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Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Harper & Brothers Year: 1931 Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday argues that the 1920s represented a profound and disorienting cultural rupture in American life—a decade in which the rapid proliferation of mass media, … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: John Toland Publisher: Doubleday (reissued by Bantam Books) Year: 1980 (original publication) Thesis Statement John Toland’s No Man’s Land: 1918—The Last Year of the Great War argues that the final year of World War I was not … Continue reading →

Author: Louis Menand Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year: 2001 Pages: 546 Thesis Statement Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club argues that the Civil War shattered the certitudes of antebellum American thought, and from its ruins emerged pragmatism—a distinctly American philosophy … Continue reading →

Author: Arthur Herman Publisher: Random House Year: 2012 Thesis Statement Arthur Herman’s Freedom’s Forge argues that the United States’ astonishing victory in World War II was not primarily the achievement of government planning or military strategy, but rather the triumph … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Chad L. Williams Publisher: New York University Press (an academic publisher affiliated with a major research university) Year: 2010 Thesis Statement Chad L. Williams’s The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War I argues that African … Continue reading →

Author: Mark Fiege Publisher: University of Washington Press (Seattle), 2012. ISBN: 978-0-295-99167-2 Thesis Statement Mark Fiege’s The Republic of Nature argues that American history—from the Salem witch trials to the dropping of the atomic bomb—is fundamentally inseparable from the natural … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Andrew T. Suttle Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Year: 2019 Thesis Statement Suttle argues that the Progressive Era through World War II witnessed not merely a political realignment but a profound transformation in how Americans understood … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Jonathan H. Ebel Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Year: 2021 Thesis Statement Ebel argues that the crisis of American democracy between 1900 and 1945 was fundamentally a spiritual crisis—that Progressive-era reformers, New Deal administrators, and wartime … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Mark Fiege Publisher: University of Washington Press Year: 2012 Thesis Statement Mark Fiege’s The Republic of Nature argues that the central narratives of American history—from the Salem witch trials and the Declaration of Independence to the building … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Chad L. Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press (2010) Thesis Statement Chad Williams’s The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War I argues that African American soldiers’ experiences during World War I—both on the battlefields of France … Continue reading →