beard (1960)
Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence (1973)
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden (1964)
Ray Allen Billington (ed), The Frontier Thesis
Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion (1982)
Rodman Paul, The Frontier and the American West (1971)
Wilbur Jacobs (ed), Frederick Jackson Turner’s Legacy (1965)
Henry Steele Commager, The American Mind (1950)
Wilbur Jacobs, et. al., Turner, Bolton and Webb (1965)
H.C. Allen, ‘Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier in American History,’ in H.C. Allen and C.P. Hill (eds), British Essays in American History (1957)
Ellen von Nardroff, ‘The American Frontier as Safety Valve,’ Agricultural History, 36 (July, 1962), 123-42
Stanley Elkins and Erik McCitrick, ‘A Meaning for Turner’s Frontier Thesis,’ Political Science Quarterly, 69 (July, 1954), 321-53 and Political Science Quarterly, 69 (December, 1954), 562-602
6 What Factors Lay Behind the Coming of the American Civil War?
David Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976)
Joel Silbey, The Transformation of American Politics, 1840-1860 (1967)
Joel Silbey, The Partisan Imperative
David Potter, The South and the Sectional Conflict (1968)
Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War (1991)
William Freehling, The Road to Disunion (1990)
Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978)
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (1988)
Stephen Maizlish and John Kushma (eds), Essays on American Antebellum Politics (1982)
Kenneth Stampp, And the War Came (1950)
Kenneth Stampp, The Imperilled Union (1980)
Peter Parish, The American Civil War (1976)
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (1970)
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/slavery.htm
http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/declar.html
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
7 ‘Blacks were not crushed by slavery; they endured and made within it a culture of their own.’ Discuss.
Stanley Elkins, Slavery (1959)
Ann Lane (ed), The Debate Over Slavery (1971)
John Blassinghame, The Slave Community (1972, 1979)
Al-Tony Gilmore, Revisiting Blassinghame’s The Slave Community (1978)
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)
Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1976)
William Harris (ed), Society and Culture in the Slave South (1992)
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (1992)
Nathan Huggins, Black Odyssey
George Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup (1972)
Ira Berlin (ed), Cultivation and Culture (1993)
Albert Raboteau, Slave Religion (1978)
John Boles, Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983)
Roger Abrahams, Singing the Master (1992)
Robert Abzug (ed), New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America (1986)
Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution (1956)
Vincent Harding, There is a River (1981)
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom (1990)
Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside (1984)
Leslie Howard Owens, This Species of Property (1972, 1978)
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness (1977)
Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987)
Thomas Webber, Deep Like the Rivers (1978)
Norman Yetman (ed), Voices From Slavery (1970)
B.A. Botkin (ed), Lay My Burden Down (1945)
Paul Escott, Slavery Remembered (1980)
George Rawick (ed), The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (1972)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/tebogo.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/slavery.htm
8 In what ways did the coming of industrialization transform the lives of ordinary Americans during the nineteenth century?
Herbert Gutman, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America (1976)
Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley (eds), Working for Democracy (1985)
Melvyn Dubovsky, Industrialism and the American Worker (1975)
Walter Licht, Industrializing America (1995)
Peter Temin, Industrialization in North America (1994)
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (1987)
Tamara Hareven (ed), Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth Century American Social History (1971)
Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (1977)
Paul Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution (1981)
Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic (1984)
Jonathan Prude, The Coming of the Industrial Order (1983)
Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale (1978)
Daniel Walkowitz, Worker City, Company Town (1978)
Brian Greenberg, Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth Century American City: Albany, New York, 1850-1884 (1985)
Steven Ross, Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890 (1985)
Francis Couvares, The Remaking of Pittsburg (1984)
Thomas Dublin, Women at Work (1979)
John Kasson, Civilizing the Machine (1976)
Tamara Hareven, Family Time and Industrial Time (1982)
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982)
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/indust.htm
9 Why was the railroad such a definitive expression of the Gilded Age?
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America (1982)
Thomas Cochran and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise (1942)
Carl Degler, The Age of the Economic Revolution (1977)
Robert Higgs, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 (1971)
Douglas North, Growth and Welfare in the American Past (1970)
Alfred Chandler (ed), Railroads (1965)
Edward Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age (1961) chs. 3-6
John Stover, American Railroads (1961)
Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks (1994)
Bruce Mazlish (ed), The Railroads and the Space Program (1965)
Edward C. Kirkland, Men, Cities and Transportation (1948)
Oscar Winther, The Transportation Frontier (1964)
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden (1964)
Gabriel Kolko, Railroads and Regulation (1965)
George Taylor and Irene Neu, The American Railroad Network (1956)
Robert Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth (1964)
10 How much did the lives of black southerners change between the end of the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century?
Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (1984)
Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998)
Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order (1986)
Michael Perman, Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1897 (1987)
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (1956)
Howard Rabinowitz, The First New South, 1865-1920 (1992)
Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm so Long (1979)
Lawrence Powell, New Masters (1980)
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
James Roark, Masters without Slaves (1977)
Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom (1977)
W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom (1990)
Vernon Wharton, The Negro in Mississippi (1947)
Joel Williamson, After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877 (1965)
Robert Crunden, The Negro in Reconstruction (1969)
Peter Kolchin, First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction (1972)
Ronald Davis, Good and Faithful Labour (1982)
Gerald Jaynes, Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1882 (1982)
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)
Charles Wynes (ed), The Negro in the South Since 1865 (1965)
Gilbert Osofsky (ed), The Burden of Race (1967), Parts 4 and 5
Charles Wynes, Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902 (1961)
Howard Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South (1976)
August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Along the Color Line (1976)
John Call, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy (1980)
Rayford Logan, The Negro in American Life and Thought, 1877-1901 (1954)
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/reconst.htm
11 What new challenges did the rise of big business and the Robber Barons pose to established American beliefs, practices and values between 1850 and 1900?
Thomas Cochran, Business in American Life (1972)
Thomas Cochran and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise (1942)
Alfred Chandler, The Visible Hand (1977)
Ray Ginger, Age of Excess (1965)
H. Wayne Morgan, Unity and Culture (1977)
H. Wayne Morgan (ed), The Gilded Age (1970)
Carl Degler, The Age of the Economic Revolution (1977)
Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism (1975)
Louis Galambos and Barbara Barron Spence, The Public Image of Big Business in America (1975)
Edward Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age (1961)
Robert Higgs, The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914 (1971)
Glen Porter, The Rise of Big Business (1973)
Sidney Fine, Laissez-Faire and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in
American Thought, 1865-1901 (1956)
William Miller, ‘The Reign of Wealth’ in John Higham (ed), The Reconstruction of American History
Hal Bridges, ‘The Robber Baron Concept in American History,’ Business History Review, 32 (Spring, 1958)
Thomas Cochran, ‘The Legend of the Robber Barons,’ in Ross Robertson and James Pate (eds), Readings in American Economic and Business History
12 How and why did trans-Atlantic migration to the United States alter between 1850 and 1920?
Maldwyn Jones, American Immigration (1960)
Maldwyn Jones, Destination America (1976)
Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted (1952, 1973)
Alan Kraut, The Huddled Masses (1982)
Richard Easterlin, et. al., Immigration (1982)
Marcus Lee Hansen, The Immigrant in American History (1940)
Moses Rischin, The Promised City (1962)
Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet (1971)
Charlotte Erickson, Invisible Immigrants (1972)
Charlotte Erickson, American Industry and the European Immigrant (1957)
John Bodnar, The Transplanted (1985)
Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers, Ethnic Americans (1975)
Richard Ehrlich (ed), Immigrants in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1978)
Thomas Wheeler (ed), The Immigrant Experience (1972)
John Bodnar, Immigration and Industrialization (1977)
Robert Parmet, Labor and Immigration in Industrial America (1981)
