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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 →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. Kennedy Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999 Year: 1999 (Paperback edition with a new preface) Thesis Statement In The Ordeal of American Culture: Modernity, Tradition, and the Great Depression, David M. Kennedy argues that the Great … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Isabel Wilkerson Publisher: Random House Year: 2010 Thesis Statement Isabel Wilkerson argues that the Great Migration—the mass movement of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North, Midwest, and West between 1915 and … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Samuel Bowles Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016 Thesis Statement Samuel Bowles argues that the design of economic and social policies in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century was fundamentally shaped by a … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Ira Katznelson. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Thesis Statement Katznelson argues that the major social welfare and labor legislation of the New Deal and the postwar era—from the Wagner Act and Social Security to the GI Bill—was deliberately … Continue reading →