Monthly Archives: June 2026

Bibliographic Details Author: John Charles Chasteen Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication Year: 2016 Thesis Statement Chasteen argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 was a crucible in which the United States was forged into a modern global … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Michael A. Bernstein Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2015 Thesis Statement Bernstein argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 was not merely a sequence of crises and responses—progressive reform, world war, roaring twenties, depression, new deal, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David A. Hollinger Publisher: Princeton University Press Year: 2021 Thesis Statement David A. Hollinger’s The Democratic Imagination argues that the most consequential ideological transformation of the early twentieth century was not the rise of the administrative state … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999 Year: 1999 (Paperback edition with a new preface) Thesis Statement In The Ordeal of American Culture: Modernity, Tradition, and the Great Depression, David M. Kennedy argues that the Great … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Isabel Wilkerson Publisher: Random House Year: 2010 Thesis Statement Isabel Wilkerson argues that the Great Migration—the mass movement of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North, Midwest, and West between 1915 and … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Samuel Bowles Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016 Thesis Statement Samuel Bowles argues that the design of economic and social policies in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was fundamentally shaped by a … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Ira Katznelson. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Thesis Statement Katznelson argues that the major social welfare and labor legislation of the New Deal and the postwar era—from the Wagner Act and Social Security to the GI Bill—was deliberately … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 1994. Thesis Statement Goodwin argues that the unique partnership between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt created a synergistic leadership that transformed the American home front during World War II, simultaneously mobilizing the nation … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Michael C.C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II, 2nd Edition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) Thesis Statement Adams argues that the popular American memory of World War II as a “good war”—a unified, noble, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Ronald Schaffer. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvii + 244 pp. Thesis Statement Schaffer argues that the American mobilization for World War I did not … Continue reading →