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/immigr.htm
13 Why was American city government so plagued by corruption during the second half of the nineteenth century?
Alexander Callow, The Tweed Ring (1960)
Alexander Callow (ed), The City Boss in America: An Interpretive Reader (1976)
Alexander Callow (ed), American Urban History, 2nd ed. (1973)
Zane L. Miller and Patricia Mooney-Melvin, The Urbanization of Modern America: A Brief History (1987)
Howard P. Chudacoff and Judith E. Smith, The Evolution of Urban America, 4th edition (1994), chs. 5 and 6
Jerome Mushkat, Tammany: The Evolution of a Political Machine (1971)
John Allswang, Bosses, Machines and Urban Voters (1977)
Melvin Holli, Reform in Detroit (1969)
Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure (1957)
John Sproat, The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (1968)
Blaine Brownell and Warren Stickle (eds), Bosses and Reformers (1973)
Lyle Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine (1968)
Zane L. Miller, Boss Cox’s Cincinnatti (1968)
Bruce Stave (ed), Bosses, Machines and Progressive Reformers (1972)
M. Craig Brown and Charles N. Halaby, ‘Machine Politics in America, 1870-1945,’ Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 17 (1987), 587-612
Alan DiGaetano, ‘The Origins of Urban Political Machines in the United States,’ Urban Affairs, 26 (1991), 324-53
14 How successfully does Andrew Carnegie’s essay ‘Wealth’ resolve the deepening contradictions between the theories and practices of late nineteenth century American industrial society?
Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (1955)
Robert McCloskey, American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise (1951)
Cynthia Russett, Darwin in America: The Intellectual Response, 1865-1912
Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America (1998)
Edward Kirkland, Dream and Thought in the Business Community (1956)
Sidney Fine, Laissez-Faire and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in
American Thought, 1865-1901 (1956)
William Brock, Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865-1900 (1984)
John Cawelti, Apostles of the Self-Made Man
Irvin Wylie, The Self-Made Man in America (1954)
Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons (1934)
Joseph Frazier Wall (ed), The Andrew Carnegie Reader (1992)
Joseph Frazier Wall, Andrew Carnegie (1970, 1989)
W. Turrentine Jackson, The Enterprising Scot
Harold Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (1975)
http://www.garfieldlib.com/carnegie.html
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ap3h/wealth.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/carnegie/
15 ‘The protest of the little man against the growth of big business.’ Discuss this characterization of the Progressive movement.
Arthur Ekirch Jr, Progressivism in America (1974)
John Whiteclay Chambers, The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920, 2nd ed. (1992)
Arthur S. Link and Richard McCormick, Progressivism (1983)
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (1955)
Samuel Hays, The Response to Industrialism (1969)
James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State (1968)
Martin Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism (1988)
Robert Wiebe, The Search For Order (1968)
Robert Wiebe, Businessmen and Reform (1962)
Arthus S. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era (1954)
John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt (1954)
George Mowry, The California Progressives (1951)
John Buenker, Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform (1974)
David P. Thelen, Robert LaFollette and the Insurgent Spirit (1976)
David Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin (1972)
David Noble, The Progressive Mind (1981)
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (1963)
Samuel Hays, ‘The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era,’ Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 55 (1964), 157-69
David Thelen, ‘Social Tensions and the Origins of Progressivism,’ Journal of American History, 56 (1969/70), 323-41
16 What issues lay behind the Big Red Scare of 1919-20?
John Milton Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (1990)
R.K. Murray, Red Scare (1955)
Eliot Asinof, 1919: America’s Loss of Innocence (1990)
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason (1970)
David Bennett, The Party of Fear (1988)
Michael Heale, American Anticommunism (1990)
David Brion Davis, The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of UnAmerican Subversion From the Revolution to the Present (1971)
John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955)
William Preston, Aliens and Dissenters (1966)
Harry Scheiber, The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties (1960)
Robert Friedheim, The Seattle General Strike (1965)
Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer (1963)
Donald Johnson, The Challenge to American Freedoms (1963)
David Brody, Labor in Crisis (1965)
Francis Russell, A City in Terror: The 1919 Boston Police Strike (1975)
Julian Jaffe, Crusade Against Radicalism: New York During the Red Scare, 1914-1924 (1972)
Paul Murphy, World War 1 and the Origins of Civil Liberties (1979)
Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All (1969)
Patrick Renshaw, The Wobblies
Jeremy Brecher, Strike! (1972), chapter 4
Paul Murphy, ‘Sources and Nature of Intolerance in the 1920s,’ Journal of American History, 51 (June, 1964)
Stanley Coben, ‘A Study in Nativism: The American Red Scare of 1919-1920,’ Political Science Quarterly, 79 (March, 1964), 52-75
