Monthly Archives: September 2026

Bibliographic Details Author: John Morton Blum Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Year: 1976 Awards: Bancroft Prize Finalist; widely regarded as a foundational text in the cultural history of the American home front Thesis Statement John Morton Blum argues that American participation … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John Morton Blum Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Year: 1976 Thesis Statement John Morton Blum argues that American participation in the Second World War functioned less as an ideological crusade than as a vast exercise in national self-interested … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John Morton Blum Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Year: 1976 Pages: 372 Thesis Statement John Morton Blum’s V Was for Victory argues that World War II functioned as a powerful engine of cultural and political transformation on the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Authors: Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1994 Pages: 240 Series: Not part of a series Thesis Statement Johnson and Wilentz argue that the bizarre story of Robert Matthews, who in 1832 proclaimed … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2004 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that American participation in World War I was a transformative but deeply contradictory episode that simultaneously expanded the federal government’s power, accelerated … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Harper & Brothers Year: 1931 Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen argues that the decade of the 1920s represented a profound and often disorienting rupture in American life—a period in which postwar disillusionment, unprecedented … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David Stevenson Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2024 Thesis Statement David Stevenson argues that the First World War was not merely a catastrophic rupture in European affairs but a totalizing event whose military, economic, and ideological aftershocks … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Isabel Wilkerson Publisher: Random House Year: 2010 Pages: 640 Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Heartland Prize; Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Mark Lynton History Prize Thesis Statement Isabel Wilkerson argues that the Great Migration of African … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Earl Swift Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Year: 2011 Pages: 384 Thesis Statement Earl Swift argues that the American interstate highway system—conceived in the Progressive Era, planned in the 1930s, and built between 1956 and 1992—was not merely … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Eric Foner Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Year: 2019 Thesis Statement Eric Foner argues that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments—the “Second Founding”—constituted a radical constitutional revolution that fundamentally redefined American citizenship, national power, and individual … Continue reading →