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- The Crucible of War: The Second World War and the Transformation of American Life
- The Best War Ever: America and World War II
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- The American People in World War I: A History of the Conflict That Shaped a Nation
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
- The Great War and the Birth of the Modern United States: America’s Odyssey, 1914-1929
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
- The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
Daily Archives: May 16, 2026
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Details Author: Gary Gerstle Publisher: Princeton University Press Year: 2001 Thesis Statement Gerstle argues that American national identity in the twentieth century was forged through a persistent, contested struggle between two competing ideological traditions: civic nationalism, which promises universal … Continue reading
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