17 Did the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act secure their objectives?
Thomas R. Pegram, Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933 (1998)
Edward Behr, Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (1997)
Andrew Sinclair, Prohibition (1962)
John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (1973)
Joseph Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade (1963)
Herbert Asbury, The Great Illusion (1950)
Norman Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976)
J.C. Furnas, The Life and Times of the Great Demon Rum (1965)
Gilman Ostrander, The Prohibition Movement in California (1957)
Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday. An Informal History of the 1920s (1931)
James Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 (1963)
Joseph Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance
Movement
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us:80/AntiSaloon/
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/ohiodry/
18 ‘A revolution in ideas, institutions and practices.’ (Carl Degler, Out Of Our Past (1970)) Do you agree with this assessment of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal?
William Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963)
Howard Zinn (ed), New Deal Thought (1966)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, The Age of Roosevelt, 3 vols (1957-1960)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, The Cycles of American History
Otis Graham, An Encore for Reform (1967)
Eric Goldman, A Rendezvous with Destiny (1952)
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (1955)
James Patterson, America’s Struggle Against Poverty (1981)
Harvard Sitkoff (ed), Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated (1978)
Tony Badger, The New Deal (1988)
Barton Bernstein, ‘The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform’
in Barton Bernstein (ed), Towards a New Past (1968)
Stephen Baskerville and Ralph Willett (eds), Nothing Else to Fear (1985)
Arthur Ekirch, Jr., Ideologies and Utopias (1973)
Richard Pells, Radical Visions and American Dreams, Part 2 (1973)
James Gilbert, Designing the Industrial State (1972)
Grant McConnell, Private Power and American Democracy (1972)
Merle Curti, The Growth of American Thought (1943)
Henry Steele Commager, The American Mind (1950)
19 Account for the rapid growth of the American organized labour movement between 1935 and 1945.
Henry Pelling, American Labour (1960)
David Brody, Workers in Industrial America (1980)
Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1969)
Jerold Auerbach, Labor and Liberty: The La Follette Committee and the New Deal (1966)
David Milton, The Politics of US Labor (1980)
Milton Derber and Edwin Young (eds), Labor and the New Deal (1957)
Melvyn Dubovsky (ed), American Labor Since the New Deal (1971), part 1
John Barnard, Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers (1983)
Sidney Fine, Sit-Down (1969)
Peter Friedlander, Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939 (1975)
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War Two (1982)
Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986)
Jeremy Brecher, Strike! (1972), chapters 5 and 6
Melvin Dubovsky, and Warren van Tine, John L. Lewis (1977)
Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers (1983)
August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Black Detriot and the Rise of the UAW (1979)
20 Why did US-Soviet relations deteriorate so badly between 1945 and 1950?
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1942-1947 (1972)
Stephen Ambrose, Rise to Globalism (1983)
Warren Cohen, America in the Age of Soviet Power (1993)
Thomas McCormick, America’s Half-Century (1989)
Thomas Paterson, On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War (1979, 1985)
John Spanier, American Foreign Policy Since World War Two (1960)
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War (1994)
Thomas Paterson, Soviet-American Confrontation (1973)
John Lewis Gaddis, Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States (1978)
Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State (1977)
Thomas Paterson (ed), The Origins of the Cold War (1970)
H.W. Brands, The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959)
Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy,
1945-1954 (1972)
Fraser Harbutt, The Iron Curtain (1986)
James Gormly, The Collapse of the Grand Alliance (1987)
