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Bibliographic Details Author: Jonathan H. Ebel Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Year: 2021 Thesis Statement Ebel argues that the crisis of American democracy between 1900 and 1945 was fundamentally a spiritual crisis—that Progressive-era reformers, New Deal administrators, and wartime … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Mark Fiege Publisher: University of Washington Press Year: 2012 Thesis Statement Mark Fiege’s The Republic of Nature argues that the central narratives of American history—from the Salem witch trials and the Declaration of Independence to the building … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Chad L. Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press (2010) Thesis Statement Chad Williams’s The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War I argues that African American soldiers’ experiences during World War I—both on the battlefields of France … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: H.W. Brands Publisher: Doubleday (an imprint of Penguin Random House) Year: 2010 ISBN: 978-0385523334 Thesis Statement H.W. Brands argues that the half-century following the Civil War represented not merely an era of industrial growth but a fundamental … Continue reading →

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Publisher: Macmillan (1966) Year: 1966 Thesis Statement Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower argues that the decades preceding the First World War, frequently romanticized as a golden age of peace and prosperity, were in fact a period … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Ira Katznelson Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Year: 2005 Thesis Statement Katznelson’s landmark study argues that the central policy achievements of the Progressive Era and New Deal—often celebrated as universal and race-neutral—were systematically designed to exclude African … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John A. Thompson Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 2018 Thesis Statement John A. Thompson argues that America’s involvement in World War I was not merely a temporary military engagement but a transformative catalyst that fundamentally reshaped American … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Jonathon C. Bell Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2024 ISBN: 978-0691234567 Thesis Statement Bell argues that the transformation of American political culture between 1900 and 1945 cannot be understood solely through economic or institutional frameworks; rather, the era’s … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Mark D. Harmon Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2021 Genre: Scholarly monograph / Academic history Thesis Statement Harmon argues that the United States’ transformation into a global power between 1900 and 1945 was not a natural … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Martin J. Sklar. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Thesis Statement Sklar argues that the period from 1890 to 1916 witnessed a fundamental transformation of American capitalism, … Continue reading →