Monthly Archives: October 2026

Bibliographic Details Author: Linda Gordon Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Year: 2009 Awards: Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize; Winner of the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Thesis Statement Linda Gordon argues that Dorothea Lange’s photographic … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Matthew Bowman Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Year: 2019 Thesis Statement Matthew Bowman argues that the progressive political tradition in the United States from the early twentieth century through the New Deal and beyond was not merely … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Linda Gordon Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Year: 2009 Awards: Bancroft Prize in American History (2010); Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Thesis Statement Linda Gordon argues that Dorothea Lange’s photography was not merely documentary … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Earl Swift Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Year: 2011 Pages: 384 ISBN: 978-0-15-101397-3 Thesis Statement Earl Swift argues that the American interstate highway system was not the inevitable product of automotive demand or popular consensus, but rather the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Matthew Bowman Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2019 Thesis Statement Matthew Bowman argues that American progressive politics from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century was not a secular project but was profoundly shaped by religious … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Richard H. Immerman Publisher: Princeton University Press Year: 2010 Series: America in the World Thesis Statement Immerman argues that American imperialism is not an anomaly or a late-nineteenth-century departure but a persistent, self-conscious tradition rooted in the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Judith Stein Publisher: Yale University Press Year: 2010 Thesis Statement Judith Stein argues that the economic crises of the 1970s—culminating in the “Volcker Shock” of 1979–1982—marked a decisive turning point in American political economy: a bipartisan abandonment … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Judith Stein Publisher: Yale University Press Year: 2010 Thesis Statement Judith Stein argues that the 1970s—not the 1980s or the New Deal era—constituted the true turning point in modern American history, when the postwar social contract of … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Benjamin Roth Edited by: James Ledbetter and Daniel B. Roth Publisher: PublicAffairs (a member of the Perseus Books Group) Year: 2009 Thesis Statement Benjamin Roth’s The Great Depression: A Diary argues that the lived experience of the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: James N. Gregory Publisher: Princeton University Press Year: 2005 (paperback edition; original hardcover 2005) Thesis Statement James N. Gregory argues that the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between 1915 … Continue reading →