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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 →

Bibliographic Details Author: C. Vann WoodwardPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: First published 1955; multiple revised editions, most notably 1974. Thesis Statement C. Vann Woodward argues that the rigid, legally codified system of racial segregation known as “Jim Crow” was not an … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: David M. KennedyPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 1999 Thesis Statement David M. Kennedy argues that the twin crises of the Great Depression and World War II constituted a transformative “ordeal” that fundamentally reshaped the American state, economy, and … Continue reading →

Bibliographic Details Author: Richard White Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 2017 Thesis Statement Richard White argues that the period from 1865 to 1896 was defined by a profound and ultimately failed struggle to realize the “free labor” vision that emerged … Continue reading →