21 Account for the surge of anti-Communist agitation that the United States experienced between 1945 and 1955?
Richard Fried, Nightmare in Red (1990)
Ellen Schrecker (ed), The Age of McCarthyism (1994)
John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades (1988)
Charles Alexander, Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era (1975)
Eric Goldman, The Crucial Decade and After: America, 1945-1960 (1960)
David Caute, The Great Fear (1978)
Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)
Richard Gid Powers, Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism (1995)
John E. Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era (1996)
M. J. Heale, American Anticommunism, 1830-1970 (1990)
Robert Justin Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America (1978)
Robert Griffith and Athan Theoharis (eds), The Spectre (1974)
Athan Theoharis, Seeds of Repression (1971)
Richard Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism (1971)
Michael Rogin, The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (1967)
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason (1970)
David Bennett, The Party of Fear (1988)
David Brion Davis, The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of UnAmerican Subversion From the Revolution to the Present (1971)
Daniel Bell (ed), The Radical Right (1963)
Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
Earl Latham (ed), The Meaning of McCarthyism (1973)
Allen Matusow (ed), Joseph R. McCarthy (1970)
Richard Rovere, Joe McCarthy (1959)
David Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense (1983)
Thomas Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982)
Walter Goodman, The Committee (1968)
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-blacklist.html
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
22 What contributions did Martin Luther King, Jr., make to the development and success of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s?
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (1979)
Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: the Second Reconstruction in America (1984)
Charles Eagles (ed), The Civil Rights Movement in America (1986)
Peter Albert and Ronald Hoffman (eds), We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Freedom Struggle (1993)
Aldon Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1985)
Harry Ashmore, Civil Rights and Wrongs (1994)
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle (1981)
Carl Brauer, John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977)
Dorothy Newman et. al., Protest, Politics and Prosperity (1978)
Steven Lawson, Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South (1976)
Steven Lawson, In Pursuit of Power (1985)
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988)
Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America (1987)
David Garrow, Bearing the Cross (1986)
Adam Fairclough, Martin Luther King (1990)
C. Eric Lincoln (ed), Martin Luther King, Jr: A Profile (1970)
John Hope Franklin and August Meier (eds), Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (1982)
Hanes Walton, The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr (1971)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Forum/9061/afro/mlk.html
http://www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights/
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/crights.htm
23 What factors help explain the rising prominence of Black nationalism in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s?
Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle For Black Equality (1979)
Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: the Second Reconstruction in America (1984)
Louis Lomax, When the Word is Given: A Report on Elijah Mohammed, Malcolm X and the Black Muslims (1963)
Alphonso Pinckney, Red, Black and Green; Black Nationalism in the United States (1976)
Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967), parts 4 to 6
E.E. Essien-Udom, Black Nationalism (1962)
Peter Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X (1973)
George Breitman, The Last Year of Malcolm X (1968)
Manning Marable, A Political Biography of Malcolm X (1991)
Bruce Perry, Malcolm: The Life of the Man Who Changed Black America (1991)
William Sales, Malcolm X: Revolutionary Nationalism and PanAfrican Internationalism (1991)
James Cone, Martin and Malcolm: A Dream or a Nightmare? (1991)
Abdul Alkalimat and Preston Wilcox, The Legacy of Malcolm X (1990)
Abdul Alkalimat, An Introduction to Malcolm X (1991)
Clarence Carson, Malcolm X: The FBI File (1991)
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~moritz/malcolm
24 Account for the growing US military involvement in Vietnam between 1961 and 1965.
George Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (1979)
Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars (1991)
Gabriel Kolko, Vietnam. Anatomy of War, 1940-1975 (1985)
Anthony Short, The Origins of the Vietnam War (1989)
George McT. Kahin, Intervention (1987)
William Rust, Kennedy in Vietnam (1985)
Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts, The Irony of Vietnam (1979)
Larry Berman, Planning a Tragedy (1982)
Brian VanDeMark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (1981)
Loren Baritz, Backfire (1985)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Bitter Heritage (1966)
Archimedes Patti, Why Vietnam? (1980)
Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrieff, Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam (1978), Chapter 4
Harrison Salisbury (ed), Vietnam Reconsidered (1984)
David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972)
Stanley Karnow, Vietnam (1983)
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/20th_Century/Vietnam_War/
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/links.htm
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/vietnam.htm
http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/Vietnam/vietnam.html
25 Why did the women’s movement secure a growing number of supporters during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
William Chafe, The American Woman (1972)
Jo Freeman, The Politics of Women’s Liberation (1975)
Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement and the New Left (1978)
Barbara Deckard, The Women’s Movement (1979)
Maren Corden, The New Feminist Movement
Judith Hole and Ellen Levine, The Rebirth of Feminism (1971)
Robin Morgan (ed), Sisterhood is Powerful (1970)
Suzanne Levine and Harriet Lyons (eds), The Decade of Women (1980)
William Chafe, The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century (1991)
Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women’s Issues, 1945-68 (1988)
Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (1987)
Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (1970)
Barbara Ryan, Feminism and the Women’s Movement (1992)
William Chafe, Women and Equality (1977)
Winifred Wandersee, On the Move: American Women in the 1970s (1988)
Nancy Cott and Elizabeth Pleck (eds), A Heritage of Her Own: Towards a New Social History of American Women (1979)
Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (1989)
Gerda Lerner (ed), The Majority Finds its Past (1979)
Jean Friedman, William Shade and Mary Jane Capozzoli (eds), Our American Sisters (1987)
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982)
