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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 →

Bibliographic Details Author: Frederick Lewis AllenPublisher: Harper & Brothers (now Harper & Row / HarperCollins)Year: 1952 Thesis Statement In The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950, Frederick Lewis Allen argues that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Jackson LearsPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxYear: 2023 Thesis Statement Lears argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 was not a simple narrative of progressive triumph and liberal state-building, but rather a “twilight” in which the moral … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: James R. Grossman Publisher: University of Chicago Press Year: 1989 Thesis Statement James R. Grossman argues that the Great Migration (1915-1970) was not merely a demographic shift but a transformative act of political and cultural agency by … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2004 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that the American experience in World War I was not merely a brief, overseas military engagement, but a transformative, traumatic event that … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1999 Thesis Statement Kennedy argues that the central theme of American history from 1900 to 1945 was the nation’s fraught and transformative journey from a posture of isolationism and … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Thomas BorstelmannPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2011 Thesis Statement Borstelmann argues that the central, unifying theme of U.S. history in the first half of the twentieth century was the nation’s conflicted and evolving engagement with the global problem … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: George C. HerringPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2017 (Second Edition) Thesis Statement George C. Herring argues that the United States’ rise to global preeminence in the 20th century was not a linear or inevitable triumph, but rather a … Continue reading →