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Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2021 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy’s ambitious synthesis argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 witnessed the fundamental transformation of the United States from a decentralized, agrarian, and … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Michael A. Bernstein Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 2020 Thesis Statement Michael A. Bernstein argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 was not merely a series of crises (world wars, Great Depression) but a “crucible” that … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Paul Fussell (Note: While Fussell’s classic work focuses on British experience, for American history, the comparable and highly acclaimed book is The Great War and American Memory by Jennifer D. Keene) Publisher: University of North Carolina Press … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Robert H. Wiebe Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1967 (Reprinted frequently) Year: 1967 Thesis Statement Robert H. Wiebe argues that the central drama of American history from 1900 to 1945 was the shift from a decentralized, community-oriented … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2001 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that America’s participation in World War I fundamentally and permanently transformed the nation from a decentralized, provincial, and largely agrarian society into … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: James T. Sparrow Publisher: Harvard University Press Year: 2010 (reissued in paperback, 2012) Thesis Statement Sparrow argues that the modern American state was forged not simply through the New Deal, but through a continuous, contested, and often … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Professor Emily A. Hammerton Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2018 Thesis Statement Professor Hammerton argues that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed not merely a transformation of America’s economy and international standing, but a fundamental … Continue reading →

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 →