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/feminism.htm
26 In what sense did the United States suffer a crisis of democracy in the 1970s?
Irving Horowitz, ‘The Revolution of Falling Expectations,’ in his Ideology and Utopia
in the United States, 1956-1976 (1977)
Henry Fairlie, The Spoiled Child of the Western World (1975)
Daniel Bell, ‘The End of American Exceptionalism’ (1975) in his The Winding Passage (1980)
Daniel Bell, ‘Unstable America: Transitory and Permanent Factors in a National Crisis,’ in his The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)
Peter Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (1983)
Jim Hougan, Decadence: Radical Nostalgia, Narcissism, and Decline in the Seventies (1975)
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (1978)
Edwin Schur, The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change (1976)
Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion (1975)
J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (1976)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Imperial Presidency (1973)
Richard Barnet, The Lean Years: Politics in the Age of Scarcity (1980)
S.P. Huntington, ‘The Democratic Distemper,’ The Public Interest, 41 (Fall, 1975), 9-38
27 Account for the conservative shift in American politics, society and culture during the 1970s and 1980s.
Kirkpatrick Sale, Power Shift (1975)
Peter Carroll, It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (1982)
Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right (1979)
Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives (1979)
Gillian Peele, Revival and Reaction: The Right in Contemporary America (1984)
Steve Bruce, The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right (1990)
Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986)
Joel Krieger, Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Decline (1986)
Thomas Byrne Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (1984)
Greg Duncan, Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty (1984).
David Reinhard, The Republican Right Since 1945 (1983)
Kevin Phillips, Post-Conservative America (1982)
Michael Carpini, Stability and Change (1986)
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/conserv.htm
28 ‘Freedom . . . is the key to the Second American Revolution we mean to bring about’ (Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 1985). Discuss with reference to American society in the 1980s.
Garry Wills, Reagan’s America (1987)
Thomas Byrne Edsall (ed), The Reagan Legacy
Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), Part 2
Joel Kreiger, Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Decline (1986)
Gillian Peele, Revival and Reaction: The Right in Contemporary America (1984)
Zillah Eisenstein, Feminism and Sexual Equality (1984)
Fred Greenstein (ed), The Reagan Presidency (1983)
John Palmer and Isabel Sawhill (eds), The Reagan Experiment (1982)
Lawrence Barrett, Gambling With History: Ronald Reagan in the White House (1982)
Lou Cannon, Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1982)
Fred Greenstein (ed), The Reagan Presidency (1983)
Michael Harrington, The New American Poverty (1984)
Ronald Reagan, An American Life (1991)
Ronnie Dugger, On Reagan (1983)
Robert Lekachman, Greed is not Enough (1982)
B.B. Kymlicka and Jean Matthews (eds), The Reagan Revolution (1988)
Dilys Hill (ed), The Reagan Presidency (1990)
Larry Berman (ed), Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency (1990)
Ralph Miliband, Leo Panitch and John Saville (eds), Socialist Register 1987: Conservatism in Britain and America (1987)
Hedrick Smith, Reagan, the Man, the President (1981)
Robert Dallek, Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism (1984)
Paul Erickson, Reagan Speaks: The Making of an American Myth (1985).
