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FDR and the New Deal: A Graphic History Bibliographic Details Author: John Fox Publisher: Pantheon Books (a division of Random House) Year: 2003 (first published as FDR and the New Deal: A Graphic History); updated edition 2012 ISBN: 978-0375714102 (Pantheon … Continue reading →

A Home in the Heart of the World: The Photographic Story of the American Century, 1900-1945 Bibliographic Details Author: Georganne W. Warren Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York Year: 2004 Thesis Statement Warren argues that the American encounter … Continue reading →

Pulitzer-Recommended: The Paradox of Change: American Society in the Progressive Era and the Jazz Age Bibliographic Details Author: Michael E. Parrish Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (a major university press) Year of Publication: 2006 (Part of the “Oxford History of … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Michael S. NeibergPublisher: Princeton University PressYear: 2020 Thesis Statement Neiberg argues that the United States’ transformation into a global superpower between 1900 and 1945 was not a linear, triumphant ascent but a contested, often painful process of … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Geoffrey Perrett Publisher: Random House Year: 1989 Thesis Statement Geoffrey Perrett argues that World War II was not merely a military conflict but a transformative “crucible” that fundamentally reshaped American society, economy, and culture, accelerating social changes … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Michael C.C. Adams Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Year: 1994 (Second edition, 2015) Thesis Statement Michael C.C. Adams argues that the popular American memory of World War II as a “Good War”—a noble, unified, and necessary conflict … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Dr. Karen R. Merrill Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022 Pages: 432 Thesis Statement Merrill argues that the transformation of the American soft drink industry—embodied by the rise of Dr. Pepper from a regional tonic to a national … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1999 (Revised and expanded from the original 1982 edition, Over Here: The First World War and American Society) Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that the American experience in … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 1994. Thesis Statement Goodwin argues that the Roosevelt White House functioned as a transformative partnership—Franklin’s political genius combined with Eleanor’s moral passion—to orchestrate a social revolution on the American home front during … Continue reading →

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 →