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Bibliographic Details Joshua B. Freeman, Viking (Penguin), 2012 Thesis Statement Joshua B. Freeman argues that the United States’ transformation from a continental republic into a global empire between 1900 and 1955 was not an accidental or reluctant process, but a … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Paul Fussell Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1975 (originally published as The Great War and Modern Memory; while the core focus is British, later editions and subsequent scholarship, particularly as adapted for American audiences, have shaped its … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John F. Kasson Publisher: Hill and Wang (a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Year: 2022 Thesis Statement Kasson argues that World War I did not simply interrupt the Progressive Era but fundamentally traumatized American culture, shattering … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Paul Fussell, Oxford University Press, 1975 (25th Anniversary Edition, 2000) Thesis Statement Fussell argues that the experience of the First World War—specifically the trench warfare on the Western Front—fundamentally altered the way British and American culture understood language, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Patrick J. Cohrs, Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2006 Thesis Statement Cohrs argues that the period between the end of the First World War and the onset of the Great Depression was not simply a prelude to catastrophe, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Gary Gerstle. Princeton University Press, 2001 (Updated edition 2017). Thesis Statement Gary Gerstle argues that American national identity in the twentieth century was forged through a continuous and fraught struggle between two competing civic and ethnic conceptions of … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Michael J. Pfeifer Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2023 Thesis Statement Michael J. Pfeifer argues that the period from 1900 to 1945 was not simply a sequence of crises—Progressive reform, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Davis D. Joyce Publisher: Prometheus Books (an imprint of Globe Pequot, a reputable academic/trade press) Year: 2003 Thesis Statement Joyce argues that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (1980) fundamentally reshaped American historiography by … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John Milton Cooper, Jr. (Publisher: Harvard University Press, Year: 2012) Thesis Statement Cooper argues that World War I was the most transformative but most misunderstood and ultimately forgotten major war in American history, fundamentally reshaping the nation’s … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Mark Fiege Publisher: University of Washington Press Year: 2012 Thesis Statement Mark Fiege argues that nature is not merely a passive backdrop to American history but an active, dynamic force that has fundamentally shaped the nation’s political, … Continue reading →