29 Over what issues does the debate over gun control in America revolve?
Marjolijn Bijlefeld (ed), The Gun Control Debate (1997)
Tom Diaz, Making a Killing : The Business of Guns in America (1999)
Osha Gray Davidson, Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control (1998)
Robert Cottrol (ed), Gun Control and the Constitution (1994)
Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling (eds), The Tyranny of Gun Control (1997)
Robert J. Spitzer, The Politics of Gun Control (1998)
Edward Leddy, Magnum Force Lobby (1987)
Robert Nisbet, The Gun Control Debate (1990)
J. Neil Schulman, Stopping Power; Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns (1994)
Richard Hofstadter, Violence in America (1970)
Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed (1994)
Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control (1997)
John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (1998)
http://user.aol.com/selfnet/gunlink.htm
http://Policy.com/issuewk/96/0930/index.html
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1999/0329_65/index.html
http://209.211.231.109/studies/gcps.htm
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Ekarl/firearms/crime-deterrent.html
http://www.nra.org/
30 Has the United States been in decline since the 1960s?
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1989)
Walter Russell, Mortal Splendour: The American Empire in Transition (1987)
David Calleo, Beyond American Hegemony (1987)
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Culture of Contentment (1992)
James Laxer, Decline of the Superpowers (1989)
Edward Luttwak, The Endangered American Dream (1993)
Joseph Nye, Bound to Lead (1990)
Robert Keohane, After Hegemony (1984)
Stephen Gill, American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (1990)
Andrew Hacker, The End of the American Era (1970)
Irving Horowitz, Ideology and Utopia in the United States (1977)
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (1978)
Joel Krieger, Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Decline (1986)
Daniel Bell, ‘Unstable America: Transitory and Permanent Factors in a National Crisis,’ in his The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)
Samuel P. Huntington, ‘The US - Decline or Renewal?’ Foreign Affairs, 67 (Winter, 1988/1989), 76-96
31 Why have such intense conflicts arisen in recent years over the question of ‘affirmative action’ programs in the United States?
Nicolaus Mills (ed), Debating Affirmative Action (1994)
George E. Curry, ed., The Affirmative Action Debate (1996)
Floyd Weatherspoon, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action (1985)
Abigail Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (1987)
Thomas Sowell, Preferential Policies (1990)
Ronald Fiscus, The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action (1992)
Stephen Steinberg, Turning Back: The Retreat From Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1985)
Jonathan Leonard, The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation (1985)
Nathan Glazer, Affirmative Discrimination (1984)
Nathan Glazer, Ethnic Dilemmas (1983)
Melvyn Urofsky, A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action (1991)
Stephen Carter, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby (1991)
Thomas Sowell, ‘Affirmative Action Reconsidered,’ The Public Interest, 42/43 (1976), 47-65
Hugh David Graham, The Civil Rights Era (1976)
Charles Murray, ‘Affirmative Racism,’ New Republic, 31 December 1984
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1999/0222_58/index.html
http://Policy.com/issuewk/96/1118/index.html
http://www.pilotonline.com/extra/affirmative/index.html#3
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/
http://violet.berkeley.edu:7000/55cont.html
http://www.auaa.org/
http://www.adversity.net/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa-index.html
http://www.eeoc.gov/
http://www.wdn.com/cir/cr-aa.htm
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pr.html
http://www.dlcppi.org/tnd/9505.htm
http://www.ceousa.org/racepr.html
http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp17.html
http://www.townhall.com/heritage/issues96/chpt13.html
ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/AffirmativeAction/Index.html
32 In what ways has the debate over abortion in the United States changed since the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973?
Nanette Davis, From Crime to Choice (1985)
Barbara Craig and David O’Brien, Abortion and American Politics (1993)
Faye Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, rev.
ed. (1997)
Hyman Rodman, The Abortion Question (1990)
Dallas Blanchard, The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right
(1994)
Raymond Tatacovich, Abortion Politics in the United States and Canada (1995)
Suzanne Staggenborg, The Pro-Choice Movement (1991)
Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991)
Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984)
Rosalind Petchesky, Abortion and Women’s Choice (1984)
Mary Ann Glendon, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (1993)
