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Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1980 (Updated edition, 2004) Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that World War I, far from being a mere European sideshow for the United States, was the crucible in … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Nicholas Lemann Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House, a major trade publisher) Year of Publication: 1991 Thesis Statement Lemann argues that the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Steven J. Diner Publisher: Hill and Wang (a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Year: 1998 (Revised edition 2003) Thesis Statement Diner argues that the First World War functioned as a transformative watershed in American history, accelerating … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John M. Barry Publisher: Viking (Penguin Group) Year: 2004 (Reprint edition, 2005) Thesis Statement Barry argues that the 1918 influenza pandemic was not merely a biological event, but a profound historical convulsion that exposed the vulnerabilities of … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher: Simon & Schuster Year: 2013 Thesis Statement Doris Kearns Goodwin argues that the early twentieth-century Progressive Era was fundamentally shaped by the symbiotic relationship between two forceful, yet contrasting, presidents—Theodore Roosevelt and William … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (editor); Ann D. Gordon (editor, new edition) Publisher: Rutgers University Press Year: 2005 (new expanded edition) Thesis Statement This comprehensive reference work argues that the struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States—culminating in … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 Genre: Memoir / American Social History Thesis Statement In Colored People: A Memoir, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. argues that understanding the complexity of American race relations in the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Richard Hofstadter Title: The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (New York) Year: 1955 Thesis Statement Richard Hofstadter argues that the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the New Deal were … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1999 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that the dual cataclysms of the Great Depression and World War II fundamentally transformed the American political economy, social structure, and global … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Louis Menand Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year: 2001 Thesis Statement Menand argues that the philosophical movement of pragmatism—developed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey—was not merely an abstract academic … Continue reading →