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Bibliographic Details Author: Earl Swift Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Year: 2011 Pages: 384 Thesis Statement Earl Swift argues that the American interstate highway system—conceived in the Progressive Era, planned in the 1930s, and built between 1956 and 1992—was not merely … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Eric Foner Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Year: 2019 Thesis Statement Eric Foner argues that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments—the “Second Founding”—constituted a radical constitutional revolution that fundamentally redefined American citizenship, national power, and individual … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David Stevenson Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2017 Thesis Statement David Stevenson argues that the First World War was not merely a European conflict that the United States reluctantly entered in 1917, but rather a global cataclysm … Continue reading →

Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper & Brothers, 1931. Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday argues that the 1920s constituted a decisive rupture in American life—a decade in which the swift forces of mass consumerism, urbanization, new media, and sexual liberation … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details: Frederick Lewis Allen (Author), Harper & Brothers (Publisher), 1931. Republished by various academic presses including HarperPerennial (1991) and John Wiley & Sons (1997). Thesis Statement: In Only Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen contends that the 1920s—far from being a … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Harper & Brothers (original edition, 1931); frequently reprinted by HarperPerennial and other major academic publishers Year: 1931 Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday argues that the 1920s constituted a distinct and transformative … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Harper & Brothers (original), later editions by HarperPerennial Year: 1931 (original publication) Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday offers a sweeping, accessible chronicle of the transformative decade of the 1920s, capturing both … Continue reading →

Author: Robert S. McElvaine Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2018 Thesis Statement Robert S. McElvaine’s The Darkest Year: The American Home Front, 1943-1944 argues that the period from late 1943 through early 1944—often overshadowed by the D-Day invasion and the … Continue reading →

Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Harper & Brothers (original edition); reissued by various academic presses Year: 1931 (original publication) Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday argues that the 1920s represented a profound psychological and cultural rupture in American life, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: William H. Chafe Publisher: Oxford University Press (Trade/Academic Publisher) Year: 2020 (Revised and Expanded Edition) Thesis Statement William H. Chafe’s magisterial survey argues that the central drama of American history from 1900 to 1945 was the protracted, … Continue reading →