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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

Bibliographic Details Author: H.W. Brands Publisher: Doubleday (a division of Random House, a major trade publisher) Year: 2010 Thesis Statement H.W. Brands argues that the transformation of the United States between the end of the Civil War and the dawn … Continue reading →

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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Bibliographic Details Author: Barbara W. TuchmanPublisher: Macmillan Publishing Company (New York)Year: 1966 Thesis Statement Barbara Tuchman argues that the period from 1890 to 1914 was not merely a prelude to catastrophe but a distinct and vibrant era with its own … Continue reading →

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The Organismic State: The Progressive Roots of Modern American Government

Bibliographic Details Author: Charles W. Eagles Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-938055-1 Thesis Statement Eagles argues that the transformation of American governance between 1900 and 1945 was not merely a series of pragmatic responses to economic crises and world … Continue reading →

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Over Here: The First World War and American Society

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 →

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_The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America_

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 →

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Modernity and Its Discontents: The Great War and the Shaping of American Culture, 1900-1928

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 →

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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 →

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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

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 →

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The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1865-1928

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 →

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Colored People: A Memoir

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 →

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