Susan Brill, ‘Womb Versus Women,’ Dissent (Summer, 1991), 395-99
Kristin Glen, ‘Abortion in the Courts,’ Feminist Studies (February, 1978), 1-26
Frances Olsen, ‘A Finger to the Devil,’ Dissent (Summer, 1991), 377-81
http://www.cais.com/agm/main/index.html
http://www.mdle.com/WrittenWord/rfinley/finley16.htm
33 Why has the United States never developed a large-scale, popular Socialist movement?
Werner Sombart, Why is There No Socialism in the United States? (1906, 1976)
Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology (1960)
Irving Howe, Socialism and America (1985)
Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986)
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (1955)
Albert Fried (ed), Socialism in America (1992)
Milton Kantor, The Divided Left (1978)
Carl Degler, Out of Our Past (1970), chapter 9
John Laslett and Seymour Martin Lipset (eds), Failure of a Dream? (1974, 1984)
John Higham (ed), The Reconstruction of American History
Michael Harrington, Socialism
Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation (1963)
Stanley Aronowitz, False Promises (1973)
Donald Egbert and Stow Persons (eds), Socialism and American Life, Vol. 1 (1952)
Daniel Bell, Marxian Socialism in the United States (1967)
James Weinstein, Ambiguous Legacy: The Left in American Politics (1974)
John Diggins, The American Left in the Twentieth Century
Betty Yorburg, Utopia and Reality (1969)
34 What have the main objectives of conservative Christian political movements been over the past twenty five years?
David Bromley and Anson Shupe (eds), New Christian Politics (1984)
Steve Bruce, The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right (1990)
Kathleen Boone, The Bible Tells Them So (1989)
Michael Lienesch, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right (1993)
Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Holy Terror (1982)
Robert Liebman and Robert Wuthnow (eds), The New Christian Right (1983)
Razell Frankl, Televangelism (1987)
Jeffrey Hadden and Charles Swann, Prime Time Preachers (1981)
George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980)
Jerry Falwell (ed), The Fundamentalist Phenomenon (1981)
http://www.isrp.org/links.html
http://www.cc.org/
http://www.conservative-digest.com/christian/christian.htm
http://www.igc.apc.org/culturewatch/
http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/stan.html
http://www.cdsresearch.org/index.html
http://www.pfaw.org/issues/right/
http://www.itvs.org/external/WGOOS/WGMAIN.html
35 Evaluate the state of relations between Blacks and whites in the contemporary United States.
Andrew Hacker, Two Nations, Black and White: Seperate, Hostile, Unequal (1992)
Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White (1997)
Reynolds Farley and Walter Allen, The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America (1987)
Howard Schuman, et. al., Racial Attitudes in America (1987)
Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid (1993)
Jim Sleeper, The Closest of Enemies (1990)
William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (1987)
Douglas Glasgow, The Black Underclass (1980)
Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984)
Richard Apostle, et. al., The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes (1983)
Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism (1985)
Studs Terkel, Race (1992)
Bob Blauner, Black Lives, White Lives (1989)
Thomas B. Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics (1991)
Bart Landry, The New Black Middle Class (1987)
Fred Harris and Roger Wilkins (eds), Quiet Riots (1988)
Douglas Massey, ‘American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass,’ American Journal of Sociology, 96 (1990), 329-58
http://www.dlcppi.org/tnd/9607/default.htm
http://www.pbs.org:80/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/readings/
36 What issues are at stake in the current debate over multiculturalism in America?
James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1991)
Richard Bernstein, Dictatorship of Virtue (1994)
Michael Lind, The Next American Nation (1995)
Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams (1995)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)
Stanley Aronowitz and Henry Giroux, Education Under Seige (1985)
Samuel Fleischacker, The Ethics of Culture (1994)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America (1992)
John Arthur and Mary Shapiro (eds), Campus Wars (1995)
John Buenker and Lorman Ratner (eds), Multiculturalism in the United States (1994)
Amy Gutmann (ed), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (1992)
Henry Giroux, Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference (1993)
David Theo Goldberg, Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1994)
John Crewden, The Tarnished Door: The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America (1983)
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (1987)
David Pankratz, Multiculturalism and Public Arts Policy (1993)
Molefi Kete Asante, ‘Multiculturalism: An Exchange,’ in Paul Berman (ed), Debating Political Correctness (1992)
Diane Ravitch, ‘Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures,’ American Scholar, 59 (Summer, 1990)
Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity (1986)
http://www.prospect.org/archives/36/36aleifs.html
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/98/0413/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/shattering/issues.html